Purcell Auctioneers: A Private Library of Antiquarian Books, Fine Bindings, Rare Modern Literature/First Editions, Maps, GAA Interest, Posters, Postcards, Journals, Broadsides, Irish Language etc., 111324, Birr

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Auction Date
November 13, 2024 - November 13, 2024
Page Size: 651 items in 27 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
351 George Petrie. R.H. A.

The Ecclesiastical Architecture of Ireland, anterior to the Anglo-Norman invasion on Origin and Uses of the Round Towers of Ireland

1845 EUR 150.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
352 Colum Hourihane.

Gothic Art in Ireland 1169-1550

EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 24.60
353 . Harold G. Leask.

Irish Churches and Monastic Buildings (2nd ed), complete in 3 vols

EUR 60.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
354 Mark Twain --

A Tramp Abroad

1882 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 24.60
355 Lord Byron

Byron's Works. The Works Of Lord Byron, In Four Volumes.

London 1828 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 36.90
356 Aubrey De Vere of Curragh Chase.

The Search after Prosperine, Recollections of Greece and other Poems.

Oxford. 1848 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 67.65
357

Irish Interest: The Capuchin Annual

1934/35/36 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 135.30
358 Mott and De Breffny

Castles of Ireland and Churches and Abbeys of Ireland.

EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 30.75
359

The Sunny Side of Ireland. How to See it by O'Mahony for Great Southern & Western Railway.

Circa 1900. EUR 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
360 GREGORY, Lady.

GREGORY, Lady. Collected Plays. The Comedies

EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 98.40
361 Lady Gregory.

Lady Gregory. The Kiltartan Wonder Book. 1st edition. Quarto. With 8 colour plates by Margaret Gregory , daughter -in -law of author.

EUR 180.00 - 220.00 Not Sold
362 Lady Gregory.

Lady Gregory: Collection of titles such as A Book of Saints and Wonders,

1971 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 98.40
363

Lennox Robinson (edit.) Lady Gregory's Journals

1916-1930, EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 36.90
364 W.B. Yeats

W.B. Yeats Poems.

1922 EUR 75.00 - 120.00 EUR 295.20
365 Editors Dorothy Wellesley and W. B. Yeats. [illustrations Jack B. Yeats]

Colonel Martin by William B. Yeats and the Journeyman by Frank O'Connor. A Broadside

1937 EUR 70.00 - 140.00 EUR 196.80
366 Bishop of Limerick, Robert Wyse Jackson June

[William B. Yeats] Memorial Sermon Preached at Drumcliffe on Centenary of Birth of William Butler Yeats

1965 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 61.50
367 T R Henn,

Yeats Interest: The Lonely Tower-Studies in the Poetry of W B Yeats

1950 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 86.10
368 W.B. Yeats.

W.B. Yeats. Poems.

C. 1923 EUR 70.00 - 90.00 EUR 73.80
369

William Butler Yeats Collection. Yeats a Psychanalytical Analysis by Webster

EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 104.55
370 Wade, Allan.

Bibliography of the writings of W.B. Yeats.

1968 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 110.70
371 YEATS, William Butler

W B Yeats: Four Plays For Dancers

New York 1921 EUR 150.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
372

Some Passages From The Letters of AE to W.B. Yeats.

1936 EUR 200.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
373 Jeffares

[William Butler Yeats collection]. Yeats a New Biography

EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 61.50
374 W.B. Yeats.

The Words Upon the Window Pane - A Play in One Act.

1934 EUR 180.00 - 220.00 Not Sold
375 W. B. Yeats.

Plays In Prose And Verse,

1931 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 61.50
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