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
76 Samuel Lewis.

Lewis - Topographical Dictionary of Ireland.

1837 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 64.35
77 Breandan O hEithir

Over the Bar and Lead Us Into Temptation.

EUR 15.00 - 30.00 EUR 19.30
78

Tipperary GAA: History of Tipperary Community Games 1968-2008: Tipperary GAA yearbook 1983 and 1996 (3)

EUR 15.00 - 30.00 Not Sold
79 Benedict Kiely

Coffee Table Books: The Aerofilms Book of Ireland from The Air

EUR 15.00 - 30.00 EUR 19.30
80

Manuscript:Collection of Poems etc in a number of hands, apparently collected by an Irish (woman) from County Meath. Small pencil sketch of an Thatched Cottage.

c.1879-1885 EUR 30.00 - 50.00 EUR 65.63
81 Brown, F.J.

Journal of a Stranger: A Subjective Narrative

1978 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
82

The collection of autograph letters and historical documents.

1882-1893 EUR 15.00 - 30.00 Not Sold
83 Micheal Mac Liammoir

Irish Drama: Collection of plays and Theatre programmes such as The Importance of Being Oscar

EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 25.74
84

Nelson's Pillar. Newspaper cuttings covering the blowing up of Nelson Pillar

1966 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
85 Rev. W. Darell -

The History of Dover Castle' (1797). Bound with Francis Grose - 'A Provencial Glossary' (c)

1797, 1811 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
86 editedSheils and Wood

The Churches, Ireland and the Irish.

1989 EUR 25.00 - 50.00 EUR 46.33
87

The Making of 1916 Studies in the History of the Rising.

1969 EUR 25.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
88 Bowes Egan

[The Midnight Court by Brian Merriman]. On Trial at Midnight . illustrated by Carolyn Mann.

1985 EUR 30.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
89 Power, Martin

Tipperary GAA: The History of Camogie in Tipperary: 1904-2003

EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 25.74
90

[important and early Irish pamphlets] Common Sense in a Letter to a Friend.

Dublin. 1754 EUR 25.00 - 50.00 EUR 78.50
91 Richard Murphy

The Mirror Wall.

Dublin, 1989 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
92 Sir E. J. L'Estrange

Seneca's Morals by way of Abstracts. Of Benefits, Part 1. To Which is Added a Discourse, Under the Title of 'An After-Thought'.

London, 1696 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 81.07
93 editedRobert Cochrane

Programme and Excursions for Connaught Meeting, Athlone, July 1907.

1907 EUR 25.00 - 50.00 EUR 95.23
94

The Irish Country House a Social History by Somerville-Large.

EUR 25.00 - 50.00 EUR 54.05
95 Peter Somerville-Large

Irish Interest: The Irish Country House- a Social History

1996 EUR 25.00 - 50.00 EUR 46.33
96 Brian Inglis

Roger Casement

EUR 25.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
97 Denis Murphy

Cromwell in Ireland a history of Cromwell's Irish Campaign with map, plans and illustrations.

Dublin, 1893 edition in cloth EUR 25.00 - 50.00 EUR 59.20
98 Francoise Henry

Irish Art in Romanesque Period 1020-120.

EUR 25.00 - 50.00 EUR 32.17
99 Belfast Naturalists Club

A Guide to Belfast and Adjacent Counties by Belfast Naturalists Club.

1874 EUR 25.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
100 Dunne

James Barry 1741-1806 The Great Historical Painter

EUR 25.00 - 50.00 EUR 32.17
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