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
101

Mitchelstown Heritage Town. Compilation of 12 publications with interesting contents and illustrations.

1984 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 29.60
102

Gaiety Theatre Dublin 70th Anniversary

1871-1941 EUR 25.00 - 50.00 EUR 32.17
103

ALL SIGNED Titles: Rory Cowan-Mrs Cowan's Boy

EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 25.74
104 J Michelet.

Histoire De La Revolution Francaise.

Paris, 1869 EUR 30.00 - 50.00 EUR 38.61
105 Hingston, R. W. G.

Problems of Instinct & Intelligence

1928 EUR 10.00 - 20.00 EUR 12.87
106 Herbie Brennan

Ruler of The Realm

EUR 20.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
107

Auction Catalogue: Collection of Catalogues from the 1990's-2000's from Auction Houses of Adam's

EUR 15.00 - 30.00 Not Sold
108

Art and Architecture of Ireland. Medieval Art and Architecture 400 -- 1600

EUR 200.00 - 400.00 EUR 295.99
109

Sligo Abbey. A National Monument in the charge of the Commissioners of Public Works with Illustrations of the Dominican Friary of Sligo

EUR 10.00 - 20.00 EUR 12.87
110

Irish Theatre: Programme of Translations by Brian Friel presented by Field Day Theatre Company

1980 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 611.28
111

Letters from the Archbishop of Dublin. March 1893 to the Directors of the Freemans Journal and other correspondence

EUR 10.00 - 20.00 Not Sold
112 Jonathan Swift

Eighteen century manuscript copy of a piece by Jonathan Swift on the State of Ireland,

EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 25.74
113 Revd. Dr. Fitzgerald

The Colleen Bawn.

1931 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 79.79
114 O'Madden,Patrick.L

Cruac Padraig: St Patrick's Holy Mountain

Dublin 1929 EUR 15.00 - 30.00 EUR 19.30
115

3 menus in decorative wrappers on Cruise Ship "S.S. Munchen" in 1927 and "S.S. Queen"

EUR 10.00 - 20.00 EUR 21.88
116

Addresses at a Dinner in honour of James J. Phelan (noted Banker and Philanthropist) in 1928

EUR 10.00 - 20.00 Not Sold
117

Stewarts Limited - Biscuit Manufacturing original Invoices, Credit Notes for 1908. c 36 pieces.

1908 EUR 10.00 - 20.00 Not Sold
118

Municipal Boundaries Commission

1880 EUR 30.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
119 Michael Egan to William Harding

Early Limerick Clare Postcard. Limerick merchant Michael Egan to William Harding, merchant Clarecastle, Co. Clare.

1887 EUR 25.00 - 50.00 EUR 32.17
120

12 original vintage Irish studio photographs by Lauder Bros., William Lawrence, Metropolitan Photo Company all of Dublin and other Irish provincial photographers.

EUR 15.00 - 25.00 EUR 19.30
121

Memorial Service to Commemorate the Life of Lord Louis Mountbatten

1900-1979 EUR 15.00 - 25.00 Not Sold
122

Black and White Photographs

EUR 10.00 - 20.00 EUR 12.87
123 Sheila O'Flanagan

Bad Behaviour

2007 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
124

Irish Medically Interest: The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and its Medical School 1784-1984

EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 33.46
125

Irish Language: Na Buirgeisi XII-XV Aois by Gearoid Mac Niocaill Vol 1-2.

1964 HB, DJ EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 25.74
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