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

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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
176

GAA: National Hurling League Final, 6 May 1956, Wexford V Tipperary

1956 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 93.75
177

GAA: National Hurling League Finals Division Division I Kilkenny V Tipperary

1957-05-12 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 112.50
178

GAA: All-Ireland Senior Football Semi Final 17 August 1958, Dublin V Galway.

1958 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 81.25
179

GAA: All Ireland Senior Football Semi Final 23 August 1959, Down V Galway,

1959 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 93.75
180

GAA: Hurling League Final 3 May 1959, Waterford V Tipperary

1959 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 187.50
181

GAA: All Ireland Senior Football Semi Final 11 August 1957, Cork V Galway.

1957-08-11 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 81.25
182

GAA: All-Ireland Junior Football Semi-Final 28 August 1955, Dublin V Cork.

1955-08-28 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 106.25
183

GAA: All-Ireland Senior Football Semi-Finals Replays 11 September 1955.

1955-09-11 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 106.25
184

GAA: Munster Fotball Finals 15 July 1951, Kerry v Cork-Fitzgerald Stadium Killarney.

1951-07-15 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 87.50
185

GAA: Munster Football Finals 13 July 1958, Cork v Kerry and Waterford v Kerry

1958-07-13 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 93.75
186

GAA: All-Ireland Senior Hurling Semi-Final 10 August 1958, Kilkenny v Tipperary - Senior.

1958-08-10 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 106.25
187

GAA: Leinster Football Final 22 July 1956, Wexford v Kildare

1956-07-22 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 350.00
188 Peigh Sayers

Leabhair Gaeilge relating to the Blasket Islands: Six books/booklets including Machtnamh Seana-Mhna

1939 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 62.50
189

Leabhair Gaeilge: Three works An Seabhac: An Seanchaidhe Muimhneach

1932 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 37.50
190 O Nolan, Gearoid)

Studies in Modern Irish

1919 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 81.25
191

[translation of Tolstoy into Irish]. Fioraon le Fiaran Cluiche de Chuid Leo Tolstoy. Fiachra Eileach do chuir Gaedilg air. Ath Cliath, An Comhar.

Circa 1900 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 37.50
192

[Tales from the Irish tradition in Ballingeary] Bealoideas Bheal atha an Ghaorthaidh. Conchubhar O Muimhneachain do bhailigh. Baile Atha Cliath. 1934 and Conamara le Padraig O'Domhnallain. 1934. 2 books.

1934 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 125.00
193

(Irish Folklore and Music) Sean O Curraoin - De Ghlaschloich an Oileain, published 1987.

1987 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 43.75
194

Focloir Gaeilge-Bearla O Donaill Hardback.

1977 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 62.50
195 illustrations by Jack B. Yeats].

Sean-Eoin. Mairin Ni Chriagain a scriobh, Tomas O'Faolain a d'aistrigh.

1938 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 125.00
196

Danta De idir Sean agus Nua (Una Ni Ogain & Roibeard O Duibhir)

1928 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 75.00
197 Geoffrey Keating - trans and notes David Comyn

Irish Texts Society -- The History of Ireland 3 Vols COMPLETE

1902 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 118.75
198

Iomramh Aonair: Breandan O hEithir (Liam Mac an Iomaire) HB in DJ. 1st edit.

2000 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 62.50
199

Scealta Craibhtheacha. Journal of Folklore of Ireland Society

1951-2 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
200 Baile Atha Cliath.

Doinicini an Domhain le Ailbhe O'Monachain.

1939 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 62.50
  • 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