Purcell Auctioneers: Book Auction of c. 580 Lots to include Antiquarian Books incl. Books from Three Private Libraries, Rare - Signed - Limited Editions, Local Histories, Republican Interest Books, GAA etc, 51326, Birr
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- May 13, 2026 - May 13, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 125 | Margaretta D'Arcy | Tell Them Everything |
1981 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | GBP 37.50 | |
| 126 | Dawson; Padraic H. Pearse; Eamonn Boyce | Red Terror and Green. The Sinn Fein-Bolshevist movement; Collected Works of Padraic H. Pearse. Plays, Stories, Poems; The Insider. Belfast Prison Diaries of Eamonn |
1920; ND; 1956-1962 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 37.50 | |
| 127 | Captain Conyngham; J. Murray | The Irish Brigade and its Campaigns; The Shan Van Vocht - A Story of the United Irishmen |
ND | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | GBP 37.50 | |
| 128 | Eleanor Hull; Myles V. Ronan | Pagan Ireland; The Irish Martyrs of the Penal Laws |
1904; 1935 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | Not Sold | |
| 129 | Piaras Beaslai | Michael Collins and the Making of a New Ireland |
Dublin | 1926 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 56.25 |
| 130 | Eamon De Valera | National Discipline and Majority Rule |
Dublin | 1936 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | Not Sold |
| 131 | Seamus Costello 1939-1977: Political Biography and Tributes from His Friends and Comrades |
Dublin | c. 1979 | GBP 60.00 - 100.00 | GBP 106.25 | |
| 132 | Dan Breen; P O Cathasaigh; David Nekigan; Gordon Wilson | 10 Books, including: My Fight For Irish Freedom |
1944; 1971; 1968; 1990 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 112.50 | |
| 133 | Charles Russell (Padraic O Conaire) | Should the Workers of Ireland Support Sinn Fein |
Dublin | 1918 | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | Not Sold |
| 134 | Padraic H Pearse; W. P. Ryan; O’Sheil | 5 Books, including: The Collected Works of Padraic H Pearse |
ND; 1919; ND | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 68.75 | |
| 135 | R.F. Tobin | A memoir of the late Lieut.- Colonel Charles Dalton R.A.M.C |
1915 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | Not Sold | |
| 136 | Jimmy Wren; Barton; Desmond Ryan; Liam de Paor | 7 Books, including: The GPO Garrison Easter Week |
2015; 2003; 1949; 1997 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 37.50 | |
| 137 | Frank Callanen; Myles Dungan; Jane Jordan | The Parnell Split 1890-91; The Captain and the King; Kitty O’Shea – An Irish Affair |
1992; 2009; 2005 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | Not Sold | |
| 138 | Ernie O’Malley | On Another Man’s Wound |
London | 1936 | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 150.00 |
| 139 | Donal O'Sullivan; Paul Martin Sacks; F X Martin | 10 Books, including: The Irish Free State and its Senate |
1940; 1976; 1964 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 62.50 | |
| 140 | R. Barry O’Brien; Marianne Elliot; Marianne Elliott; Sean Boyne; Helen Mulvey | Bundle of five biographies: The Autobiography of Theobald Wolfe Tone 1763-1798; Wolfe Tone; Robert Emmett; Emmet Dalton; Thomas Davis |
Dublin | 1893; 1989; 2003; 2015; 2003 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold |
| 141 | J. Anthony Gaughan | Memoirs of Constable Jeremiah Mee, R.I.C. |
Dublin | 1975 | GBP 80.00 - 100.00 | GBP 150.00 |
| 142 | John Mitchel; Morin Chavasse; Seamus O Seanrcaig | Jail Journal; Terence MacSwiney; Padraig Mac Piarais plus 6 others |
1961; 1945 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 112.50 | |
| 143 | Hart | The IRA at War 1916-1923; History of Captain Connie Mackey defender of the Strand [Limerick]; The Irish Boundary Commission and its Origins and 4 others |
N/A | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 62.50 | |
| 144 | Sean O’Mahony; Sean McBride; Allen; Macardle | Frongoch University of Revolution; Sean McBride. That Day’s Struggle; The Storm Passed; The Irish Republic |
N/A | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | |
| 145 | Sean O’Callaghan; Alan J. Ward; Geoff Robertson; Padraig Yeats; G.W. Target | Execution; Ireland and Anglo-American Relations 1899 – 1921; Reluctant Judas; Rioters, Looters, Lady Patrols & Mutineers; The patriots; The Emergency |
Dublin | 1974; 1969; 1976; 2016; 1974; 2019 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | Not Sold |
| 146 | Thomas J. Clarke | Glimpses of An Irish Felon's Prison Life |
1922 | GBP 80.00 - 100.00 | GBP 81.25 | |
| 147 | Pilkington; Ambrus | The Three Sorrowful Tales of Erin; Stones of Aran. Pilgrimage; John Devoy Fenian; Saint Patrick; The Morpeth Roll. Ireland in 1841; Lost and Found Ireland and 4 others |
1965 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | |
| 148 | Piaras Beaslai | Michael Collins and the Making of a New Ireland |
Dublin | 1926 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 125.00 |
