Purcell Auctioneers: C.600 Lot Auction to include Antiquarian Books, Rare, Limited & Signed First Editions, Maps, Irish Literature & Poetry, Local Histories, Fine Bindings, Republican Interest,GAA Programmes & Books , 12126, Birr

Auction Details

Auction Date: January 21, 2026 - January 21, 2026

Page Size: 601 items in 25 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
251	Padraig O'Farrell.	Who's who in the Irish war of Independence 1916-1921		1980	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
252	Gerry Adams	Irish Nationalism: Gerry Adams- Before The dawn		1996	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
253	Le Roux, Louis N.	Tom Clarke and the Irish Freedom Movement.		1936	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 56.25
254		(Eamon de Valera. related). Commemorating Eamon Da Valera 1882 -- 1982, de Valera and Bruree. DEV his life & times -- Padraig O'Cleirigh, DEV -- G.P.Gallivan. ...		N/A	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 37.50
255	Thomas Cloney	Wexford Interest: A Personal Narrative of 1798		1832	EUR 120.00 - 160.00	EUR 237.50
256	The Earl of Longford and Thomas P O' Neill,	Eamon De Valera: Eamon De Valera		1970	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	EUR 62.50
257	Alice L. Milligan,	Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone	Belfast	1898	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	EUR 56.25
258		The Spirit of Freedom: Bobby Sands Commemoration School Prize Essay by the Bobby Sands Commemoration		1983	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 37.50
259		(Republican Ephemera) Victory to the IRA, published circa 1971. Remember Bloody Sunday, published 1974.		N/A	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 237.50
260	Seamus Heaney and Barry Flanagan.	The Names of The Hares.		N/A	EUR 600.00 - 900.00	EUR 1,875.00
261		A collection of Swiss topographical engravings		1820	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 175.00
262	Irish Artist W.C. Mills. Walter Charles Mills)	POPE PIUS X	Dublin and London	N/A	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 37.50
263	Pablo Picasso	Pablo Picasso Adam International Review No. 322-23-24		1967	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 150.00
264		IRISHWOMEN CHAINS OR CHANGE, (Irish Women's Liberation Movement (IWLM)) Group's manifesto.	Dublin	1971	EUR 150.00 - 250.00	EUR 1,875.00
265		[Christmas in Maiden Street, Early Work Michael Hartnett] The Annual Observer 1979.		1979	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 62.50
266	Jim Fitzpatrick	Jim Fitzpatrick Celtic Art Calendar 1998. Real Ireland, Jim Fitzpatrick		1998	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
267	Mairtin O Direain	Clochadoir,		1974	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 100.00
268	James McKenna --	SONG. Produced in 1972		1972	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 125.00
269		Diarmuid O Donnabain Rosa 1831-1915. Souvenir Booklet		2015	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 62.50
270		Muintir Wolfe Tone - Fo -cloiste na Gaeilge - A press release and other items of ephemera relating to the drive to provide free school books for Irish schools , May 1968.		1968	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
271		Austin Stack: Archive of letters including one written in Kilmainham Gaol dated 19th June 1916.		1916	EUR 300.00 - 600.00	EUR 2,500.00
272	Michael & Sarah Longley.	Dragonfly. Limited Edition No.28 of 75 Numbered Copies, A six line poem		2021	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 75.00
273	Armitage, Simon.	In Memory of Water. 2022. A set of broadsheets together with a title sheet SIGNED		N/A	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 50.00
274		Christies catalogue of the contents of Birr Castle 7/8 October 1981. Illustrated. Scarce and Christies catalogue of Lisnacran, Dun Laoghaire. 2nd May		1987	EUR 70.00 - 100.00	EUR 125.00
275		McCormack Fine Art. Auction catalogue re contents of 24 Wellington Rd., Ballsbridge on 28th May 1991		N/A	EUR 40.00 - 50.00	Not Sold

ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
Sotheby’s
Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
Open for Bidding 2-17 April

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.