Purcell Auctioneers: c.640 Lots to include Signed, First & Rare Editions including WB Yeats, Antiquarian Books, Maps, Broadsides, Literature & Poetry, GAA & Sport, Local Histories, Irish Language, Postcards & Ephemera., 22124, Birr

Auction Details

Auction Date: February 21, 2024 - February 21, 2024

Page Size: 643 items in 26 pages

Lot Number	Book Title	Estimate	Actual Price
625	2 boxes of Irish interest books. Peel, priests and Politics; Twilight of the Ascendancy etc. etc. circa 53 books mostly hardbacks	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
626	Antiquarian Fine Binding/World Interest. Collection of antiquarian fine bindings in various conditions plus a selection of World Interest Books c 60 books	EUR 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
627	2 boxes of Irish interest books. Guilds of Dublin, Irish fairy tales illustrated by Rackham, Pursuit of Robert Emmett etc etc. etc. etc. circa 34 hardback books.	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
628	2 boxes of Irish interest books. Quest for the Celt, Down & Connor history, medieval Ireland, gate Lodges of Leinster etc etc. circa 60 books mostly hardbacks	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
629	Irish Interest: Collection of Irish Titles such as Dancer by Colum McCann; The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry plus c 50 others	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
630	3 boxes of Art reference books. Some significant studies on Picasso, Church building etc. very impressive and expensive titles	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
631	World Interest: Collection of Various Titles c 80	EUR 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
632	Engineering: Collection of Books/Publications connected to the field of Engineering such as Modern Mechanical Engineering and Machine Making ...	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
633	World Interest: Collection of Various Titles c 80	EUR 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
634	World Interest: Collection of Various Titles c 80	EUR 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
635	World Interest: Collection of Titles such as Wild Animals I Have Known by Ernest Thompson Seton; Lady in Waiting by Anne Glenconner plus c 65 others	EUR 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
636	World Interest: Collection of Various Titles c 80	EUR 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
637	World Interest: Collection of titles such as Dictionery of Classical Antiquities; Dictionery of Quotations plus c 80 others	EUR 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
638	World Interest: Collection of Various Titles c 80	EUR 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
639	World Interest: Collection of Various Titles c 80	EUR 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
640	World Interest: Collection of Various Titles c 80	EUR 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
641	World Interest: Collection of Various Titles c 80	EUR 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold
642	World Interest: Collection of Various Titles c 80	EUR 30.00 - 50.00	Not Sold

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Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD

Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD

Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD

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Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 27th

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
K. Marx, Das Kapital,1867. Dedication copy. Est: € 120,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Latin and French Book of Hours, around 1380. Est: € 25,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Theodor de Bry, Indiae Orientalis, 1598-1625. Est: € 80,000

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 27th

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Breviary, Latin manuscript, around 1450-75. Est: € 10,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
G. B. Piranesi, Vedute di Roma, 1748-69. Est: € 60,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
K. Schmidt-Rottluff, Arbeiter, 1921. Orig. watercolour on postcard. Est: € 18,000

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 27th

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: € 20,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
C. J. Trew, Plantae selectae, 1750-73. Est: € 28,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
M. Beckmann, Apokalypse, 1943. Est: € 50,000

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 27th

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Ulrich von Richenthal, Das Concilium, 1536. Est: € 9,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
I. Kant, Critik der reinen Vernunft, 1781. Est: €12,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Arbeiter-Illustrierte Zeitung (AIZ) / Die Volks-Illustrierte (VI), 1932-38. Est: €8,000
ALDE, May 28: KIPLING (RUDYARD). Le Livre de la Jungle. – Le IIe livre de la Jungle. Paris, Sagittaire, Simon Kra, 1924-1925. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, May 28: NOAILLES (ANNA DE). Les Climats. Paris, Société du Livre contemporain, 1924. €50,000 to €60,000.

ALDE, May 28: MILTON (JOHN). Paradis perdu. Quatrième chant. S.l., Les Bibliophiles de l'Automobile-Club de France, 1974. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, May 28: LEBEDEV (VLADIMIR). Russian Placards - Placard Russe 1917-1922. Saint-Petersbourg, Sterletz, 1923. €1,000 to €1,200.

ALDE, May 28: MARDRUS (JOSEPH-CHARLES). Histoire charmante de l'adolescente sucre d'amour. Paris, F.-L. Schmied, 1927. €1,500 to €2,000.

ALDE, May 28: TABLEAUX DE PARIS. Paris, Émile-Paul Frères, 1927. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, May 28: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Les Fables illustrées par Paul Jouve. S.l. [Lausanne], Gonin & Cie, 1929. €4,000 to €5,000.

ALDE, May 28: SARTRE (JEAN-PAUL). Vingt-deux dessins sur le thème du désir. Paris, Fernand Mourlot, 1961. €1,500 to €2,000.

ALDE, May 28: [BRAQUE (GEORGES)]. 13 mai 1962. Alès, PAB, 1962. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, May 28: MIRÓ (JOAN). Je travaille comme un jardinier. Avant-propos d'Yvon Taillandier. Paris, Société intenationale d'art XXe siècle, 1963. €1,000 to €2,000.

ALDE, May 28: MAGNAN (JEAN-MARIE). Taureaux. Paris, Michèle Trinckvel, 1965. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, May 28: PICASSO (PABLO). Dans l'atelier de Picasso. 1960. €15,000 to €20,000.

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