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
301	Taylor, John Russell	Art: Exactitude: Hyperrealist Art Today		2009	EUR 20.00 - 40.00	EUR 1.29
302	Tony O'Malley Lynch, Brian (edits)	(Tony O'Malley)		1996	EUR 20.00 - 40.00	EUR 1.29
303		Catalogue of the Samuel Beckett collection in the McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontarion.		1973	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
304	La Croix, P. Claudii. S. J.	Theologia Moralis. 4 volumes.	Paris,	1874	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 51.48
305	Potter George	To the Golden Door.		1960	EUR 20.00 - 40.00	Not Sold
306	Richard L. Edgeworth. and Maria Edgeworth.	Essay on Irish Bulls.		1808	EUR 10.00 - 20.00	EUR 28.31
307	John Ruskin.	Our Fathers Have Told Us.		1897	EUR 30.00 - 60.00	EUR 55.34
308	Rev. M. J. MacHale.	Songs For Freedom and Other Poems.		1880	EUR 15.00 - 30.00	EUR 19.30
309		Irish Freemason's Calendar and Directory' - Dublin 1924 and 1 other similar			EUR 10.00 - 20.00	EUR 12.87
310	D.H. Allen.	A History of Newmarket.		1973	EUR 10.00 - 20.00	EUR 14.16
311	William Phelan.	the History of the Policy of the Church of Rome in Ireland, Dublin.		1827	EUR 10.00 - 20.00	EUR 12.87
312	D.M. Stewart Beale.	Through The Suez Canal.		1926	EUR 15.00 - 30.00	EUR 19.30
313		Lilys Rules Considered, whereinto are added Thomms Robinsons Hekeroelites, The Latin Syntaxib.	Dublin.	1766	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 91.37
314		3 issues of Horizon: 1942, 1942 and 1945 with contributions from Patrick Kavanagh, Frank O'Connor & Jack B Yeats		1942, 1942 and 1945	EUR 20.00 - 40.00	EUR 33.46
315	Francis Sheehy Skeffington.	In Dark and Evil Days.		1936	EUR 10.00 - 20.00	EUR 27.02
316	Edmund Burke.	A Letter to His Grace The Duke of Portland. bound with A Letter to a Member of the National Academy.		1797, 1791.	EUR 20.00 - 40.00	EUR 65.63
317		Manners and Customs of ye Englysne. Drawn from ye Quick by Richard Doyle. To which be added Some Extracts from Mr. Pips hys diary. Percival Leigh			EUR 20.00 - 40.00	Not Sold
318		Photo album C. 1950 of cigarette cards of jockeys, soccer players and cricket players		C. 1950	EUR 10.00 - 20.00	EUR 27.02
319		The Spas of England. 1st. Original news clippings glued in. Finely bound album and The Art Album of Folkstone views		C.1895	EUR 10.00 - 20.00	EUR 12.87
320	O Neill, Tomas O Fiannachta, Padraig	De Valera (2 volume set)	(Dublin)	1968	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 84.94
321	Hugh Haughton	The Poetry of Derek Mahon, one volume		2007	EUR 15.00 - 30.00	EUR 19.30
322	Victor Jackson. and Ian Campbell Ross	St. Patrick's Cathedral		1982	EUR 15.00 - 30.00	Not Sold
323	Thomas Coxeter.	The Dramatic Works of Philip Masinger, complete in four volumes.		1761	EUR 30.00 - 60.00	EUR 39.89
324		The Cabinet of Irish Literature C.		1900	EUR 30.00 - 60.00	EUR 38.61
325	George O'Brien.	The Economic History of Ireland in the Seventeenth Century.		1919	EUR 10.00 - 30.00	Not Sold

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
Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts

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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