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 2, 90425, Birr

Auction Details

Auction Date: September 04, 2025 - September 04, 2025

Page Size: 460 items in 19 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
776		Irish Poetry. Collection of Hardback Irish poetry related titles, some of which maybe signed (9)			EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 56.25
777		Irish Poetry: Collection of books/booklets/pamphlets some of which maybe signed (30)			EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 43.75
778		Irish Poetry: Collection of books/booklets/pamphlets some of which maybe signed (30)			EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
779		Irish Poetry. Collection of Hardback Irish poetry related titles , (9)			EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 50.00
780	Heaney, Seamus.	Hailstones. SIGNED.	Dublin Ireland	1984	EUR 250.00 - 350.00	EUR 375.00
781	Seamus Heaney:	A Lough Neagh Sequence (1969) by Seamus Heaney. Phoenix Pamphlet Poets Press		1969	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 112.50
782	.Seamus Heaney.	The Spirit Level.		1996	EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 1,437.50
783	Seamus Heaney.	From the Republic of Conscience.		1988	EUR 180.00 - 200.00	EUR 212.50
784	Seamus Heaney.	Beawolf.		1999	EUR 90.00 - 140.00	Not Sold
785		Seamus Heaney 1939 - 2013. A 6 page publication by Hayden Murphy and Hugh Bryden SIGNED by Both. Limited edition of 50 of which this is No 2. Scarce			EUR 150.00 - 250.00	EUR 250.00
786		Seamus Heaney: Articulations-poetry, philosophy and the shaping of culture,2008, signed by the President of The Royal Irish Academy.		2008	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
787		A fine original colour poster "Seamus Heaney at The Assembly Rooms, George St., Edinburgh on 6th May 1996		1996	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 212.50
788		A Large folio scrap book relating to Seamus Heaney including numerous favourable news clippings, magazines, Queens University special Heaney edition et.			EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
789	Seamus Heaney	Seamus Heaney: A collection of titles by or about Heaney such as Human Chain.		2010	EUR 120.00 - 240.00	EUR 450.00
790	Seamus Heaney	Seamus Heaney: A collection of titles by or about Heaney such as District and Circle 2006, 1st Ed; New Selected Poems 1966-1987 plus others c 30			EUR 120.00 - 240.00	EUR 300.00
791	L. D'O. Walters.	The Years at the Spring.		1920	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 225.00
792	Padraic Colum	Irish Interest: The Story of Lowry Maen		1937	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 43.75
793	HUGHES, Ted (1930-1998) [BASKIN, Leonard (1922-2000), illustrator]	Crow. From the Life and Songs of The Crow	London:	1973	EUR 150.00 - 250.00	EUR 475.00
794		Irish Poetry: A collection of (9)			EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
795	HOOD, Thomas / DORE, Gustave	Select poems of Thomas Hood			EUR 40.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
796		Irish Poetry: Collection of books/booklets/pamphlets some of which maybe signed (30)			EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
797		Irish Poetry: Collection of books/booklets/pamphlets some of which maybe signed (30)			EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
798		The Cuala Press: Veterans and Other Poems by Donagh MacDonagh		1941	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 62.50
799		Irish Poetry: Collection of books/booklets/pamphlets some of which maybe signed (30)			EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 62.50
800		Irish Poetry. Collection of Hardback Irish poetry related titles, some of which maybe signed (9)			EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 62.50

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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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