Purcell Auctioneers: wo Day Sale of the Library of the Late Tommy Smith (Grogan's Pub, Dublin) and Other Select Clients. To include Some Exceptional Items of Irish Literary, Poetic & Historical Interest. Day 1, 90325, Birr

Auction Details

Auction Date: September 03, 2025 - September 03, 2025

Page Size: 501 items in 21 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
350	Gustave de Beaumont	Irish Interest: Ireland		2006	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 118.75
351	Henry Mount Charles.	Public Space - Private Life. A Decade AT Slane Castle.		1989	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
352	Michael O'Sullivan	Irish Interest: Brendan Behan- A Life		1997	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
353	Peter Berresford Ellis	Irish Interest: Hell or Connaught- The Cromwellian Colonisation of ireland 1652-1660		1975	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 43.75
354	Marianne Elliott	Irish Interest: Wolfe Tone- Prophet of Irish Independence		1989	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
355		Man Overboard in one volume [Anonymous]	. London,	1887	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 62.50
356	Dennis O'Driscoll	Irish Interest: Troubled Thoughts, Majestic Dreams		2001	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 56.25
357	John N Ypung	Irish Interest: Erskine H Childers-President of Ireland -a biography		1985	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
358	Eugene McCabe	Irish Interest: Pull Down A Horseman Gale Day		1979	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
359	Laurie Lee -	Cider with Rosie,		1959	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 93.75
360	Helen Maher.	Helen Maher. Galway Authors. 176, Helen Maher. Roscommon Authors. 1976 and Sean 0'Casey - A Bibliography. 1993.			EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 37.50
361	George Orwell -	THE ROAD TO WIGAN,		1937	EUR 100.00 - 140.00	EUR 162.50
362	Derek Gladwin	Irish Interest: Contentious Terrains		2016	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
363	Robert Kanigel	Irish Interest: On An Irish Island		2012	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
364	Oliver Knox	Irish Interest: Rebels Informers-Stirrings of Irish Independence		1997	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
365		(Irish Author First Edition's) John Banville -- The Newton Letter, published 1982, First UK Edition, First Print. John McGahern -- That They may Face the Rising Sun, published 2002,...			EUR 60.00 - 80.00	EUR 56.25
366		(First Edition Fiction) Willaim Golding -- The Paper Men, published 1984. First UK Edition, First Print in original jacket. Willaim Golding -- The Hot Gates, published 1965....			EUR 60.00 - 80.00	EUR 43.75
367		Tales of wonder			EUR 80.00 - 100.00	EUR 137.50
368	L.T.Meade -	THE WITCH MAID,		1903	EUR 100.00 - 140.00	EUR 175.00
369	M.R.James -	The Collected Ghost Stories of M.R. James,		1942	EUR 120.00 - 160.00	EUR 150.00
370	W. B. Yeats.	Mythologies. 195. d.j. and J. Hardwick. The Yeats Sisters - Susan and Elizabeth. 1996.			EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 56.25
371	W.B. Yeats.	Poems in Prose and Verse. 1923. and W.B. Yeats The Player Queen. 1923. and Thoor Ballylee Home of W.B. Yeats . 1977 (3)			EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 50.00
372	Thomas McGreevey.	Jack B. Yeats. 1945. and W.B. Yeats. Reflections. 1970 (2)			EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 37.50
373	Lord Dunsany.	Traces of War.		1918	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 87.50
374	W.B. Yeats.	W.B. Yeats. Poems. 1927 Original cloth, gilt spine and D. Eddiny. Yeats : The Nineteenth Century. 1971 (2)			EUR 50.00 - 70.00	EUR 50.00

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Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: BOETTI, Alighiero - Classifying the thousand longest rivers in the world. Ascoli Piceno: 1977. € 15.000 - 18.000

Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco José - Los desastres de la guerra. Madrid: 1863. € 12.000 - 18.000

Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: HEVELIUS, Johannes - Selenographia sive lunae descriptio. Danzica: 1647. € 10.000 - 15.000

Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: REDOUTÉ, Pierre-Joseph - Douze Bouquets. Parigi e New York: [s.d., ma ca. 1835]. € 15.000 - 25.000
Koller, Sep. 17: NEWTON, ISAAC. Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. London, Joseph Streater, "Prostat apud plures Bibliopolas", 1687. CHF 250,000 to 300,000.

Koller, Sep. 17: ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM. Theatrum orbis terrarum. 3 parts in 1 volume. Antwerpen, Plantin, 1612. CHF 120,000 to 160,000.

Koller, Sep. 17: BECKMANN, MAX. Apokalypse. Frankfurt a. M., Privatdruck der Bauerschen Giesserei, 1943. CHF 40,000 to 60,000.

Koller, Sep. 17: BOISSERÉE, SULPIZ. Ansichten, Risse und einzelne Theile des Doms von Köln. AND: Ders. Geschichte und Beschreibung des Doms zu Köln… CHF 30,000 to 50,000.

Koller, Sep. 17: SCHEDEL, HARTMANN. Buch der Chroniken und Geschichten. Nürnberg, Anton Koberger, 23. Dez. 1493. CHF 25,000 to 40,000.
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