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
312 Lady Gregory

Three Last Plays

1928 EUR 75.00 - 100.00 EUR 43.75
313 Lady Gregory

New Comedies

1913 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 475.00
314

A Set of Lady Gregory Books -- The Comedies, Tragedies & Tragic Comedies, Wonder & Supernatural plays and Collaborations Adaptations & Translations

1979 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 31.25
315

A HISTORY OF JAPAN: During the Century of Early Foreign Intercourse(1542-1651)

Kobe 'Chronicle' 1903 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 75.00
316

St. Petersburg and Moscow: A Visit to the Court of the Czar. In Two Volumes Bourke, Richard Southwell-Earl of Mayo

London 1846 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 125.00
317

A Heritage of Beauty: The Garden Plants of Ireland

2001 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 81.25
318 John Moriarty

TURTLE WAS GONE A LONG TIME

Dublin 1996 to 1998 EUR 80.00 - 100.00 EUR 62.50
319 John Moriarty

Serious Sounds

2006 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 93.75
320 John Moriarty

NOSTOS an autobiography

Dublin 2001 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 50.00
321

[John Osborne, Seven First UK Editions First Printings] The World of Paul Slickey published 1959

1959 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 87.50
322 Claire Keegan

Antarctica

1999 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
323 Claire Keegan

WALK THE BLUE FIELDS

2007 EUR 70.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
324 Norman Mailer

The Naked and the Dead

1949 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 25.00
325 Willaim Youatt

THE DOG

London 1845 EUR 80.00 - 100.00 EUR 31.25
326

Essays on partial derangement of the mind in supposed connexion with religion by the late John Cheyne. ..

Dublin 1843 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 87.50
327

Open-Air Studies in Botany: Sketches of British Wild-Flowers in Their Homes by Lloyd Praeger illustrated by S Rosamond Praeger and R Welch

London 1897 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 62.50
328

The Charm of Birds Viscount Grey of Fallodon

London 1927 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 62.50
329 Robert Lloyd Patterson

Bids, Fishes & Cetacea of Belfast lough

Belfast 1881 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 75.00
330 Edwin W. Teale

The Golden Throng- A Book About Bees

1942 EUR 50.00 - 70.00 EUR 37.50
331 Arthur C

Champneys - Irish Ecclesiastical Architecture

London 1910 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 81.25
332 Roy A. Grout

The Hive and Honey Bee

1947 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 31.25
333 (Richard Le Gallienne)

Fishing: The Compleat Angler Walton, Izaak & Cotton, Charles

London 1904 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 25.00
334 Maire MacNeill

The Festival of Lughnasa

1962 EUR 220.00 - 280.00 EUR 400.00
335 Winston Churchill

History of English Speaking Countries

London 1956 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 37.50
336 John Banville

Birchwood

1973 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 600.00
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