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. ...			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			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; ...			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		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; ...			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

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
29th January 2026

Forum, Jan. 29: Plato. [Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Correspondence and documents by or addressed to the first four Viscounts Molesworth and members of their families, letters and manuscripts, 1690-1783. £10,000-15,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
29th January 2026

Forum, Jan. 29: Shakespeare (William). The Dramatic Works, 9 vol., John and Josiah Boydell, 1802. £5,000-7,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Joyce (James). Ulysses, first edition, one of 750 copies on handmade paper, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922 £8,000-12,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Powell (Anthony). [A Dance to the Music of Time], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
29th January 2026

Forum, Jan. 29: Chaucer (Geoffrey). Troilus and Criseyde, one of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham St.Lawrence, 1927. £3,000-4,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Borges (Jorge Luis). Luna de Enfrente, first edition, one of 300 copies, presentation copy signed by the author to Leopoldo Marechal, Buenos Aires, Editorial Proa, 1925. £3,000-4,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Nolli (Giovanni Battista). Nuova Pianta di Roma, Rome, 1748. £6,000-8,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
29th January 2026

Forum, Jan. 29: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, 3 vol., first edition, 1842-49. £15,000-20,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Blacker (William). Catechism of Fly Making, Angling and Dyeing, Published by the author, 1843. £3,000-4,000

Forum, Jan. 29: Herschel (Sir John F. W.) Collection of 69 offprints, extracts and separate publications by Herschel, bound for his son, William James Herschel, 3 vol., [1813-50]. £15,000-20,000
Dominic Winter
Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
28th January 2026

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 26. Company School. An album of 85 Indian mica paintings, Madras, c. 1852. £700-1,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 28. Ross & Hooker. Notes on the Botany of the Antarctic Voyage, 1st edition, 1843. £4,000-6,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 44. Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 volumes, 1st edition, 1862-73. £30,000-40,000

Dominic Winter
Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
28th January 2026

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 72. Edwards (George). A Natural History of Uncommon Birds… [and] Gleanings of Natural History, 7 volumes, 1st edition, 1743-64. £7,000-10,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 87. Walcott (Charles D. et al.). Geologic Atlas of the United States, 227-volume set, U.S. Geological Survey, 1894-1945. £500-800

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 236. A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew…, By B. E. Gent., 1st edition, [1699]. £3,000-4,000

Dominic Winter
Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
28th January 2026

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 245. Frost Fair Broadside. Upon the Frost in the Year 1739-40, Printed on the Ice upon the Thames at Queen-Hithe, 1739/40. £1,500-2,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 270. Micheli (Antonino di). La Nuova Chitarra di Regole…, 1st edition, Palermo, 1680. £10,000-15,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 280. Elgar (Edward). Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, [1910], signed presentation copy. £500-800

Dominic Winter
Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
28th January 2026

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 286 - Walton (William, 1902-1983). Autograph manuscript full score for Belshazzar’s Feast, [1930-31]. £20,000-30,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 304. Churchill (Winston). A terracotta maquette of Churchill by Oscar Nemon, c. 1955. £1,500-2,000

Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 364 - Russian Imperial Archaeological Commission. Mecheti Samarkanda..., Fascicule I Gour-Emir, St. Petersburg, 1905. £2,000-3,000
Sotheby’s
Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
27 January 2026

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary pair of books from George Washington’s field library, marking the conjunction of Robert Rogers, George Washington, and Henry Knox. $1,200,000 to $1,800,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary letter marking the conjunction of George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Benjamin Franklin. $1,000,000 to $1,500,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: Virginia House of Delegates. The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. $350,000 to $500,000.

Sotheby’s
Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
27 January 2026

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: (Gettysburg). “Genl. Doubleday has taken charge of the battle”: Autograph witness to the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, illustrated by fourteen maps and plans. $200,000 to $300,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: President Lincoln thanks a schoolboy on behalf of "all the children of the nation for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated." $200,000 to $300,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: [World War II]. An archive of maps and files documenting the allied campaign in Europe, from the early stages of planning for D-Day and Operation Overlord, to Germany’s surrender. $200,000 to $300,000.