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
44		Kilkenny: William Tighe’s Statistical Observations,. Co Kilkenny, 1800-1801.		1998	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 75.00
45		Canon William Carrigan – History and Antiquities of the Diocese of Ossory (4 vols, 1905) and the 2005 Index to this work.		1905	EUR 500.00 - 700.00	EUR 425.00
46		Kilkenny: The Kilkenny City Charter of 1609 by John Bradley, 2009,HB DJ; Kilkenny-An Urban History 1391-1843 by W G Neely, 1989,…		N/A	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 50.00
47		Transactions of the Ossory Archaeological Society 1874 - 1886. 3 vols - all published.		N/A	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 62.50
48		The Story of Woodstock in Inistioge [Kilkenny]. Thomas J. Whyte. Capapgh press.		2007	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 75.00
49		Kilkenny Archaeological Society- Bound editions		N/A	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	EUR 62.50
50	Seoirse O’Dochartaigh.	[dedication from author]. Inis Eoghain. The Island of Eoghan. The Place-names of Inishowen		2011	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 75.00
51	Colm O’Baoill.	Contributions to a Comparative Study of Ulster Irish and Scottish Gaelic		1978	EUR 60.00 - 90.00	EUR 50.00
52		Bundle of five books of Kilkenny interest: Kilkenny through the Centuries (Bradley and O'Dwyer), Shopping in Kilkenny (O'Dwyer), Treasures of Kilkenny (Brett), and two similar.		N/A	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
53		Kilkenny Interest: Antiquities and Scenery of the County of Kilkenny (Robertson,		1983	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
54		Kerry: Historical Genealogical Architectural Notes on some Houses of Kerry Bary, Valerie	Whitegate, County Clare,	1994	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 93.75
55	Judith Cuppage.	Kerry: Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula Archaeological Survey		1986	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 50.00
56		Writers' Week Listowel Winners 2000-2005 (6 issues )		N/A	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
57		Kerry: Journal of the Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society,		earliest 1971	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 137.50
58		Ballyfin - The restoration of an Irish House & Demesne (Kevin V. Mulligan,		2011	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 62.50
59		Ossory, Laois and Leinster Six Volumes 2004-2015. Padraig O Machain (Editor), Various Contributors		N/A	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 56.25
60		Laois. History and Society. Interdisciplinary Essays on the History of an Irish County.	Dublin:	1999	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	EUR 112.50
61		Three books on Quakers: History of the Quakers of Limerick		N/A	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 137.50
62	Robert Herbert.	Worthies of Thomond. lives of most famous Clare and Limerick	Limerick.	1944-46	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 75.00
63		Memorial Record of Limerick Casualties of World War II; Memorial Record of Limerick Men and Women in the Great War; …		N/A	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 68.75
64	Noel Fitzgerald.	Portrait of Limerick	Limerick	Circa 1980	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 62.50
65		Pigtown – A History of Limerick’s Bacon Industry by Ruth Guiry four main bacon factories unique history,…		N/A	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 137.50
66	Pauraic Ua Dubhthaigh.	The Book of Dundalk		1946	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 81.25
67		County Louth Archaeological and Historical Journal.		earliest 1935	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	EUR 87.50
68	Compiled by Harry G. Tempest.	[Cuchulainn] Dun Dealgan Cuchulain's Home Fort. A Short Sketch of Its History [Issued in Aid of Dun Dealgan Purchase Fund].		1910	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 56.25

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