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
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 351 | Nancy Maude | The Little People |
London | 1910 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | GBP 87.50 |
| 352 | Small autograph book with numerous signatures and personalised messages |
1934 | GBP 100.00 - 180.00 | GBP 600.00 | ||
| 353 | An Teagask Creestye agus paidreagha na mainne agus an tranona |
Dublin | 1854 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 150.00 | |
| 355 | Blue & White Stamp Collecting book |
c. 1930 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 356 | John Broderick; Mary Lavin | N Books, including: The Pilgrimage |
1961; 1974; 1965; 1987; 1979; 1962; 1963; 1985; 1984; 1982; 1973; 1976; 1991 | GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | GBP 250.00 | |
| 357 | John McGahern | The Pornographer |
1979 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 325.00 | |
| 358 | Charlotte Milligan Fox; Robert Dwyer Joyce; P W Joyce | Annals of the Irish Harpers; Ballads of Irish Chivalry |
1911 | GBP 40.00 - 80.00 | GBP 37.50 | |
| 359 | Brinsley McNamara; Peadar O'Donnell | The Valley of the Squinting Windows; The Big Windows |
ND; 1953 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | GBP 62.50 | |
| 360 | Lord Dunsany | The King of Elfland's Daughter; The Tents of the Arabs |
1924 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | GBP 62.50 | |
| 361 | Flann O'Brien | N Books, including: At Swim-Two-Birds |
1960; 1968; 1968 | GBP 60.00 - 100.00 | GBP 137.50 | |
| 362 | Colm O Lochlainn | Wilde’s Loch Corrib; The Beauties of the Boyne |
1955; 1949 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | GBP 100.00 | |
| 363 | Frank O’Connor | Guests of the Nation |
1931 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | GBP 68.75 | |
| 364 | Benedict Kiely; Kate O'Brien; Honor Tracy | In A Harbour Green; The Ante-Room; Mind you, I've said nothing plus 5 others |
1949; 1934; 1953 | GBP 40.00 - 80.00 | GBP 56.25 | |
| 365 | Sean O'Faolain; Maurice Harmon | N Books, including: The Story of Ireland |
1946; 1979; 1976; 1994 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | GBP 37.50 | |
| 366 | Oscar Wilde | The Soul of Man Under Socialism |
London | 1912 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 68.75 |
| 367 | Lady Gregory; W.B. Yeats | Cuchulain of Muirthemne: The Story of the Men of the Red Branch of Ulster; Sir William Gregory, K.C.M.G., Formerly Member of Parliament and Sometime Governor of Ceylon. An Autobiography |
London | 1903; 1894 | GBP 60.00 - 90.00 | GBP 137.50 |
| 368 | Elliott O’Donnell | Haunted Highways and Byways |
1914 | GBP 60.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | |
| 369 | Lord Dunsany | Five Plays; The Donnellan Lectures |
1914; 1945 | GBP 50.00 - 70.00 | GBP 62.50 | |
| 370 | Benjamin Black; John Banville | Christine Falls; Christine Falls |
N/A | GBP 60.00 - 80.00 | GBP 43.75 | |
| 371 | B.M. Croker; John Charlton | Village Tales and Jungle Tragedies |
London | 1895 | GBP 120.00 - 160.00 | GBP 250.00 |
| 372 | Charles O'Malley | The Irish Dragoon by Charles O'Malley |
1841 | GBP 80.00 - 160.00 | GBP 50.00 | |
| 373 | Conor Brady; Peter Harbison | N Books, including: Up With The Times |
2005; 1991 | GBP 40.00 - 80.00 | Not Sold | |
| 374 | John Broderick | The Fugitives |
1962 | GBP 40.00 - 80.00 | GBP 325.00 | |
| 375 | Patricia Lynch; Jack B. Yeats | The Turf-Cutter's Donkey: An Irish Story of Mystery and Adventure |
1934 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 62.50 | |
| 376 | Frank McCourt; Colm Toibin; John McGahern; John Banville; Brian Moore | N Books, including: Teacher Man |
2005; 1996; 2000; 1994; 2024; 1997; 1997; 1990 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | Not Sold |
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28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Book of Hours.- Heures de nostre dame a l'usaige de Romme, Paris, Antoine Chappiel pour Germain Hardouin, [1504]. £6,000-8,000Forum, May 28: Colonna (Francesco). La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo, second edition, Venice, Sons of Aldus Manutius, 1545. £15,000-20,000Forum, 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]. £2,000-3,000Forum Auctions
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28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Jackson (Shirley). The Haunting of Hill House, first English edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Claude Fredericks, 1960. £2,000-3,000Forum, May 28: Lennon (John). In His Own Write, first edition, first impression, signed by the author, 1964. £3,000-4,000Forum, May 28: Doves Press.- Keats (John). [Poems], one of 200 copies on paper, Doves Press, 1914. £5,000-7,000Forum Auctions
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28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Rodrigues (João Barbosa). Sertum Palmarum Brasiliensium, 2 vol., first and only edition, Brussels, 1903. £8,000-12,000Forum, May 28: Newton (Sir Isaac). Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica…editio ultima, auctior et emendatior, Amsterdam, Sumptibus Societatis, 1714. £8,000-12,000Forum, May 28: Kepler (Johannes). Ad Vitellionem paralipomena, wuibus astronomiae pars optica traditur, first edition, Frankfurt am Main, 1604. £5,000-7,000Forum Auctions
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28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Tagliacozzi (Gaspare). De Curtorum Chirurgia per insitionem, libri duo, first edition, Venice, Gasparo Bindoni, 1597. £7,000-10,000Forum, May 28: Lootsman (Jacobsz). The Lightning Colomne, or Sea-Mirrour, containing the Sea-Coasts of the Northern, Eastern and Western Navigation..., 1670. £8,000-12,000Forum, 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 -
