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 Report
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
151 Seamas O'Beara

GAA Wexford|: St Anne's GAA Club-History of Rathengan Gaelic Games

EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 37.50
152 Donal A Murphy/PJ Maxwell/Nancy Murphy

GAA Tipperary: A Central Culture Gaelic Sport in Nenagh Vol 1-3

2014-2021 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
153

Munster Hurling Championship 28th July 1940. Team Sheet from programme and images of both teams

1940 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 50.00
154

All-Ireland Hurling Final 1963, GAA Programme. Kilkenny V Waterford, 8vo

1963 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 150.00
155

GAA: Leinster Senior Football Semi Final 1957, Wicklow V Dublin. Played at St Conleths Park, Newbridge

1957 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 112.50
156

All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship semi-final 1952. Cork V Galway.

1952 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 106.25
157

GAA: Munster Hurling Final 1951 Cork V Tipperary Match Programme.

1951 EUR 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
158

GAA: Munster Hurling Final 1952 Cork V Tipperary Match Programme.

1952 EUR 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
159

GAA: Munster Hurling Final 1954 Cork V Tipperary Match Programme.

1954 EUR 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
160

GAA: All Ireland Hurling Final 1969 Kilkenny V Cork.Match Programme

1969 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
161

GAA: All Ireland Hurling Final 1970 Cork V Wexford. Also Meath V Offaly Leinster Football Final July 1970 (2)

1970 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 162.50
162

GAA: All Ireland Football Final 1969 Match Programme, Cork V Derry; Kerry v Offaly

1969 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 50.00
163

All-Ireland Football Final 1964, GAA Programme. Kerry V Galway

1964 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 150.00
164

GAA: All Ireland Hurling Final Match Programme 1953, Cork V Galway

1953 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 100.00
165

GAA: All Ireland Hurling Final Match Programme 1959, Kilkenny V Waterford with match ticket for corner stand

1959 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 200.00
166

GAA: Munster Hurling Final 1965, Match programme, Cork V Tipperary

1965 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 81.25
167

GAA: All Ireland Football Final 1953, Armagh V Kerry, Match Programme

1953 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 137.50
168

GAA: All Ireland Football Final 1970, Match Programme Kerry V Meath

1970 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 225.00
169

GAA: Munster Hurling Final 1953 Cork V Tipperary Match Programme.

1953 EUR 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
170

GAA: Munster Hurling Championshio Semi Final 1955, Match Programme, Clare V Tipperary

1955 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 137.50
171

Birr Hurling Club. Concert programme held 26th November 1955 in the Marian Hall. Condition poor

1955 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
172

Club Hurling Programmes: Tipperary Senior Hurling Final

1959 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 162.50
173

GAA: Inter Co Club Senior Hurling Tournament and Massed Band Parade May 1959. Glen Rover-Cork County Champs V Sarsfield- Tipperary County Champs. Match programme

EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 50.00
174

National Hurling League Quarter-Final at Semple Stadium, Clare V Kilkenny, March 1985; Limerick V Kilkenny c1974

EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 125.00
175 Bill O'Brien,

Kilcommon My Home - Mountainy People At Play - Hurling, Football, Athletics, Handball, Music, Song & Dance.

EUR 80.00 - 160.00 Not Sold
  • 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.
  • 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