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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) 60,396.07
Auction Date February 15, 2023 - February 15, 2023 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 39,015.00
Sale Number #21523 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 60,730.00
Total Lots 703
Sold Lots 627 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 44,770.00
% of Lots Sold 89.19% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 69,040.00
Unsold Lots 76 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 87.48%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
503 Wells, H. G.

The Time Machine

1895 EUR 300.00 - 600.00 EUR 2,499.00
292

Advertising Flyer for James Joyce's "Dubliners" with explanatory note

 EUR 200.00 - 250.00 EUR 1,844.50
150 James, Montague Rhodes

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

 1906 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 1,094.80
268

The New Triennial & Commercial Directory for the years 1840, 41 & 42 for the Cities of Limerick, Waterford & Kilkenny together with the towns of Clonmel, Carrick-on-Suir, New Ross and Carlow.

 1840 EUR 250.00 - 500.00 EUR 892.50
467

1698 Atlas of the World. [Claudii Ptolemaei Tabulae geographicae orbis terrarum veteribus cogniti.]

 1698 EUR 300.00 - 600.00 EUR 773.50
96

Inniu. A wonderful collection of the Irish language newspaper

 1970s and early 1980s. EUR 500.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 654.50
481 Seamus Heaney;

Jan Kochanowski Laments

 1995 EUR 200.00 - 250.00 EUR 618.80
442 JOYCE, P.W.

The Origin And History Of Irish Names Of Places. SIGNED 1891/1893/1913

 1891/1893/1913 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 595.00
703

Approximately 200 Irish language books ex monastic library covering all aspects of Irish studies; literary; historical etc. Etc. 5 boxes of books.

 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 571.20
269 J.Anthony Gaughan

Listowel and its vicinity.. First Edition

1973 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 547.40
548 William Trevor;

Low Sunday 1950, signed limited edition 184/232,

2000 EUR 50.00 - 75.00 EUR 523.60
62 Wakefield, Edward

An Account of Ireland, Statistical and Political.

1812 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 EUR 499.80
702

American National Biography (24 Volume Set)

 1999 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 499.80
131 Yeats, William Butler

THE CELTIC TWILIGHT. MEN AND WOMEN, DHOULS AND FAERIES.

1893 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 428.40
483 Seamus Heaney.

Door Into The Dark.

1972 EUR 300.00 - 325.00 EUR 428.40
477 Heaney, Seamus -

A Tribute to Michael McLaverty.

 2005 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 404.60
226 Roddy Doyle;

The Commitments,

1987 EUR 300.00 - 350.00 EUR 380.80
6 by Philip Mac Dermott CONNELLAN, Owen.

The Annals of Ireland, translated from the Original Irish of the Four Masters With Annotations

1846 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 357.00
336

A Medieval Illuminated Manuscript on Vellum, with reference to S. Rap Arch (St. Raphael the Archangel).

EUR 200.00 - 400.00 EUR 357.00
466

Admiranda Romanarvm antiqvitatvm . …

 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 EUR 357.00
279 John Banville

Birchwood.

 1973 EUR 300.00 - 350.00 EUR 333.20
554 Joyce, James.

Exiles - An Original Gaiety Theatre Programme, Sunday, 18th. January, 1948. Sunday Theatre Presents Exiles. Joyce's only ever written play which was first performed in Munich in 1919 (in German), then New York in 1925 and London in 1926 and there were no

EUR 250.00 - 300.00 EUR 333.20
25

Peig. A Sceal Fein do Scriobh Peig Sayers. Clolucht an Talboidigh

 1936 EUR 70.00 - 140.00 EUR 309.40
357 John B. Keane;

Man of the Triple Name

 1984 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 309.40
46 Miller & Richard.

Specimens of Printing Type-

C 1921 EUR 40.00 - 50.00 EUR 285.60
  • Sotheby’s
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
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    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.
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    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.
  • 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.
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