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Purcell Auctioneers: Auction of a Collection of Irish & World Interest Books - Rare & Signed First Editions, Maps, Journals, Periodicals, Pamphlets, Postcards, Ephemera Etc.

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Auction Name Auction of a Collection of Irish & World Interest Books - Rare & Signed First Editions, Maps, Journals, Periodicals, Pamphlets, Postcards, Ephemera Etc. Total Sales (EUR) 49,674.17
Auction Date January 18, 2023 - January 18, 2023 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 32,485.00
Sale Number #11823 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 54,355.00
Total Lots 625
Sold Lots 535 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 38,225.00
% of Lots Sold 85.60% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 63,595.00
Unsold Lots 90 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 78.11%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
531

Atlas. Index to the Townland Survey. Her Majesty’s Government, Hodges, Figgis. Maps dated in manuscript August 1847

 1847 EUR 1,100.00 - 2,200.00 EUR 4,165.00
477 Jack B. Yeats.

Life in the West of Ireland.

1912 EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,963.50
37 W. B. Yeats.

The Trembling of the Veil.

1922 EUR 750.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 1,606.50
51 Roger Casement.

Report from the Select Committee on the Putumayo Atrocities.

1913 EUR 1,300.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 1,368.50
588

Somerville & Ross Naboth’s Vineyard,

1891 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 1,249.50
472 Philip Dixon Hardy,

The Holy Wells of Ireland an Account of Various Places of Pilgrimage and Penance Still Annually Visited by the Roman Catholic Peasantry with a Minute Description of Patterns and Stations by Philip Dixon Hardy, M.R.I.

1836 EUR 90.00 - 180.00 EUR 571.20
133 John McGahern.

The Dark.

1965 EUR 420.00 - 500.00 EUR 499.80
586

Muller, W. The Elements of the Science of War in Theory and Practice, 1811; Adams, C. Great Campaigns .. Military Operations .. in Europe 1796 to 1870 [4 items]

 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 EUR 499.80
73

History Ireland Illustrated Irish history magazine suitable for the scholar and the general reader.

 1993 - 2021 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 404.60
132 John Paul II;

Young People of Ireland I love you. Galway 30 Sept 1979 Mass for Youth with handwritten message from Pope John Paul II dated 27th Nov 1979

 1979 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 380.80
353 Croker, T. Crofton

Research in the South of Ireland, illustrative of the Scenery, Architectural Remains and the Manners & Superstitions of the Peasantry.

EUR 150.00 - 300.00 EUR 380.80
473 John B Keane:

Many Young Men of Twenty,

 1961 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 380.80
12 Lewis, Samuel

A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland,

1837 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 357.00
19

The Whoseday Book

 1999 EUR 350.00 - 400.00 EUR 357.00
341 Derek Mahon

Derek Mahon Collected Poems.

 1999 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 357.00
371 W.B. Yeats.

W.B. Yeats. Poems.

1908 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 357.00
447 Seamus Heaney;

The Burial at Thebes

 2004 EUR 300.00 - 350.00 EUR 357.00
165 The Marquis of Kildare.

The Earls of Kildare and Their Ancestors from 1057 to 1773

 1862 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 333.20
430 Feldman, A. & O’Doherty, E.

The Northern Fiddler. Music & Musicians of Donegal & Tyrone

 1979 EUR 25.00 - 40.00 EUR 333.20
26 Denis 0'Driscoll.

Stepping Stones - Interviews with Seamus Heaney.

 2008 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 309.40
422 Brendan Kennelly.

Brendan Kennelly. Poetry My Arse. 1995

 1995 EUR 100.00 - 120.00 EUR 309.40
109 Wellesley, Marquis of; Odeleben, Baron von.

Wellesley, Marquis of. Dispatches & Correspondence .. during his Mission to Spain .. in 1809, 1838; Odeleben, Baron von. Circumstantial Narrative of the Campaign in Saxony in the year 1813 written originally in German, 1820; …

 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 285.60
208 Oliver St. John.

Wild Apples.

1930 EUR 400.00 - 550.00 EUR 285.60
334

Statistical Survey of County Dublin, Observations on Means of Improvement; Drawn up by order, of The Dublin Society. With folding map of the County of Dublin by Joseph Archer.

1801 EUR 180.00 - 360.00 EUR 285.60
355

Famine. Transactions of the Central Relief Committee of The Society of Friends during the Famine in Ireland.

 1852 EUR 250.00 - 350.00 EUR 285.60
  • 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.
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: McCarthy (Cormac). Cities of the Plain, N.Y., 1998, First Edn., signed on hf. title; together with Uncorrected Proof and Uncorrected Advance Reading Copies, both signed by the Author. €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Stanihurst (Richard). De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, sm. 4to Antwerp (Christi. Plantium) 1584. First Edn. €525 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Fleischer (Nat.) Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana, An Intimate Narrative, N.Y., 1929, First Edn. Signed on f.e.p. by Rocky Marciano. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Smith - Classical Atlas, Lond., 1820. Bound with, Smiths New General Atlas .. Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, Lond. 1822. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Rare Auction Catalogues – 1856: Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson. €320 to €450.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Mavor (Wm.)] A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete) Lond., 1810. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Mc Carthy (Cormac). Outer Dark, N.Y. (Random House)1968, Signed by Mc Carthy. €250 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Three signed works by Ted Huges - Wodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; and Tales from Ovid, 1997. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches, 7 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1877-1880. With 127 colored plates. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Procter (Richard A.) Saturn and its System: Containing Discussions of The Motion (Real and Apparent)…, Lond. 1865. First Edn. €160 to €220.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Ashe] St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher, A Sermon Preached to the Protestants of Ireland, now in London,... Oct. 23, 1712, London 1712. Second Edn. €130 to €180.
  • 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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