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

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Auction Report
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
451

Westmeath: Collection of publications such as Kilbeggan 2000- Millennium Book Of Photographs by Stan McCormack

EUR 25.00 - 50.00 EUR 39.89
452

Irish Journals collection of: Irish Arts x 2

EUR 20.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
453

Irish Art: Irish Arts Review Yearbook 1996/1997/1999/2001

EUR 20.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
454

Folder containing details/correspondance on employees, salaries, bonus and wage increase demands circa 1913/20

circa 1913/20 EUR 10.00 - 30.00 Not Sold
455

Atlas of Ireland Prepared under the Direction of the Irish National Committee for Geography.

Royal Irish Academy. 1979 EUR 30.00 - 60.00 EUR 38.61
456

Book Containing c.50 pages of Newspapers Cuttings in the main from 1948

EUR 15.00 - 30.00 Not Sold
457 Anne Crookshank and the Knoight of Glin

The Watercolours of Ireland: Works on Paper in Pencil, Pastel and Paint, c.1600-1914

Published by Barrie and Jenkins 1994 EUR 30.00 - 60.00 EUR 55.34
458

Cricket: The Cricketer Book of cricket Disasters and Bizarre records

1983 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
459

Wexford G.A.A. - St. John's Volunteers 90th Anniversary 1983. (cover detached)

1983 EUR 15.00 - 30.00 Not Sold
460

St. Patrick's Athletic Match Programmes (28) and World Cup Guides (10) (38)

EUR 15.00 - 30.00 Not Sold
461 Alice Meynell

The Poems Of Alice Meynell

Published by Burns Oates & Washbourne 1923 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 25.74
462

Colum McCann, Sundogs,

Phoenix House 1995 EUR 15.00 - 30.00 EUR 19.30
463 R. Brandes and M.J. Durkan.

Seamus Heaney -- A Bibliography 1959-2003.

2008 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
464 Wilde, Oscar.

Salome: A Tragedy in One Act.

E. P. Dutton & Company, New York 1927 EUR 25.00 - 50.00 EUR 32.17
465

John Banville/Benjamin Black/Roddy Doyle: The Singularities

EUR 25.00 - 50.00 EUR 32.17
466 John McGahern

John McGahern, Memoir, Faber & Faber

2005 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
467

Irish Literature collection of....The Legacy of Swift-bi centenary record of St Patricks Hospital Dublin

1948 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
468

ALL SIGNED Titles: Tender by Belinda McKeon

EUR 20.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
469

Poetry: Slender Toward The Sky by Fintan Murphy

EUR 20.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
470

Poetry: Manhandling the Deity by John F Deane

EUR 20.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
471 Masefield, John.

The Country Scene In Poems by J Masefield and pictures by Edward Seago

1937 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
472

Payne-Gallwey, The Fowler in Ireland,

London, 1882 EUR 30.00 - 60.00 EUR 38.61
473 Harold Clunn

World Interest: The Face of the Home Counties-portrayed in a series of eighteen week end drives from London

EUR 15.00 - 30.00 Not Sold
474 Roy. H Lewis.

Book Collecting. 1988 and A.H. Bartlett. The Man Who Loved Books Too Much. 2009.

EUR 10.00 - 20.00 EUR 23.16
475 Reid, Forrest

Irish novelist, Reid, Forrest - 4 titles] The Retreat

1954 EUR 10.00 - 20.00 Not Sold
  • Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: ALDROVANDI, Ulisse (1522-1605) - [Opera omnia]. Bologna: Bellagamba, Benacci, Bonomi, Tebaldini, Ferroni, 1599-1668. €22.000-€28.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: [CANALETTO] - VISENTINI, Antonio (1688-1782) da Giovanni Antonio CANAL (1697-1768, detto 'Il Canaletto') - Urbis Venetiarum prospectus celebriores. Venezia: Giovanni Battista Pasquale, 1742-51. €7.000-€10.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: LA FONTAINE, Jean de (1621-1695) - Fables Choisies. Parigi: Claude Barbin, 1668. €7.000-€10.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: MERCATOR, Rumold (1545-1599) - [I continenti] - Europa; Africa; America Sive India Nova; Asia. Amsterdam: S.d. [ca. 1633]. €2.000-€3.000
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