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
376	McCarthy, Samuel Trant.	The MacCarthys of Munster: The Story of a Great Irish Sept. 1st Edition. A Facsimile Edition.		1997	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 68.75
377	John O'Hart with intro by Edward MacLysaght.	The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry		1969	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 62.50
378	Patrick O'Connor	People Make Places Story of the Irish Palatines		N/A	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 75.00
379	P. W. Joyce. Intro by R. L. Thomson.	The Origin and History of Irish Names of Places		1972	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 81.25
380	P. J. McCall	Four works: The Fenian Nights' Entertainments (1897 -- First Series); In the Shadow of St Patrick's (1894 1st ed); Pulse of the Bards (1904,...		N/A	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	EUR 125.00
381	James Godkin.	The Land-War in Ireland: A History for the Times.	London.	1870	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 87.50
382	P.W. Joyce.	Irish Names of Places Three Volumes -- Vols I and II		1883	EUR 80.00 - 140.00	EUR 112.50
383	W. S. Trench.	Realities of Irish Life.		c.1875	EUR 70.00 - 100.00	EUR 37.50
384		Curragh Chase Library. Pensees de Blaise Pascal.	Paris.	1823	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 100.00
385	W H Bartlett	The Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland'		N/A	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 93.75
386	John Tyndall (Carlow scientist)	The Forms of Water.		1889	EUR 60.00 - 90.00	EUR 62.50
387	P.W. Joyce --	A Social History of Ancient Ireland VOL II,		N/A	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 50.00
388	Terence O'Hanlon. Foreword by Late Father Pat Walshe.	The Minstrel of Erin a selection of national poetry arranged with notes		1930	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 56.25
389	Painted by Alex Williams RHA, Described by Stephen Gwynn-	Beautiful Ireland. Painted by Alex Williams RHA, Described by Stephen Gwynn-		N/A	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 100.00
390		Report of the Irish Boundary Commission first publication of the 1925 document with an introduction.		1969	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 50.00
391	Eoin O'Kelly.	The Old Private Banks and Bankers of Munster. Bankers of Cork and Limerick Cities		1959	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 56.25
392	Frederick O'Dwyer.	The Architecture of Deane and Woodward.		1997	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 50.00
393	Edited with Introduction by Patrick F. Moran. Bishop of Ossory -- David Rothe,	The Analecta of David Rothe, Bishop of Ossory.	Dublin	1884	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 37.50
394		Irish Interest: County Tipperary Old I R A Commemorative Millennium Calender		N/A	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
395		The Viking Period in Europe. Bundle of four books: Land, Sea and Home -- Settlement in the Viking Period		2004	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
396	Captain Robert Monteith,	Author Inscribed: Casement's Last Adventure	Chicago	1932	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 118.75
397		The impact of the Reformation. A seventeenth-century tract: The Difference of the Case between the separation of Protestants from the Church of Rome, and the separation of Dissenters from the Church of England.	London	1683	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 137.50
398		Three works by poet and songwriter P.J. McCall: Irish Noinins (1894 1st ed); In the Shadow of St Patrick's (1894 1st ed); Songs of Erin (1899 1st ed); Biography...		N/A	EUR 70.00 - 90.00	EUR 50.00
399	P.J. McCall	Two anthologies by Dublin-born, but with strong Wexford ancestry, P.J. McCall -- Irish Noinins (1894) and Irish Fire-side Songs (1911).		1894, 1911	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	EUR 75.00
400	Capt W F Lyons -	Brigadier-General Thomas Francis Meagher,		1869	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	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.