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    Ketterer, May 26: Th. McKenney & J. Hall, History of the Indian tribes of North America, 1836-1844. Est: €50,000
    Ketterer, May 26: Biblia latina vulgata, manuscript on thin parchment, around 1250. Est: €70,000
    Ketterer, May 26: M. Beckmann, Fanferlieschen Schönefüßchen, 1924. Est: €10,000
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    Ketterer, May 26: A. Ortelius, Theatrum orbis terrarum, 1574. Est: €50,000
    Ketterer, May 26: M. S. Merian, Eurcarum ortus, alimentum et paradoxa metamorphosis, 1717-18. Est: €6,000
    Ketterer, May 26: PAN, 9 volumes, 1895-1900. Est: €12,000
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    Ketterer, May 26: Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: €15,000
    Ketterer, May 26: Quran manuscript from the Saadian period, Maghreb, 16th century. Est: €10,000
    Ketterer, May 26: E. Hemingway, The old man and the sea, 1952. First edition in first issue jacket. Presentation copy. Est: €3,000
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    Ketterer, May 26: Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De re militari libri quatuor, 1553. Est: €3,000
    Ketterer, May 26: K. Marx, Das Kapital, 1867. Est: €30,000
    Ketterer, May 26: Brassaï, Transmutations, 1967. Est: €6,000
  • Leland Little, May 21: Signed Artist Proof of the Monumental G.O.A.T.: A Tribute to Muhammad Ali.
    Leland Little, May 21: Assorted Rare Publications Related to H.P. Lovecraft, Including The Recluse Signed by Vincent Starrett.
    Leland Little, May 21: Two Issues of The Vagrant, Including the First Appearance of H.P. Lovecraft's "Dagon" in Number Eleven.
    Leland Little, May 21: Rare First Printing of Anne of Green Gables, With ALS from the Author.
    Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, In First Issue Jacket.
    Leland Little, May 21: The Limited Paumanok Edition of The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman.
    Leland Little, May 21: Beautifully Bound Limited Flaubert Edition of The Works of Guy de Maupassant.
    Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Bonaparte's Celebrated American Ornithology, With Spectacular Hand-Colored Plates.
    Leland Little, May 21: A Rare Complete Set of Jardine's The Naturalist's Library, With Hand-Colored Plates.
    Leland Little, May 21: Invitation to the Lincoln-Johnson National Inaugural Ball, March 4th, 1865.
    Leland Little, May 21: A Scarce Inscribed First Edition of James Baldwin's Nobody Knows My Name.
    Leland Little, May 21: Picasso's Le Goût du Bonheur, Limited Edition.
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    Sotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD
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    Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR
  • GonnelliAuction 59Antique prints, paintings and mapsMay 20th 2025 GonnelliAuction 59Antique prints, paintings and mapsMay 20th 2025
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    Gonnelli: Pietro Aquila, Psyche and Proserpina,1690. Starting price 140€
    Gonnelli: Jacques Gamelin, Memento homo quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris, 1779. Starting price 300€
    Gonnelli: Giorgio Ghisi, The final Judgement, 1680. Starting price 480€
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    Gonnelli Goya y Lucientes Francisco, Los Proverbios.1877. Starting price 1000 €
    Gonnelli: Domenico Peruzzini, Long bearded old man, 1660. Starting price 2200€
    Gonnelli: Enea Vico, Leda and the Swan,1542. Starting price 140€
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    Gonnelli: Andrea Del Sarto [school of], San Giovanni Battista, 1570. Starting price 25000€
    Gonnelli: Carlo Maratta, Virgin Mary and Jesus, 1660. Starting Price 1200€
    Gonnelli: Louis Brion de La Tour, Sphére de Copernic Sphere de Ptolemée / Le Systême de Ptolemée. Le Systême de Ticho-Brahe…, 1766. Starting price 180€
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    Gonnelli: Marc’Antonio Dal Re, Ville di Delizia o Siano Palaggi Camparecci nello Stato di Milano Divise in Sei Tomi Con espressevi le Piante…, Tomo Primo, 1726. Starting price 7000€
    Gonnelli: Katsushika Hokusai, Bird on a branch, 1843. Starting price 100€
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Purcell Auctioneers: c.630+ Lot Auction of a Collection of Irish & World Interest Books - Antiquarian Books, Rare & Signed First Editions, Maps, GAA Interest, Local Histories, Journals, Maps, Irish Language etc.

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Auction Name c.630+ Lot Auction of a Collection of Irish & World Interest Books - Antiquarian Books, Rare & Signed First Editions, Maps, GAA Interest, Local Histories, Journals, Maps, Irish Language etc. Total Sales (EUR) 52,031.25
Auction Date February 19, 2025 - February 19, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 36,775.00
Sale Number #21925 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 61,710.00
Total Lots 627
Sold Lots 534 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 46,050.00
% of Lots Sold 85.17% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 76,260.00
Unsold Lots 93 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 68.23%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
409

An Extremely scarce collection of Reuters News Telegrams (Publications) commencing April 26th, 1916 and ending 30th June, 1916.

1916 EUR 500.00 - 800.00 EUR 1,187.50
55 Evelyn Philip Shirley.

The History of the County of Monaghan.

1879 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 1,100.00
438 John Speed.

The Province of Connaugh with the Citie of Galway Described.

1610 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 975.00
448

The Book of Ballymote, A Collection of Pieces (Prose and Verse) in the Irish Language.

EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 875.00
441 G. Blaeu.

Hibernia Regnum Vulgo-Irelany.

