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
21		Dublin: Dublin Through The Ages edited by Art Cosgrove, 1988; Victorian Dublin Revealed by Michael Barry, 2011 plus 12 others (14)		N/A	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 100.00
22		The Politicians Catechisme – Peter Talbot, Archbishop of Dublin,	Dublin,	1925	EUR 80.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
23		Dublin: Dublin Burial Grounds & Graveyards by Vivien Igoe, 2001; Fingal and Its Churches by Robert Walsh, 1888 plus 12 others (14)		N/A	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 68.75
24	J.D. Garry.	A Dublin Anatomist - Tom Garry 1884-1963..	Dublin.	1984	EUR 80.00 - 100.00	EUR 37.50
25		Dublin: The Story of Dublin City and Dublin c1960's; Dublin City and County- From Prehistoric to Present edited by FHA Alalen and Kevin Whelan, 1992 plus 12 others (14)		N/A	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 81.25
26	Bonar Law, Andrew & Charlotte.	A Contribution towards a Catalogue of the Prints and Maps of Dublin City and County. Volume 1: Prints. Volume 2: Maps.	Dublin	2005	EUR 150.00 - 250.00	EUR 162.50
27		Dublin: Gerard, Francis; 'Picturesque Dublin, Old and New' - 1898		1898	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	EUR 68.75
28		Dublin: Eire Amateur Ballroom Dancing Championships 1945-46-Souvenir Programme May 1946 at the Metropole Ballroom, Full listing of Amateur Dancers; Dublin Official Guide		N/A	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
29	edited by Caroline McFadden;	Dublin: From Rope Walk to Bowhill- a history of Rugby in Balbriggan		N/A	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 62.50
30	J. Warburton J. Whitelaw and Robert Walsh.	History of the City of Dublin.		18	EUR 300.00 - 600.00	EUR 300.00
31	Frank Hopkins,	Dublin: Rare Old Dublin- Heroes, Hawkers & Hoors		2002	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
32	Owen Tweedy.	The Dublin Tweedy - The Story of an Irish Family 1650/1882.		1956	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 75.00
33	Joseph Hone, Maurice Craig and Michael Fewer,	Dublin: The New Neighbourhood of Dublin		2002	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
34		Folio volume in original box/slipcase. Sale of Hamilton Estate – Balbriggan.		1875	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 100.00
35		Galway: Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society,		earliest 1908	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 62.50
36		Parteen County Clare local history set. Pictures and Poets; Dialann Donall; Parteen GAA History 1984 and The History and Folklore of Parteen-Meelick.		N/A	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 50.00
37		Excursions and Sea Trips Programme. Galway, Inismurray and Aran Islands Hodges, Figgis.		1895	EUR 60.00 - 90.00	EUR 93.75
38		Galway: Ballinasloe- Inniu agus Inde- A Story of a Community over the pasr 200 years; The Parish of Ballinasloe by Rev Patrick Egan SIGNED, 1994;…		N/A	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 75.00
39	James Hardiman,	Galway: The History of the Town and County of the Town of Galway		1958	EUR 60.00 - 80.00	EUR 81.25
40		Original, H. Louis Copeland's Woollen Factory for Sale, Ballymore Eustace, Co. Kildare Sales Brochure, 1904 -		1904	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	EUR 93.75
41		The Great Earl of Kildare [Gerald Fitzgerald] [1456-1513] BRYAN,DONOUGH	dublin	1933]	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 87.50
42	Jeremiah Newman,	Kildare: Maynooth and Georgian Ireland		1979	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 68.75
42A		Journal of The County Kildare Archaeological Society		1892-1986	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 150.00
43	Don Boyne.	[Rare in dust jacket]. I Remember Maynooth	London,	1938	EUR 60.00 - 90.00	EUR 162.50
43A		Kildare: An extensive collection with titles such as Nas na Riogh, illustrated history of Naas; …		N/A	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 68.75

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