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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

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Auction Name	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	Total Sales (EUR)	73,412.50
Auction Date	January 21, 2026 - January 21, 2026	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	35,730.00
Sale Number	#12126	High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	60,500.00
Total Lots	603
Sold Lots	499.0	Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	48,950.00
% of Lots Sold	82.75%	High Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	79,611.00
Unsold Lots	104	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	92.21%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
278		Irish Republicanism: Remnant of Falg from Republican Red Cross dressing Station- St Stephens Green , Easter 1916.	1916	EUR 400.00 - 800.00	EUR 4,250.00
271		Austin Stack: Archive of letters including one written in Kilmainham Gaol dated 19th June 1916.	1916	EUR 300.00 - 600.00	EUR 2,500.00
210	Edward Fitzgerald with an introduction by A C Benson,	Rubaiyat of Omar Khayya, translated into English verse		EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 2,125.00
119		GAA: Collection of GAA Hurling and Football County Programmes from the 1960's,	1960's	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	EUR 1,937.50
260	Seamus Heaney and Barry Flanagan.	The Names of The Hares.		EUR 600.00 - 900.00	EUR 1,875.00
264		IRISHWOMEN CHAINS OR CHANGE, (Irish Women's Liberation Movement (IWLM)) Group's manifesto.	1971	EUR 150.00 - 250.00	EUR 1,875.00
118		GAA: Collection of County GAA programmes from the 1970's. Including Leinster and Munster Ball Finals c 80	1970's.	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 1,687.50
215	John Speede.	The Province of Connaugh with The Citie of Galwaye described.	1610	EUR 500.00 - 800.00	EUR 1,125.00
282	Alice Furlong:	Dublin, Easter 1916.	1916	EUR 200.00 - 400.00	EUR 975.00
288		Thomas Ashe: Mourning Locket (sealed) believed to contain some of the hair of Thomas Ashe. White metal with B & W photograph of Ashe. Unique item.		EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 937.50
559	T J Hurley	T J Hurley; Archive material. TJ Hurley was closely connected to Austin Stack and Constance Markievicz and other notables from the revolutionary period.		EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 875.00
455	Yeats, W. B..	The Winding Stair and Other Poems.	101	EUR 300.00 - 600.00	EUR 775.00
8		Cork Irish Language Newspaper: An Lochrann 1916-1919, Issues 1 -- 36.	1916-1919	EUR 180.00 - 240.00	EUR 750.00
214	John Speede.	The Province of Ulster	c.1610	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 750.00
289		Kevin Barry: Original Black & White photograph		EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 750.00
445	W. B. Yeats.	The Tower.	1928	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 750.00
205	Charle Cullen,	Nighttown. 10 photopolymer etchings.		EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 625.00
287		Padraig Pearse: Memorial card for General P H Pearse. 'Pray For the Souls of General P. H. Pearse and the Officers and Men of the Irish Republican Army'	1916	EUR 150.00 - 250.00	EUR 600.00
572		The Masonic Lodge Research for Ireland . A large collection of historical transactions spanning from the 1920s to 1980s.	1920s to 1980s.	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	EUR 600.00
413	Patrick Kavanagh	NIGHT UNSTARRED, edited, with introduction and epilogue		EUR 400.00 - 500.00	EUR 525.00
457	Yeats, W. B..	The Cutting of an Agate.	1919	EUR 180.00 - 280.00	EUR 525.00
439	Gerrit van Gelderen,	Irish Wildlife. The original illustrations and page layouts for the book to accompany a promotion for Jacobs biscuits from the early 1970s	early 1970s	EUR 200.00 - 400.00	EUR 500.00
443	Oscar Wilde.	Oscar Wilde. Poems Oscar Wilde with The Ballad of Reading Gaol.	1916	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 500.00
444	Roald Dahl. Quentin Blake.	Boy.	1985	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	EUR 475.00
319	Rev. James Gordon,	1798 Rebellion: History of the Rebellion in Ireland in the year 1798 containing an impartial account of the proceedings of the Irish revolutionists, from the year 1782 till the suppression of the Rebellion.	1801	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 425.00

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