17th Century EUR 700.00 - 900.00 EUR 850.00
235

A tribute to Kevin Sullivan - Seamus Heaney, Thomas Flanagan, Benedict Kiely, June K. Davis & Sean White,

1991 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 725.00
132

WORLD WAR II - HOLOCAUST The German Extermination Camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau. Two Eye-witness Accounts,

November, 1944 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 EUR 575.00
399

Notes on I. R. A. Activities etc. 1941-1947 Confidential.

EUR 250.00 - 500.00 EUR 575.00
30 T.H. Holding.

Cycle and Camp.

1897 EUR 300.00 - 340.00 EUR 500.00
437 Homans.

Fine 17th Century map of Magna Britannia comprising Angliae, Scottiae et Hibernia Regna.

17th Century EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 500.00
19 Lucy O'Donnell.

Ceallphort Naoimh Padraig le Eilis O'Domhaill. St. Patrick's Cathedral. A Tale of the Sixteenth Century

1855 EUR 350.00 - 700.00 EUR 475.00
173

Glimpses of Ireland in 1847 by Rev. John East.

1847 EUR 150.00 - 300.00 EUR 475.00
459 Bram Stoker (John Banville) --

DRACULA.

2008 EUR 200.00 - 240.00 EUR 450.00
362 Praeger,

The Botanist in Ireland,

1934 EUR 90.00 - 130.00 EUR 425.00
489

Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland; reprint of the scarce first five volumes.

EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 425.00
521

Agatha Christie - The Hound of Death and Other Stories.

1933 EUR 240.00 - 380.00 EUR 425.00
529 Richard Little Purdy and Michael Millgate (eds)

The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy, Vol. 1-8: 1840--1892

1978 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 400.00
44 James Dwyer.

A Map of Part of the Lands of Northpriars, ...

EUR 250.00 - 500.00 EUR 375.00
337

[with original letter from Harold Leask, dated 1941] Irish Castles by Leask. 1941; Ireland's Hospitals. 1930-1955.

EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 375.00
572

5 Victorian photo albums of the Butler-Stoney family of Portland Place, Birr and Portland House near Portumna.

EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 375.00
300 Andrew Bonar Law

The Printed Maps of Ireland 1612-1850

EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 350.00
598

Annie M P Smithson - Author, Nurse, Republican, and Trade Unionist.

EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 350.00
237 Seamus Heaney,

A Lough Neagh Sequence

1969 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 325.00
269 E O Somerville, .

The States through Irish Eyes

1930 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 EUR 325.00
440

18th Century map of St. Georges Channel and The Irish Sea, including all the Coast of Ireland.

18th Century EUR 250.00 - 300.00 EUR 325.00
  • Dominic Winter AuctioneersMay 14Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration Dominic Winter AuctioneersMay 14Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
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    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
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    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: (Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie). Voyage Pittoresque de la Grece, 2 vols, 1st edition, 1782-1822. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Gentlemen's Magazine and Historical Chronicle, by Sylvanus Urban, 11 volumes. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Shackleton (Ernest). The Heart of the Antarctic, 2 vols, 1st ed, presentation copy, 1909. £2,000-3,000
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    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Drayton (Michael). Poly Olbion..., London: 1622. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Scheuchzer (Johann Jacob). Ouresiphoites Helveticus, 4 parts in 1, 2nd ed, 1723. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Roberts (Henry, after). Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia ..., [1784]. £500-800
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    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Maffei (Giovanni), Indiarum orientalium Occidentaliumque Descriptio..., 1589. £1,200-1,500
    Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Ortelius (Abraham), Typus Orbis Terrarum, [1598]. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Bible [English]. [The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New..., 1613]. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
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    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Taylor (John). All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-Poet..., 1630. £1,000-1,500
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Pierpont Morgan Collection. Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains, 1904 & 1906. £2,000-3,000
  • Swann, May 15: Lot 4: Helena Bochoráková-Dittrichová, Z Mého Detství Drevoryty, Prague: Obzina, 1929. First trade edition, signed by the artist. $4,000 to $6,000. Swann, May 15: Lot 4: Helena Bochoráková-Dittrichová, Z Mého Detství Drevoryty, Prague: Obzina, 1929. First trade edition, signed by the artist. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 4: Helena Bochoráková-Dittrichová, Z Mého Detství Drevoryty, Prague: Obzina, 1929. First trade edition, signed by the artist. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 4: Helena Bochoráková-Dittrichová, Z Mého Detství Drevoryty, Prague: Obzina, 1929. First trade edition, signed by the artist. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 10: Nancy Cunard, Negro Anthology, with a tipped-in A.L.S. to Karl Marx's niece, 1934. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 14: Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845. First edition. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 17: Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, inscribed first edition, 1959. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 28: Margaret Hill Morris, Private Journal Kept during a Portion of the Revolutionary War, for the Amusement of a Sister, 1836. First edition. $3,000 to $4,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 38: Anna Sewell, Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse, 1877. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 43: Gertrude Stein, Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia, signed presentation copy with photograph of Stein, 1912. First edition. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 48: Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, first edition in the scarce dust jacket, 1927. $6,000 to $8,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 54: Katherine Dunham, large archive of material from her attorney, 1951-53. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 55: Margaret Fuller Signed Autograph Letter, New York City, 1846. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 92: Sonia Delaunay, illus. & Tristan Tzara, Juste Present, deluxe edition with original gouache, 1961. $20,000 to $25,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 93: Flor Garduño, The Sonnets of Shakespeare, 2006. Limited edition. $6,000 to $8,000.
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