Purcell Auctioneers: Sale of an Exceptional Library and other select Lots to include Incunabula, Early Printings, Early Manuscripts, Maps, Significant Books from the 16th to the 19th Centuries of Irish and World Interest, 52726, Birr
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- May 27, 2026 - May 27, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
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| 1 | Brion de la Tour | Brion de la Tour L'Irlande / assujettie / aux Observations etc. |
Paris | 1770 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 2 | Ordnance Survey Sligo Sheet 7 ½ inch to the mile |
1918 | EUR 50.00 - 100.00 | EUR 43.75 | ||
| 3 | Nicolas Sanson | Two sheet map by Sanson of the North and South of Ireland |
Paris | 1665 | EUR 300.00 - 600.00 | EUR 275.00 |
| 4 | A.M. Perrot | Londonderri / Antrim |
1823 | EUR 50.00 - 100.00 | Not Sold | |
| 5 | Charles Smith | The County of Kerry |
1757 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | EUR 187.50 | |
| 6 | The Kingdom of Ireland |
London | 1801 | EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold | |
| 7 | Camden HIBERNIAE/ IRELAND |
Yverdon | 1610; 1637 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | EUR 375.00 | |
| 8 | A.M. Perrot | Queens Co. Kilkenny,Wexford , Carlow |
1823 | EUR 50.00 - 100.00 | EUR 62.50 | |
| 9 | Richard William Seale | A MAP OF THE / KINGDOM OF/ IRELAND / from ye latest & best Observations |
1744 | EUR 100.00 - 200.00 | EUR 200.00 | |
| 10 | John Thornton (Fl 1670-1715) | Chart of the North West Coast of Ireland From Lough Swilly to Slyne Head |
1685 | EUR 150.00 - 300.00 | EUR 200.00 | |
| 11 | Frederick de Wit | Frederick de Wit Regnum / Hiberniae etc. |
c.1705 | EUR 300.00 - 500.00 | EUR 375.00 | |
| 12 | Framed map of Sligo |
1846 | EUR 80.00 - 160.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 13 | Samuel Lewis | Map of Ireland/ Divided into Provinces & Counties etc. |
London | 1837 | EUR 100.00 - 200.00 | EUR 175.00 |
| 14 | John Kitchen | A New and Correct map of the Province of Connaught |
London | c 1785 | EUR 100.00 - 200.00 | EUR 118.75 |
| 15 | Johann Baptiste Homann | Johann Baptiste HOMANN Hiberniae / Regnum/ tam in praecipuas |
1720 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 250.00 | |
| 16 | Joan Blaeu (1596-1673) | 17th century map of Carlow |
N/A | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 225.00 | |
| 17 | The County of Cork, Province of Munster, Ireland |
N/A | EUR 100.00 - 200.00 | EUR 112.50 | ||
| 18 | Ordnance Survey Sheet 94 Inch to the Mile Galway and Mayo |
N/A | EUR 50.00 - 80.00 | EUR 50.00 | ||
| 19 | Charles Vignoles; John Macneill | Railway Commission Maps |
N/A | EUR 200.00 - 400.00 | EUR 1,125.00 | |
| 20 | Map of Copenhagen |
1837 | EUR 100.00 - 200.00 | EUR 62.50 | ||
| 21 | Ireland's Illustrious Sons |
Philadelphia | N/A | EUR 60.00 - 120.00 | EUR 50.00 | |
| 22 | Michael Keogh | Michael Collins - Monochrome photograph |
Dublin | 1918 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 575.00 |
| 23 | Powell | The Eviction [A Scene From Life in Ireland] |
New York | 1871 | EUR 80.00 - 160.00 | EUR 100.00 |
| 24 | James Malton | Marine School Dublin looking up the Liffey |
London | 1793 | EUR 250.00 - 450.00 | Not Sold |
| 25 | Lafayette | Dublin University in Quadrangle |
1911 | EUR 50.00 - 100.00 | EUR 81.25 |
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Dominic Winter Auctioneers
Printed Books, Maps & Wisdens, English Bibles
1500-1800
22nd July 2026Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 83 – Westall & Owen. Picturesque Tour of the River Thames, 1st edition, 1828. £2,000-3,000.Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 88 – Blume. Rumphia, Botanicae de plantis Indiae Orientalis, 1835-1848. £2,000-3,000.Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 101 – Michaux. Histoire des arbres forestiers de l'Amérique septentrionale, 1810-1812. £700-1,000.Dominic Winter Auctioneers
Printed Books, Maps & Wisdens, English Bibles
1500-1800
22nd July 2026Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 102 – Miller & Shaw. Cimelia Physica, 1796 [but c. 1816]. £3,000-5,000.Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 104 – Parkinson. Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants, London: Thomas Cotes, 1640. £800-1,200.Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 159 – Plancius. Orbis Terrarum..., double hemisphere map, 1594-99. £5,000-8,000.Dominic Winter Auctioneers
Printed Books, Maps & Wisdens, English Bibles
1500-1800
22nd July 2026Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 217 – Illuminated Medieval Manuscript. From a Breviary, 14th/15th c. £3,000-4,000.Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 224 – The newe Testament … By Wylliam Tyndall…, 1549. £3,000-5,000.Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 238 – Douay-Rheims Bible. 3 volumes, 1582/1609/1610. £7,000-10,000.Dominic Winter Auctioneers
Printed Books, Maps & Wisdens, English Bibles
1500-1800
22nd July 2026Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 336 – Ashendene Press. A Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle, 1903. £1,000-1,500.Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 393 – Sassoon. Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, signed limited edition, 1931. £800-1,200.Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 402 – Dylan Thomas. Twenty-Five Poems, 1st edition in d.j., 1936. £400-600. -
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Case Auctions
2026 Summer Auction
August 1st and 2ndCase Antiques, Aug. 1: Timberlake, Henry: A DRAUGHT OF THE CHEROKEE COUNTRY on the West Side of the Twenty Four Mountains, Commonly Called "Over the Hills". $18,000 to $22,000.Case Antiques, Aug. 1: Manuscript orderly book detailing day to day activities of multiple Virginia regiments in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary,1776-1777. $7,000 to $8,000.Case Antiques, Aug. 1: Cormac McCarthy, The Orchard Keeper, Random House, New York, 1965. Signed 1st Edition. $3,800 to $4,200.Case Auctions
2026 Summer Auction
August 1st and 2ndCase Antiques, Aug. 1: Battle of Kings Mountain Pamphlet by Isaac Shelby, April 1823, Signed. $1,800 to $2,200.Case Antiques, Aug. 1: Large Tintype CSA Lt. Col. Thomas Coke Johnson, 19th GA, w/ Southern Cross, Book. $1,400 to $1,800.Case Antiques, Aug. 1: Rare Civil War Ambrotype, 19th GA Infantry with Johnson Family of GA. $800 to $1,200.Case Auctions
2026 Summer Auction
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