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
475		Maurice Walsh -- The Quiet Man, the book of the film, published 1964. Gerry McNee -- In the footsteps of The Quiet Man, the inside story of the cult film, published 2008. ...		N/A	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 325.00
476	John Stieber -	Against the Odds: Survival on the Russian Front 1944-45		1995	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
477	Peter Ure,	'Yeats The Playwright' A commentary on the character and design in the major plays 1st edition and Ian d'Alton 'Protestant Society And Politics In Cork' 1812-1844		N/A	EUR 60.00 - 70.00	EUR 87.50
478		Patrick Gallagher ("Paddy the Cope") My Story..		c.1940	EUR 40.00 - 50.00	EUR 37.50
479	Sir Egerton Brydges	Letters on the Character and Poetical Genius of Lord Byron -		1824	EUR 120.00 - 140.00	EUR 175.00
480	Edna O'Brien	A Pagan Place		1970	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
481		(Irish Author's First Edition, First Printings all signed) Sebastian Barry -- All God's Time. Peter Sheridan - Big Fat Love; ...		N/A	EUR 50.00 - 70.00	EUR 56.25
482	Michael Smith,	I am just Going outside, Captain Oates, Antarctic Tragedy --		2002	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 62.50
483	T E Lawrence:	Seven Pillars of Wisdom		1935	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
484	Dorothy Macardle	The Irish Republic: Chronicle of the Anglo-Irish Conflict and the Partitioning of Ireland 1916-1923		1999	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 81.25
485	Robert Curzon.	Visits to the monasteries of the Levant -		1850	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 75.00
486		The Catholic Emancipation Centenary Record 1829-1929,		1929	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 75.00
487	Pope Francis -- Oonagh Stransky,	The Name of God is Mercy, A conversation with Andrea Tornielli, translated into English	London.	2016	EUR 50.00 - 70.00	EUR 81.25
488		31st International Eucharistic Congress 1932'. Pictorial Record.	Dublin	N/A	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 37.50
489		Pictorial Record The International Eucharistic Congress		1932	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 37.50
490		Irish Country Furniture; Irish College Rome; St. Patrick's College Maynooth; Fota House; Malahide Castle; Mount Usher; Irish Gardens; Swift's Ireland; Irish Birds; ...		N/A	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 93.75
491	Maurice O'Sullivan -	Twenty Years a-growing,		1933	EUR 60.00 - 80.00	EUR 81.25
492		As a Matter of Fact. and Beyond the Myths. collected works of Michael O'Riordan		2011 and 2012	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 37.50
493	Emily Hickey.	Emily Hickey. Poet, Essayist - Pilgrim. A Memoir - Enid Dinnis [ Emily Hickey],	London	1927	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 62.50
494	Harriet Beecher Stowe -	Uncle Tom's cabin,		1909	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 37.50
495	Mortimer Menples	India		1905	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
496	Virginia Woolf	FLUSH		1933	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 81.25
497	George Coffey	Royal Irish Academy Collection: A Guide to the Celtic Antiquities of the Christian Period preserved in the National Museum, Dublin -	Dublin	1909	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 37.50
498	Micheal O'Siadhail	Micheal O'Siadhail -- Collected Poems		2013	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
499	Katharine Tynan -	THE NIGHT OF TERROR, published		1926	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	EUR 137.50

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.