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
176		The County Kerry Club - Farewell Dinner to Mr. Dan Browne, Secretary of the Department of Justice.			EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 37.50
177		Hardings' Guide Map To Tralee District With Killarney.			EUR 150.00 - 250.00	EUR 25.00
178		Hibernia (periodical) Orange and Green, Six Counties In Search Of A Nation, November, 1948; 1949		1948; 1949	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 50.00
179	Editors G. M. Aikman, J. W. Ching, A. R. C. Figes.	Fun At Va. Xmas, 1920. A Collection of Humorous Verse and Writings, By The Staff, For The Staff.		1920	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 81.25
180	Rev. John Gwynn.	The Present Position of Protestantism And An Afterword	Dublin:	1911	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 87.50
181	C. Lehane.	Ireland's Burden Under British Boards	Dublin:	1905	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 1,025.00
182		The Kerry Searchlight No.1.	Tralee:		EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 25.00
183		St. John's Theatre, Tralee. The C.Y.M.S. Players Present "X=)" (a Play in One Act by John Drinkwater) and Cartney & Kevney (A Comedy in Three Acts by Geo. Shiels). Tues, Wed, Thursday & Friday 10,11,12,13 December , 1940.		1940	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 25.00
184	Merne, John G.	A Handbook of Celtic Ornament,: Being a key to the construction of all types of that form of decoration for the use of schools, art teachers, designers, architects, sculptors, etc.	Dublin & Cork.	1930	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
185		Irish Related Booklets/Pamphlets: Free and Gaelic- Pearse's Idea of as National Culture by Sean Patrick Walsh, 1979; ...			EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 112.50
186	Caird, James	The Plantation Scheme: or The West of Ireland as A Field for Investment	London & Edinburgh.		EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 125.00
187	Tom O' Flaherty	Cliffmen of the West,		1935	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 56.25
188		Old Irish Glass- The Walter Harding Collection,		1930	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 50.00
189		Forest Images -- Father Browne's Woodland Photographs; The Future of Irish Wildlife, a blueprint for development; The Irish Woods Since Tudor Times; ...			EUR 60.00 - 80.00	EUR 81.25
190		Parnell, a Beathaisneis: Leon O Broin do scriobh. Caighdean an chead fhoillsiu 1937.		1937	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 31.25
191	Tomas O'Crohan ( TranslatedRobin Flowers )	The Islandman.	London, United Kingdom	1934	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 81.25
192		Princess Mary's Gift Book (1915); plus The Queen's Gift Book (1916); Plus Queen Alexandra's Xmas Gift Book; and King Albert's Book (4)			EUR 25.00 - 45.00	EUR 25.00
193	John Miniihan (IntroductionEugene McCabe)	Shadows from the Pale: Portrait of an Irish Town - published 1996.	UK	1996	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 400.00
194	Jeanne Cooper Foster	Ulster Folklore, published 1951. Irish Historiography 1936-1970, published 1971. Anglo-Norman Ulster the history and Archaeology of an Irish Barony 1177 -- 1400;...			EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 25.00
195	Dean Swift	The Works of Dean Swift in Prose and Verse.		1897	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 112.50
196	Martin Ross and E OE. Somerville.	A Patrick's Day Hunt	Westminster,	1902	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 137.50
197		The Bee-Man of Orn illustrated by P J Lynch SIGNED , Walker Books; In An Irish House edited bu Sybil Connolly SIGNED, 1988; ...			EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
198		The Traveller's Handbook for Algeria and Tunisia,		1913	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 62.50
199		Touraine and Brittany their Celtic Monuments and Ancient Castles, Ocean and Sea-Bathing Stations, Places of Pilgrimage,		1909	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 81.25
200		Murray's Handbook for Travellers Burma & Ceylon including all British India, the Portugese and French Possessions and the Indian States		1933	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 162.50

Gonnelli
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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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