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

Auction Details

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
337 John Banville

Eclipse

-2000 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 62.50
338 John Banville

John Banville: Time Pieces- A Dublin Memoir

2016 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 EUR 150.00
339

LETTERS WRITTEN BY HIS EXCELLENCY HUGH BOULTER, D.D.

EUR 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
340 [Irving (Washington)]

Geoffrey Crayon. - The Sketch Book, Two volumes complete

London 1826 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
341 M. Louis Lemery

A Treatise of Foods, in General. . to Which Are Added, Remarks Upon Each Chapter

1706 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 100.00
342 Impey, John

The Office Of Sheriff Shewing It's History And Antiquity

Dublin 1797 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 81.25
343 Soame Jenyns

A Free Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil

London 1757 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 62.50
344

Titanic Connection: In Darkest England and The Way Out by General Booth

EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 250.00
345

Remembrance of Things Past [12-Volume Set, Complete] Marcel Proust...

London 1941-44 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 112.50
346 Rudyard Kipling

The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book (1894-1895)

London 1894 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 EUR 400.00
347 Evelyn Waugh

Unconditional Surrender

London 1961 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 62.50
348 Harriet Beecher Stowe

Uncle Tom's Cabin

London EUR 400.00 - 450.00 Not Sold
349 John Montague, Nuala Ni Dhomnaill & Paul Durcan

The Poet's Chair, The First Nine Years of the Ireland Chair of Poetry

Dublin 2008 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 62.50
350

O'Donoghue, The Poets of Ireland

1970 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 62.50
351 Austin Clarke

Verse III, "Martyr and Heretic"

1955 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
352 Derek Mahon

The Man Who Built His City on Snow

London 1972 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 81.25
353 Derek Mahon

Derek Mahon: The Man Who Built His City in The Snow

EUR 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
354 W.B. Yeats

The Wanderings of Oisin

1889 EUR 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 2,125.00
355

Leather Boards: Early Irish Bible, missing title page and pages numbered 1 and 2

Paris 1712 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 93.75
356 Graham Greene

Graham Greene: The Quiet American

1955 EUR 100.00 - 160.00 EUR 187.50
357 Walter Magnes Teller

The Search for Captain Slocum-a biography

1959 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
358 William Trevor

William Trevor: The Day We Got Drunk on Cake and other stories

1980 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 75.00
359 Liam O'Flaherty

Liam O'Flaherty: The Fairy Goose and Two Other Stories

New York 1927 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 62.50
360 H.E. Bates

The Darling Buds of May

1958 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 50.00
361

The Ginger Man: 60th Anniversary Limited Edition by Donleavy, J. P.

EUR 100.00 - 180.00 EUR 187.50
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