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
149		[rare Limerick collector items] Limerick Civic Carnival October 1931. Souvenir of Mitre and Crosier of Bishop O'Dea			EUR 50.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
150		The Old Limerick Journal. A general history journal published annually by The Old Limerick Society.			EUR 80.00 - 120.00	EUR 106.25
151	edited by R Gillespie and G Moran	Longford: Longford Essays in County History		1991	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 81.25
152	Randal Mac Donnell	Louth Interest: When Cromwell Came to Drogheda		1906	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
153	Theresa McDonald	Mayo: Achill Island- Archaeology-History- Folklore		2006	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
154		Cogan, The Diocese of Meath, ancient and modern, 3 vols facs ed of 1862 ed		1992	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 56.25
155	Donal Synnott	Meath: A Common Green Duleek		1980	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 56.25
156		Meath: Tara and the Ark of the Covenant by Maireas Carew		2003	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 56.25
157	John Healy	'History of the Diocese of Meath 1908.			EUR 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
158		Riocht Na Midhe- Records of Meath Archaeological and Historical Society, 9 issues including Vol 1 No 1		1957	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 175.00
159	Valentine Farrell	Meath: Not So Much To One Side		1984	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
160	Peadar Livingstone.	The Monaghan Story. A documented history of the county Monaghan from earliest times to 1976		1980	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 175.00
161	Terence O'Gorman	Cavan & Monaghan: Memories Amidst The Drumlins		2013	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 125.00
162	Tadhg Pey	Offaly: Where the beautiful rivers flow		2005	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 62.50
163	Noel Farrell.	County Offaly, Exploring family origins in old Tullamore Town --		1998	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 37.50
164	edited by Martin A Timoney	Sligo: A Celebration of Sligo		2002	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 175.00
165	Compiled Tadhg Kilgannon	Sligo and its Surroundings - A descriptive and pictorial guide to the history, secnery, antiquities, and places of interest in and around Sligo.	Sligo	1926	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 200.00
166	Paul J. Flynn.	The Book of the Galtees and the Golden Vein. A Border History of Tipperary, Limerick & Cork	Dublin,	1928	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	EUR 225.00
167	edited by William Nolan	Tipperary: History and Society		1985	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 162.50
168	Dermot F Gleeson	The Last Lords of Ormond;: A history of the "Countrie of the three O'Kennedys" during the seventeenth century		1938	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 100.00
169	edited by William Nolan	Tipperary History and Society. History of a County		1997	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 62.50
170	edited by James Maher	Tipperary: Romantic Slievenamon		1955	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 125.00
171	Gerard magee	Tyrone: Tyrone's Struggle for irish Freedom		2011	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 212.50
172	Charles Smith.	The Ancient and Present State of the County and City of Waterford: Being a Natural, Civil, Ecclesiastical, Historical, and Topographical Description thereof	Dublin	1774	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 118.75
173	Rev P Canon Power	Waterford: The Place Names of Decies		1952	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 75.00

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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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