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Auction Report
Auction Date
February 18, 2026 - February 18, 2026
Page Size: 584 items in 24 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
226 Patrick McCann

The Butcher Boy

1992 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 100.00
227 Patrick MacDonagh

Flirtation

1927 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 37.50
228

Long Playing Record: John B Keane Self Portrait

EUR 40.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
229

Big Maggie. A Play in Three Acts by John B. Keane

1969 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
230 John B. Keane

The Buds of Ballybunion

1979 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 112.50
231 John Keane

John B. Keane; The Highest House on the Mountain

1961 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 68.75
232 John B. Keane

John B. Keane; Sive

1959 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 87.50
233 John Keane

John B. Keane; Letters of an Irish Minister of State

1978 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 68.75
234 John Keane

John B. Keane; The Highest House on the Mountain

1961 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 112.50
235 John B. Keane

John B. Keane; Big Maggie

1969 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 37.50
236 John B. Keane

John B. Keane collection. Sive a play in three acts

1959 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 125.00
237 John B. Keane

John B Keane, Fifty Years Young

EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 137.50
238 John Keane

John B. Keane; Many Young Men of Twenty

1961 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 100.00
239 John Keane

John B Keane -- The Highest House on the Mountain

EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 100.00
240 Edna O'Brien;

Edna O'Brien; Down by the River

1996 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 37.50
241 Sally Rooney

Sally Rooney; Normal People the Scripts, as seen on BBC

2020 EUR 80.00 - 100.00 EUR 100.00
242

Five Plays. DUNSANY, Lord

London 1914 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 62.50
243 Lord Dunsany

Lord Dunsany. Tales of Wonder

1916 EUR 70.00 - 90.00 EUR 62.50
244 Alfred Austin (Poet -Laureate)

Spring and Autumn in Ireland

1900 EUR 50.00 - 70.00 EUR 37.50
245 Edward Martyn

Maeve

1899 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
246 Seamus Heaney

The Spirit Level

1994 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
247 Seamus Heaney

Beowulf

1999 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
248 Seamus Heaney

District and Circle

2006 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 187.50
249

Dennis O'Driscoll; Stepping Stones

2008 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
250 Seamus Heaney

An Open Letter

1983 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 325.00
  • Chiswick Auctions
    Books & Works on Paper
    12th March 2026
    Chiswick, Mar. 12: Churchill: The World in Crisis. Inscribed in 4 vols. 1923-31. £18,000 - £22,000.
    Chiswick, Mar. 12: Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Inscribed. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Chiswick, Mar. 12: Ponting. Polar Photographs (2) 1910-11. £3,000 - £4,000.
    Chiswick, Mar. 12: Gray [Artist.] India. Album 40 original drawings. 1858 - 1862. £2,000 - £3,000.
    Chiswick, Mar. 12: Lane’s Celestial Globe, 1811. £600 - £800.
  • Forum Auctions
    Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
    25 March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Andrews (H.C.) Coloured Engravings of Heaths, 4 vol. in 2, first edition, [1710,--94]-1802-1809-[1830]. £10,000 - £15,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- Cramer (Pierre) and Caspar Stoll. De Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie Waereld-Deelen…,, 5 vol., Amsterdam & Utrecht, 1779-91. £8,000 - £12,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Voyages.- Darwin (Charles) and others. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 3 vol. in 4, including Appendix to vol.2, first edition, 1839. £8,000 - £12,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- de Graaf (Willem Diederik Vincent). [Inlandsche Kapellen in beeld], 170 fine original watercolours, [Enkhuizen], [1800-40]. £8,000 - £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
    25 March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Dresser (Henry Eeles). A History of the Birds of Europe, 9 vol., including supplement, first edition, by the author, 1871-96. £6,000 - £8,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Zoology.- Felines.- Elliot (Daniel Giraud). A Monograph of the Felidæ or Family of the Cats, first edition, for the Subscribers, by the Author, [1878]-1883. £25,000 - £30,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Frisch (Johann Leonard). Vorstellung der Vögel Deutschlandes, 2 vol., first edition, Berlin, Friedr. Wilhelm Birnsteil, [1736]-1763. £40,000 - £60,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 vol., first edition, by the author, 1862-1873. £30,000 - £40,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
    25 March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 25: Pomology.- France.- Poiteau (A.) Pomologie Française. Recueil des Plus Beaux Fruits cultivés en France, 4 vol., Paris, 1846. £30,000 - £40,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- [Robin (Jean)]. Histoire des Plantes, nouvellement trouvées en l'Isle Virgine…,, 1620; with Geoffrey Linocier L'Histoire des plantes, second edition, 1619-20. £3,000 - £4,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Japan.- Siebold (P.F. von). Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan, 7 parts in 6 vol., first edition, Leyden, [1832]-1852. £35,000 - £45,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Valentijn (Francois). Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën..., 5 vol. in 8, first edition, Dordrecht [&] Amsterdam, 1724-26. £8,000 - £12,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Australia.- Redouté (P.J.).- Ventenat (Étienne Pierre). Jardin de la Malmaison, 2 vol.,, Paris, 1803-04[-05]. £30,000 - £40,000.
  • ALDE, Mar. 11: AUGUSTIN (Saint). De civitate Dei. Rome, Konrad Sweynheym et Arnold Pannartz, 1470. €20,000 - €30,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: [REGNART (LE LIVRE DE)]. [Le] Docteur en malice, maistre Regnard, demonstrant les ruzes et cautelles qu'il use envers les personnes… Rouen, 1550. €20,000 - €30,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: TRITHÈME (JEAN). Polygraphie et universelle escriture cabalistique. Paris, [Benoît Prévost pour] Jacques Kerver, 1561. €8,000 - €10,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: CAUS (SALOMON DE). La Perspective, avec la raison des ombres et des miroirs. Londres, John Norton, 1612.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: NICERON (JEAN-FRANÇOIS). La Perspective curieuse ou magie artificielle des effets merveilleux de l'optique. Paris, Pierre Billaine, 1638. €6,000 - €8,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: VONTET (JACQUES). L’Art de trancher la viande et toute sorte de fruits… S.l.n.d. [probablement Lyon, vers 1647]. €20,000 - €30,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: HUGO (VICTOR). [Paysage spectral avec une église], [vers 1837]. €20,000 - €30,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: [HERVEY DE SAINT-DENYS (LÉON D')]. Les Rêves et les Moyens de les diriger. Observations pratiques. Paris, Amyot, 1867. €3,000 - €4,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: GACHET (PAUL-FERDINAND). Les Chats de Gachet (Manuscrit). S.d. [avant mai 1873]. €6,000 - €8,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: [REDON (ODILON)]. PICARD (EDMOND). Le Juré. Monodrame en cinq actes… Bruxelles, Mme veuve Monnom, 1887. €7,000 - €9,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: [TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (HENRI DE) ET HENRI-GABRIEL IBELS]. MONTORGUEIL (GEORGES). Le Café-concert. Paris, [1893]. €4,000 - €5,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: [TERRY (EMILIO)]. Projet de fontaine. Dessin original au stylo et à l'encre noire. 1938. €2,000 - €3,000.