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

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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
251 Hobson, J.A.

John Ruskin Social Reformer,

1899 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
252 Lynn Doyle

The Spirit of Ireland. Signed author.

1935 EUR 25.00 - 50.00 EUR 32.17
253

Galway Literary Journal. Limited edit.

2001 EUR 30.00 - 60.00 EUR 38.61
254

Norman Douglas collection of...Nerinda

1929 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
255 Bertie Ahearn

All Signed Books: Bertie Ahearn The Autobiography

EUR 20.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
256 Amos, S.

The Science of Politics,

1890 EUR 15.00 - 30.00 EUR 19.30
257

The Parson's Horn-Book

1831 EUR 15.00 - 30.00 EUR 19.30
258 Andreades, A.

History of the Bank of England

1909 EUR 30.00 - 60.00 EUR 25.74
259 Scholes, P. A.

The Great Dr. [Charles] Burney. His Life, His Travels, His Works, His Family & His Friends.

1948 EUR 30.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
260

The Return Room Rodgers, WR

2010 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 25.74
261 Fran Murphy

Sweet Sweet Memories and Others

1986 EUR 15.00 - 30.00 Not Sold
262 MEREDITH, George.

Last Poems.

London: 1909 EUR 15.00 - 30.00 Not Sold
263

Journal Florentin de R. M. Rilke Traduction de Maurice Betz Avec des Illustrations de J. Despierre Rilke, Rainer Maria

EUR 15.00 - 30.00 Not Sold
264 Thomas Kinsella:

Butchers Dozen

1972 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 25.74
265 Edward Hull.

The Physical Geology & Geography of Ireland.

1878 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 28.31
266 Vincentian Fathers

Castleknock: St. Vincent's College Castleknock Centenary Record 1835-1935

Dublin EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 33.46
267 Lever, Charles.

Tom Burke of "Ours". With numerous illustrations on steel by H.K. Browne. Two volumes.

Dublin: 1844 EUR 30.00 - 60.00 EUR 54.05
268 John Banville

Ghosts

EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 25.74
269

The Windmill

EUR 20.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
270 Malachy Gerard Carroll

The Story of Matt Talbot

1948 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
271

Saint Ultan's Hospital, Dublin. Thirty Seventh Annual Report

1955 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
272

Thirty First International Eucharistic Congress, Dublin 1932. Programme of Daily Events from June 5th to June 26th.

1932 EUR 30.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
273 Sismondi, J. C. L.

Simonde de. Historical View of the Literature of the South of Europe. Translated from the Original, With Notes, and a Life of the Author. 2 volumes.

London: 1846 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 51.48
274 Francis Stuart

Francis Stuart X 2 titles, King David Dances and Arrow of Anguish

EUR 20.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
275 Charles S. Devine.

Political Economy. 2 vols

EUR 10.00 - 20.00 Not Sold
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    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.
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