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 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
144		Naire Naisiunta no Sean Treacy's Shame by Mathuin O'Grada agus Seamas G. O'Ceallaigh		1942	EUR 30.00 - 50.00	EUR 25.00
145		Naire Naisiunta no Sean Treacy's Shame by Mathuin O'Grada agus Seamas G. O'Ceallaigh		1942	EUR 30.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
146		Father McDyer Tells -- The Glencolumbkille Story. An Epic of the Small Farm To-Day	Dublin	1965	EUR 80.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
147	John B Keane	Abbey Theatre Programmes for "The Man From Clare" a group of four programmes covering 1. 5th (Opening Night), 7th and 9th Aug, 1963			EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 25.00
148		Seamus Heaney: a Hazel Stick for Catherine Ann		1983	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 475.00
149	C. Day-Lewis	Poems in War Time		1952	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 62.50
150	Cormac O'Grada	The Great Irish Famine		1989	EUR 60.00 - 90.00	EUR 75.00
151	Richard Wilbur	Mayflies			EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 68.75
152		Collection of postcards. Vintage and later			EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 81.25
153		Irish PostCards: 'Beautiful Donegal' Post Cards			EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 50.00
154		Dublin Postcards. Collection of vintage and later cards			EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 50.00
155		First Day Issues. Collection of approximately 50 attractive British postal items...			EUR 50.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
156		Benetton Formula 1, 1998			EUR 60.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
157		Maps: Bartholomews Road Map of Ireland			EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 112.50
158		I am a philatelist by Marian Balfe			EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
159		2 Original Memorial cards for Henry MacAuley, 1 in English, 1 in Irish			EUR 20.00 - 40.00	Not Sold
160		An Original Memorial Card for Edward Fitzgerald McEntee, died 27th December 1960			EUR 20.00 - 40.00	Not Sold
161		An Original Memorila Card for Edward Fitzgerald McEntee, died 27th December 1960			EUR 20.00 - 40.00	Not Sold
162		Long Playing Records: O Riada's Farewell-Sean O Riada plays traditional Irish music on the Harpsichor, Claddagh Record			EUR 40.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
163	John Coulthart	The Haunter of the Dark		1988	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 43.75
164	Brian Friel	Translations. SIGNED, inscribed To Terry [Eagleton]		1982	EUR 200.00 - 250.00	EUR 350.00
165	Bro. Fred Crowe	Freemasons: Sunderland Lustre Masonic Bowl: The Irish Master Masons HandBook		1895	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 68.75
165A	Lieut.General Burgoyne	The Maid of The Oaks as performed at the Theatre-Royal Drury Lane		1794	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
166	Paddy Brennan, editor	The Golden Era of Irish showbands edited by Paddy Brennan		[1994]	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 100.00
167		Folder divided into 2 parts the first being "Script of radio feature by Donagh McDonagh, 'Dublin one-three, one-six: a recollection in ballad and action of the people and happenings involved in the great lock-out and the Easter Rising'		1966	EUR 200.00 - 260.00	Not Sold

Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: Ian Fleming. Casino Royale, London, 1953. First edition, first printing. $58,610.

Sotheby’s: A.A. Milne, Ernest Howard Shepard. Winnie The Pooh, United Kingdom, 1926. First UK edition. $17,580.

Sotheby’s: Ernest Hemingway. Three Stories And Ten Poems, [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.

Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: L. Frank Baum. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, 1900. First edition. $27,500.

Sotheby’s: Man Ray. Photographs By Man Ray 1920 Paris 1934, Hartford, 1934. $7,860.

Sotheby’s: Thomas Pennant. Zoologia Britannica, Augsburg, 1771. $49,125.
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