Purcell Auctioneers: C.600 Lot Auction to include Antiquarian Books, Rare, Limited & Signed First Editions, Maps, Irish Literature & Poetry, Local Histories, Fine Bindings, Republican Interest,GAA Programmes & Books , 12126, Birr

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Auction Report
Auction Date
January 21, 2026 - January 21, 2026
Page Size: 601 items in 25 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
401 L. Fogarty.

Father John Kenyon: a Patriot Priest of Forty-Eight [Templederry]

1921 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 62.50
402 Reeves.

Irish Form of Consecration of Churches

1893 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 62.50
403

Speech of Earl of Clare, Lord Chancellor of Ireland [John Fitzgibbon, Mountshannon House, Limerick].

Dublin. 1800 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 50.00
404 Roderic O'Flaherty; James Hely, Vol 1-2

Ogygia : or, a Chronological Account of Irish events: collected from very ancient documents, faithfully compared with each other, and supported by the Genealogical and Chronological Aid of the sacred and prophane writings of the first nations of the globe

1793 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 187.50
405 Richard Mant, Bishop of Down,

Biographical notices of the apostles, evangelists, and other saints, with reflexions and collects, adapted to the minor festivals of the United Church of England and Ireland -

1828 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
406 Jean Racine -

Oeuvres de Jean Racine, four volumes complete,

Paris 1813 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 50.00
407 David Ramsay

American Interest: Life of George Washington

1807 EUR 120.00 - 160.00 Not Sold
408 Chris Lawlor --

The massacre on Dunlavin Green. Ronan Coughlan -- Dictionary of Irish Myth and Legend. Maura Murphy Gibson --...

EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 175.00
408A John B. Keane.

The Buds of Ballybunion

1979 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
409 J M Barrie.

Peter Pan In Kensington Gardens.

1906 EUR 150.00 - 350.00 EUR 212.50
410 William Carlton Jack B. Yeats) --

The Black Prophet,

London. 1899 EUR 80.00 - 100.00 EUR 68.75
411 Francis Stuart -

GLORY,

New York 1933 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 75.00
412 Eavan Boland,

A Poet's Dublin, published 2016. In a Time of Violence, published 1994. Against Love Poetry, published 2001.

EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 81.25
413 Patrick Kavanagh

NIGHT UNSTARRED, edited, with introduction and epilogue

EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 525.00
414 Peter Kavanagh, [Foreword Patrick Kavanagh]

Patrick Kavanagh Country -- Peter Kavanagh,

Curragh, Co Kildare, Ireland 1978 EUR 120.00 - 160.00 EUR 112.50
415

The Tain -- Thomas Kinsella, Louis le Brocquay, published 1970. Jesus Break His Fall -- Paul Durcan, published 1980. The Spirit Level -- Seamus Heaney, published 1996. ...

EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 62.50
416 James Joyce

ULYSSES,

London 1949 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
417 O'Donnell, Peadar.

Wrack, A Play In Six Scenes. Jonathan Cape, London, dj

1933 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 50.00
418 John O'The North.

The Dancing man and Other Verses

1950 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
419 Kazuo Ishiguro -

Never Let Me Go,

2005 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 37.50
420 J.K. Rowling -

Harry Potter agus an Orchloch (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone),

London 2004 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 137.50
421 Seamus Heaney.

The Burial at Thebes.

2004 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 62.50
422 Seamus Heaney.

The Haw Lantern.

1987 EUR 250.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
423 Seamus Heaney.

District and Circle.

2006 EUR 200.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
424 Seamus Heaney.

Sweeney Astray. A Version from The Irish.

New York. 1984 EUR 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
  • ALDE, Mar. 11: AUGUSTIN (Saint). De civitate Dei. Rome, Konrad Sweynheym et Arnold Pannartz, 1470. €20,000 - €30,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: [REGNART (LE LIVRE DE)]. [Le] Docteur en malice, maistre Regnard, demonstrant les ruzes et cautelles qu'il use envers les personnes… Rouen, 1550. €20,000 - €30,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: TRITHÈME (JEAN). Polygraphie et universelle escriture cabalistique. Paris, [Benoît Prévost pour] Jacques Kerver, 1561. €8,000 - €10,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: CAUS (SALOMON DE). La Perspective, avec la raison des ombres et des miroirs. Londres, John Norton, 1612.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: NICERON (JEAN-FRANÇOIS). La Perspective curieuse ou magie artificielle des effets merveilleux de l'optique. Paris, Pierre Billaine, 1638. €6,000 - €8,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: VONTET (JACQUES). L’Art de trancher la viande et toute sorte de fruits… S.l.n.d. [probablement Lyon, vers 1647]. €20,000 - €30,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: HUGO (VICTOR). [Paysage spectral avec une église], [vers 1837]. €20,000 - €30,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: [HERVEY DE SAINT-DENYS (LÉON D')]. Les Rêves et les Moyens de les diriger. Observations pratiques. Paris, Amyot, 1867. €3,000 - €4,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: GACHET (PAUL-FERDINAND). Les Chats de Gachet (Manuscrit). S.d. [avant mai 1873]. €6,000 - €8,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: [REDON (ODILON)]. PICARD (EDMOND). Le Juré. Monodrame en cinq actes… Bruxelles, Mme veuve Monnom, 1887. €7,000 - €9,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: [TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (HENRI DE) ET HENRI-GABRIEL IBELS]. MONTORGUEIL (GEORGES). Le Café-concert. Paris, [1893]. €4,000 - €5,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: [TERRY (EMILIO)]. Projet de fontaine. Dessin original au stylo et à l'encre noire. 1938. €2,000 - €3,000.
  • Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: HAMILTON, Sir William (1730-1803) - Campi Phlegraei. Napoli: [Pietro Fabris], 1776, 1779. € 30.000 - 50.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: [MORTIER] - BLAEU, Joannes (1596-1673) - Het Nieuw Stede Boek van Italie. Amsterdam: Pieter Mortier, 1704-1705. € 15.000 - 25.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: TULLIO D'ALBISOLA (1899-1971) - Bruno MUNARI (1907-1998) - L'Anguria lirica (lungo poema passionale). Roma e Savona: Edizioni Futuriste di Poesia, senza data [ma 1933?]. € 20.000 - 30.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: IL MANOSCRITTO RITROVATO DI IPPOLITA MARIA SFORZA. TITO LIVIO - Ab Urbe Condita. Prima Decade. Manoscritto miniato su pergamena, metà XV secolo. € 280.000 - 350.000