Purcell Auctioneers

Date(s)

Wednesday, October 11th, 2023

Auctions

October 2023 Book Sale

Lots to Include a Collection of Signed, First & Rare Editions, Fine Antiquarian Books, Maps, Irish Postcards, Broadsides, Modern Literature, Poetry & Ephemera.

10am

Purcell Auctioneers
Green Street
Townparks

Birr, Ireland

53.096300421148, -7.91230945

Purcell Auctioneers

Book Arts

Antony Gormley's Tree for Waiting for Godot on an upland bog in the UNESCO Cuilcagh Lakelands Geopark Co. Fermanagh at the July 2019 Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival

Major New Samuel Beckett Biennale to Include First Ulster-Scots Translation of 'Waiting for Godot'

New Celebrations Mark 40 years of ‘Poems on the Underground’

Booker Prize Bindings 2025

Maps

Top Secret Omaha Beach Invasion Maps to Auction

Maps and Atlases: Five Rare Maps for Collectors

Civil War Maps at Printed & Manuscript Americana Auction

Lieutenant Henry Robertson Bowers, At the South Pole.

Odfjell Collection Goes to Auction

Caveat Emptor: or some thoughts on ethics and online book buying

In Lincoln’s Own Words

Visual Art

Original Art from 'The Death of Superman' to Auction

A Chicana Printmaker’s Radical Archive

Matisse’s Late-Career Cut-Outs Show an Artist Overcoming Limitations

Photographs

Edward Steichen’s Balzac, The Open Sky, 11 P.M. (1908) (estimate: $700,000–$1m)

Edward Steichen’s 'Balzac' Leads Photography Masterworks Auction

Cartes de Visite: Five Rare Books for Collectors

Photography Collection of Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner to Auction

Rare Books

Repetición de Amores y Arte de Ajedrez by Luis Ramírez de Lucena

Oldest Surviving Book on Chess to Auction with £100,000 Estimate

Grabhorn Press 'Leaves of Grass': Rare Book of the Week

Sacred Hindu Shikshapatri Text On Tour to Mark Bicentenary

Americana

Mark Twain and Abraham Lincoln Memorabilia to Auction

Post-Washita General Custer Letter Sold at Auction for $550,000

Gettysburg Rail Pass and Lincoln’s Last Message to Congress to Auction

Book People

Book Collector Kierra Duncan on Multiple Editions of Black Diasporic Writers

Firsts London 2026 Preview Highlights

William Tyndale, Time Travel, and American Western Comics: March Books Roundup

Auctions

Horatio Nelson's Trafalgar Order of Battle Sold for $189,888 at Auction

Virginia Woolf Letter Dismissing Her Work to Auction

Queen Elizabeth I Letter, Stuyvesant Land Grant, and Jefferson–Madison Appointment to Auction

Exhibitions

A spread from the short story Kew Gardens by Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf and the Hogarth Press at Charleston

New Exhibition Focuses on The Irish Literary Revival

National Library of Scotland’s Centenary Tour Heads to Shetland

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