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
69		The Irish of Achill by G. Stockman. A miscellaneous collection of linguistic material from the parish of Achill with a phonetic description of the dialect.	Belfast.	N/A	EUR 80.00 - 140.00	EUR 156.25
70	Hubert Thomas Knox.	Mayo: The History of County Mayo, to the close of the Sixteenth century		1982	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 106.25
71		The County of Mayo Map		undated circa 1830	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
72	John Healy	History of the Diocese of Meath'		1908	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 37.50
73	by William Wilde.	The Beauties of the Boyne and the Blackwater		N/A	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
74		Ardagh & Clonmacnoise Antiquarian Society Journal		N/A	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 100.00
75	Brendan Ryan.	A Land by the River of God. History of Ferbane.		1994	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 37.50
76		Offaly interest - four books: Printing and Bookselling in Offaly in the Nineteenth Century	Byrne,	20	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	EUR 50.00
77	John Feehan and Alison Rosse,	An Atlas of Birr, An Atlas of Birr		2022	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 62.50
78	Fiona Gallagher	The Streets of Sligo: Urban Evolution Over the Course of Seven Centuries -	Sligo	2008	EUR 140.00 - 180.00	Not Sold
79	edited by Brid McGrath	Tipperary: The Minute Book of The Corporation of Clonmel 1608-1649		2006	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 68.75
80	edited By James Maher.	Romantic Slievenamon in History, Folklore and Song a Tipperary Anthology		1955	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 50.00
81	by Denis Marnane.	Land and Settlement. A History of West Tipperary to 1660		2003	EUR 60.00 - 90.00	EUR 125.00
82		Irish Historic Towns Atlas series - 6 issues: Limerick, Tuam, Fethard, Dundalk, Armagh, Galway.		N/A	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	EUR 150.00
83		Tipperary: Siege of Clonmel Commemoration Tercentenary Souvenir Record- 1650- 1950.		N/A	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 112.50
84		Waterford: The History, Topography And Antiquities of the County and City of Waterford	London	1824	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 112.50
85	Patrick Power,	Waterford Interest. Waterford and Lismore – A Compendious History of the United Dioceses		1937	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	EUR 150.00
86	by Butler.	A Parish and its People. Carrig-on-Bannow		1980	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 50.00
87		The Liam Price Notebooks - The placenames, antiquities and topography of County Wicklow 2 vols		N/A	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 50.00
87A		A Guide to the County of Wicklow with a large map of the county and twenty one wood engravings by James Fraser.		1851	EUR 80.00 - 140.00	EUR 106.25
88		This is Donegal Tweed. Inver, Donegal. 1987; Derry thru the Lens by Carson.		1976	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
89		Knocknagow or the Homes of Tipperary (Charles J. Kickham, 2nd edition) and The Valley Near Slievenamon – A Kickham Anthology (James Maher editor, 1941).		N/A	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 50.00
90	by Millin. Baird.	Sidelights on Belfast History		1932	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 50.00
91		Browne and Nolan publishers, Nassau Street, Dublin, Ledger.		N/A	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 81.25
92		Genealogy: O'Conor Don (Rt. Hon. C.O.) The O'Connors of Connaught: An Historical Memoir, 4to	Dublin	1891	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 150.00

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