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
175		The Capuchin Annual		1962; 1965; 1967; 1968; 1969	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
176	Margaret Dickson Falley	Irish and Scotch-Irish Ancestral Research. A Guide to the Genealogical Records, Methods and Sources in Ireland		1962	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	GBP 43.75
177	Robert Munster; Miss Corner; R Barry O'Brien; M F Cusack; Henry Doyle; W A O'Connor; Rev R Stewart	N Books, including: A Directory of The Print Trade in Ireland 1550-1775		1988; 1845; 1896; 1868; 1886; 1851	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 50.00
178	O’Brien; Gray & Purdue; Gleeson; Toby Barnard	N Books, including: Parliament, Politics & People		1989; 2012; 2001; 2008	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 50.00
179	David Power Conyngham	Ireland Past and Present embracing a complete history of the Land Question … Also, A Very Full and Complete History of The Penal Laws by Parnell	New York	1885	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 162.50
180	Hill; Lyttleton; Rynne; Bardon; McGurk; Crawford; Foy	Ulster Interest – Five Books: Sorley Boy MacDonnell 1538-1590; Plantation Ireland; The Plantation of Ulster; Sir Henry Docwra – Derry’s Second Founder; Townlands in Ulster – Local History Studies		1993; 2009; 2011; 2006; 1998	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 62.50
181	Gwynn; Hadcock	N Books, including: Medieval & Early Modern Ireland – Six Books: Great Deeds in Ireland		2013; 1988; 1949	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 37.50
182		Burke’s Irish Family Records		1976; 1899	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 150.00
183	Thaddeus Connellan	The Proverbs of Solomon in Hebrew, in Irish, and in English		1823	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 187.50
184	W.E. Vaughan; Michael Huggins; Padraig Lenihan; Arlene Hogan	N Books, including: Bundle of seven books on various aspects of Irish history		2009; 2007; 2001; 2008	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 75.00
185	T.M. Healy	Stolen Waters. A Page in the Conquest of Ulster	London	1913	GBP 60.00 - 120.00	GBP 50.00
186	Percy Fitzgerald; Edmund Downey	Life and Adventure of Alexander Dumas by Percy Fitzgerald, 2 Vol 1873; Twenty years ago, a book of anecdote illustrating literary life in London 1905 by Edmund Downey, 1905; An Irish peer on the Continent 1801-1803 as related by Catherine Wilmot, 1920		1873; 1905; 1920	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 37.50
187	R.R. Madden	The United Irishmen – Their Lives and Times	London	1842	GBP 80.00 - 160.00	GBP 50.00
188	Joseph Mendham	Joseph Mendham - Memoirs of the Council of Trent	London	1834	GBP 60.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
189	John O'Keefe	Recollections Of The Life of John O'Keefe	London	1826	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 62.50
190	Eugene O’Curry	Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish, 3 vols		1873	GBP 80.00 - 160.00	GBP 212.50
191	Roderick O'Flaherty; Rev James O'Leary; D L Kelleher; Dick Warner; Niall Fallon	N Books, including: Ogygia or a Chronological Account of Irish Events by Roderick O'Flaherty, Vol 1 1793		1793; 1883; 1826; 1929; 1995	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 43.75
192	Denis Murphy; Maxwell; Gwynn; Falls	Cromwell in Ireland a history of Cromwell’s Irish Campaign by Denis Murphy with map, plans and illustrations; Country and Town in Ireland under the Georges by Maxwell; The Life of John Redmond by Gwynn; Elizabeth’s Irish Wars by Falls	Dublin	1885; 1940; 1932; 1970	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 50.00
193	F E Bland; Raymond Gillespie; Simon Kingston	N Books, including: How The Church Missionary Society Came to Ireland by F E Bland, 1935		1935; 1996; 2004; 1864	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 50.00
194	Joseph Jackson Howard; Frederick Arthur Crisp; Brian Mac Cuarta; Rev Samuel Haughton	N Books, including: Visitation of Ireland edited by Joseph Jackson Howard and Frederick Arthur Crisp		1897; 1993; 1892	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 50.00
195	Ferd. Warner	The History of the Rebellion and Civil War in Ireland		1767	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 162.50
196	Thomas Wall	N Books, including: Down and Connor and Dromore Diocesan Library. Catalogue of Books in the Diocesan Collection and of the Books in the bishop Reichel Memorial Library, 1899		1899; 1884; 1958; 1961	GBP 50.00 - 50.00	GBP 150.00
197	Spencer; Campion; Hanmer; Marlborough	Spencer, Campion, Hanmer & Marlborough. Ancient Irish Histories	Dublin	1809	GBP 150.00 - 180.00	GBP 150.00
198	Egan Pierce	{Egan Pierce} ' A Real Paddy', Real Life in Ireland or The Day and Night Scenes		N/A	GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 93.75
199	P.W. Joyce	A History of Ireland from Earliest Times to 1608 by P.W. Joyce; The Origin and History of Irish Names of Places by P. W. Joyce	Dublin	1904; 1875	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 68.75

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