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Purcell Auctioneers: Auction Of Irish Interest Books, Maps, Posters, Interesting Ephemera Etc. To Include An Entire Collection Of Irish Historical Interest Books from the Late Peter O'Keeffe

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Auction Name Auction Of Irish Interest Books, Maps, Posters, Interesting Ephemera Etc. To Include An Entire Collection Of Irish Historical Interest Books from the Late Peter O'Keeffe Total Sales (EUR) 47,372.40
Auction Date July 29, 2020 - July 29, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 25,465.00
Sale Number #72920 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 41,216.00
Total Lots 614
Sold Lots 515 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 36,730.00
% of Lots Sold 83.88% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 56,953.00
Unsold Lots 99 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 83.18%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
358 John Barrow

Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa.

1806 EUR 800.00 - 900.00 EUR 936.00
236 Henry John Elmes and Augustine Henry

The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland. 1906-1912

1906-1912 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 900.00
192 Taylor & Skinner

Maps of the Roads of Ireland, Surveyed 1777

1778 EUR 250.00 - 350.00 EUR 744.00
234

Postcards Collection of circa 350 cards, including many vintage Irish and General Interest

EUR 30.00 - 60.00 EUR 624.00
321

The Virtue of Herbs of Master Jon Gardener

EUR 220.00 - 350.00 EUR 624.00
328 Mr & Mrs S. C. Hall.

Ireland : Its Scenery, Character etc.,

c1837 EUR 300.00 - 350.00 EUR 528.00
397 Alemand Louisa.

Monasticon Hibernicum or The Monastical History of Ireland with a map of Ireland by Herman Moll1 vol,

 1722 EUR 250.00 - 350.00 EUR 528.00
226

Munster v New Zealand Rugby Programme , Historic Victory

 1978 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 456.00
430

Catholic Truth Society [mostly] Pamphlets

1910-1950 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 456.00
38 Mary Hickson,

Ireland in the Seventeenth Century or The Massacres of 1641-1642

1884 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 432.00
147 J.B.Waring.

Master Pieces of Industrial Art and Sculpture at the International Exhibition

1862 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 432.00
563 Gerard Mercator (1512-1594)

Map of Ireland Irlandia Regnum : A framed hand coloured engraved map of Ireland showing Ireland oriented to the west as published in the 1628 French Edition of the Paris Altera of Cosmographicae Medationes

 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 EUR 432.00
43 Eoin OBrien, Anne Cruikshank with Gordon Wolstenholme,

A Portrait of Irish Medicine

1984 EUR 200.00 - 350.00 EUR 408.00
210

Irish Loyal and Patriotic Union Publications issued for the years 1887 1888 and 1890.

EUR 150.00 - 250.00 EUR 408.00
31

Kottabos. Trinity College Journal 1869/1893

EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 384.00
400

Polygraphice or the Arts of Drawing Limning Paintings,

EUR 200.00 - 250.00 EUR 384.00
596

Proceedings of Royal Irish Academy Hundreds of issues on archaeology and history etc

 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 384.00
598

Extensive Run of Transactions of the Institution of Civil Engineers of Ireland

EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 384.00
145 Sean ORiada.

Sean ORiada. Hercules Dux Ferrariae. Nomos No. 1: for strings.

1970 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 360.00
449

A Collection of Tracts and Treatises, Illustrative of the Natural History, Antiquities, etc of Ireland

1860 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 360.00
599

Extensive Research Archive

EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 312.00
63 W. H. Bartlett

The Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland

c1832 EUR 250.00 - 350.00 EUR 300.00
121 W. B. Yeats

The Tower

1928 EUR 250.00 - 300.00 EUR 300.00
80

The Works of Edmund Burke

1808 EUR 200.00 - 250.00 EUR 264.00
185 George Otto Simms,

7 Childrens Books, All in Dust Jackets - Brendan the Navigator

1989 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 264.00
  • 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: 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
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    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
  • 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.
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