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	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
904		Irish Interest: Collection of booklets, pamphlets c 30		EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 25.00
905		Irish Interest: Collection of Irish related Pamphlets and booklets c 25		EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 50.00
906		Irish Interest: Collection of booklets, pamphlets c 30		EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 75.00
907		Irish Interest: Collection of Irish related Pamphlets and booklets c 30		EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 43.75
908		Irish Interest: Collection of booklets, pamphlets c 30		EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
909		Irish Interest: Collection of Pamphlets/Booklets/Auction Catalogue c 35		EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
910		Collection of Posters, original and copies such as 'Patriots of The Period. Advertising a lecture to be given by Arthur M Forrester ' if left alone by sickness and the Police' c 18		EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 150.00
911		Archive Material from the Library of the Late Tommy Smith including 3 Liam Delaney Prints (9" X 9.5"); ...		EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 650.00
912		Irish Wildlife: Irish Bees Wasps , Ants; Early Irish Farming by Fergus Kelly, 1998; Some Irish Naturalists by R Lloyd Praegar		EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 87.50
913		Tipperary Interest. The Parish Churches of North Tipperary, The Gaynors of Tyone 1887-2000 in dj; Mullinahone Co-op the First Hundred Years in dj; ...		EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 100.00
914		Limerick and Kerry Interest. Place of Great Consequence. Excavations at King John's Castle; Kenmare history; The Blasket islands, Journey through Tuoist, Sneem, ...		EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 62.50
915		Irish Republicanism: An extensive collection of titles c 50		EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 112.50
916		Irish Republicanism: An extensive collection of titles c 35		EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 175.00
917		Irish Republicanism: An extensive collection of hardback titles c 20		EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 75.00
918		Irish Republicanism: An extensive collection of titles c 40		EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 100.00
919		Irish Republicanism: An extensive collection of titles c 35		EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 118.75
920		Pub and Licensing Laws: The Licensed Vintners and Family Grocers Busness and Legal Guide,	c 1938	EUR 60.00 - 80.00	EUR 100.00
921		Thoms: Thoms Official Directory 1920/1929 and 1960; Thoms Dublin Directory 1944/1966 and Thoms Dublin Street Directory 1967; ...		EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 162.50
922	GILBERT, John, T/Lady Gilbert.	Calendar of Ancient Records of Dublin, in the Possession of the Municipal Corporation of that City. Illustrated with facsimiles of documents, charters, deeds, rolls, maps, etc. Vol 1 - 13.	1889/1907	EUR 200.00 - 400.00	EUR 250.00
923		Maynooth Studies in Local History 22 issues; The Drumlin- A Journal of Cavan, Leitrim and Monaghan, 12 issues (34)		EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 93.75
924		Irish Art: An extensive collection of large folio Art catalogues c 45		EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 62.50
925		Irish Art: An extensive collection of small folio publications of exhibitions c 85		EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 68.75
926		Irish Bird life, Flora and Fishing: a collection of 20 titles relating to flora, fishing and bird life		EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 62.50
927		Irish Art: Numerous titles such as Artists Century- Irish Self-Portraits and Selected Works 1900-2000; Irish Museum of Modern Art- The Collection. Irish Arts Review 14 copies c 42		EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 162.50
928		Dublin. The Viking Age Buildings; An urban history; Churches; Dockers; Encyclopaedia of Dublin; Dublin Today; Stolen Moments ; ...		EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 37.50

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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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