• <b>ALDE, Apr. 18:</b> CASAS (BARTOLOMÉ DE LAS). <i>La Découverte des Indes occidentales par les Espagnols,</i> Paris, 1697. €1,500 to €2,000.
    <b>ALDE, Apr. 18:</b> GARCILASO DE LA VEGA. <i>Primera parte de los commentarios reales, que tratan del orígen de los Yncas…,</i> Lisbonne, 1609 [1608 au colophon]. €8,000 to €10,000.
    <b>ALDE, Apr. 18:</b> GARCILASO DE LA VEGA. <i>Histoire des Yncas rois du Pérou. On a joint à cette édition l'Histoire de la conquête de la Floride,</i> Amsterdam, 1737. €800 to €1,000.
    <b>ALDE, Apr. 18:</b> LAET (JOHANNES DE). <i>L'Histoire du nouveau monde, ou description des Indes occidentales,</i> Leyde, 1640. €8,000 to €10,000.
    <b>ALDE, Apr. 18:</b> LAFITAU (JOSEPH-FRANÇOIS). <i>Mœurs des sauvages amériquains, comparées aux mœurs des premiers temps,</i> Paris, 1724. €1,200 to €1,500.
    <b>ALDE, Apr. 18:</b> ORRIO (FRANCISCO XAVIER ALEXO DE). <i>Solución del gran problema acerca de la población de las Americas,</i> Mexico, 1763. €1,500 to €2,000.
    <b>ALDE, Apr. 18:</b> [ROCHEFORT (CHARLES DE)]. <i>Histoire naturelle et morale des Îles Antilles de l'Amérique,</i> Amsterdam, 1716. €800 to €1,000.
    <b>ALDE, Apr. 18:</b> TURGOT (ANNE-ROBERT-JACQUES). <i>Mémoire sur les colonies américaines, sur leurs relations politiques avec leurs métropoles…,</i> Paris, 1791. €1,000 to €1,200.
  • <center><b>Forum Auctions<br>Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper<br>30th March 2023</b>
    <b>Forum, Mar. 30:</b> Roman binding.- Pindar. <i>Olympia, Pythia, Nemea, Isthmia,</i> translated by Johannes Lonicer, contemporary Roman binding by Niccolo Franzese, Basel, 1535. £40,000 to £60,000.
    <b>Forum, Mar. 30:</b> Raverat (Gwen). Comprehensive album of 530 wood engravings, circa 1909-1950. £40,000 to £60,000.
    <b>Forum, Mar. 30:</b> Hemingway (Ernest). <i>Fiesta,</i> first English edition, first impression dust-jacket, 1927. £15,000 to £20,000.
    <center><b>Forum Auctions<br>Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper<br>30th March 2023</b>
    <b>Forum, Mar. 30:</b> Fleming (Ian). <i>Casino Royale,</i> first edition, first impression, 1953. £12,000 to £18,000.
    <b>Forum, Mar. 30:</b> Dickens (Charles). <i>Great Expectations,</i> 3 vol., first edition, first impression, Chapman and Hall, 1861. £10,000 to £15,000.
    <b>Forum, Mar. 30:</b> Campbell (Colen) & others. <i>Vitruvius Britannicus, or The British Architect...,</i> 5 vol., vol.1-3 later editions, vol.4 & 5 first editions, [?1731]-31-67-71. £10,000 to £15,000.
    <center><b>Forum Auctions<br>Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper<br>30th March 2023</b>
    <b>Forum, Mar. 30:</b> Geography.- Mela (Pomponius). <i>Cosmographia, sive De situ orbis,</i> Venice, Franciscus Renner de Heilbronn, 1478. £8,000 to £12,000.
    <b>Forum, Mar. 30:</b> America.- [?Espinosa y Tello (José)]. <i>Relacion del Viage hecho por las Goletas Sutil y Mexicana en el Año de 1792,</i> 2 vol. including Atlas, first edition, Madrid, 1802. £8,000 to £12,000.
    <b>Forum, Mar. 30:</b> Australasia.- Péron (Francois) and Louis-Claude de Saulces de Freycinet. <i>Voyage de Découvertes aux Terres Australes,</i> 5 vol. including Atlas, second edition, Paris, 1824. £8,000 to £12,000.
