Purcell Auctioneers: Antiques and Collectables Auction to include some Contents from an Antique Shop and Lots of Lots from Other Clients, 110525, Birr

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 05, 2025 - November 05, 2025

Page Size: 40 items in 2 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
2		Pair of Good Original Guinness Outdoor Light Panels with Tankards			EUR 200.00 - 400.00	EUR 600.00
5		Original Power's Whiskey Cast Metal Advertising Sign			EUR 400.00 - 600.00	EUR 400.00
8		Good Original Guinness Is Good For You Enamel Advertising Sign	Burton On Trent		EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 575.00
11		Original "Player's Please, Famous For Quality" Enamel Advertising Sign			EUR 150.00 - 250.00	EUR 275.00
16		Good Original "Power's Whiskey" Enamel Advertising Sign			EUR 200.00 - 400.00	EUR 175.00
19		Irish Civil Rights Bloody Sunday Commemoration Meeting and March from the Old British Embassy to the Gardem of Remembrance. Sun Jan 28th 2.30pm.			EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 137.50
20		De Valera For President Framed Poster			EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 62.50
27		Original Vintage Texaco Motor Spirit and Motor Oil Convex Enamel Advertising Sign			EUR 200.00 - 400.00	EUR 812.50
28		Original Vintage Texaco Motor Spirit and Motor Oil Convex Enamel Advertising Sign			EUR 200.00 - 400.00	EUR 500.00
33		Wills's Gold Flake Cigarettes Card Advertising Sign - "Moorland Rangers"			EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 50.00
34	after Donald Maxwell	Original Player's Navy Mixture Card Advertising Sign - "The Crisis"			EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 50.00
41		Original Hovendon & Orr, Patent Soda Water, Dublin.			EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 812.50
42		Original Vintage "You'll be glad you got Gilbeys Gin" counter top showcard			EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 81.25
43		A Good Original Vintage "Guinness The Chieftains Greatest Hit" Light-Up Pub Sign.			EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 1,062.50
213		Georgian Lithographic Print of Glen Molaur (Glenmalure, Co. Wicklow), Most Humbly Inscribed to Samuel Hayes, Esq., by Thos. Milton.	London.	c.1835.	EUR 30.00 - 60.00	EUR 37.50
226		Pair of Georgian Engravings depicting Cupids - "Cupid Struggling With The Graces To Recover His Arrows" and "Amor Plectitur"			EUR 80.00 - 160.00	Not Sold
237		A Set Of Six Framed Satirical Cartoons of Irish Interest - A Fighting Session; The Sad Fate Of Coercion; Up-Hill Work; Another New Crime, The Rat In The Trap; and Good Health.			EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 300.00
259		Set of Four Henry Alken Hunting Engravings - The Meeting, Breaking Cover, Full Cry and The Death.			EUR 80.00 - 160.00	Not Sold
287	Peter Deighan.	Pair of Framed Limited Edition Prints of "Football Heroes" and "Sporting Legends"			EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 25.00
289	Rembrandt	"A Lion Lying Down"			EUR 30.00 - 60.00	EUR 25.00
302	Jessie Gurber	Victorian Engraving Of A Young Lady In A White Dress and Green Cloak			EUR 80.00 - 160.00	Not Sold
314		A Collection Of Fourteen Prints of Famous Art Pieces and Artists			EUR 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
334		A Collection of Postage Stamps, First Day Covers etc.			EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 125.00
339	Bartlett etc. -	A Series Of Six Dublin City Engravings by various engravers, Bartlett etc. -			EUR 80.00 - 160.00	EUR 50.00
353	Georg Balthasar Probst (1673-1748).	A Colour steel Engraving Of The New Market Square In Delft founded in 1496. Engraving no.63			EUR 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.

Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.
Heritage Auctions
Rare Books Signature Auction
December 15, 2025

Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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