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
76

Maps: County Tipperary, North Riding. Recorded Monuments- Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Sheet 1-54.

1901-05/1953 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
77

Maps: County Tipperary, South Riding. Recorded Monuments- Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Sheet 1-91.

map 1905-07/ SMR 1997 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 37.50
78 Denis Marnane.

Land and Violence. A History of West Tipperary from 1660

1985 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 200.00
79 Peter Harbison/Homan Potterson and Jeanne Sheehy

Irish Interest: Irish Art and Architecture

1978 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 50.00
80 Nolan and Power eds

Waterford History and Society

1992 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 150.00
81 Rev. R. H. Ryland,

Waterford Interest: 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 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
82

Waterford Remembers

1916 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 93.75
83 Compiled by Edmund Downey.

Waterford. An illustrated guide and tourists' handbook.

1926 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 37.50
84 Donal O'Brien

The Houses and Landed Families of Westmeath

2015 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 93.75
85

Westmeath: Ordnance Survey Letters- Westmeath, in 1837. Reproduced 1931; Westmeath as others saw it by Jeremiah Sheehan

EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 93.75
86

Houses of Wexford (Rowe and Scallan,

2004 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 162.50
87 Christiaan Corlett editor),

Beneath the Poulaphuca reservoir: the 1939 Poulaphuca survey of the lands flooded by the Liffey reservoir scheme -

Dublin 2008 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 37.50
88 William Laffan & Kevin V. Mulligan.

Russborough, a Great Irish House, Its Families and Collections.

2014 EUR 120.00 - 200.00 EUR 112.50
89 Hannigan and Nolan eds

Wicklow History and Society.

1994 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 68.75
90

Kilkenny edited by John Kirwan; Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow edited by P Sweetman

1993 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 87.50
91 Rev Owen Devaney;

Ardagh & Clommacnois - Footprints of Mel and Ciaran

EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 75.00
92 Norah J. Henderson.

Memories of Cushendall [County Antrim]

Belfast. 1935 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 37.50
93 Hughes and Nolan eds

Armagh History and Society

2001 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 43.75
94 edited by E M Boyle, facsimile copy

Ulster: St Patrick's Cathedral Armagh, hand stitched publication c 1940's; Boyle's Records of Limavady 1609-1808

1989 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 93.75
95 edited by W C Kerr

Ulster: ordnance Survey Memoir of the Parish of Derryaghy 1837

1983 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
96 Gerard O'Brien ed

Derry-Londonderry History and Society

1999 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 43.75
97 Alan Gailey

Ulster: Rural Houses of the North of Ireland

1984 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 37.50
98 Brian Bonner

Derry: Derry- an Outline History of Derry

1982 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 43.75
99 Lindsay Proudfoot ed

Down History and Society

1997 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 50.00
100 Lady Mabel Annsley.

Richard Rowley. County Down Songs. 1924. Illustrated with attractive woodcuts.

1924 EUR 120.00 - 150.00 EUR 75.00
  • 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