Purcell Auctioneers: c.615 Lot Auction - to include Rare, Limited & Signed First Editions including Siged Seamus Heaney, Early Marvel Comics (Spiderman, Wolverine etc.), Republican Interest, GAA Interest, Antiquarian etc. , 121025, Birr

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Auction Report
Auction Date
December 10, 2025 - December 10, 2025
Page Size: 617 items in 25 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
525 J.R.R. Tolkien & E.V. Gordon

Sir Gawain & The Green Knight

 1949 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 100.00
526

History of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Ireland

 Dublin 1925 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 137.50
527 Paul J. Flynn

The Book of the Galtees and the Golden Vein. A Border History of Tipperary, Limerick & Cork

 Dublin 1928 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 87.50
528 Lady Wilde

Ancient Legends of Ireland with Sketches of the Ancient Past

 London 1899 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 237.50
529

Defence Force Regulations, Close Order Foot Drill, All Arms

 1939 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 50.00
530 Lt. Col. J A Barlow

Small Arms Manual

 1942-11-01 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 56.25
531 The Hon. Mrs Ward

The Microscope

 1880 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 300.00
532 George Birmingham

[illustrated by Jack B. Yeats] Irishmen All

 1914 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 100.00
533

Alphonse De Lamartine - History of the Girondists, or Personal Memoirs of the Patriots, or the French Revolution

 London 1849 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
534 C. Litton Falkiner

Illustrations of Irish History and Topography, Mainly of the Seventeenth Century

 1904 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 37.50
535 W.H. Bartlett and William Beattie

Switzerland Illustrated

 1835 EUR 120.00 - 140.00 Not Sold
536 Rev Patrick Woulfe

Irish names and Surnames, collected and edited with explanatory and historical notes

 1923 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 50.00
537

Contributions Towards a Cybele Hibernica: Being Outlines of the Geographical Distributions of Plants in Ireland David Moore and Alexander Goodman More

 Hodges 1866 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 37.50
538

The book of constitutions of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Ireland

 Dublin 1925 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 75.00
539 John P Prendergast

The Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland

 Dublin 1875 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 50.00
540

Order of the Temple; Statutes, Laws and Regulations of Great Priory of Ireland

 Dublin 1901 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 87.50
541 Stephen Gwynn

The Case for Home Rule satated

 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 225.00
542 L. M. McCraith

The Romance of Irish Heroines

 Circa 1910 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 81.25
543 Daniel Owen-Madden

Revelations of Ireland of the Past Generation

 1848 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 150.00
544 George Arthur Greene

Songs of the Open Air

 London 1912 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 62.50
545

The Ursuline Manual, Prayers and Exercises arranged for Young Ladies at the Ursuline Convent, Cork

 1855 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 100.00
546

[Marlfield Estate, County Wexford] Book of Common Prayer

 1906 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 75.00
547

The poems of Ossian

 London 1807 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 37.50
548 Thomas Ashe

The spirit of "The book"; or, Memoirs of Caroline, Princess of Hasburgh

 Dublin (1770--1835) EUR 60.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
549

The Mysteries of Ireland, Graphic Faithful Account of Irish Secret Societies, & Their Plots, From Rebellion of 1798 to 1883

 Circa 1870 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 56.25
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    Sotheby’s
    Year in Review
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: A Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah. Sold: 1,514,000 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: "The Freedman's Primer.” Sold: 241,300 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Smith, William. "The Map that Changed the World." Sold: 139,700 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Psalter, C13th. Illuminated Psalter. Sold: 330,200 GBP
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Lincoln, Abraham. The abolition of slavery. Sold: 13,697,500 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Vergilius. Opera, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, 1501. Sold: 1,041,400 USD
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