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
530	Robert O'Byrne	Luggala Days- The Story of a Guinness House		2012	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 125.00
531	Anne Crookshank; the Knight of Glin; Mark Bence-Jones; Peter Somerville-Large; David Shaw-Smith	Irish Coffee Table Books: Irish Painters 1600-1940 by Anne Crookshank and the Knight of Glin, 2002; A Gi=uide to Irish Country Houses by Mark Bence-Jones, 1988; The Irish Countrty House- A Social History by Peter Somerville-Large, 1995; Ireland's Traditio		2002; 1988; 1995; 1984; 1983	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 87.50
532	Martin Ross	A Patrick's Day Hunt	Westminster	1902	GBP 60.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
533	Chares Nelson; Wendy Walsh	An Irish Florilegium. Wild and Garden Plants of Ireland		N/A	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
534	Edward Burne-Johes; Brian De Breffny; Antoin O’Callaghan; Jonathan Benington; Francisco Bores; Iain ZacZek	N Books, including: The William Morris Kelmscott Chaucer		1985; 1977; 2010; 1992; 2006; 1999	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 62.50
535	Randal MacDonnell; Declan Doogue; Carsten Krieger; F S L Lyons	Irish Coffee Table Books: The Lost Houses of Ireland by Randal MacDonnell; The Wild Flowers of Ireland by Declan Doogue and Carsten Krieger, 2010; Bicentenary Essays Bank of Ireland 1783-1983 by F S L Lyons, 1983 plus 5 others		2010; 1983	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
536	Padraig Kemmelly; Joan Kemmelly; John Banville	Irish Coffee Table Books: Eyewitness- Padraig & Joan Kemmelly's Images of Ireland 1953-1973; Beyond the Moment- Irish Photojournalism in our Time introduction by John Banville plus 4 others		N/A	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
537	Patricia McCarthy; The Knight of Glin; David J Griffin; Nicholas K Robinson; The Knight of Glin; James Peill; Jacqueline O'Brien; Desmond Guinness	Irish Coffee Table Books: Life in The Country House in Georgian Ireland by Patricia McCarthy (still in publishers shrink wrap); Vanishing Country Houses of Ireland by The Knight of Glin, David J Griffin and Nicholas K Robinson, 1988; Irish Furniture by Th		1988; 2008; 1994	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
538	Tarquin Blake; Jacqueline O'Brien; Desmond Guinness; Mark Bence-Jones; Edward Hyams; Desmond Guinness; William Ryan; Duncan McLaren	Irish Coffee Table Books: Abandoned Mansions of Ireland Parts 1 and 2 by Tarquin Blake; Dublin A Grand Tour by Jacqueline O'Brien with esmond Guinness, 1994; A Guide to Irish Country Houses by Mark Bence-Jones, 1988; Irish Gardens text by Edward Hyams, 19		1994; 1988; 1967; 1978; 1980	GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 75.00
539	Hughie O'Donoghue; Terry Winters; John B Vallely; Fintan Vallely	N Books, including: Hughie O'Donoghue -Painting, Memory, Myth		N/A	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 93.75
540	Enda Cavanagh; Roslyn Dee; Gerry Sandford	Irish Coffeee Table Books: Including titles such as Exploring The Irish Landscape by Enda Cavanagh; A Sense of Place- Irish Lives-Irish Landscapes by Roslyn Dee & Gerry Sandford plus 7 others		N/A	GBP 50.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
541	Brendan O'Neill; John Bradley; Niall McCullough; Valerie Mulvin	Irish Coffee Table Books: Irish Castles and Historic Houses edited by Brendan O'Neill, 2002; Treasures of Kilkenny - Charters and Civic Records of Kilkenny City by John Bradley, 2003; A Lost Tradition by Niall McCullough and Valerie Mulvin plus 6 others		2002; 2003	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 37.50
542		Journal; The Dublin Review, No 1-20 consecutive (20); Gloine- The Journal of the Glass Society of Ireland 6 issues; Local History Review 3 issues plus 1 Eire- Ireland		N/A	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 87.50
543		Journals: The Irish Genealogist, Vol 10, No2/3/4; Vol 11, No 1/2/3/4; Vol 12, No 1/2/3/4; Vol 13, No 1/2/3/4; Vo 14, No 2; Irish Family History, Vol 8, Vol 15-28 consecutive plus 10 others. 8 issues of Irish Genealogical Research Society Newslettet		N/A	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 137.50
544	Padraig O Riain; Katherine Walsh; R.Buick Knox; Kathleen Hughes; Charles Leslie; Daithi O hOgain; Katheleen Highes; Ann Hamlin	N Books, including: A History of Christ Church, Dublin, Christ Church Deeds		2001; 2011; 1981; 1967; -1966; 2008; 2011; 1995; 1999; 1977	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 37.50
545	E.Œ. Somerville; Martin Ross; E.L. Voynich; John M. Synge; B.M. Croker; Jack B. Yeats; Charles O’Connell; Daniel Corkery; Gabriel Fitzmaurice	The Sweet Cry of Hounds; The Real Charlotte; The Gadfly; In Wicklow West Kerry and Connemara; The Chaperon; The Amaranthers; The Careless Flower; The Stubborn Heart; The Threshold of Quiet; Five Plays		1939; 1919; c. 1920; 1929; 1922; 1946; 1947; 1964; c. 1920; 1914	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 37.50
546	Brian friel; Paul Delaney; Tom Murphy; Goldsmith; Edward Sheehy	N Books, including: Brian friel in Conversation		2000; 1996; ND	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
547	George Moore	N Books, including: The Lake		1936; 1937	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
548		Keating’s history of Ireland		1841; 1858	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 43.75
549	Bryan McMahon; Iris Murdoc; Bowen; O’Connor; Edna O’Brien	Romance of the Irish stage		1897	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 56.25
550		Box of children’s first editions and fantasy books		N/A	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
551		Collection of attractive illustrated books on Ireland		N/A	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
552	Joseph Brady; Charles Edward Lysaght; Paul Clements; Flann O'Brien	N Books, including: The Big Sycamore		1958; 1979; 2014; 1978	GBP 80.00 - 160.00	GBP 100.00
553		A collection of Irish language Hardbacks, paperbacks and magazines		N/A	GBP 60.00 - 100.00	GBP 68.75
554		Collection of Irish and World Interest Titles		N/A	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 50.00

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