Purcell Auctioneers: Sale of the Library of the Late Bruce Arnold (1936-2024). Part Two of the Bruce Arnold Library includes a Collection of Irish & World Interest Books - Antiquarian Books, Rare, Signed & First Editions, 42325, Birr

Auction Details

Auction Date: April 23, 2025 - April 23, 2025

Page Size: 666 items in 27 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
175A		Somerville Family Records: Records of The Somerville Family of Castlehaven & Drishane			EUR 80.00 - 160.00	EUR 162.50
176	Clarke, Austin.	Flight To Africa		1963	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 56.25
177	Clake, Austin.	The Flame: A Play in One Act	London		EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 68.75
178	Clarke, Austin.	Limited Editions - Orphide And Other Poems, Bridge Press, One of 200			EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 43.75
179	Austin Clarke.	The Singing-Men at Cashel	London	1936	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 200.00
180	Clarke, Austin.	Limited Editions - The Viscount Of Blarney and other plays			EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 37.50
181	Clarke, Austin.	The Cattledrive In Connaught And Other Poems	London	1925	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	EUR 212.50
182	Clarke, Austin	The Sun Dances At Easter	London	1952	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 112.50
183	Clarke, Austin.	Pilgrimage And Other Poems	London	1929	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 200.00
184	Clarke, Austin.	The Fires Of Baal		1921	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 43.75
185	Clarke Austin.	Forget-Me-Not	Dublin	1962	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 162.50
186		Lady Gregory. The Story Brought by Brigit : A Passion Play in Three Acts		1921	EUR 80.00 - 100.00	EUR 62.50
187	Clarke, Austin.	Selected Poems; Collected Plays; The Son Of Learning; The Vengeance Of Fionn etc.			EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
188	Lord Dunsany.	The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories		1908	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	EUR 250.00
189	Lord Dunsany.	The Donnellan Lectures		1943	EUR 50.00 - 70.00	EUR 100.00
190	Barker, Ernst, editor.	The Character Of England		1947	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 43.75
191	MacNeice, Louis.	Holes In The Sky, Poems 1944-1947	London	1948	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 400.00
192	MacNeice, Louis.	The Agamemnon Of Aeschylus	London	1936	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 400.00
193	MacNeice, Louis.	Blind Fireworks	London	1929	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 350.00
194	MacNeice, Louis.	The Last Ditch		1940	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	EUR 250.00
195	MacNeice, Louis.	A Memorial Address by W.H. Auden, delivered at All Souls, Langham Place on 17 October, 1963		1963	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 400.00
196	MacNeice, Louis.	SIGNED Original Photograph of MacNeice as a young man		1926	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 250.00
196A	Louis MacNeice	A extensive collection of titles by or about Louis MacNiece		1926	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 1,625.00
197		Lady Gregory. Poets and Dreamers Studies and Translations from the Irish	Dublin	1903	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 87.50
197A		Graham Greene: An interesting collection of titles by or about Graham Greene			EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 125.00

Swann, May 15: Lot 4: Helena Bochoráková-Dittrichová, Z Mého Detství Drevoryty, Prague: Obzina, 1929. First trade edition, signed by the artist. $4,000 to $6,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 10: Nancy Cunard, Negro Anthology, with a tipped-in A.L.S. to Karl Marx's niece, 1934. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 14: Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845. First edition. $4,000 to $6,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 17: Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, inscribed first edition, 1959. $2,000 to $3,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 28: Margaret Hill Morris, Private Journal Kept during a Portion of the Revolutionary War, for the Amusement of a Sister, 1836. First edition. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 38: Anna Sewell, Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse, 1877. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 43: Gertrude Stein, Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia, signed presentation copy with photograph of Stein, 1912. First edition. $8,000 to $12,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 48: Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, first edition in the scarce dust jacket, 1927. $6,000 to $8,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 54: Katherine Dunham, large archive of material from her attorney, 1951-53. $20,000 to $30,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 55: Margaret Fuller Signed Autograph Letter, New York City, 1846. $3,000 to $5,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 92: Sonia Delaunay, illus. & Tristan Tzara, Juste Present, deluxe edition with original gouache, 1961. $20,000 to $25,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 93: Flor Garduño, The Sonnets of Shakespeare, 2006. Limited edition. $6,000 to $8,000.
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
Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts

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
Gonnelli
Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
May 20th 2025

Gonnelli: Pietro Aquila, Psyche and Proserpina,1690. Starting price 140€

Gonnelli: Jacques Gamelin, Memento homo quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris, 1779. Starting price 300€

Gonnelli: Giorgio Ghisi, The final Judgement, 1680. Starting price 480€

Gonnelli
Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
May 20th 2025

Gonnelli Goya y Lucientes Francisco, Los Proverbios.1877. Starting price 1000 €

Gonnelli: Domenico Peruzzini, Long bearded old man, 1660. Starting price 2200€

Gonnelli: Enea Vico, Leda and the Swan,1542. Starting price 140€

Gonnelli
Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
May 20th 2025

Gonnelli: Andrea Del Sarto [school of], San Giovanni Battista, 1570. Starting price 25000€

Gonnelli: Carlo Maratta, Virgin Mary and Jesus, 1660. Starting Price 1200€

Gonnelli: Louis Brion de La Tour, Sphére de Copernic Sphere de Ptolemée / Le Systême de Ptolemée. Le Systême de Ticho-Brahe…, 1766. Starting price 180€

Gonnelli
Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
May 20th 2025

Gonnelli: Marc’Antonio Dal Re, Ville di Delizia o Siano Palaggi Camparecci nello Stato di Milano Divise in Sei Tomi Con espressevi le Piante…, Tomo Primo, 1726. Starting price 7000€

Gonnelli: Katsushika Hokusai, Bird on a branch, 1843. Starting price 100€
Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration

Dominic Winter, May 14: (Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie). Voyage Pittoresque de la Grece, 2 vols, 1st edition, 1782-1822. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, May 14: Gentlemen's Magazine and Historical Chronicle, by Sylvanus Urban, 11 volumes. £700-1,000

Dominic Winter, May 14: Shackleton (Ernest). The Heart of the Antarctic, 2 vols, 1st ed, presentation copy, 1909. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration

Dominic Winter, May 14: Drayton (Michael). Poly Olbion..., London: 1622. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, May 14: Scheuchzer (Johann Jacob). Ouresiphoites Helveticus, 4 parts in 1, 2nd ed, 1723. £3,000-4,000

Dominic Winter, May 14: Roberts (Henry, after). Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia ..., [1784]. £500-800

Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration

Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Maffei (Giovanni), Indiarum orientalium Occidentaliumque Descriptio..., 1589. £1,200-1,500

Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Ortelius (Abraham), Typus Orbis Terrarum, [1598]. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, May 14: Bible [English]. [The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New..., 1613]. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration

Dominic Winter, May 14: Taylor (John). All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-Poet..., 1630. £1,000-1,500

Dominic Winter, May 14: Pierpont Morgan Collection. Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains, 1904 & 1906. £2,000-3,000

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