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Purcell Auctioneers: Antiques and Collectables -Books and Prints, Advertising Signs

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Auction Name Antiques and Collectables -Books and Prints, Advertising Signs Total Sales (EUR) 3,408.00
Auction Date May 15, 2019 - May 15, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 2,690.00
Sale Number #51519 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 4,490.00
Total Lots 75
Sold Lots 51 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 4,615.00
% of Lots Sold 68.00% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 7,365.00
Unsold Lots 24 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 46.27%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
246

Wills's Wild Woodbine Cigarettes Enamel Advertising Sign

 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 264.00
261

Rare Paddy Whiskey and Cork Dry Gin/Huzzar Vodka/Off Licence Double Sided Hanging Pub Light

 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 EUR 240.00
251

Wills's Gold Flake Cigarettes Enamel Advertising Sign

 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 228.00
255

Pratts Enamel Garage Sign

 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 EUR 180.00
312

Cantrell & Cochrane's Mineral Waters Advertising Mirror

 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 180.00
243

Get your Players Please Here' Enamel Sign

 EUR 120.00 - 150.00 EUR 168.00
430

Francis Kelly, Blue Nocturne, Signed Artist's Proof

 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 156.00
253A

Coach & Horses, Ales and Stouts Pub Mirror

EUR 120.00 - 150.00 EUR 120.00
364

All Ireland Galway vs Kerry Program

EUR 40.00 - 50.00 EUR 120.00
249

Thompson Hay Shed Enamel Sign (22" in width)

EUR 100.00 - 140.00 EUR 108.00
26

Collection of Eight Religious Interest Pictures

EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 90.00
240A

Original "Minane Bridge" English/Irish Cast Metal Road Sign

 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 90.00
237

Set of Six "The Gentle Art Of Making Guinness" Prints by John Ireland

EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 78.00
358

Large Box of 100's Used World Bank Notes

EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 78.00
25

Bundle of Six General Interest Pictures

EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 66.00
307

Victorian 'Dunlop Detachable Tyre' Advertising Card

 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 66.00
548a

Lady Lavery Ten Shilling Note

EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 66.00
361

Collection of Vintage Un-Used Tea/Grocery Bags

 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 60.00
379

Large Framed Picture of Main Street, Banagher

 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 60.00
245

Two Framed Oxmantown Hall, Birr Posters

 EUR 30.00 - 50.00 EUR 57.60
362

Collection of Vintage Un-Used Tea/Grocery Bags

 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 50.40
388

Large Collection of Comics (1940's and 1950's)

1940's and 1950's EUR 30.00 - 50.00 EUR 50.40
244

Player's Cigarettes' Advertising Mirror

 EUR 40.00 - 50.00 EUR 48.00
258A

My Goodness My Guinness' Advertising Sign

 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 42.00
288

Oval Victorian Picture of Child in Bakelite Frame

 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 42.00
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
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