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
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 444 | Heaney Seamus; Lee Laurie; Sail Lawrence; Joseph Jenny | The Four Elements |
1991 | EUR 300.00 - 500.00 | Unknown | |
| 445 | Healy John; O'Connor Frank; Knowlson James | 9 Books, including: Nineteen Acres |
; London | 1978; 1961; 1996 | EUR 40.00 - 80.00 | Unknown |
| 445A | William Makepeace Thackeray | The Newcomes; Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family |
London | 1854 | EUR 40.00 - 80.00 | Unknown |
| 446 | McCourt Frank | Angela’s Ashes. A Memoir of a Childhood |
1996 | EUR 80.00 - 120.00 | Unknown | |
| 447 | Joyce James | Ulysses |
Achill, Co Mayo | 2012 | EUR 160.00 - 200.00 | Unknown |
| 448 | Dickens Charles | Our Mutual Friend |
London | 1865 | EUR 40.00 - 80.00 | Unknown |
| 449 | Browning Elizabeth Barrett | The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
London | 1889-90 | EUR 60.00 - 100.00 | Unknown |
| 449A | Charles Read | The Cabinet of Irish Literature |
London | 1892 | EUR 60.00 - 120.00 | Unknown |
| 450 | Birmingham George | Irishmen All |
1914 | EUR 80.00 - 160.00 | Unknown | |
| 451 | Trollope Anthony; Mahony Robert | 6 Books, including: Phineas Finn - The Irish Member |
1893; 1995 | EUR 40.00 - 80.00 | Unknown | |
| 452 | Le Fanu J. Sheridan | Uncle Silas - A Tale of Bertram Haugh |
1893 | EUR 80.00 - 100.00 | Unknown | |
| 453 | Shane Elizabeth | The collected poems of Elizabeth Shane |
1945 | EUR 150.00 - 250.00 | Unknown | |
| 454 | Coffey Brian | The Time The Place; Selected Poems |
1969; 1971 | EUR 40.00 - 80.00 | Unknown | |
| 455 | Iske Basil | The Green Cockatrice |
N/A | EUR 80.00 - 140.00 | Unknown | |
| 456 | O'Flaherty Liam; Dickinson Patrick | Land; Soldiers Verse |
1946 | EUR 60.00 - 90.00 | Unknown | |
| 457 | Milton John; Jerreries Richard; Stevenson Robert Louis | 3 Books, including: The Poetical Works of John Milton |
1897; 1911 | EUR 40.00 - 100.00 | Unknown | |
| 458 | McGill Patrick; Mill John Stuart | The Great Push an Episode of the Great War; England and Ireland - A Lesson For Today |
1916; 1918 | EUR 60.00 - 80.00 | Unknown | |
| 459 | Yeats Jack B.; Yeats W. B.; Swift Jonathan | 4 Books, including: The Charmed Life |
London; Oxford | 1998 | EUR 50.00 - 80.00 | Unknown |
| 460 | Lynch E. M.; O'Grady Standish | A Parish Providence; The Bog of Stars |
1894; 1893 | EUR 50.00 - 80.00 | Unknown | |
| 461 | Russell George W. | 4 Books, including: Voices of the Stones |
1925; 1916; 1933; 1919 | EUR 60.00 - 120.00 | Unknown | |
| 462 | MacSwiney Terence | Despite Fools’ Laughter |
1944 | EUR 40.00 - 60.00 | Unknown | |
| 463 | Sigerson Dora; Trollope Anthony | Love of Ireland; Barchester Towers |
1916; n.d. | EUR 80.00 - 120.00 | Unknown | |
| 464 | A.E.; Hogan Frank; Corkery Daniel; Reid Herbert; Wharton Timothy; Salaman Nina; Stephens James; McGreevy Thomas; Rooney William; MacManus M.J. | 10 Books, including: Song and it’s fountain |
1932; 1928; circa 1920; 1927; 1940; 1923; 1909; 1931; circa 1910; 1928 | EUR 60.00 - 80.00 | Unknown | |
| 465 | O'Grady Standish | Finn and His Companions |
London | 1902 | EUR 180.00 - 220.00 | Unknown |
| 466 | Macfadyen Dugald; Hepburn David | Lays and legends of the North of Ireland |
London | 1884 | EUR 180.00 - 220.00 | Unknown |
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