Purcell Auctioneers: June 2026 Book Auction of c.610 Lots to include Antiquarian Books, Rare - Signed - Limited Editions, Local Histories, Republican Interest Books, GAA Interest, Irish Literature, Irish Railway Int etc. , 61726, Birr
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- June 17, 2026 - June 17, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 192 | Muldoon Paul | Selected Poems 1968 – 1983; Horse Latitudes |
London | 1986; 2006 | EUR 60.00 - 80.00 | EUR 50.00 |
| 193 | Poetry & Legendry Ballads of the South of Ireland |
1894 | EUR 40.00 - 60.00 | EUR 87.50 | ||
| 194 | Mahon Derek; Paulin Tom; Sweeney Matthew; Barry Sebastin; Muldoon Paul; O’Driscoll Dennis; McCarthy Thomas; Healy Dermot | 9 Books, including: Antarctica |
1985; 2025; 1978; 1985; 2017; 2013; 2022; 1998 | EUR 50.00 - 70.00 | Not Sold | |
| 195 | Davis Thomas | The poems of Thomas Davis |
New York | 1868 | EUR 60.00 - 100.00 | Not Sold |
| 196 | McCarthy D; Williams R D’Alton; O’Leary E | 8 Books, including: Book of Irish Verse |
Dublin | 1861; 1869; 1900 circa; 1891 | EUR 40.00 - 80.00 | EUR 50.00 |
| 197 | Casey John K; Murphy Michael J; Lover Samuel; MacManus M J; Joyce R D; Wilde Oscar; Sigerson George; Graves Alfred Percevsl | 8 Books, including: The Rising of the Moon and other Ballads, Songs and Legends |
1933; 1964; 1858; 1941; 1908; 1919; 1925; 1926 | EUR 40.00 - 60.00 | EUR 56.25 | |
| 198 | O’Brien Flan; Na gCopaleen Myles | Myles before Myles; An Beal Boct |
Ath Cliath | 1988; 1964 | EUR 100.00 - 140.00 | Not Sold |
| 199 | McEwan Ian | Amsterdam |
London | 1988 | EUR 60.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold |
| 200 | Beckett Samuel | Dream of Fair to Middling Women |
1992 | EUR 60.00 - 90.00 | EUR 37.50 | |
| 201 | Kraus Horatio S | William Butler Yeats and The Irish Literary Revival |
N/A | EUR 80.00 - 100.00 | EUR 37.50 | |
| 202 | Gunning John P | Aubrey de Vere, a memoir |
Limerick | 1902 | EUR 40.00 - 60.00 | EUR 62.50 |
| 203 | Connor Elizabeth | Dead Star’s Light |
London | 1938 | EUR 80.00 - 120.00 | EUR 225.00 |
| 204 | Gibbons Stella | Cold Comfort Farm |
1932 | EUR 80.00 - 120.00 | Not Sold | |
| 205 | Dunsany Lord | Lord Adrian |
N/A | EUR 130.00 - 150.00 | EUR 93.75 | |
| 206 | Dunsany Lord | A Journey |
N/A | EUR 75.00 - 100.00 | EUR 62.50 | |
| 207 | Dunsany Lord | IF; A Good Bargain |
1921; 1930 circa | EUR 40.00 - 60.00 | EUR 50.00 | |
| 208 | Dunsany Lord | The Old Folk of The Centuries |
1930 | EUR 50.00 - 75.00 | EUR 50.00 | |
| 209 | Wilde Oscar; Gregory Lady | The Picture of Dorian Gray; Irish Folk/History Plays |
Paris; New York | 1913; 1912 | EUR 40.00 - 60.00 | EUR 93.75 |
| 210 | Gregory Lady; Dunsany Lord | The Kiltartan Poetry Book; Tales of the Three Hemispheres |
New York | 1919; 1920 | EUR 50.00 - 70.00 | EUR 50.00 |
| 211 | McGill Lochlann | In Conall's Footsteps |
Dingle | 1992 | EUR 40.00 - 60.00 | EUR 125.00 |
| 212 | O’Casey Eileen | Eileen |
1976 | EUR 80.00 - 120.00 | Not Sold | |
| 213 | McCourt Frank | Angels Ashes |
London | 1996 | EUR 40.00 - 60.00 | Not Sold |
| 214 | Fitzgerald Patrick T | The Colleen Bawn |
2018 | EUR 50.00 - 80.00 | EUR 37.50 | |
| 215 | Woodham-Smith Cecil; Doherty Richard; Llywelyn Morgan | 9 Books, including: The Great Hunger Ireland 1854-9 |
1963; 2002; 1979 | EUR 50.00 - 80.00 | EUR 37.50 | |
| 216 | Butler Hubert | 4 Books, including: The Children of Drancy |
1988; 1985; 1990; 2012 | EUR 70.00 - 90.00 | Not Sold |
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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