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	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
475		Irish Coffee Table Books: The Encyclopedia of Ireland by Brian Lalor ( still in publishers shrink wrap) Myth, Legend & Romance-encyclopedia of Irish Folk Tradition by Dr Daithi O hOgain	1990	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
476	edited by AAlen/Whelan/Stout	Irish Coffee Table Books: Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape	1997	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
477	edited by John Crowley	Irish Coffee Table Books: Atlas of the Irish Revolution	2017	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 112.50
478	Jack B Yeats	Irish Art: Jack B Yeats-The Late Drawings		EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 50.00
479	J Stirling Coyne	Irish Coffee Table Books: The Scenery and Antiquities of ireland	2003	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 62.50
480	Peter Somerville Large	Irish Interest Coffee Table Books: The Irish Country House	1995	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
481	Thomas Pakenham	Irish Interest Coffee Table Books: The Year of Liberty- The Great Irish Rebellion of 1798		EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 100.00
482	R O Byrne	Irish Coffee Table Books: Luggala Days-The Story of a Guinness House	2012	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
483	John A McCullen	Irish Coffee Table Books: An Illustrated History of the Phoenix Park-Landscape and management to 1880	2009	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
484		Irish Medical Interest: The History of Doctor Stevens Hospital Dublin 1720-1920	1924	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 112.50
485		Vanishing Ireland: Recollections of Our Changing Times	2011	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 93.75
486		Irish Coffee Table Books		EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
487	Frank Keohane	Irish Coffee Table Books: Irish Period Houses- a conservation guidance manual	2015	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 62.50
488		Irish Interest Coffee Table Books: Franzs Haselbeck's Selected Photographs Ireland	2013	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 37.50
489	Edward Bunting	Iridh Interest Coffee Table Books: The Ancient Music of Ireland	1969	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 87.50
490		Irish Art: In the time of shaking-Irish Artists For Amnesty International	2004	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 75.00
491	Lucy Costigan and M Cullen	Irish Art: Strangest Genius- The Stained Glass of Harry Clarke	2010	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 75.00
492		Irish Art: A collection of Large Folio Irish Art Auction and exhibition Catalogues c22		EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 50.00
493		Irish Art: A collection of Irish Art Auction Catalogues c 25		EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 106.25
494	Brendan Lynch	Coffee Table Books: Green Dust - Irelands Unique Motor Racing History 1900-1939	1988	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
495	edited by Aalen/Whelan/Stout	Coffee Table Books: Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape	2011	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 75.00
496		Auction catalogue by P.B. Gunne of the sale of contents of Old Bridge House, Drogheda on 19th to 21st June 1984....		EUR 60.00 - 90.00	EUR 112.50
497		Jessica 0'Donnell. The Eve of St. Agnes. 2012. Gazetteer of Irish Stained Glass. 1988. (2)		EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 43.75
498	Wendy Walsh.	An Irish Florilegium. Wild and Garden Plants of Ireland. Watercolour Paintings by Wendy Walsh.		EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 212.50
499	GOLDSMITH Lewis	THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE CABINET OF BONAPARTE	1811	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 75.00

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

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