Purcell Auctioneers: Superb July 2026 Book Auction of c.580 Lots to include an Important Manuscript Book of Early Gaelic, Irish History Covering the 12th to the 21st Centuries, 1,000's of Vintage Irish Postcards etc. etc., 71526, Birr

Auction Details

Auction Date
July 15, 2026 - July 15, 2026
Page Size: 554 items in 23 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
353 Clancy J J

Short lessons on the Irish Question

London 1890 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 Unknown
354 Robert

Robert's Map of the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland

c mid to late 1920's EUR 60.00 - 120.00 Unknown
355

An Apology for the clergy of Ireland

Dublin 1737-8 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 Unknown
356 Poe Edgar Allan

The Bells

Nuremberg c1888 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 Unknown
357

The Corruption of Seed Corn

Dublin 1824 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 Unknown
358

Early and rare Tipperary postcard

1886 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 Unknown
359 Joyce P W; Fox C Milligan

2 Books, including: Irish Music And Song

Dublin 1905; c.1900 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 Unknown
360

Souvenir Programme of the Coming of Age of the Irish Literary Society of London

London 1892-1913 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
361

La Domenica del Corriere

1921 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
362 Le Fanu J Sheridan

Borrhomeo The Astrologer

1985 EUR 80.00 - 150.00 Unknown
363

Catalogue of valuable library of Michael Mc White

1955 EUR 120.00 - 140.00 Unknown
364 Yeats Jack B

The Treasure of the Garden

1902 EUR 400.00 - 450.00 Unknown
365 Butler Hubert; Harrison Claude

The Story of the Tobit

1970 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 Unknown
366

Leabhar Ultain

Dublin 1920 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 Unknown
367

The Creamery Year Book and Diary 1942

1942 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 Unknown
370 Letts W M

It's Well To Be In Waterford

N/A EUR 40.00 - 80.00 Unknown
371 Yeats Jack B

Man on Horse back

N/A EUR 60.00 - 100.00 Unknown
372 Keane John B

The Street

N/A EUR 60.00 - 80.00 Unknown
373 Gillray James

United Irishmen in Training; United Irishmen Upon Duty

N/A EUR 40.00 - 80.00 Unknown
375 Baedeker

Baedeker Guides

1913; 1897; 1900; 1904; 1925; 1880; 1906; 1911; 1923; 1929; 1958; 1887 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 Unknown
376 Baedeker

Baedeker Guides

1902; 1955; 1903; 1909; 1913; 1884; 1891; 1907; 1897 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 Unknown
377 Baedeker

Baedeker Guides

1909; 1929; 1867; 1903; 1908; 1906; 1913; 190; 1907; 1974; 1930; 1931; 1965 EUR 40.00 - 100.00 Unknown
378 Baedeker

Baedeker Guides

1901; 1910; 1905; 1911; 1894; 1903 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 Unknown
379 Sullivan Edward; Gilbert J. T.

Facsimiles of National Manuscripts of Ireland

Dublin 1874-1884 EUR 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 Unknown
380

Irish Historic Town Atlas

1996; 2005 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 Unknown
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