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 Report
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
51 Sean O'Donnell

Clonmel County Tipperary: Clonmel 1900-1932 A History

EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 116.85
52

Report of the Speeches delivered at a Meeting held in the County Court House in Clonmel for the purpose of establishing an auxiliary branch of the London Hibernian School Society.

 1824 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 92.25
53

Paul J Flynn. The Book Of The Galtees And The Golden Vein. A border history of Tipperary, Limerick and Cork.

Dublin 1926 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 67.65
54 compiled Colm O Flaherty

Tipperary: Memories and Achievements-124 Years of the GAA in Cahir

EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 43.05
55

P. M. Egan. Historical Guide & Directory of County and City of Waterford.

 1894 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
56

Decies: Journal of the Waterford Archaeological & Historical Society, 1995-2013.

1995-2013. EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 43.05
57

The Ancient and Present State of the County and City of Waterford by Charles Smith.

1746 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 98.40
58 O'Keefe and Simington

Irish Stone Bridges History and Heritage

EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 73.80
59

Ten issues of Maynooth Studies in Local History

 2016 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 55.35
60 Steve MacDonagh,

The Dingle Peninsula

1993 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 43.05
61 Breada Mac Raois,

Ar Bhruacha Na Life-Stair Atha Cliath go dti an bhliain

 1803 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 24.60
62 O'Sullivan

Goodly Barrow a Voyage on an Irish River

 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 36.90
63 Michael G Olden,

Limerick/Waterford: The faith Journey of the Deise People

 2018 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 43.05
64

Cork/Clare/Limerick: Cork and South-West Ireland Illustrate Guide Book, Ward L with folding map

 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 67.65
65 edited by Macdara Woods,

Kilkenny/Carlow/Wicklow: The Kilkenny Anthology

1991 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 49.20
66

Carlow/Wexford/Waterford/Laois: County Wexford Tombstone Inscriptions

EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 24.60
67 C Conaghan

Donegal/Ulster: History and Antiquities of Killybegs

EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 61.50
68 Stewart and Corry and Robert Lloyd Praeger.

A Flora of the North-East of Ireland

1938 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
69 Theresa McDonald

Mayo/Kilkenny/Tipperary: Achill 5000BC To 1900 AD

EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 49.20
70 John Turpin.

History of the Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts

 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 86.10
71 Benedict Kiely.

Modern Irish Fiction - A Critique.

Dublin 1950 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 73.80
72

Francis Stuart -- Memorial - Uncorrected proof copy,

 1973 EUR 30.00 - 60.00 EUR 147.60
73 Joyce, James

Pomes Penyeach

 London 1933 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 43.05
74 James Joyce.

Exiles - A Play in Three Acts.

London. 1918 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
75 James Joyce. edited by William York Tindall.

Chamber Music.

1954 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 30.75
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    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Aberle’ Ballet editions. 108th triumph, American season spring and summer 1944.
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    Sotheby's
    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: William Shakespeare.
    The Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare, 1960. 7,210 USD
    Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens.
    A Christmas Carol, First Edition, 1843. 17,500 USD
    Sotheby’s: William Golding.
    Lord of the Flies, First Edition, 1954. 5,400 USD
    Sotheby's
    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: Lewis Carroll.
    Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, Inscribed First Edition, 1872. 25,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: J.R.R. Tolkien.
    The Hobbit, First Edition, 1937. 12,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: John Milton.
    Paradise Lost, 1759. 5,400 USD