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
351	William Allingham.	Songs, Ballads and Stories.		1877	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 37.50
352		1798 Rebellion: a) Some Notes of an Irish Exile of 1798 (Miles Byrne, Maunsel and Co., n.d.); b) Memoirs of Miles Byrne, edited by his widow. (Irish University Press 1972 -- First published Paris 1863)		N/A	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 200.00
353		Wexford Interest: Three anthologies by Wexford woman W.M. Letts: Songs from Leinster		1923	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 68.75
354	N Bailey.	Dictionarium Britannicum: Or a more CompleatUniversal Etymological English Dictionary Than any Extant	London	1736	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 125.00
355	Thomas Wrigh7	The History of Ireland, From the Earliest Period of the Irish Annals to the Present Time		N/A	EUR 70.00 - 150.00	EUR 62.50
356		Lepper and Crosbie; History of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons in Ireland with volumes 2, History of the Grand Lodge of Ireland		N/A	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 275.00
357	Alex Williams.	My Ireland of Dreams.		1985	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 175.00
358	Crowley, Smyth and Murphy eds,	Irish Great Famine: Atlas of the Great Irish Famine		2012	EUR 60.00 - 80.00	EUR 68.75
359		Major-General Colby. Principal Lines of Spirit Levelling in Ireland.		1853	EUR 80.00 - 100.00	EUR 37.50
360	DR Claude Costecalde & Jack Gallagher,	Hunting in Ireland, A Noble Irish Tradition --	Dublin	2004	EUR 60.00 - 80.00	EUR 125.00
361	W. Beckford.	Thoughts on Hunting.		1809	EUR 80.00 - 100.00	EUR 125.00
362	J. Fairfax-Blakeborough.	30 Years a Hunt Servant being the Memories of Jack Molyneux.		1933	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 75.00
363	Wilde, William.	Lough Corrib: Its Shores and Islands; With Notices of Lough Mask	Dublin.	1867	EUR 350.00 - 450.00	Not Sold
364	Izaak Walton and C. Cotton.	The Complete Angler.		1870	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 125.00
365	Philip Geen.	What I Have Seen While Fishing.		1924	EUR 70.00 - 90.00	Not Sold
366		The Spectator -- A New Edition -- published 1808. Ten volumes, issues No. 1 (March 1		1710-1714	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 125.00
367	G.H. Orpen, ed.,	Song of Dermot and the Earl		1892	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 62.50
368	Justin McCarthy,	A History Of Our Own Times. 7 Volumes	London	1910	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 100.00
369		Report of the Poor Law Commissioners or The Medical Charities in Ireland.	Dublin.	1841	EUR 70.00 - 100.00	EUR 350.00
370	W.E.H. Lecky	History of Ireland in the Eighteenth Century -- 5 vols COMPLETE		1892	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 50.00
371	R.R. Madden,	The United Irishmen -- Their Lives and Times	London	1842	EUR 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
372	Patrick Heffernan.	[scarce family History] The Heffernans and their Times. A Study in Irish History	London,	[1940]	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 75.00
373	George Westropp.	[Privately Printed Limited edition family history] . The Westropp Family 1250-2000.		2000	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 62.50
374	J.C. Walsh,	100 x J.C. Walsh, The Lament For John Mac Walter with notes on the history of the family of Walsh from 1170 to 1600.		1936	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
375		Onomatology: The Surnames of Ireland		1969	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50

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.