    <center><b>Forum Auctions<br>Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper<br>30th March 2023</b>
    <b>Forum, Mar. 30:</b> Botany.- Curtis (William). <i>The Botanical Magazine; or, Flower-Garden Displayed,</i> 83 vol. in 62, 1794-1956. £8,000 to £12,000.
    <b>Forum, Mar. 30:</b> Darwin (Charles).- Lecky (W.E.H.) <i>The Rise and Influence of Rationalism in Europe,</i> 2 vol., Darwin's copy with inscription "Charles Darwin 1865", pencil marginalia and pencil notes, 1865. £7,000 to £10,000.
  • <center><b>Dominic Winter Auctioneers<br>April 5<br>Printed Books, Maps, Atlases & Caricatures</b>
    <b>Dominic Winter, Apr. 5:</b> Speed (John). <i>The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine...</i> bound with <i>The Prospect of the most Famous parts of the World,</i> Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell, 1676. £20,000 to £30,000.
    <b>Dominic Winter, Apr. 5:</b> China. De Jode (Cornelis), <i>China Regnum,</i> Antwerp [1593]. £7,000 to £10,000.
    <b>Dominic Winter, Apr. 5:</b> World. Hondius (Henricus), <i>Nova totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula.</i> Auct: Henr. Hondio. Amsterdam, circa 1630. £5,000 to £8,000.
    <center><b>Dominic Winter Auctioneers<br>April 5<br>Printed Books, Maps, Atlases & Caricatures</b>
    <b>Dominic Winter, Apr. 5:</b> World. Blaeu (Willem Janszoon), <i>Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula</i> auct: Guilelmo Blaeuw, Amsterdam [1635 - 58]. £5,000 to £8,000.
    <b>Dominic Winter, Apr. 5:</b> Acosta (Emanuel). <i>Rerum a Societate Iesu in Oriente gestarum ad annum usque à Deipara Virgine…,</i> 1st edition, Dillingen: Sebald Mayer, 1571. £3,000 to £5,000.
    <b>Dominic Winter, Apr. 5:</b> Ruggieri (Francesco). <i>Scelta di Architetture Antiche e Moderne della Citta di Firenze…,</i> 4 volumes bound in two, Florence, Appresso l'Editore, 1755. £3,000 to £4,000.
    <center><b>Dominic Winter Auctioneers<br>April 5<br>Printed Books, Maps, Atlases & Caricatures</b>
    <b>Dominic Winter, Apr. 5:</b> Parry (William). <i>Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage,</i> 6 vols in 5, 1st editions, 1821-27. £2,000 to £3,000.
    <b>Dominic Winter, Apr. 5:</b> Hunter (John). <i>A Treatise on the Blood, Inflammation, and Gun-Shot Wounds,</i> 1st edition, 1794. £1,000 to £1,500.
    <b>Dominic Winter, Apr. 5:</b> Furber (Robert). <i>The Flower-Garden Display'd, in above Four Hundred Curious Representations of the most Beautiful Flowers…,</i> 1st quarto edition, London, 1732. £1,000 to £1,500.
    <center><b>Dominic Winter Auctioneers<br>April 5<br>Printed Books, Maps, Atlases & Caricatures</b>
    <b>Dominic Winter, Apr. 5:</b> Friedman (Milton). <i>A Theory of the Consumption Function,</i> 1st edition, 1957. £500 to £800.
    <b>Dominic Winter, Apr. 5:</b> Clarkson (Thomas). <i>The history of the ... abolition of the African slave-trade,</i> 2 vols., 1808. £800 to £1,200.
    <b>Dominic Winter, Apr. 5:</b> Civil War Pamphlets. A sammelband of 19 pamphlets relating to events of the English Civil War, 1640-1661. £2,000 to £3,000.

