Purcell Auctioneers: c.600 Lot Auction to include Antiquarian Books incl. Books from the Library of the Late Kenneth Nicholls, Rare - Signed - Limited Editions, Local Histories, Republican Interest, Irish Literature etc., 40826, Birr

Auction Details

Auction Date: April 08, 2026 - April 08, 2026

Page Size: 120 items in 5 pages

Auction Lot Books
Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1		Hely Dutton - Statistical Survey of the County of Clare: with observations on the means of improvement; drawn up for the consideration, and by the direction of the Dublin Society	Dublin,	1808	EUR 400.00 - 460.00	EUR 525.00
2	Clare: Rev. Philip Dwyer.	'History of Killaloe Diocese'.		1878	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 125.00
3	Dwyer, Rev. Canon;	The Diocese of Killaloe from the Reformation to the Eighteenth Century. Ex libris		N/A	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 87.50
3A	Aubrey Glynn and Dermot Gleeson.	A History of the Diocese of Killaloe. Early Period by Aubrey Glynn and Middle Ages by Dermot Gleeson.		1962	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
4	Frost, James;	The History and Topography of the County of Clare. Ex libris		N/A	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 62.50
5		Clare: The Other Clare issues 2-38 (31); Dal gCais issues 5/7/9/11 (4) Total 35		N/A	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 250.00
6	Richard Caulfield.	The Council Book of the Corporation of Kinsale.		1879	EUR 140.00 - 160.00	EUR 212.50
7	Patrick Hickey,	Cork: Templemartin- A Proud Tradition by Sean O Crualaoi; Famine in West Cork- The Mizen Peninsula Land and People 1800-1852		2002	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 106.25
8	Francis H Tuckey,	Cork: The County and City of Cork Remembrancer		1980	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 150.00
9		Cork: Journal of the Cork Historical Archaeological Society		1934	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 62.50
10		The Scenery and Character of Cork. Sean Feehan Junior, Gladys Leach illustrator.	Cork,	1974	EUR 60.00 - 90.00	EUR 62.50
10A	Richard Hayward, illustrated by Raymond Piper.	Munster and the City of Cork	London.	1964	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	EUR 50.00
11		Journal of The Cork Historical & Archaeologica Society 1892/1897		1892/	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 450.00
12	Richard Caulfield.	Council Book of the Corporation of of the City of Cork. 1876.		N/A	EUR 120.00 - 140.00	EUR 150.00
13	Richard Caulfield.	Council Book of the Corporation of Youghal.		1878	EUR 140.00 - 160.00	EUR 187.50
13A	Harry Percival Swan.	Romantic Inishowen. Ireland’s wonderful peninsula. Donegal by Harry Percival Swan.		1948	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 50.00
14	Edited by J. T. Gilbert	Crede Mihi. The Most Ancient Register Book of the Archbishops of Dublin Before the Reformation, Now for the First Time Printed from the Original Manuscript.	Dublin,	1897	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	EUR 75.00
15		Framed scale Hand cololured maps of Tipperary and Waterford,		1798	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 150.00
15A	John T Gilbert	Calandar of Ancient Records of Dublin Vol 1-18.		1889-1922	EUR 150.00 - 300.00	EUR 100.00
16		(Dublin Interest) Jim Lacey – A Candle in the Window, A History of the Barony of Castleknock		2007	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
16A		Dublin: Dublin 1660-1860 by Maurice Craig, 1952; The Guilds of Dublin by John J Webb, Sign of Three Candles, 1939 plus 11 others (13)		N/A	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 75.00
17		Dublin: Dublin Historical Records Journal,		1942-1985	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 81.25
18	J.T. Gilbert	The History of the City of Dublin. Volume I		1861	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
19	F. Elrington Ball.	A History of County Dublin. people, parishes, antiquities from earliest times. With maps and illustrations.		1995	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 50.00
20		Dublin: The Dublin Region in the Middle Ages by Margaret Murphy and Michael Potterton, 2010; …		N/A	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026

Forum, May 28: Book of Hours.- Heures de nostre dame a l'usaige de Romme, Paris, Antoine Chappiel pour Germain Hardouin, [1504]. £6,000-8,000

Forum, May 28: Colonna (Francesco). La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo, second edition, Venice, Sons of Aldus Manutius, 1545. £15,000-20,000

Forum, May 28: The Christ Child holding a crystal orb and surrounded by banderoles with devotional exhortations, on a leaf most probably from a Book of Hours, [Southern Netherlands, last decades of the fifteenth century]. £2,000-3,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026

Forum, May 28: Jackson (Shirley). The Haunting of Hill House, first English edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Claude Fredericks, 1960. £2,000-3,000

Forum, May 28: Lennon (John). In His Own Write, first edition, first impression, signed by the author, 1964. £3,000-4,000

Forum, May 28: Doves Press.- Keats (John). [Poems], one of 200 copies on paper, Doves Press, 1914. £5,000-7,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026

Forum, May 28: Rodrigues (João Barbosa). Sertum Palmarum Brasiliensium, 2 vol., first and only edition, Brussels, 1903. £8,000-12,000

Forum, May 28: Newton (Sir Isaac). Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica…editio ultima, auctior et emendatior, Amsterdam, Sumptibus Societatis, 1714. £8,000-12,000

Forum, May 28: Kepler (Johannes). Ad Vitellionem paralipomena, wuibus astronomiae pars optica traditur, first edition, Frankfurt am Main, 1604. £5,000-7,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026

Forum, May 28: Tagliacozzi (Gaspare). De Curtorum Chirurgia per insitionem, libri duo, first edition, Venice, Gasparo Bindoni, 1597. £7,000-10,000

Forum, May 28: Lootsman (Jacobsz). The Lightning Colomne, or Sea-Mirrour, containing the Sea-Coasts of the Northern, Eastern and Western Navigation..., 1670. £8,000-12,000

Forum, May 28: Ribelles y Helip (José), Attributed to. An album comprising 33 finely executed watercolours of Spanish costume, bull-fighting scenes, and other genre subjects, [circa 1830]. £10,000-15,000