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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
151

The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose works of John Dryden, now first collected, an account of the life and writings of the author and a collection of his letters. Vol 1-4.

EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 135.30
152

Devon Commission Report - Digest of Evidence of Occupation of Land in Ireland.

Dublin 1847 EUR 150.00 - 180.00 EUR 233.70
153

The Book of Kells. The Book of Kells, the most precious illuminated manuscript of the early Middle Ages, now reproduced, the first and only complete facsimile,

1990 EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 5,658.00
154

Hudibras - A New Edition Corrected and Enlarged Butler, Samuel with Dr Grey's Annotations 3 Volumes

1819 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 61.50
155

Hibernia, Part the First. These tracts collected by Mr. Harris, Clarendon St., Febr. 1st, 1747.

1770 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 49.20
156

Rev. James Gordon. A History of Ireland from the earliest date to the accomplishment of the Union with Great Britain.

1806 EUR 300.00 - 350.00 EUR 541.20
157 Edward Gibbon

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - A New Edition in One Volume

(London 1837 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 344.40
158

Poems of Ossian Translated by James Macpherson - 2 Volumes (M. DCC IXXXIV). Bookplate Westport House.

EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 110.70
159 J.G. Peters.

A Treatise on Equitation or the Art of Horsemanship.

1835 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 61.50
160

Nineveh and its Remains Austen Henry Layard

London 1849 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 467.40
161 J. G.Kohl.

Ireland - Dublin, The Shannon, Limerick, Cork & The Kilkenny Races etc.

1843 EUR 150.00 - 180.00 EUR 147.60
162

The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is, with All the Kindes, Causes, Symptomes, Prognosticks and Several Cures of it. In Three Partitions. In Two Volumes Democritus Junior (pseudonym of Robert Burton)

London 1806 EUR 150.00 - 300.00 EUR 135.30
163 Layard, Austin H.

Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon, with Travels in Armenia, Kurdistan and the Desert: Being the Result of a Second Expedition undertaken for the Trustees of the British Museum

London 1853 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 EUR 196.80
164 P Horreus.

Alexinoy Socratici, Dialogi tres. De novo recensuit, vertit et animadversionibus suis auxit .

1718 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 67.65
165 Lodge, John.

The Peerage of Ireland of Genealogical History of the present Nobility of that Kingdom. With their paternal Coats of Arms engraven on copper. Four volumes

1754 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 EUR 246.00
166

Seneca's Morals - By Way of Abstract, to Which is Added, a Discourse, Under the Title of an After-Thought, By Sir Roger L'Estrange, Knt.

London 1756 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 184.50
167

Dr. Johnson's Table talk : containing aphorisms on literature, life, and manners

EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 209.10
168 Thomson, James,

The Seasons

London 1793 EUR 200.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
169 Edward Herbert, Lord of Cherbury

The Life of Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, written by himself.

London 1770 EUR 250.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
170 TEMPLE, Sir John, Kt.

The Irish Rebellion: or, an History of the beginnings and first progress of the General Rebellion, raised within the Kingdom of Ireland, upon the three and twentieth day of October,

1641 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 615.00
171 John Dryden

Annus Mirabilis: the year of wonders,

1666 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 104.55
172 LENFANT, Jacques

Histoire du Concile de Constance

Amsterdam 1714 EUR 150.00 - 175.00 Not Sold
173

Bishop Burnett's History of His Own Time, From the Restoration of King Charles II. To The Conclusion of the Treaty of Peace at Utrecht, in the Reign of Queen Anne Burnett, Bishop Vol 1-2.

1860 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
174

Lectures on The Manuscript Materials of Ancient Irish History - by Eugene O'Curry M.R.I.A. Delivered at the Catholic University of Ireland, During the Sessions of 1855 and 1856

(London EUR 100.00 - 175.00 EUR 196.80
175 William Shake-speare,

Hamlet

1860 EUR 250.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
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