Purcell Auctioneers: Timed Book Auction - Antiquarian, Modern Literary, Signed Editions etc. etc. , 10625, Birr

Auction Details

Auction Date: January 06, 2025 - January 06, 2025

Page Size: 486 items in 20 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	Rev O'Riordan	Catholicity and Progress In Ireland ,		1906	EUR 20.00 - 40.00	Not Sold
2	W G Wilson	Irish Church Interest: How the Church of Ireland is Governed ,		1963	EUR 20.00 - 40.00	Not Sold
3	Donal A Murphy	Irish Interest: Blazing Tar Barrels and Standing Orders- North Tipperary's First County and District Councils			EUR 20.00 - 40.00	EUR 39.89
4	Nenagh Writers group	Nenagh, Co.Tipperary. A Treasury of Story and Verse			EUR 30.00 - 60.00	EUR 109.39
5	James Durney SIGNED	Vietnam War: Vietnam-The Irish Experience		2008	EUR 20.00 - 40.00	EUR 25.74
6	Osbert Sitwell	Osbert Sitwell X 4 Titles: Left Hand, Right Hand! ( No DJ)			EUR 15.00 - 25.00	EUR 42.47
7		Amhrain Hiudai Fheilimi agus Laoithe Fiannaiochta as Rann na Feirste, Padraig O Baoighill a chuir in eagar. Manus O Baoill a chorigh an ceol. Caighdean. A dara clo		2009	EUR 15.00 - 25.00	EUR 27.02
8	Thomas Kinsella	Thomas Kinsella Interest: Marginal Economy			EUR 20.00 - 40.00	EUR 42.47
9	Clio	Irish Interest: Land Lessons, Irish Parliaments and Constitutional Criticisms			EUR 20.00 - 40.00	Not Sold
10	Brigid Redmond	Irish Interest: 4 Books bound as 1: The Story of Dublin City and County			EUR 20.00 - 40.00	Not Sold
11	P. C. [Percival Christopher]	Beau Ideal, Wren,		1928	EUR 30.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
12		ROSC '67'/'71			EUR 10.00 - 20.00	EUR 12.87
13	xJoyce, James.	Finnegans Wake. London: Faber		1971	EUR 30.00 - 50.00	EUR 65.63
14	Ussher, Arland.	From a Dark Lantern. A Journal, edited and arranged by Roger Nyle Parisious. With woodcut devices.	Dublin:	1978	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 136.41
15	Higgins, F. R.	Arable Holdings: Poems.	Dublin:	1933	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 128.69
16	Oliver St. John.	Wild Apples.	Dublin	1930	EUR 200.00 - 400.00	EUR 257.38
17	compiledPeter Gleeson	The Guardian Book of Joe Daly's Nenagh			EUR 15.00 - 25.00	Not Sold
18		Thomas J Cummins- Political Writer and Journalist			EUR 20.00 - 40.00	Not Sold
19	C. Carty.	Robert Ballagh.		1986	EUR 20.00 - 40.00	EUR 25.74
20	Basil Peterson.	Turn of the Tide - An Outline of Irish Maritime History.		1962	EUR 25.00 - 45.00	EUR 32.17
21	Maurice Healy.	The Old Munster Circuit.		1939	EUR 20.00 - 40.00	EUR 33.46
22	Wilfred Scawen Blunt.	The Earl of Lytton. .		1961	EUR 20.00 - 40.00	EUR 25.74
23	Patricia Hutchins	James Joyce's Dublin			EUR 20.00 - 40.00	Not Sold
24	Patrick MacGill.	The Red Horizon.		C.1915	EUR 20.00 - 40.00	EUR 33.46
25	Sir Walter Armstrong (Director of The National Gallery of Ireland)	Thomas Gainsborough 1904/1905 & Art Works. 2 quarto works by Armstrong			EUR 20.00 - 40.00	EUR 1.29

Forum Auctions
The Library of Barry Humphries
26th March 2025

Forum, Mar. 26: Beckford (William) [Vathek] An Arabian Tale, first (but unauthorised) edition, Lady Caroline Lamb's copy with her signature and notes, 1786. £2,000 to £3,000.

Forum, Mar. 26: Baudelaire (Charles) Les Fleurs du Mal, first edition containing the 6 suppressed poems, first issue, contemporary half black morocco, Paris, 1857. £4,000 to £6,000.

