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 Report
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
751 Colm Toibin,

Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know, Exclusive Signed first edition, 2018, Viking; House of Names, 2017, Scribner; The Story of the Night,1996, ...

EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 56.25
752

Jennifer Johnston, The Invisible Worm, 1991, Sinclair-Stevenson; Jennifer Johnston, Grace and Truth, 2005, Jennifer Johnston, Shadowstory, 2011, Headline Review, ...

EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 87.50
753

The Irish Garden - Jane Powers and Jonathan Hession, published by Frances Lincoln Limited, London 2015. The Wildflowers of Ireland -- Declan Doogue & Carsten Krieger, published by Gill & Macmillan, 2010, Dublin. ...

EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 56.25
754

Irish Related: Letters and Leaders of my Day by T M Healy Vol 1-2 c 1929; Ireland's Story by Charles Johnston/ Carita Spencer, 1905 plus 6 others (9)

EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 43.75
755 Roland,

The Dark History of the Occult,

2022 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 31.25
756

The Surtees Society, Best's Farming Book, Rural Economy in Yorkshire in 1641. Hughson's History of London, vol 1, The Works of George Herbert. ...

EUR 40.00 - 70.00 Not Sold
757

Irish/World Interest: Background to a Poem for Hui-Sung Poems 1968-73 by John Feehan, 1974; Last Words- Letters and Statements of the Leaders Executed after the Rising at Easter 1916 by Piaras F Mac Lochlainn, 1971...

EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 25.00
758

Royal Academy Pictures Year Books/European Pictures of the Years (1888/89 - 1914, not consecutive) (23)

EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 50.00
759

Horse Racing Related: Collection of Titles such as One Hell of a Ride by Paul carberry; Riding the Storm by Timmy Murphy plus 22 others

EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 62.50
760

Large collection of copies of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society Journal, 42 issues from 1895-1949. 56 issues from 1950-1970's

1895-1949. 1950-1970's EUR 60.00 - 150.00 EUR 212.50
761

Horse Racing Related: Collection of Titles such as Best Racing and Chasing Stories by John Welcome SIGNED; Winter's Tale and Red Rum by Ivor Herbert plus 22 others

EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 12.50
762

The Cork Millennium Book- My Home By The Lee by Richard T Cooke; Steps & Steelers Cork at the turn of the century by Colm Lincoln; 3 issues of ROSC '77/'80'/'84; Ocean Liners of The 20th Century plus 11 others

EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 37.50
763

The Eighteenth Century Architecture of Bath. 1904; The Universal Gazetteer by Walker. Dublin. !797 in leather, no maps; The History of Pontefract, its Castles by Boothroyd. ...

EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 25.00
764

Collection of Donn Byrne and canon Sheehan Titles c

EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 37.50
765

Journals: Collection The Catholic Bulletin and book review earlies 1916, earliest 1916 latest 1934 c 60 issues not consecutive; Irish Historical Studies 7 volumes; Plus 15 mixed other journals.

EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 125.00
766

Box of Postal interest. Includes approximately 100 unused British Coronation postcards, approximately 150 postally franked letters...

EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 75.00
767

Poetry: One box of Irish and international poetry books

EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 12.50
768

Irish Related : The Story of irelands National Theatre by Dawson Byrne, 1929, Ex libris; Gleanings and Reminiscences by Frank Thorpe Porter, 1875; The Best of Myles edited by Kevin O'Nolan, 1968 plus 10 others (13)

EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 37.50
769

Ulster Related: Bernadette Devlin-The Price of my Soul, 1969; Stalker by John Stalker, 1988; The Battle For Northern Ireland by W Martin Smyth, 1972 plus 13 others (16)

EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 100.00
770

Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London: Vol 2, Vol 3, 1856; New series: Vol iii, (1864- 67), Vols vi, viii, ix, x, xi, xii, xiii (1899).

EUR 70.00 - 90.00 Not Sold
771

Ulster for your Holidays, detailed guides of around 300 pages with attractive col covers: 1929, 1930, 1936, 1938, 1939, 1947, 1948, 1950 plus 2 undated (11);

EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 50.00
772

Literary Classics, mostly first eds: Wells, The Salvaging of Civilization, (1921). Belloc, The Crisis of Civilization, (1937). Sartre, Iron in the Soul, (1950). ...

EUR 50.00 - 70.00 EUR 25.00
773

Father Browne photographic collection. The Genius of Father Browne; A Life in Pictures; The Life and Lens of father Browne; Trains and Railways; Limerick; First World War; Australia; England; Galway; ...

EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 187.50
774

A good box of mainly Irish interest first editions, some signed, in very good condition.

EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 25.00
775

Irish Interest: A collection of Irish Titles such as The Importance of Being Irish by Alan Bestic, 1st Ed 1969.

EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 37.50
  • 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.
    Forum Auctions
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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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    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.
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