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 Report
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
505 Thomas Sheridan

A Course of Lectures on Elocution: Together with Two Dissertations on Language: and Some Other Tracts Relative to Those Subjects

1798 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
506 Charles Lindbergh; J. Lecornu

‘we’ by Charles Lindbergh. Famous Flier’s own story of his Life and Transatlantic Flight, with his Views on the Future of Aviation; Les Cerfs-Volants

New York; Marseille 1927; 1902 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 237.50
507 Richard Chenevix Trench

Gustavus Adolphus Social Aspects of the Thirty Years' War

1865 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
508 Baron Rogniat

Considerations sur L’Art de la Guerre

Parsi 1816 GBP 60.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
509

N Books, including: The Stuart Papers

London 1847; 1872 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 37.50
510

The Journal of the Stated Preacher to the Hospital and Almshouse, in the City of New-York, for the Year of Our Lord 1811

New York 1812 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
511

Anecdotes of Some Distinguished Persons: Chiefly of the Present and Two Preceding Centuries

Dublin 1796 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
512 J Roderick O'Flanagan

Impressions At Home and Abroad or A Year of Real Life

London 1837 GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 237.50
513 Rev James O'Haire

Recollections of Twelve Years’ Residence...in the Western District of the Cape of Good Hope

Dublin 1877 GBP 60.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
514 B Disraeli

Coningsby or, the New Generation

London 1844 GBP 80.00 - 160.00 Not Sold
515 Raphael (Robert Cross Smith)

The Astrologer of the Nineteenth Century; or, the Master Key of Futurity and Guide to Ancient Mysteries, Being a Complete System of Occult Philosophy

London 1825 GBP 100.00 - 180.00 GBP 212.50
516 Sir Archibald Alison

Alison's History of Europe: from the commencement of the French Revolution in 1789 to the restoration of the Bourbons in 1815

Edinburgh; London 1853 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
517 V T H & D R Delany; Ruth Dealny; Ruth Delany

N Books, including: The Canals of the South of Ireland

1966; 1987; 2008 GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 112.50
518 Edward McLysaght; Patrick Shaffrey

N Books, including: Irish Families

1957; 1989; 1975 GBP 40.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
519 Pauline Bewick; Anne Crookshank; Paula Murphy; Adrian Le Harivel

N Books, including: Pauline Bewick- The South Seas & A Box of Paints

Dublin N/A GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 75.00
520

N Books, including: Undiscovered Ireland- The Third Largest Island in Europe

2013; 1998 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
521 David Carrier

David Carrier - Sean Scully; Sean Scully - Glorious Dust; Sean Scully – HOME

2004; 2007; 2015 GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 137.50
522 The Knight of Glin; James Peill; Robert O'Byrne; Anne Crookshank; The Knight of Glin

N Books, including: Irish Furniture

2007; 2008; 1978 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 237.50
523 Louis Le Brocquy; Dorothy Walker; John Russell; Knuttel; John Behan; Richard Gorman; Anne madden; T. P. Flanagan; Bernadette Kiely; Bernadette Kiely; Cecily Brennan; Gary Long; GEMMELL; Barbara Warren

N Books, including: Louis Le Brocquy – Dorothy Walker & John Russell

1981; 1971 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 93.75
524 Colin Breen; Mark Bence-Jones; Jeremy Williams

N Books, including: Dunluce Castle- History and Archaeology

2012; 1996; 1994 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 50.00
525 Louis le Brocquy; Dorothy Walker; John Russell; Anne Crookshank; the Knight of Glin; Bruce Arnold

Irish Coffee Table Art Books: Louis le Brocquy by Dorothy Walker with an introduction by John Russell, 1981; Ireland's Painters 1600-1940 by Anne Crookshank and the Knight of Glin, 2002; Jack B Yeats by Bruce Arnold, 1998 plus 4 others

1981; 2002; 1998 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 62.50
526 J.Langtry-Lynas

Psychological Satyr or The Hounds of Hell

London 1928 GBP 100.00 - 140.00 Not Sold
527 Daithi O hOgain; Randal MacDonnell

Coffee Table Books: Historic Ireland- 5000 Years of Ireland's Heritage by Daithi O hOgain, 2001; The Lost Houses of Ireland- a chronicle of great houses and the families who lived there by Randal MacDonnell plus 3 others

2001 GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 37.50
528 Michael Swift; Jacinta Prunty; H.B. Clarke; Liam Kennedy; Paul S. Ell; E.M. Crawford; L.A. Clarkson; John Andrews

N Books, including: Historical Maps of Ireland

Dublin, Ireland 1999; 2011; 1999; 1961; 1936; 1962 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 68.75
529 Robert O’Byrne; Turtle Bunbury; Turtle Bunbury; Michelle P. Brown; Joseph McArdle; Peter Zoller

N Books, including: The Great Georgian Society, A Celebration

2008; 2015; 2014; 2007; 1997 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 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
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    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
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    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
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    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