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
401	L. Fogarty.	Father John Kenyon: a Patriot Priest of Forty-Eight [Templederry]		1921	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 62.50
402	Reeves.	Irish Form of Consecration of Churches		1893	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 62.50
403		Speech of Earl of Clare, Lord Chancellor of Ireland [John Fitzgibbon, Mountshannon House, Limerick].	Dublin.	1800	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 50.00
404	Roderic O'Flaherty; James Hely, Vol 1-2	Ogygia : or, a Chronological Account of Irish events: collected from very ancient documents, faithfully compared with each other, and supported by the Genealogical and Chronological Aid of the sacred and prophane writings of the first nations of the globe		1793	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 187.50
405	Richard Mant, Bishop of Down,	Biographical notices of the apostles, evangelists, and other saints, with reflexions and collects, adapted to the minor festivals of the United Church of England and Ireland -		1828	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
406	Jean Racine -	Oeuvres de Jean Racine, four volumes complete,	Paris	1813	EUR 60.00 - 80.00	EUR 50.00
407	David Ramsay	American Interest: Life of George Washington		1807	EUR 120.00 - 160.00	Not Sold
408	Chris Lawlor --	The massacre on Dunlavin Green. Ronan Coughlan -- Dictionary of Irish Myth and Legend. Maura Murphy Gibson --...		N/A	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 175.00
408A	John B. Keane.	The Buds of Ballybunion		1979	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
409	J M Barrie.	Peter Pan In Kensington Gardens.		1906	EUR 150.00 - 350.00	EUR 212.50
410	William Carlton Jack B. Yeats) --	The Black Prophet,	London.	1899	EUR 80.00 - 100.00	EUR 68.75
411	Francis Stuart -	GLORY,	New York	1933	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 75.00
412	Eavan Boland,	A Poet's Dublin, published 2016. In a Time of Violence, published 1994. Against Love Poetry, published 2001.		N/A	EUR 60.00 - 80.00	EUR 81.25
413	Patrick Kavanagh	NIGHT UNSTARRED, edited, with introduction and epilogue		N/A	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	EUR 525.00
414	Peter Kavanagh, [Foreword Patrick Kavanagh]	Patrick Kavanagh Country -- Peter Kavanagh,	Curragh, Co Kildare, Ireland	1978	EUR 120.00 - 160.00	EUR 112.50
415		The Tain -- Thomas Kinsella, Louis le Brocquay, published 1970. Jesus Break His Fall -- Paul Durcan, published 1980. The Spirit Level -- Seamus Heaney, published 1996. ...		N/A	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 62.50
416	James Joyce	ULYSSES,	London	1949	EUR 60.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
417	O'Donnell, Peadar.	Wrack, A Play In Six Scenes. Jonathan Cape, London, dj		1933	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 50.00
418	John O'The North.	The Dancing man and Other Verses		1950	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
419	Kazuo Ishiguro -	Never Let Me Go,		2005	EUR 60.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
420	J.K. Rowling -	Harry Potter agus an Orchloch (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone),	London	2004	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	EUR 137.50
421	Seamus Heaney.	The Burial at Thebes.		2004	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 62.50
422	Seamus Heaney.	The Haw Lantern.		1987	EUR 250.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
423	Seamus Heaney.	District and Circle.		2006	EUR 200.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
424	Seamus Heaney.	Sweeney Astray. A Version from The Irish.	New York.	1984	EUR 500.00 - 700.00	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.