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

Auction Details

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
576	Seamus Heaney.	Electric Light.		2001	EUR 60.00 - 90.00	EUR 25.00
577	R. Brands & M.J. Durcan.	Seamus Heaney - A Bibliography 1959-2003.		2008	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 25.00
578	Seamus Heaney.	The Midnight Verdict.		2000	EUR 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
579	Seamus Heaney.	Skoleradioen.		1977	EUR 80.00 - 100.00	EUR 50.00
580	Seamus Heaney.	North.		1975	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
581	Seamus Heaney -	District and Circle.	London,	2006	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 37.50
582	Seamus Heaney:	Human Chain, Faber & Faber 2010, 1st Ed; Daeth of a Naturalist, Faber & Faber, 2016. 50th anniversary Print of which this is a 1st Ed; Filedwork Faber & Faber 1979, 1 st Ed (3)			EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 50.00
583		An Open Letter, Seamus Heaney, A Field Day Pamphlet, 1983; Beowulf, Seamus Heaney, Faber & Faber, First Edition, First Printing, 1999; ...			EUR 70.00 - 90.00	EUR 37.50
584		Irish Poetry: Redress of Poetry: Oxford Lectures Heaney, Seamus: Published by Faber & Faber, 1996, 1st Ed; The Haw Lantern by Seamus Heaney, 1987, 1st Ed; Amongst Women by John McGahern, 1991 plus 5 others (8)			EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
585	Nicolini, G. B. (Giovanni Battista)	History of the Jesuits Their Origin, Progress, Doctrines, and Designs	London,	1854	EUR 60.00 - 80.00	EUR 400.00
586	H. F. McClintock.	Old Irish & Highland Dress	Dundalk.	1950	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 275.00
587	Irish Literature. 3 first editionsSomerville and Ross.	The Big House of Inver. 1925, An Enthusiast. 1921, Mount Music. 1919 also Presentation Parlour by Kate O'Brien. 1963; Twenty-Years a Growing by O'Sullivan. and Hold Your Hour and Have Another by Brendan Behan. 1963 6 books			EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 50.00
588	Bryan J Clinch.	The American Catholic Quarterly Review, January 1906. Irish Names and Their Changes		1906	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 25.00
589	John Lavery,	The Life of a Painter,	London	1940	EUR 40.00 - 70.00	EUR 75.00
590		Kwame Nkrumah, Consciencism, 1st 1964; presentation signed copy Nkrumah to Conor Cruise O Brien, 1964; Geoffrey Bing, Reap the Whirlwind...KN's Ghana, 1968...			EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 350.00
591		The Story of the Munsters at Etreux, Festubert, Rue De Bois and Hulloch Rickard, Mrs. Victor	London,	1917	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 125.00
592		The Irish Invincibles and Their Times by Patrick J P Tynan, 1894; King Goshawk and the birds by Eimar O'Duffy, 1926; Her Irish Heritage by Annie M P Smithson, 1st Ed; ...			EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
593		The Post Chaise Companion of Traveller's Directory Through Ireland.		1786	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 200.00
594		The Trials of George R. Fitzgerald, Timothy Brecknock, 7 James Fulton and Ors. for the Murder of Patrick Randall McDonnell and Charles Hiposon.	Dublin.	1786	EUR 200.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
595	Steele,	The Right Hon Arthur McMurrough Kavanagh,		1891	EUR 70.00 - 120.00	EUR 175.00
596		Letters to and From the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D., to Which are added Some Poems Never Before Printed.	Dublin:	1788	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 56.25
597	Brian Bourke -	Five Decades. 1960s - 2000s,		2010	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 137.50
598	Betts John	The Story of the Irish Society	London	1913	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 50.00
599	Seosamh MacCathmhaoil.	The Mountainey Singer	Dublin	1909	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 37.50
600		Seneca's Morals by way of Abstracts. Of Benefits, Part 1. To Which is Added a Discourse, Under the Title of 'An After-Thought' by Sir E. J. L'Estrange.	London,	1696	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	Not Sold

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 €

Gonnelli
Futurism

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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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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26th September 2024

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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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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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.

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