Purcell Auctioneers: c.630+ Lot Auction of a Collection of Irish & World Interest Books - Antiquarian Books, Rare & Signed First Editions, Maps, GAA Interest, Local Histories, Journals, Maps, Irish Language etc., 21925, Birr

Auction Details

Auction Date: February 19, 2025 - February 19, 2025

Page Size: 627 items in 26 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	Edward J. Boylan.	The Parish of Mullahoran. Drumlumman North and Loughduff		1976	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 112.50
2	Frost.	History and Topography of the County of Clare			EUR 150.00 - 300.00	EUR 93.75
3		Clare Interest: Echoes From A Civil War-			EUR 60.00 - 80.00	EUR 62.50
4		County Clare interest.			EUR 40.00 - 90.00	Not Sold
5		The Shannonside Annual.		1957	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 106.25
5A		Clare Interest: The Tulla Ceili Band 1946-1997 by Chris Keane SIGNED;			EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 56.25
6		Clare Interest: The History and Folklore of Parteen and Meelick by Donal O Riain;			EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 43.75
7	Frost, James	History and Topography of the County of Clare	Dublin, Ireland,	1973	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 106.25
8		Clare Interest: In The Tracks of the West Clare Railway by Edmund Lenihan SIGNED, 1990;			EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 50.00
9		Clare Interest: The College of St Flannan at Ennis by Ciaran O Murchadha SIGNED, 2023;			EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 25.00
10		Ten folklore and Local history books many are first editions.			EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 93.75
11	William Lawrence.	Album of 19th century large original photographs of Cork City & County, and several of Cappoquin, Co. Waterford.			EUR 180.00 - 220.00	Not Sold
12		Cork/Kerry Interest: The South of Ireland Illustrated and described-Cork, Glengarriff, Kilarney, Lakes & Fjords of Kerry by Guy & Co, c1900;			EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 75.00
13		Mallow by Bolster; Bandon by O'Donoghue; Collegiate Chapel Cork; Timoleague and Barryroe by Coombes		1966-2008.	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 75.00
14		(Cork related). Serving a City, The story of Cork's English Market -- Diarmuid & Donal O'Drisceoil, published 2005.			EUR 40.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
15	D.L. Kelleher	It's Ireland		1932	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 118.75
16		Cork/Kerry/Limerick/Clare: Presentation Brothers College Cork Annual Sports Day Programme, 1948;			EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 75.00
17		Dublin Local History interest including Issue 1 of "DART".			EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 125.00
18	Douglas Bennett	The Silver Collection Trinity College Dublin		1988	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 50.00
19	Lucy O'Donnell.	Ceallphort Naoimh Padraig le Eilis O'Domhaill. St. Patrick's Cathedral. A Tale of the Sixteenth Century	Dublin,	1855	EUR 350.00 - 700.00	EUR 475.00
20		Speeches of the Right Honourable John Philpot Curran, Master of the Rolls in Ireland, on the late very interesting State Trials.	Dublin,	1805	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 25.00
21		Dublin Local History: Collection of Titles relating to Dublin and its suburbs such as Map of Dublin c 1950's with images of Dublin landmarks;			EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 100.00
22		Dublin City and County from Prehistory to Present by Aalen and Whelan.			EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 50.00
23		Flora of Dublin by the Dublin Naturalists' Field Club.		1988	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 62.50
24		Ball, History of the County of Dublin, 6 vols in slip case, almost mint. Fasc vols,		1979, originals 1902	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 50.00

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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

