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
26		Christies sale of library of Luttrellstown Castle, Co Dublin on 28th September, 1983		1983	GBP 120.00 - 150.00	GBP 175.00
27		Christies sale of library of Malahide Castle, Co. Dublin on 12th May, 1976		1976	GBP 120.00 - 150.00	GBP 200.00
28		Photographic View Album of Killarney Lakes, Glengarriff and Neighbourhood. The Prince of Wales Route. 58 Selected Viewa of the most interesting subjects from Valentine's Series of Irish Views, fully described	Killarney	N/A	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 81.25
29		Photographic View Album of Killarney Lakes, Glengarriff and Neighbourhood. The Prince of Wales Route. 58 Selected Viewa of the most interesting subjects from Valentine's Series of Irish Views, fully described		N/A	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 125.00
30	Edward Mc Parland	Opportunity Knocks for Wesley College 1968-69; The Royal Hospital Kilmainham		1968-69	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 162.50
31	Patrick Melvin	Estates and Landed Society in Galway		2012	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 62.50
32	Peadar O’Dowd	In From The West - The McDonagh Dynasty	Galway	2002	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
32A	William Lawrence	The 'Emerald Isle' Album Series. West of Ireland, Galway, Connemara and Achill. 31 Platinatone Views with Descriptive Guide of the District from Photographs by William Lawrence		N/A	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 112.50
33	John Harris	Headfort House & Robert Adam		1973	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 81.25
34		The History of the Town and County of the Town of Galway	Galway	1975; 1820	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 150.00
35	J. Fahey DD	History and Antiquities of Kilmacduagh		1893	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 43.75
36		Christies sale of the library of Clonbrock, Ahascragh, Co. Galway on the 3rd November, 197 with ephemera		197	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 200.00
37	Sir Michael O’Dwyer	The O’Dwyers of Kilnamanagh – The History of an Irish Sep		1933	GBP 120.00 - 180.00	GBP 125.00
38		Kytelers Inn		1966	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 62.50
39	Diarmuid Healy; John Bradley; Michael O'Dwyer; Jimmie Cooke	Bailiff to Decoupling- Fifty Years of Kilkenny NFA/IFA 1955-2005; Kilkenny Through the Centuries- Chapters in the hostory of an Irish City; Kilmacow Folklore Vol 1 and 2		2005; 2009; 2014	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 62.50
40		Sotheby's Catalogue of the famed library of Colonel H.J.B. Clements of Killadoon, Co. Kildare, two day sale Oct/Nov 1966		1966	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 175.00
41	Mrs D. P. Thompson	A Brief Account of the Rise and Progress of the Change in Religious Opinion now taking place in Dingle and the West of the County of Kerry, Ireland		1846	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 125.00
42	Thomas F. O’Sullivan; Patrick Foley	Romantic Hidden Kerry – Legendary, Antiquarian and Historical Associations; Political, Economic and Social Conditions, and Scenic Attractions of the Barony of Corkaguiny; History of the County Kerry – The Barony of Corkaguiny		1931; 1907	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 125.00
43	Valerie Barry	Historical, Genealogical, Architectural Notes on Houses of Kerry		1994	GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 81.25
44		Christies catalogue of library of Adare Manor on 10th June, 1982		1982	GBP 120.00 - 150.00	GBP 212.50
45	Whelan; Beggan; Sheehan	Cappagh a Sense of History; In the Barony of Pubblebien. Patrickswell and Crecora; A Corner of Limerick. History, recollections and Photographs		N/A	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 75.00
46	Mainchin Seoighe; John Feheney	Dromin Athlacca the Story of a Rural parish in County Limerick; Ballysteen The People and Place		1978; 1998	GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 81.25
47	John Canon Begley; P A Sharkey; William Nolan	N Books, including: The Diocese of Limerick- in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries		1927; 1979	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 137.50
48	Admiral the Hon. John Forbes	Memoirs of The Earls of Granard	London	1868	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 150.00
49	R. A. S. Macalister	Tara a Pagan Sanctuary of Ancient Ireland	London	1931	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 62.50

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