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	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
126	John Cummins	GAA Kildare: A History of Cadbury Gaelic Football Club	N/A	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 162.50
127	Eamonn Coleman	GAA Derry: The Boys of '93. Derry's All-Ireland Kings	2018	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
128	Joseph Martin	GAA Tyrone; The GAA in Tyrone-The Long Road to Glory	2003	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
129	Martin Ryan	GAA Cork: 3 by the Lee-the making of the Cork hurler's 3 in a row 1976-78	2006	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
130	Paul Rouse	GAA: The Hurlers-The First All-Ireland Championship and the making of Modern Hurling	2018	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 37.50
131	Jerome Quinn	GAA Ulster: Ulster Football & Hurling Champions	1993	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 50.00
132	Edited by Paddy Madden .	Early and scarce Hurling Club History. History of Gaelic Games in Whitegate and Mountshannon 1825-1984 [County Clare].	1984	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 175.00
133		(Clare Interest) Pat McNamara & Kathleen McNamara - Skirts Hurlin' The Story of Camogie in Killanena,	2004	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
134	Alan Rogers	GAA Tyrone: Forever young on the Fields of Moy-100 year history of An Mhaigh Tir na nOg GAC	2008	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 37.50
135	Alan Aherne	GAA Wexford: Go On The Butters- Sarsfields GAA Club History 1907-2010	N/A	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 62.50
136		GAA: Collection of GAA Magazines: Ulster Games Annual (7) Michael O'Heirs World of Gaelic Games (2) plus 30 others (39)	N/A	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
137		GAA: Collection of GAA magazines including GAA-The Official Croke Park Annual (15); Greats of Gaelic Games (5) Gaelsport (6) (26)	N/A	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 37.50
138	Tom Humphries	GAA: Green Fields, Gaelic Sport in Ireland	1996	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
139	Seamus O'Reilly SIGNED	GAA Clare: A proud Past -Highlights of the Newmarket on Fergus Hurling & Football Story 1885-1973; Clare GAA The Club Scene 1887-2010	2010	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 75.00
140		GAA Leitrim: Pairc Sean Mac Diarmada Souvenir programme May 1964; Kiltubrid GAA; The Gortletteragh GAA Story 1889-1991; Sceal CLG Liatroma 1984-2009 plus 5 others (9)	N/A	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 150.00
141	edited by Lorcan O'Rourke and Willie Crowley;	Kildare: Moorefield GAA Newbridge- Our Club, Our Town 1884-2014	N/A	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 50.00
142	David McCann	Galway: For The Pride of The Parish. a History of Gaelic Games in New Inn and Bullaun compiled	2003	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 50.00
143	Michael Moynihan	GAA Cork: Rebels Cork GAA Since 1950	2010	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 43.75
144		GAA Tipperary: The Brennans of Borrisokene c1730 to 2010	N/A	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 62.50
145	edited by Sean Murphy	GAA: A History of Handball in Munster 1884-1984	N/A	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 237.50
146	compiled by D Campbell, D Dowds and D Mullan	GAA Donegal: Against The Grain-A History of Burt, Its People and The GAA	2000	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 37.50
147	Anthony McMullan and Mary McMullan	GAA Antrim: Down The Lane-history of Gaelic Games in the parish of Rasharkin 1909-2013	N/A	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 106.25
148	Brendan McArdles	GAA Louth: Footbal Feats of Faughart 1884-1997, Roche Emmets GFC	N/A	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 56.25
149	edited by Tom Cullen	GAA Fermanagh: A Gaelic Graduation-A History of the GAA in Fermanagh	N/A	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 125.00
150		GAA Kerry:The GAA in Kerry- Centenary Exhibation, Muckross House; Rathmore GAA Club 3 June 1984 Kerry Senior Trial; The Sportsmen of East Kerry and Western Duhallow	N/A	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 250.00

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.