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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
126

At the Court of the Eucharistic King: The Story of the Franciscan Convent of Perpetual Adoration, Drumshanbo, Co. Leitrim, Ireland, and of Its Foundresses:...

1929 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 61.50
127 Emmet Larkin

Ten Works by Emmet Larkin covering the history of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland in the second-half of the nineteenth century.

1850-60 (1980) EUR 100.00 - 140.00 EUR 73.80
128 James Miller,

Alcohol: Its Place and Power --

1858 EUR 80.00 - 140.00 EUR 36.90
129 Canon U J Bourke

Pre-Christian Ireland by Canon U J Bourke-Examiner in Keltic and in Irish History'

1887 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 36.90
130 Hughes and Hamlin

The Modern Traveller to the Early Irish Church

EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 24.60
131 edited by Patrick Francis Moran, Bishop of Ossory (and relative of Cullen).

The Pastoral Letters and Other Writings of Cardinal Cullen, Archbishop of Dublin (1882), complete in 3 vols.

EUR 140.00 - 180.00 EUR 98.40
132

Irish Independent Eucharistic Congress Souvenir and Record

1932 EUR 120.00 - 240.00 Not Sold
133

31st International Eucharistic Congress Pictorial Record.

Dublin 1932 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
134

The Report of Commissioners Appointed to enquire into Nature and Extent of the several Bogs in Ireland, and the Practicability of Draining and Cultivating Them. Ordered, by the House of Commons,

1814 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 147.60
135 Francis Grose.

[Antiquities of England, Wales and Scotland, 1773-1787] The Antiquities of England and Wales

London EUR 300.00 - 600.00 EUR 393.60
136

Bickham (George). The Universal Penman; or, the Art of Writing made useful to the Gentleman and Scholar, as well as the Man of Business.

EUR 200.00 - 400.00 EUR 442.80
137

Orlando Furioso, Translated from the Italian of Lodovico Ariosto with Notes by John Hoole.

1783 EUR 250.00 - 500.00 EUR 1,291.50
138 (London,

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Illustrated by W. Russell Flint Medici Society Ltd,

1929 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 92.25
139 Milton, John + Montgomery, James ( critical remarks etc )

The Poetical Works Of John Milton With A Memoir [ 2 VOLUMES IN 2 COMPLETE ]

London 1859 EUR 120.00 - 240.00 EUR 209.10
140 Rev M J Brenan.

Ecclesiastical History of Ireland and the Introduction of Christianity into that country - To the year 1829

1829 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 86.10
141 (George Brandes)

William Shakespeare A Critical Study Two volumes

London 1898 EUR 100.00 - 175.00 EUR 110.70
142 Sir James Ware

Inquiries Concerning Ireland and its Antiquities -

Dublin 1705 EUR 120.00 - 180.00 EUR 123.00
143 Lord MacAulay

The Life and Letters of Lord MacAulay

EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 98.40
144 edited by John O'Donovan

Annala Rioghachta Eireann. The Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland, by the Four Masters from the Earliest Period to the Year 1616.

Dublin 1856 EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,230.00
145 Hall, Edward

Hall's Chronicle, Containing The History Of England During The Reign Of Henry The Fourth, And The Succeeding Monarchs, To The End Of The Reign Of Henry The Eighth

1809 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
146 Wright, Thomas Warren, H.

The History of Ireland: From the Earliest Period of the Irish Annals to the Present Time. Illustrated, with folding map Vol 1. Engravings from Original Drawings, executed expressly for this Work by H. Warren.

London New York c1850 EUR 150.00 - 300.00 EUR 369.00
147 M. F. Cusack.

The Life of St. Patrick, Apostle of Ireland.

Kenmare 1869 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 104.55
148

A view of the principal deistical writers that have appeared in England in the last and present century

EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 73.80
149 M. Necker

De L'Importance Des Opinions Religieuse -

(Londres 1788 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 86.10
150 Sir Richard Musgrave.

Sir Richard Musgrave. Memoirs of the Different Rebellions in Ireland from the Arrival of the English.

Dublin 1801 EUR 350.00 - 500.00 EUR 676.50
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