Purcell Auctioneers: Auction of a Collection of Irish & World Interest Books - Rare & Signed First Editions, Maps, Journals, Periodicals, Pamphlets, Postcards, Ephemera Etc., 11823, Birr

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
01/18/2023 - 01/18/2023
Page Size: 625 items in 25 pages

Lot NumberAuthor NameBook TitlePlace PrintedYear PublishedEstimateActual Price
1E. Alma Barton.

E. Alma Barton. Watercolours 1866/1870

EUR 200.00 - 300.00Not Sold
2

Irish Interest:No Man's Man by Maev Sullivan; The Rising -complete story of Easter Week by Desmond Ryan 1949; Irish Whiskey- a history of distilling in Ireland by E B McGuire plus 3 others (6)

EUR 40.00 - 60.00EUR 178.50
3Longley, Michael.

The Weather in Japan.

London2000EUR 200.00 - 280.00EUR 238.00
4

God made Sunday by Walter Macken; Mar Connac-sa Éire by Peadar Ó'hAnnracáin; A Spelling Book by William Cobbett; The Economical Cookery Book by Josephine Redington; Sean agus Nua; A Grammar of the Irish Language; (6)

EUR 20.00 - 40.00EUR 41.65
5

Laurence Walsh ocist, Richard Heaton of Ballyskenagh, 1601-1666,

1978EUR 30.00 - 60.00EUR 23.80
6

Macken, Walter Seek the Fair Land, 1959; Rooney, Philip Captain Boycott, 1946; Doyle, Lynn A Bowl of Broth, 1945; Pedlow, J. C. Ballycarnamaghery, 1963; Walsh, Maurice The Key above the Door, 1947

EUR 40.00 - 80.00EUR 47.60
7A.W. Ward

The Electress Sophia and the Hanoverian Succession.

1903EUR 120.00 - 150.00Not Sold
8

Lancashire and Cheshire Past & Present: 4 Volumes Baines, Thomas; fairbairn, William

London1867EUR 40.00 - 60.00EUR 29.75
9Rev. Samuel Ayscough.

An Index to the remarkable passages, and words made use of by Shakspeare.

1791EUR 70.00 - 80.00EUR 130.90
10

Antiquarian] Virgil Eneide, Venice, 1746, engraved plates; Seneca Opera, Amsterdam, 1634; , Angers, 1785; Cesarotti, M. Poesie Originali, Florence, 1810; Bonae, J. Manuductio ad Coelum, Venice, 1725; …

EUR 40.00 - 60.00EUR 142.80
11

Ireland Industrial & Agricultural,

Dublin1902EUR 50.00 - 100.00EUR 71.40
12Lewis, Samuel

A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland,

1837EUR 300.00 - 500.00EUR 357.00
13Lord Dunsany - Introduction.

Ireland/L'Irlande. A Book of photographs

C. 1948EUR 30.00 - 50.00EUR 35.70
14

The Chester Beatty Library - A Handlist of The Arabic Manuscripts. 3 volumes :

1956, 1963 and 1964EUR 100.00 - 150.00EUR 101.15
15

Carson, Ciaran Collected Poems, 2008; MacNeice. Louis Collected Poems, 1979; Craig, P [editor] The Rattle pf the North. An Anthology of Ulster Prose, 1992; …

EUR 20.00 - 40.00EUR 11.90
16Lee, J. J.

Ireland 1912-1985

Cambridge1990EUR 20.00 - 40.00EUR 23.80
17Cunliffe, Barry

The Celtic World,

1979EUR 30.00 - 60.00EUR 35.70
18Thompson, Susan

American Book Design & William Morris, ; Birdsall, D. Notes on Book Design

New York1977, 2004EUR 20.00 - 40.00EUR 23.80
19

The Whoseday Book

1999EUR 350.00 - 400.00EUR 357.00
20W.B. Yeats.

The Wild Swans at Coole.

N.Y. 1919EUR 100.00 - 180.00EUR 154.70
21Roddy Doyle

The Women Who Walked into Doors; Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha; A Star Called Henry; Amongst Women by John McGahern; Snow by John Banville; Mount Eagle John Montague

EUR 30.00 - 50.00EUR 17.85
22Higgins, F. R.

Arable Holdings: Poems.

Dublin1933EUR 200.00 - 250.00Not Sold
23O Laughlin,

Master Book of Irish Surnames, 1st 1993, Grenham, Tracing your Irish Ancestors, large card 8vo, 1989; MacLysaght, The Surnames of Ireland IAP, 1985; Brian de Breffny, Irish Family Names, 1989

EUR 30.00 - 50.00EUR 23.80
24 GRAY, Terence

Cuchulainn. An Epic Drama of the Gael,

Cambridge1926,EUR 30.00 - 60.00EUR 23.80
25 John Quinn,

Learning’s Easy Carried, a personal memoir of S

2021EUR 40.00 - 60.00EUR 23.80
  • <b><center>Swann Auction Galleries<br>Printed & Manuscript African Americana:<br>March 30, 2023</b>
    <b>Swann March 30:</b> Victor H. Green, <i>The Negro Motorist Green Book,</i> New York, 1949. $10,000 to $15,000.
    <b>Swann March 30:</b> Papers of pianist-composer Lawrence Brown relating to Paul Robeson & more, various places, 1925-54. $5,000 to $7,500.
    <b>Swann March 30:</b> Freedom Summer archive of civil rights activist Karen Haberman Trusty, Atlanta & elsewhere, 1963-64. $5,000 to $7,500.
    <b>Swann March 30:</b> E. Simms Campbell, <i>A Night-Club Map of Harlem,</i> New York, 1933. $8,000 to $12,000.
    <b>Swann March 30:</b> Archive of letters from the sculptor Richmond Barthé to a close Jamaican friend, various places, 1966-85. $25,000 to $35,000.
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