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
75	Patrick Murray; Sylvia Dawson	N Books, including: Church of Saints Peter & Paul Athlone, An Illustrated History and Guide		2007; 2010	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 50.00
76	Marian Keaney; Gearoid O'Brien; Tadhg Carey	N Books, including: Athlone- Bridging the Centuries		1991; 2009	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 68.75
77	Allen and Townsend	Catalogue of contents of Shelton Abbey, Arklow, Co. Wicklow		1950	GBP 250.00 - 400.00	GBP 300.00
78	Gill; Sir Charles King	Devenish [Lough Erne]. Its History. Antiquities. Traditions; Henry's Upper Lough Erne in 1739	Dublin	1931; 1892	GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 125.00
79	Stuart J.; Coleman A.	Historical Memoirs of Armagh		1900	GBP 80.00 - 160.00	Not Sold
80		Belfast in its regional setting- A Scientific Study; Enniskillen- Historic Buildings, Groups of Buildings and Areas of Architectural Importence; Faces of Change- The Belfast and Northern Ireland Chambers of Commerce and Industry 1783-1973		1952; 1973	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 37.50
81	J. Bardon; Stephen Conlin; George Chambers	Dublin One Thousand Years of Wood Quay; Belfast 1000 Years		1984; 1985	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 37.50
82	Dr Kieran Woodman; Joseph Murphu; Judith Hill	Galway Golf Club 1895-1995; Tribes to Tigers-history of Galway Chamber of Commerce & Industry; The Redingtons of Clarinbridge; The Building of Limerick		1995-1995; 2000; 1999; 1997	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 37.50
83		N Books, including: Bundle of Nine Griffith Valuations		N/A	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 100.00
84	E J M Crum; Fathers of the Society of Jesus	The History and Antiquities of the County of the Town of Carrickfergus from the earliest records till 1839; A Page of Irish History: Story of University College, Dublin 1883-1909		1909; 1930	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 50.00
85	Kevin Whelan; Nicholas Furlong; Hilary Murphy; W.H. Grattan Flood	Wexford History and Society; A Hitory of County Wexford; Families of Co. Wexford; History of The Diocese of Ferns	Waterford	1987; 2003; 1986; 1916	GBP 60.00 - 120.00	GBP 50.00
86	Mart Leland; Marian Keaney	N Books, including: Dwyers of Cork-A Family Business and a Business Family		2008; 1969	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 56.25
87		N Books, including: Leinster Local History		N/A	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 62.50
88	Michael J. Moore; Patrick F O'Donovan	Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim; Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan; Ordnance Survey Letters of Kildare/ Kilkenny and Down	Dublin	2003; 1995	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 75.00
89		Dublin, Cork, and South of Ireland : A Literary, Commercial and Social Review Past and Present, Leading Mercantile Houses and Commercial Enterprises		1892	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 137.50
90	Rev. P.F. Kavanagh; Kathleen A. Browne; Rev. J.W. O'Byrne; Rev. Francis J. Kirk	4 Books, including: The Wexford Rebel and Other Poems		1917; 1927; 1910; 1901	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 100.00
91		Munster/Connacht Local History: Titles covering the counties of Limerick, Kerry, Tipperary and Sligo (11)		N/A	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 62.50
92	Nicholas Furlong; John Hayes; David Rowe; Christopher J Wilson; Dan Walsh	County Wexford in the rare oul'times Vol 2 and Vol IV by Nicholas Furlong and John Hayes SIGNED by F Furlong, 1987/2005; High Skies-Low Lands- An		1987; 2005; 1996; 1996	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 62.50
93	John Power; Nicholas Leach; Jim Jenkins; John Maddock	4 Books, including: A Maritime History of County Wexford Vol 1-1859 to 1910; Vol II- 1911 to 1960		2011; 2007; 2001; 1986	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 62.50
94	John C Mc Ternan; Bernard O'Hara; Kevin P Cowley	Historic Sligo illustrated; Mayo -Aspects of its Heritage; A Ballina-Man's Odyssey		1982	GBP 50.00 - 800.00	GBP 100.00
95	Terry Reilly; Sister Mary De Lourdes Fahy	Ballina One Town, Three Wars & More 1880-1923; Education in the Diocese of Kilmacduagh in the Nineteenth Century	Ballina, Ireland	2014; 1972	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
96	Sir James A. Power; Edmund Downey; Nioclas de Fuiteoil; P.M. Egan	5 Books, including: A Mayor’s Holiday		1906; 1903; ND	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 62.50
97	Michael Fallon; Rosaleen Fallon; Patrick Murray; Seosaimhin Ni Mhuiri; Paddy Whelan	10 Books, including: A Sense of Place- Clonown, a County Roscommon Shannonside Community		2006; 2001	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 50.00
98	Senan Cooke	A History Of The GAA in Kilmacow 1884-2010		N/A	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
99		5 Books, including: Munster GAA Story, Vol II 1985-2001		1985-2001; 1887-2003; 1985-2004; 1888-2008; 1884-1984	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
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