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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
Bonhams, Apr. 8: First report outside of the colonies of the American Revolution, from American accounts. Printed broadsheet, The London Evening-Post, May 30, 1775. $20,000 - $30,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Joyce, James. The earliest typescript pages from Finnegans Wake ever to appear at auction, annotated by Joyce, 1923. $30,000 - $50,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Joyce's Ulysses, 1923, one of only seven copies known, printed to replace copies destroyed in customs. $10,000 - $15,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: ATHANASIUS KIRCHER'S COPY, INSCRIBED. Saggi di naturali esperienze fatte nell' Accademia del Cimento, 1667. $2,000 - $3,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Bernoulli's Ars conjectandi, 1713. "... first significant book on probability theory." $15,000 - $25,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Aristotle's Politica. Oeconomica. 1469. The first printed work on political economy. $80,000 - $120,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: John Graunt's Natural and political observations...., 1662. The first printed work of epidemiology and demographics. $20,000 - $30,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: William Playfair's Commercial and Political Atlas, 1786. The first work to pictorially represent information in graphics. $15,000 - $25,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Anson's A Voyage Round the World, 1748. THE J.R. ABBEY-LORD WARDINGTON COPY, BOUND BY JOHN BRINDLEY. $8,000 - $12,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: La Perouse's Voyage de La Perouse autour du monde..., 1797. LARGE FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL BOARDS. $8,000 - $12,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Francesca Woodman's Some Disordered Interior Geometries, 1981. Untrimmed publisher's proof sheets. $4,000 - $6,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Charles Schulz original 8-panel Peanuts Sunday comic strip, 1992, pen and ink over pencil, featuring Charlie Brown, Snoopy and Lucy as a psychiatrist. $20,000 - $30,000
Dominic Winter Auctioneers

April 9
Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints

Dominic Winter Auctioneers

April 9
Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Johnson (C.). A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most Notorious Pyrates, 1724. £3,000-4,000

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Ordonez de Cevallos (Pedro). Viage del Mundo, 1st edition, Madrid: Luis Sanchez, 1614. £1,000-1,500

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: North America. Merian (Matthaus), Virginia..., 1627 or later. £1,500-2,500

Dominic Winter Auctioneers

April 9
Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: World. Waldseemuller (Martin), Tabula Nova Totius Orbis, Vienne: 1541. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Erasmus (Desiderius). The ... paraphrase of Erasmus... 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1549. £3,000-5,000

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Bible [English]. [The Bible and Holy Scriptures conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament, 1562]. £3,000-5,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers

April 9
Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Smith (Lucy). Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet, 1st edition, 1853. £1,000-1,500

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Derain (Andre). Pantagruel, signed limited edition, Albert Skira, 1943. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Austen (Jane). Pride and Prejudice, illustrated by Hugh Thomson, Large Paper edition, 1894. £1,500-2,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers

April 9
Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Ellison (Ralph). Invisible Man, 1st edition, New York: Random House, 1952. £200-300

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Taschen Collector's Edition. Annie Leibovitz, limited edition, 2014. £1,000-1,500
Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 1: Bob Dylan, his high school classmate's yearbook with his senior portrait, signed and inscribed to her, 1959. $10,000 to $20,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 1: Bob Dylan, his high school classmate's yearbook with his senior portrait, signed and inscribed to her, 1959. $10,000 to $20,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 4: Various entertainers, Group of 30 items, signed or inscribed, various dates. $1,500 to $2,500.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 27: John Adams, Autograph Letter Signed to Benjamin Rush introducing Archibald Redford, Paris, 1783. $35,000 to $50,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 36: Robert Gould Shaw, Autograph Letter Signed to his father from Camp Andrew, Boston, 1861. $10,000 to $15,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 53: Martin Luther King Jr., Time magazine cover, signed and inscribed "Best Wishes," 1957. $5,000 to $7,500.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 127: Paul Gauguin, Autograph Letter regarding payment for paintings, with woodcut letterhead, 1900. $6,000 to $9,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 169: Suck: First European Sex Paper, complete group of eight issues, 1969-1974. $800 to $1,200.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 173: Black Panthers, The Racist Dog Policemen Must Withdraw Immediately From Our Communities, poster, 1969. $2,000 to $3,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 187: Marc Attali & Jacques Delfau, Les Erotiques du Regard, first edition, Paris, 1968. $300 to $500.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 213: Andy Warhol, Warhol's Index Book, first printing, New York, 1967. $800 to $1,200.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 215: Cookie Mueller, Archive of 17 items, including 4 items inscribed and signed. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 249: Jamie Reid, The Ten Lessons / The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle; Sex Pistols, chromogenic print with collage, signed, circa 1980. $20,000 to $30,000.

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