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 Report
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
174 edited by Des Cowman

Waterford: The Famine in Waterford 1845-1850

1995 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 112.50
175 Edmund Downey.

The Story of Waterford from the foundation of the city to the middle of the eighteenth century

1914 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 100.00
176 J Sheehan

WestMeath: South Westmeath Farm and Folk

1978 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 212.50
177 Rev Paul Walsh

WestMeath: The Placenames of WestMeath

1957 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 162.50
178 Charles Dickson

Wexford: The Wexford Rising in 1798

1955 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 56.25
179 edited by Kevin Whelan.

Wexford: History and Society

1987 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 112.50
180 Ranson, Joseph (Ed.).,

Songs of the Wexford Coast

Enniscorthy 1975 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 37.50
181 edited by D O Muirithe and D Nuttall

Wexford: Folklore of County Wexford

1999 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
182

The Bold Shelmaliers. Wexford Hurling Team.

1988 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 37.50
183 edited by K Hannigan and W Nolan

Wicklow History and Society

EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 112.50
184 Arthur Flynn

Wicklow: Bray in Old Photographs

2004 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 37.50
185

Wicklow: Historical and Descriptive Notes of the Ecclesiastical reamains at Glendalough 1911-12

EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 75.00
186

An Old Ulster House and the People Who Live in It

EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 81.25
187 george A Birmingham

Ulster: Round our North Corner

EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 37.50
188

Ulster: The Tree- The Centenary Book of the Ulster Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals 1836 - 1936

EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 37.50
189 T G F Paterson

Ulster: Country Cracks-Old Tales From the County of Armagh

1939 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 81.25
190 edited by C Brady

Ulster: Ulster- An Illustrated History

1989 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 50.00
191 Kevin V Mulligan

Ulster: The Buildings of Ireland - South Ulster

2013 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 50.00
192 Winifred M A Brooke

Ulster: Sketches from Nature in the North of Ireland

1935 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 37.50
193 Kenneth McNally

Mayo/Galway: Achill Island

1973 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 100.00
194 Michael Byrne

Offaly/laois/Kilkenny/Kildare: Tullamore Catholic Church

1987 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 75.00
195

Des Lavelle. Skellig - Island Outpost of Europe. 1977. Beautifully illustrated. Quarto. Pictorial d.j. and Robin Flower. The Western Island or The Great Blasket.

1944 EUR 50.00 - 70.00 EUR 87.50
196 Martin O' Dwyer

Tipperary/Kerry: A Biographical Dictionary of Tipperary

1999 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 50.00
197

Local History Ulster: A Preliminary Survey of the Ancient Monuments of Nortern Ireland

1940 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 43.75
198 Philip O'Connell

Irish Interest: The Diocese of Kilmore, its history and antiquities

c 1936 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 62.50
  • Rare Book Hub is now mobile-friendly!
  • 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.
  • 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.