Purcell Auctioneers: Irish & World Interest Books which includes Antiquarian Books, Rare & Signed First Editions, Maps, Irish Literature & Poetry, Local Histories etc., 62525, Birr

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Auction Report
Auction Date
June 25, 2025 - June 25, 2025
Page Size: 672 items in 27 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
237

Vitae Et Gesta Summorum Pontificum A Christo Domino Usque Ad Clementem VIII Necnon S. R. E. Cardinalium Cum Eorundem Insignibus

-1601 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 150.00
238 Vladimir Nabokov

(First Edition Modern Classics) -- ADA

1969 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 37.50
239 Adolf Hitler

Mein Kampf

1939 EUR 120.00 - 160.00 EUR 300.00
240 Ian McEwan

Ian McEwan, First UK Edition, First Printing, of his Booker winning novel

Jonathan Cape 1998 EUR 80.00 - 100.00 EUR 100.00
241 Thomas Ingoldsby

(Vintage Children's) -- The Ingoldsby Legends

1882 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 25.00
242 Thomas Keneally

Schindler's Ark

1982 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 37.50
243 Paul Nash

Paul Nash: An Exhibition Of Watercolours, Drawings And Prints From 'Urne Buriall and The Garden Of Cyrus

1973 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
244 Douglas

A History of the Cases of Controverted elections

1775-1777 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 50.00
245

Ireland in the Nineteenth Century, and seventh of England's dominion

London 1833 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 25.00
246 Henry O'Brien

[Limited Edition] The Round Towers of Ireland or the History of the Tuath-De-Danaans

London 1898 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 350.00
247 [Thomas Campbell]

A Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland, in a Series of Letters to John Watkinson, M.D.

London 1777 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 93.75
248

The Green Book, or Gleanings from the Writing-Desk of a Literary Agitator by John Cornelius O'Callaghan

James Duffy 1844 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
249 James

The Ambassadors

London 1923 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 25.00
250 Alfred Tennyson

Enoch Arden

London 1864 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 37.50
251 Sally Rooney

(Irish writers, Twelve First Editions & First Prints) -- Normal People

2018 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 50.00
252 Thomas Wright

The Life of William Cowper

London 1892 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
253

Lemony Snicket - A Series of Unfortunate Events, First UK Edition's, First Printing's

Egmont 2001 -- 2008 EUR 80.00 - 100.00 EUR 75.00
254 BURGHCLERE, Lady

The Life of James First Duke of Ormonde 1610-1688

EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 43.75
255 Paul Duncan and Bengt Wanselius, editor

The Ingmar Bergman archives

Hong Kong 2008 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
256 Henry, Francoise

The Book of Kells: Reproductions from the Manuscript in Trinity College, Dublin

1974 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 68.75
257 Dennis O' Driscoll

All SIGNED Titles: Troubled Thoughts Majestic Dreams

2001 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 25.00
258 Charles Callan and Barry Desmond

IRISH LABOUR LIVES, A Biographical Dictionary of the Labour Party Deputies, Senators, MP'S and MEP'S

2010 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 56.25
259 (M. Cusack)

An Illustrated History of Ireland

1868 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 68.75
260 Freya Stark

Dust in the Lion's Paw, Autobiography 1939 -- 1946

1962 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
261 David Hickie

Native Trees & Forests of Ireland

-2002 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 25.00
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