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
526		A Census of Ireland, Circa 1659. With Supplementary Material from the Poll Money Ordinances (1660-1661).		1939	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 50.00
527	Hyde, Douglas. L.L.D.	Beside The Fire - A Collection of Irish Gaelic Folk Stories	Londdon	1910	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 56.25
528	Rev Ulick Canon Bourke.	Irish Interest: The College Irish Grammer		1879	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 68.75
529	Sir John Temple.	History of Attempts of Irish Papists to Extirpate the Protestants in the Kingdom of Ireland the Barbarous Cruelities and Bloody Massacres.	London,	1812	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 50.00
530	Carr. John	The Stranger in Ireland, or, A Tour in the Southern and Western Parts of that Country, in the Year 1805.	London.	1806	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 400.00
531	James Carney.	A Genealogical History of the O'Reillys 1959, scarce; Poems on the O'Reillys		1950	EUR 90.00 - 180.00	EUR 93.75
532	O'Conor Don (Rt. Hon. C.O.)	The O'Connors of Connaught: An Historical Memoir	Dublin	1891	EUR 200.00 - 400.00	EUR 300.00
533		Irish Families / Supplement to Irish Families. 2 vols		1972, 1964.	EUR 200.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
534		An Irish Miscellany. Essays Heraldic, Historical and Genealogical by the MacCarthy Mor, Prince of Desmond & Count of Clandermond.		1998	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 37.50
535	MacGIOLLA-DOMHNAIGH, Padraig.	Some Anglicised Surnames in Ireland.	Dublin:	1923	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
536		The Irish Harp Book -- Sheila Larchet Cuthbert,		1977	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 68.75
537		Between The Ocean.		1975	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 81.25
538		The Maguires of Fermanagh N/A	Dublin	1917	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 37.50
539	KNOX, Alexander.	The Irish Watering Places, Their Climate, Scenery, And Accommodations; Including Analyses Of The Principal Mineral Springs, By Dr. R.Kane, And Remarks On The Various Forms Of Disease To Which They Are Adapted.	Dublin:	1845	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 150.00
540		Irish Maps and Guides : Thorough Guides Part 1 and 2.		1895	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 118.75
541		Irish Railway: The Sunny Side of Ireland-How to see it by the Great Southern & Western Railway		c 1903	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 93.75
542	Taylor, George & Skinner, Andrew	Maps of the Roads of Ireland	Shannon, Ireland	1969	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 200.00
543		Bartholomews Map Galway and Mayo (Sheet 5; Bartholomews Map Cork and Killarney (Sheet 4) Map of Kings Co (Linen Backed)		c 1920	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 50.00
544	Sir William Petty	Hiberniae Delineation...Atlas of Ireland 1685.	Newcastle	1968	EUR 150.00 - 250.00	EUR 400.00
545	Emmett, Thomas Addis	Thomas Addis Emmet and 'Robert Emmet'	Dublin.	2003	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 118.75
546	Hayes-McCoy, G.A	A History of Irish Flags from the earliest times.	Dublin	1979	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	EUR 81.25
547		Dublin & Hibernian Directory Pigot (J.) & Co. Pigot & Co's City of Dublin and Hibernian Provincial Directory,	London.	1824	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 125.00
548	Shane Leslie.	Saint Patrick's Purgatory a Record from History and Literature	London.	1932	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 37.50
549		The Parliamentary Register; or, History of the proceedings and debates of the House of Commons of Ireland is a collection of seventeen volumes		1784-1801	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 56.25
550	J.B. Lyons.	Brief Lives of Irish Doctors.		1978	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 37.50

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Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco José - Los desastres de la guerra. Madrid: 1863. € 12.000 - 18.000

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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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