| 149 | Kevin T. Cullen; James Durney; Joan Miller; Jim Maher; F.A. D’Arcy; Ken Hannigan; Marie O’Neill; M. Jesse Hoare; Geoff Robertson; Mary McAuliffe | Remembering Monaghan’s War Dead 1914 – 1918; Far from the Short Grass; One Girl’s War; The oath is Dead and Gone; Workers in Union; Grace Gifford Plunkett and Irish Freedom; The Road to Glenanore; The Life and Death of a Special Branch informer; Senator K |
2018; 1986; 2011; 1988; 2000; 1975; 1976; 2008 | GBP 40.00 - 80.00 | GBP 62.50 |
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Sotheby’s
Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
25 June – July 7Sotheby’s, July 7: Ludwig van Beethoven. Autograph sketches for the overture "Die Weihe des Hauses", op.124, [1822], UNPUBLISHED. £150,000 to £200,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice, 1813, first edition, 3 volumes, contemporary half calf. £50,000 to £70,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass, Brooklyn, 1855, first edition, first issue, original green cloth, the Doheny copy. £50,000 to £70,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Binding—Sangorski & Sutcliffe—Omar Khayyam. Rubaiyat, London, 1872, third edition, in a magnificent jewelled Peacock binding. £15,000 to £20,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: George Eliot. Middlemarch, Edinburgh and London, 1871, first edition in the original parts. £20,000 to £30,000. -
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The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Hassall (Joan) A large collection of over 300 original woodblocks of engravings for various books, v.d., with Hassall's engraver's glass water-globe (Qty) - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 9: Eragny Press.- [Bradley (Katherine Harris) & Edith Emma Cooper], "Michael Field." Whym Chow, Flame of Love, one of only 27 copies, inscribed by Bradley, the rarest book from the press, 1914. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum, July 9: [Moore (Thomas Sturge)] [Wood Engravings], 71 wood-engravings printed by David Chambers from the original blocks, the only set on Japanese Hosho paper, from an edition of 5 sets, [1970]. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: La Fontaine (Jean de) Contes et Nouvelles en vers, 2 vol., engraved plates after Eisen, fine early 19th century blue morocco, gilt, by Bradel l'ainé, Amsterdam [Paris], 1762. - Est. £2,000-3,000Forum, July 9: Erotica.- Prostitution.- Pretty Women of Paris (The); Their Names and Addresses, Qualities and Faults..., [Paris], privately printed at the Press of the Prefecture de Police, 1883. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum, July 9: Vale Press.- Ricketts (Charles) & Lucien Pissarro. De la Typographie et de l'Harmonie de la Page Imprimée…, [one of 216 copies], bound in dark blue morocco tooled in gilt, by Sarah T.Prideaux, 1898. - Est. £1,000-1,500Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500Forum, July 9: Golden Cockerel Press.- Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ (The), one of 500 copies, Mary Gill's copy, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1931 with a signed proof of engraving on japon numbered 10/10 (2) - Est. £5,000-7,000Forum, July 9: Boccaccio (Giovanni) The Decameron, 3 vol., vol.1 extra-illustrated by John Buckland Wright with c.150 erotic original drawings in pen & ink and pencil, 1886 [extra-illustrated c.1940]. - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Cox (Morris) Collection of Gogmagog Press Books, 35 vol., rare complete collection of printed books issued by the press, limited editions, most signed by Cox, 1957-83. - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000Forum, July 9: Mosley (James) Ornamented Types. Twenty-Three Alphabets from the Foundry of Louis John Pouchée, 2 vol., one of 10 copies for presentation, from an edition of 210, 1992-93. - Est. £1,000-2,000 -
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The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Inundation papyrus. P.Michael 4, the ‘Inundation papyrus’, a geographical account of the Nile near Canopus, in Greek, remains of two columns from a manuscript scroll on papyrus, Egypt, second century CE. £12,000-18,000Forum, July 16: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, manuscript on vellum, 6 full-page miniatures, with famous Middle English inscriptions, Southern Netherlands for the English market, [c.1430]. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Turner (William). A New boke of the natures and properties of all wines that are commonly vsed here in England, rare first edition of the first English book on wine, By William Seres, 1568. £20,000-£30,000Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 16: Martial Arts.- Lee (Bruce). 'Praying Mantis style' Kung Fu book, containing numerous annotations, diagrams and graphs in Bruce Lee's hand, c. 1960. £50,000-70,000Forum Auctions
The 10th Anniversary Sale
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
July 16, 2026Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000Forum, July 16: Mao Tse-tung.- Kim Il-sung.-[Note book for visitors from China to Korea], signed by Mao and Kim, [Beijing, 1954]. £10,000-15,000