Purcell Auctioneers: Book Auction of c. 580 Lots to include Antiquarian Books incl. Books from Three Private Libraries, Rare - Signed - Limited Editions, Local Histories, Republican Interest Books, GAA etc, 51326, Birr

Auction Details

Auction Date: May 13, 2026 - May 13, 2026

Page Size: 556 items in 23 pages

Auction Lot Books
Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
325		POSTCARDS: A wonderful collection of vintage Black & white Irish postcards		N/A	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 187.50
326		The Munster and Leinster Bank		N/A	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
327	Walter Pfeiffer	(Walter Pfeiffer) Original prints, handwritten title on card "Pfeiffer's photographs Ireland"		N/A	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
328		Shopfronts & Advertisements Design Guidelines	Washington Street, Cork	Circa 1980s	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 62.50
329	Bill Ryan; Simon Daly	Some Notes on The Life of Fechin		2005	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 62.50
330		Memorial of Horace Greeley, 1873	New York	1873	GBP 80.00 - 160.00	Not Sold
331	John Gray	A Letter to the Earl of Nugent Relating to the Establishment of a National Bank in Ireland	London	1780	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
332	De Burca	De Burca: Ireland in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Special Catalogue 50		N/A	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 37.50
333		Leather Book Cover designed and made by 'The Bridge'		N/A	GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 68.75
334	Charles Saunderson; John Dower	Ireland Shewing the Roads, Railways &c., constructed since the latest Ordnance Surveys	Fleet Street	N/A	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 37.50
335	Father Paul Walsh	The O'Cleirigh Family of Tir Conaill with the O'Cleirigh Genealogies		1938	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 68.75
336	Michael Hartnett	Tao a Version of the Chinese Classic of the sixth century B. C.		1964	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 137.50
337	Christopher Casson; Mary Casson	Christopher and Mary Casson – RANDOM RHYMES		n.d. circa 1940	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 62.50
338		Fraser's Travelling Map of Ireland Shewing All The Towns, Lakes, Rivers , Roads and Railways	Dublin	N/A	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 187.50
339		(Programme for Student Teachers in National training Colleges) Clar Mac Leighinn Colaiste Oileanna	Dublin	1943-44, (45-46)	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
340		European Championships Dublin-Ireland 1947, Souvenir Programme		1947	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
341	Finbarr Joseph Cross	A Critical Study of Felire Oengusso		1981	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 62.50
343	Peggy Carty	My Irish dance	Galway	1987	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
344		Cuirt an Mheadhoin Oidhche an English Translation of the Midnight Court	Cork	1909	GBP 60.00 - 100.00	GBP 62.50
345	John Barry	Joyful pilgrimage: the voyage of the Iona Curragh	Dublin	1963	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 37.50
346	T.H. Nally (Thomas H.) (Micheal MacLiammoir)	Finn Varra Maa (The Irish Santa Claus) An Irish Fairy Pantomime In Four Acts		1917	GBP 80.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
347	James H Cousins; Seosamh MacCathmhaoil	The Awakening and other Sonnets; the Man-Child		1907	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 50.00
348		Limited edition catalogue which was given to select customers upon Maggs leaving No. 50 Berkeley Square after 78 years		N/A	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 50.00
349	Edmund Burke	Speech of Edmund Burke Esq on American Taxation April 19th , 1774	London	1775	GBP 180.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
350	W H Lizars	New Road Map of Ireland with all the Lines of Railway, Canals &c c. 1842	Edingurgh	c. 1842	GBP 80.00 - 160.00	GBP 425.00

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