Forum, Mar. 26: Beardsley (Aubrey).- Pope (Alexander) The Rape of the Lock, one of 25 copies on Japanese vellum, Leonard Smithers, 1896. £4,000 to £6,000.

Forum, Mar. 26: Douglas (Lord Alfred) Sonnets, first edition, the dedication copy, with signed presentation inscription from the author to his wife Olive Custance, The Academy, 1909. £2,000 to £3,000.

Forum Auctions
The Library of Barry Humphries
26th March 2025

Forum, Mar. 26: Crowley (Aleister) The Works..., 3 vol. in 1 (as issued)"Essay Competition" issue on India paper, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1905-07. £1,500 to £2,000.

Forum, Mar. 26: Rodin (Auguste).- Mirbeau (Octave) Le Jardin des Supplices, one of 30 copies on chine with an additional suite, bound in dark purple goatskin, Paris, 1902. £3,000 to £4,000.

Forum, Mar. 26: Pellar (Hans) Eight original book illustrations for 'Der verliebte Flamingo' [together with] a published copy of the first edition of the book, 1923. £6,000 to £8,000.

Forum, Mar. 26: Cretté (Georges, binder).- Louÿs (Pierre) Les Aventures du Roi Pausole, 2 vol., one of 99 copies, with 2 original drawings, superbly bound in blue goatskin, gilt, Paris, 1930. £3,000 to £4,000.
Sotheby's
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Sotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD

Sotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD

Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD

Sotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD

Sotheby's
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Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD

Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP

Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP

Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR
Koller, Mar. 26: Wit, Frederick de. Atlas. Amsterdam, de Wit, [1680]. CHF 20,000 to 30,000

Koller, Mar. 26: Merian, Maria Sibylla. Der Raupen wunderbare Verwandelung, und sonderbare Blumennahrung. Nürnberg, 1679; Frankfurt a. M. und Leipzig, 1683. CHF 20,000 to 30,000

Koller, Mar. 26: GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON. Faust. Ein Fragment. Von Goethe. Ächte Ausgabe. Leipzig, G. J. Göschen, 1790. CHF 7,000 to 10,000

Koller, Mar. 26: Hieronymus. [Das hochwirdig leben der außerwoelten freünde gotes der heiligen altuaeter]. Augsburg, Johann Schönsperger d. Ä., 9. Juni 1497. CHF 40,000 to 60,000.

Koller, Mar. 26: BIBLIA GERMANICA - Neunte deutsche Bibel. Nürnberg, A. Koberger, 17. Feb. 1483. CHF 40,000 to 60,000

Koller, Mar. 26: HORAE B.M.V. - Stundenbuch. Lateinische Handschrift auf Pergament, Kalendarium französisch. Nordfrankreich (Rouen?). CHF 25,000 to 40,000
Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
27th March 2025

Forum, Mar. 27: Dürer (Albrecht) Hierin sind begriffen vier bücher von menschlicher Proportion, 4 parts in 1, first edition, Nuremberg, Hieronymus Andreae for Agnes Dürer, 1528. £30,000 to £40,000.

Forum, Mar. 27: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, illuminated manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 26 fine hand-painted miniatures, 17th century dark brown morocco, [Lyon], [c. 1475 and later c. 1490-1500]. £25,000 to £35,000.

Forum, Mar. 27: Brontë (Emily) The North Wind, watercolour, [1842]. £15,000 to £20,000.

Forum, Mar. 27: Titanic.- Mudd (Thomas Cupper, one of the youngest victims of the sinking of the Titanic, 1895-1912) Autograph Letter signed on board RMS Titanic to his mother, April 11th 1912. £20,000 to £30,000.

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
27th March 2025

Forum, Mar. 27: [Austen (Jane)] Emma: A Novel, 3 vol., first edition, for John Murray, 1816. £10,000 to £15,000.

Forum, Mar. 27: Picasso (Pablo).- Ovid. Les Metamorphoses, one of 95 copies, signed by the artist, Lausanne, Albert Skira, 1931. £10,000 to £15,000.

Forum, Mar. 27: America.- Ogilby (John) America: Being the Latest, and Most Accurate Description of the New World..., all maps with vibrant hand-colouring in outline, probably by an early hand, 1671. £15,000 to £25,000.

Forum, Mar. 27: Iceland.- Geological exploration.- Bright (Dr. Richard )and Edward Bird. Collection of twenty original drawings from travels in Iceland with Henry Holland and George Mackenzie, watercolours, [1810]. £20,000 to £30,000.

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