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

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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
50 John Healy

History of the Diocese of Meath 1908

1908 GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 75.00
51 Thomas Lalor Cooke

The Early History of the Town of Birr or Parsonstown

Tullamore 1990 GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 37.50
52 T D Kendrick; Elizabeth Senior

N Books, including: St Manchan's Shrine

Oxford 1937 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 87.50
53 William M. Hennessy

Annals of Loch Ce – 2 vols

1939 GBP 60.00 - 100.00 GBP 75.00
54

N Books, including: The Streets of Sligo

N/A GBP 120.00 - 180.00 GBP 250.00
55 T. O'Rourke

The History of Sligo Town and County

c. 1890 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 212.50
56 Thomas Osborn Springfield

Handwritten diary for the year 1881

1881 GBP 180.00 - 200.00 GBP 450.00
57 Wm. Burke; S.J. Watson; L.M. McCraith

N Books, including: History of Clonmel

1983; 1988; 1912 GBP 60.00 - 100.00 GBP 68.75
58 Charles Smith

Ancient and Present State of the County and City of Waterford

Dublin 1746 GBP 150.00 - 300.00 GBP 125.00
59 Bernard Colclough; Walter O'Neill; Maurice J Wigham

N Books, including: Waterford & Thereabouts

1993; 1998 GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 87.50
60 Patrick Warner

The Comeraghs – Fact and Fancy; The Comeraghs – Fact and Famine; The Comeraghs – Refuge of Rebels – The Story of Deise Brigade I.R.A. 1914-1924; A Visitor’s Guide to the Comeragh Mountains

1974; 1975; 1978 GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 62.50
61 Rev. R. H. Ryland

The History, Topography and Antiquities of the County and City of Waterford with an account of the present state of the peasantry of that part of the south of Ireland

London 1824 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 250.00
62 P/.M. Egan

History, Guide and Directory of the County and City of Waterford

1894 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 112.50
63 Alan Downey

The Glamour Of Waterford

Dublin 1921 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
64 Bill Irish

N Books, including: Shipbuilding in Waterford 1820-1882

2001; 1999 GBP 40.00 - 80.00 GBP 87.50
65 Aidan Heavey

The Aidan Heavey Collection, Books & Manuscripts of Irish Interest at Athlone Library

2008 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 106.25
66 Herman Murtagh

Athlone In The Victorian Era

Athlone 2007 GBP 80.00 - 160.00 GBP 250.00
67 Lt Col M K Hanley; Ruth Illingworth; Gearoid O'Brien

N Books, including: The Story of Custume Barracks Athlone

1974; 2008; 1992 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 162.50
68 Tadhg Carey; Gearoid O'Brien; Leila Canney

N Books, including: When We Were Kings- The story of Athlone Town's 1924 FAI Cup triumph

Athlone 2009; 1954-1979; 2008 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 43.75
69

Journal of the Old Athlone Society

N/A GBP 60.00 - 120.00 GBP 175.00
70 Aidan Heavey

The Aidan Heavey Collection, Books & Manuscripts of Irish Interest at Athlone Library

2008 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 112.50
71 Herman Murtagh

Athlone History and Settlement to 1800

Athlone 2000 GBP 80.00 - 160.00 GBP 150.00
72 Leo Daly

James Joyce and The Mullingar Connection; James Joyce At The Cross-Keys Mullingar

1975; 1991 GBP 60.00 - 120.00 GBP 81.25
73 Tom Collins; Gearoid O'Brien

N Books, including: Athlone Golf Club 1892-1992

1992; 1996 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 37.50
74 Marian Keaney; H J Rice; RuthHeard

N Books, including: Westmeath Authors- a bibliographical and biographical study

1969; 1952; 1974 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 37.50
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    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
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    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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    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