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
76		Maps: County Tipperary, North Riding. Recorded Monuments- Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Sheet 1-54.		1901-05/1953	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
77		Maps: County Tipperary, South Riding. Recorded Monuments- Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Sheet 1-91.		map 1905-07/ SMR 1997	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 37.50
78	Denis Marnane.	Land and Violence. A History of West Tipperary from 1660		1985	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 200.00
79	Peter Harbison/Homan Potterson and Jeanne Sheehy	Irish Interest: Irish Art and Architecture		1978	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 50.00
80	Nolan and Power eds	Waterford History and Society		1992	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 150.00
81	Rev. R. H. Ryland,	Waterford Interest: The History, Topography and Antiquities of the County and City of Waterford with an account of the present state of the peasantry of that part of the south of Ireland.	London	1824	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
82		Waterford Remembers		1916	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 93.75
83	Compiled by Edmund Downey.	Waterford. An illustrated guide and tourists' handbook.		1926	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
84	Donal O'Brien	The Houses and Landed Families of Westmeath		2015	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 93.75
85		Westmeath: Ordnance Survey Letters- Westmeath, in 1837. Reproduced 1931; Westmeath as others saw it by Jeremiah Sheehan		N/A	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 93.75
86		Houses of Wexford (Rowe and Scallan,		2004	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 162.50
87	Christiaan Corlett editor),	Beneath the Poulaphuca reservoir: the 1939 Poulaphuca survey of the lands flooded by the Liffey reservoir scheme -	Dublin	2008	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 37.50
88	William Laffan & Kevin V. Mulligan.	Russborough, a Great Irish House, Its Families and Collections.		2014	EUR 120.00 - 200.00	EUR 112.50
89	Hannigan and Nolan eds	Wicklow History and Society.		1994	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 68.75
90		Kilkenny edited by John Kirwan; Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow edited by P Sweetman		1993	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 87.50
91	Rev Owen Devaney;	Ardagh & Clommacnois - Footprints of Mel and Ciaran		N/A	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 75.00
92	Norah J. Henderson.	Memories of Cushendall [County Antrim]	Belfast.	1935	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 37.50
93	Hughes and Nolan eds	Armagh History and Society		2001	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 43.75
94	edited by E M Boyle, facsimile copy	Ulster: St Patrick's Cathedral Armagh, hand stitched publication c 1940's; Boyle's Records of Limavady 1609-1808		1989	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 93.75
95	edited by W C Kerr	Ulster: ordnance Survey Memoir of the Parish of Derryaghy 1837		1983	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
96	Gerard O'Brien ed	Derry-Londonderry History and Society		1999	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 43.75
97	Alan Gailey	Ulster: Rural Houses of the North of Ireland		1984	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
98	Brian Bonner	Derry: Derry- an Outline History of Derry		1982	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 43.75
99	Lindsay Proudfoot ed	Down History and Society		1997	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 50.00
100	Lady Mabel Annsley.	Richard Rowley. County Down Songs. 1924. Illustrated with attractive woodcuts.		1924	EUR 120.00 - 150.00	EUR 75.00

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.