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

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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
551	O'Curry, Eugene	Lectures on the Manuscript Materials of Ancient Irish History Dublin.		1861	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	EUR 68.75
552		Atlas of Ireland. Prepared by Irish National Committee for Geography.	Dublin,	1979	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 37.50
553	Thomas Crookshank.	The Practical Planter containing directions for the planting of waste lands and Management of Woods.			EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 68.75
554	H D Richardson (Author), W Oldham (Illustrator), Harrison Weir (Illustrator).	Agriculture: Domestic Pigs: Their Origin And Varieties, Management With A View To Profit		1847	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 150.00
555	N. M. Penzer.	The Most Noble and Familiar Travels of Marco Polo.		1929	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 37.50
556	Margaret Stokes.	Early Christian Architecture in Ireland.		1878	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	EUR 50.00
557	Captain John 0'Rourke.	The Great Famine.		1989	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
558		Thesis: 'An Investigation into the Impact that TV Advertising has on Generating Pester Power within the Irish Tweenie Market' Submitted to the Dublin Business School.		2011	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
559	Samuel Lewis	'A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland'		1837	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
560	JUNG, C. G. (Sonu Shamdasani, ed)	THE RED BOOK: Liber Novus	Norton, NY.	2009	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 75.00
561	James Edwin-Cole.	The Genealogy of the Family of Cole of the County of Devon, Surrey and Ireland.		1867	EUR 120.00 - 150.00	EUR 275.00
562	Petty, William	The History of the Survey of Ireland, commonly called The Down Survey A.D. 1655-6		1851	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 187.50
563	Seumas O'Kelly	Hillsiders		1921	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 68.75
564	Carleton, Lover, and Mrs. Hall	Characteristic Sketches of Ireland and the Irish	Dublin.	1840	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 87.50
565	O'Grady, Standish	History of Ireland - The Heroic Period.		1878, 1880	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 250.00
566	Burnet, Gilbert; Wadsworth, James.	The Life of William Bedell: Lord Bishop of Killmore in Ireland		1692	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	EUR 93.75
567	Moran.	Attractive Maynooth prize bindings. Occasional Papers by Moran.		1890	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 50.00
568	John Carden Esq	A Letter to the Public by John Carden Esq of Barnane.	Dublin,	1858	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 37.50
569	Rev S malone	Life of saint Flannan- Father of Killaloe Diocese translated		1902	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 68.75
570	MANNING, Robert	Waterford Printing: A Plain and Rational Account of the Catholic Faith. With a Preface and Appendix, in Vindication of Catholic Morals	Waterford.	1861	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
571	Rev Denis Murphy.	The Annals of Clonmacnoise being the Annals of Ireland edited		1896	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 150.00
572	Carey, M.	indiciae Hibernicae: or, Ireland Vindicated: an Attempt to Develop and Expose a Few of the Multifarious Errors and Misrepresentations Respecting Ireland etc.	Philadelphia:	1823	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
573	edited by J Dunn	The Glories of Ireland		1914	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
574	S MacCall	Irish Mitchell- a biography		1938	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
575	C Litton Falkiner	Illustrations Of Irish History and Topography, Mainly Of The Seventeenth Century		1904	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 56.25

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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