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
500 Samuel Chamberlain.

Inscribed to Oliver St. John Gogarty -- Springtime In Virginia

EUR 30.00 - 60.00 EUR 24.60
501 Falley, Margaret Dickson.

Irish and Scotch-Irish Ancestral Research. A Guide to the Genealogical Records, Methods and Sources in Ireland.

1962 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 36.90
502 edited by Margaret Franklin.

History of the White Family

EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 79.95
503 George Westropp.

The Westropp Family 1250-2000

EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 67.65
504 Nottidge MacNamara.

Family Histories. The Story of an Irish Sept. Origin and History of MacNamaras

EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 43.05
505 Woodburn.

The Ulster Scot. Its History and Religion

1915 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 36.90
506 Michael Horgan

The Garda Siochana Guide by Superintendent Michael Horgan. 2 issues

1934 and EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 123.00
507 Hennessy

Irish Military History. The Wild Geese. The Irish Soldier in Exile

EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 30.75
508

Record of proceedings, for the Wigg-Cochrane case in the supreme court of Saorstat Eireann.

1926 EUR 100.00 - 140.00 Not Sold
509 compiled and edited by Lieutenant Col F E Whitton.

The Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment, Royal Canadians

Cork. 200 sets in slip-case. EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 184.50
510 Lt Col. G le M Gretton, and Brigadier General S Geoghegan.

The Royal Irish Regiment or Royal Irish Regiment of Foot

EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 92.25
511

The History of the 2nd Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers , from 1662 to 1922.

EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 86.10
512

Frank McGuinness

EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 116.85
513 O'Connell, Morgan John Mrs

The Last Colonel of the Irish Brigade. Count O'Connell and Old Irish Life At Home and Abroad 1745-1833. ( 2 Vols )

London 1892 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 36.90
514 Colonel F. P. Crozier.

Works by Colonel F. P. Crozier.

1937 EUR 30.00 - 60.00 EUR 49.20
515 Anna Wilkes.

Ireland Ur of the Chaldees

London. 1873 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 79.95
516

Cromwell in Ireland a history of Cromwell's Irish Campaign by Denis Murphy with map, plans and illustrations.

Dublin 1893 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
517 Edward Sullivan,

The Book Of Kells, Described

1986 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 49.20
518 Michael Gorman (Editor)

Ireland By The Irish.

1963 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 24.60
519 Seamus Heaney

Selected Poems 1965-1975,

1980 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 73.80
520

Seamus Heaney: Field Work, 1st Edition, DJ (HB)

EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 55.35
521

Seamus Heaney: Sweeney Astray, 1st Edition, dj (HB)

EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 55.35
522

Seamus Heaney: Opened Ground, 1st Edition, DJ (HB)

EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 55.35
523

Seamus Heaney. Field Work.

1979 EUR 100.00 - 120.00 EUR 110.70
524

Thirty works by or about Seamus Heaney.

EUR 700.00 - 900.00 EUR 836.40
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