Purcell Auctioneers: Sale of the Extensive Library of the Late J. J. Hurley, Tralee, Co. Kerry, Tim Hurley, Tralee and Some other Private Clients., 92524, Birr

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Auction Date
September 25, 2024 - September 25, 2024
Page Size: 804 items in 33 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
426

Red Channels: The report of Communist Influence in Radio and Television.

EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 37.50
427 Kolbert and O'Brien.

Land reform in Ireland: A legal history of the Irish Land Problem and its Settlement.

1975 EUR 70.00 - 140.00 EUR 125.00
428 Rev Brendan O' Sullivan

The Origin Of The Human Body: Church And Science. A paper presented to the Faculty of Theology of the Senior Scholasticate Kimmage March 1952

c.1952 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 87.50
429

Original Political ephemera related to Taoisigh.

EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 25.00
430 William O'Brien

An Original Photograph of William O'Brien, SIGNED by his wife, Sophie Raffalovich.

EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 250.00
431

Broadside ballad featuring score and lyrics for 'He taught us how to die', concerning the death of Terence MacSwiney with a black and white head and shoulders portrait of Terence MacSwiney ...

EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 225.00
432

Broadside ballad featuring score and lyrics for 'He taught us how to die', concerning the death of Terence MacSwiney with a black and white head and shoulders portrait of Terence MacSwiney ...

EUR 60.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
433

Broadside ballad featuring score and lyrics for 'He taught us how to die', concerning the death of Terence MacSwiney with a black and white head and shoulders portrait of Terence MacSwiney...

EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 187.50
434

Pictures of Irish Life,

Cork. C. 1900 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 25.00
435 By Philip Stanhope.

The accomplished gentleman: or, principles of politeness, and of knowing the world: every instruction to complete the gentleman and man of fashion, to teach him a knowledge of life, and make him well received.

Dublin, Circa 1780. EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 81.25
436

Guinness's Brewery: A morocco-bound manuscript notebook containing notes of employment at the St James' Gate Brewery Dublin 1839-48.

1839-48. EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 650.00
437

Handbook for the Lakes of Killarney and the Surrounding Scenery with observations on the country travelled by the Great Southern Railway by James Fraser.

Dublin, 1849 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 275.00
438 MacKenna, Stephen

Plotinus on the Beautiful. Being the Sixth Treatise of the First Ennead Literally Translated

Stratford-upon-Avon 1914 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
439

Ode Cloinne Uisnig. Fate of the Children of Uisneach.

Dublin. 1898 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 50.00
440

Letters from Khartoum: Written during the Siege by Frank Power offers a gripping first-hand account of the events during the Siege of Khartoum.

1885 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 31.25
441

1887; Diary of A Sketching Club London Based, with Monthly subjects and accounts, Worthy of further research

1887 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 50.00
442 CompiledP. J. McCall.

The Fenian Nights Entertainments.

Dublin 1897 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 25.00
443 Rev. C. T. M'Cready.

[unique copy] Dublin Street Names Dated and Explained

1892 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 687.50
444 [Crissie M. Doyle].

Women in Ancient and Modern Ireland by C. Maire Ni Dhubhghaill

1917 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 62.50
445

Postcards; Sean Hillen's 'Irelantis' collages have been described as "the most vivid and emblematic expression of the dreams and anxieties of 'Celtic Tiger' Ireland.

EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 25.00
446

A Typographical Gazetteer of Ireland or the beginnings of printing in Irish Town by Seamus O'Casaide.

Dublin, 1923 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 50.00
447 the Right Rev. John England, D.D.

Substance Of A Discourse Delivered Before The Hibernian Society Of The City Of Savannah In The Church Of St. John The Baptist In That City On The Festival of St. Patrick, March 17th, 1824

Charleston: 1824 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 93.75
448

Annual Report of King's County Protestant Orphan Society 1916-17

Birr c.1916-17 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 87.50
449 Brendan Behan --

THE QUARE FELLA, The Abbey Theatre, playing at "The Queen's Theatre" Programme, Pending Rebuilding and Enlargement of the Abbey, Monday 26th September 1960

1960 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 62.50
450 Brendan Behan --

Borstal Boy, The Abbey Theatre Programme, Tuesday 10th of October 1967.

1967 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 62.50
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  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th September 2024
    Forum, 26 Sep: Bible, Arabic & Latin. Biblia Sacra Arabica, 3 vol., Rome, Tipografia della Congregazione di Propaganda Fide, 1671. £15,000 to £20,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Shepard (Ernest). "Wind in the Willows" Toad Escapes from Prison, original pencil drawing with watercolour, 1931. £15,000 to £20,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Economics.- Smith (Adam). An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 2 vol., second edition, Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1778. £12,000 to £18,000.
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    Forum, 26 Sep: Burma.- Burmese School (1870s). Folding manuscript, or parabaik, of festivities and processions, probably from the Court Workshop at the Royal Court at Manadaly, Burma, [c. 1870]. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: More (Sir Thomas). La Description de l'Isle d'Utopie ou est comprins le Miroer des republiques du monde, first French edition, Paris, Charles l'Angelier, 1550. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Botany.- Dioscorides (Pedanius). De medicinali materia libri sex, hand-coloured throughout, Frankfurt-am-Main, Chr. Egenolff, 1543. £8,000 to £12,000.
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    26th September 2024
    Forum, 26 Sep: World.- Blaeu (Johannes). Nova et Accuratissima Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula Auctore Joanne Blaeu, engraved map, [c.1662]. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Shelley (Mary). Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus, 2 vol., [second edition], Printed for G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1823. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: [Evans (Marian)] 'George Eliot'. A complete set of first editions of her works, uniformly bound in red morocco, 1858-1885 (30). £6,000 to £8,000.
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    26th September 2024
    Forum, 26 Sep: Lewis (C.S.) [The Chronicles of Narnia], 7 vol., first editions, 1950-56. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Albertolli (Ferdinando). Porte di Città e Fortezze...di Michele Sammicheli, Milan, 1815. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Gregynog Press.- Euripides. The Plays, one of 25 specially-bound copies, this by George Fisher at the Gregynog Bindery, 1931. £4,000 to £6,000.
  • Gonnelli
    Auction 54
    Books, Autographs & Manuscripts
    October 8th-10th 2024
    Gonnelli: Menù di gala per l'incoronazione di Nicola II Romanov e di Aleksandra Feodorovna. Moskva, 1896. Starting price 1000 €
    Gonnelli: Raccolta di 38 albumine, molte colorate a mano, di vedute della Cina, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Giappone e vari ritratti, 1880. Starting price 340 €
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    Gonnelli: Lucio Fontana. Milan: Achille Mauri, 1968. Starting price 400 €
    Gonnelli: Mucha Alphonse, Documents décoratifs, 1901-1902. Starting price 10000 €
    Gonnelli: Christie Agatha, The Mysterious Affair at Styles. A detective story. London: John Lane, 1921. Starting price 460 €
    Gonnelli: Alberti Leon Battista, Ecatonphyla. Venice: Bernardino da Cremona, 1491. Starting price 10000 €
    Gonnelli: Menabrea Luigi Federico, Sketch of the analytical engine invented by Charles Babbage Esq. London: Richard and John E. Taylor, 1843. Starting price 5000 €
    Gonnelli: Bardi Giovanni, Memorie del calcio fiorentino. Florence, 1688. Starting price 1000 €
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