Purcell Auctioneers: Lot Auction of the Library of the Late Liam Ó Duibhir (Local Historian and Irish Language Enthusiast From Clonmel, Co Tipperary) , C630, Birr

Auction Details

Auction Date
July 23, 2025 - July 23, 2025
Page Size: 615 items in 25 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
200 John Murray

Livingstone David: Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa,

1857 EUR 600.00 - 700.00 Unknown
201 Shackleton E.H.

The Heart of The Antarctic Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition .

1907-1909 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 Unknown
202 Theodore Roosevelt. PEARY Robert E.

The North Pole. With an Introduction

1910 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 Unknown
203

Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin

1853, '54, '55 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 Unknown
204 M'clintock Captain.

A Narrative of The Discovery Of The Fate Of Sir John Franklin And His Companions, The Voyage Of The 'Fox' In The Arctic Seas.

1859 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 Unknown
204A

Incunabula leaf: Schedel, Nuremberg Chronicla, Liber Chronicarum, 1st German ed.,

1493 EUR 90.00 - 140.00 Unknown
205 Timothy O'Sullivan

Timothy O'Sullivan's, commonly called Taidhag Gaodhlach's, pious miscellany, enlarged, improved and corrected with an appendix of other religious compositions.

1832 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 Unknown
206 Wilson Hartnell D

Kosmos' Official Catalogue of the Fete, May 16th to 20th 1893. In aid of the City of Dublin Hospital, with a historical Outline of the Hospital.

EUR 80.00 - 160.00 Unknown
207

Saint Patrick's Purgatory Loch Dearg. Pilgrimage for C. T. S Members etc.

1926 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 Unknown
208

Vintage Irish Railway Tickets. approximately 150 vintage and historical tickets.

EUR 50.00 - 100.00 Unknown
209

The Lepracaun Cartoon Monthly, First issue May 1905.

between 1905 and 1915 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
210

Barney Burke's diorama Dublin, [1890]

1890 -- 1891 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 Unknown
211 H. F. McClintock.

Handbook on the Traditional Old Irish Dress, with suggestions for Designing an Irish Uniform or National Dress for Irish Men

1958 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 Unknown
212 Patricia Murphy

typescript manuscript, 293 pps, quarto, 'A Second Adam, Signed to 'Desmond (TD Williams, 22/5/76. With mss corrections. (1)

EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
213 Henry Grattan .

An Answer, to a Pamphlet Entitled, the Speech of the Earl of Clare, on the Subject of a Legislative Union, Between Great Britain and Ireland

1800 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 Unknown
214 Stanihurst Richard.

Aqua Vitae: Its commodities described

1954 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 Unknown
215

Co Sligo interest: Marriage cert, paying PS50 to the Lord Bishop of Killala and Achonry, to solemnize marriage between Henry Mitchell and Johanna Mitchell,

183?4 EUR 50.00 - 70.00 Unknown
216 Yann Martel

PIG. One sheet of 160 g/m white paper numbered [1] containing the complete short story 'PIG'. First appeared in STORY Magazine WINTER

1993 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
217

Large Poster. Sale by Private Treaty, Farm (129+ acres) and residence, New Grove House, Rathnavague, Dunkerrin, Roscrea

nd but c. 1920s, EUR 70.00 - 110.00 Unknown
218

Sale of the contents of Loughanna House

2000 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 Unknown
219

Public Auction poster, black on green paper

1917 EUR 70.00 - 110.00 Unknown
220

Irish Interest Poster: Poster Half in Irish , Half in English. " Sheep Dipping (Ireland) Order of 1915" advising Sheep Owners of there obligations .

1915 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 Unknown
220A

Incunabula leaf: very large early leaf 1474, elephant folio, Rainens de Pisa, Pantheologia

1474 EUR 70.00 - 120.00 Unknown
221

THE EXORCIST -- Pressbook,

1973 EUR 100.00 - 140.00 Unknown
222

Kavanagh s Weekly: A Journal of Literature and Politics. Vol. 1, Nos. 1-2, 4-12

EUR 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
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