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Purcell Auctioneers: Irish Interest Book & Ephemera Auction

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Auction Name Irish Interest Book & Ephemera Auction Total Sales (EUR) 43,038.00
Auction Date October 02, 2019 - October 02, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 24,745.00
Sale Number #100219 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 41,435.00
Total Lots 689
Sold Lots 511 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 35,265.00
% of Lots Sold 74.17% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 57,375.00
Unsold Lots 178 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 75.01%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
579 Erwin Schrödinger.

What is life? The physical aspect of the living cell. Based on Lectures delivered under the auspices of the Institute at Trinity College, Dublin, in February, 1943.

1944 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 1,056.00
345 John Jameson Whiskey

'The History of a Great House',

1924 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 720.00
57

Parliamentary Representation Ireland 1832 - 33 Maps of Cities, Towns and Boundaries

1832 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 600.00
354

Life and Death in Ireland , as witnessed in 1849.

1850 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 600.00
317

[1898 Limerick Tailors’ Strike ].

EUR 250.00 - 500.00 EUR 528.00
9

Poor Laws of Ireland Reports 1848-1849

1848-1849 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 456.00
261

Framed map of Achill Island

1852 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 432.00
12

Box of 300 Old Irish Postcards and a Scarce Collection of Irish Stereoscopic Cards

EUR 350.00 - 450.00 EUR 408.00
13

Box of 300 Old Irish Postcards and a Collection of Irish Stereoscopic Cards

EUR 350.00 - 450.00 EUR 408.00
365

1916 Interest Irish Independent Newspapers

1916 EUR 250.00 - 350.00 EUR 408.00
550 Captain John Franklin

Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea in the Years 1819/1822'

1824 EUR 150.00 - 220.00 EUR 408.00
62 Sir James Wares -

Inquiries Concerning Ireland and it's Antiquities

1705 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 384.00
500

Journals For The Preservation of Memorials of the Dead

EUR 200.00 - 250.00 EUR 360.00
538 Captain Robert Scott

The Voyage of the 'Discovery''

1907 EUR 220.00 - 300.00 EUR 360.00
108 by Perus Kaerius.

Three rare 17th Century miniature maps of the Irish Provinces: Connack, Lageniae and Mounster

EUR 250.00 - 350.00 EUR 312.00
198

Reports of The Commissioners,

EUR 220.00 - 280.00 EUR 312.00
356 by the Special Commissioner of the Daily Express.

Mr. Balfour’s Tours in Connemara and Donegal

1890 EUR 30.00 - 60.00 EUR 312.00
639 by Rev. Michael Comerford. Dublin.

A Directory of Holy Indulgences

1870 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 312.00
189 Richard Brash

The Ogam Inscribed Monuments of the Gaedhil in the British Islands'

1879 EUR 150.00 - 180.00 EUR 288.00
453

The New History of Ireland,

EUR 120.00 - 180.00 EUR 288.00
84 Owen Connellan

'The Annals of the Four Masters'

1846 EUR 250.00 - 350.00 EUR 264.00
138 (Thomas Hibernicus).

Flores Doctorum Pene Omnium, Ttam Graecorum, Quam Latinorum Per Thomam Hybernicum. Tyrnaviae.

1746 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 264.00
202

Reports of The Commissioners

EUR 220.00 - 280.00 EUR 264.00
315 Jack B Yeats

Life in the West of Ireland'

1915 EUR 300.00 - 600.00 EUR 264.00
37 M. O'Halloran

'A General History of Ireland from the Earliest Accounts to the Close of the 12th Century

1728 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 240.00
  • 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
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
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