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
576 P W Joyce:

The Origin and History of Irish Names of Places with an inscription from the Author

c 1870's EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 106.25
577 Dalrymple, Sir John, Bart.

Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland, from the Dissolution of the last Parliament of Charles II until the Sea-battle off La Hogue

1771 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 87.50
578

Two Centuries of Irish History 1691-1870 with an introduction by J Bryce.

1888 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 137.50
579 Diarmaid Coffey

Irish Interest: Douglas Hyde- President of Ireland

1938 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 37.50
580

Historical Memoirs of the Irish Bards. Occasional Observations on the Music of Ireland. Historical and Descriptive Account of the Musical Instruments of the Ancient Irish etc.

Dublin, 1786 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 137.50
581 Fox, Charlotte Milligan

Annals of the Irish Harpers

1917 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 87.50
582 Cal McCrystal

Irish Interest: Reflections on a Quiet Rebel

1997 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
583 John Devoy

Recollections of an Irish rebel: The Fenian movement. Its origin and progress. Methods of work in Ireland and in the British army. Why it failed to achieve of Easter week 1916. A personal narrative

1929 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 75.00
584 Vernon-Harcourt, Leveson Francis (1839-1907)

the flow, control, and improvement of rivers and the design, construction, and development of canals both for navigation and irrigation with statistics of the traffic on inland waterways / by Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt - complete in 2 volumes

Oxford : 1896 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 150.00
585

The Illustrated History of Ireland by M F Cusack with folding map (torn). Kenmare publications 1875; Ireland's ancient Schools and Scholars by Rev John Healy with folding map.

EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 375.00
586

Transactions of Royal Irish Academy. Dublin 1846-1860. science, literature, archaeology, history; an ancient Irish Missal by Todd; Distribution of Plants in Burren, County Clare by F. J. Foot ...

EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 125.00
587

Portrait and biographical album of Otoe and Cass Counties, Nebraska,

Chicago, 1889 EUR 200.00 - 240.00 EUR 106.25
588 Richard Lovett.

Irish Pictures

1888 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 112.50
589 T. MacKay.

Flora Hibernica.

1826 EUR 100.00 - 120.00 EUR 162.50
590 Doyle, Martin (William Hickey) & Murphy, Edmund:

The Irish Farmer's and Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural Affairs.

Dublin: 1834 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 37.50
591 Harrison Dale

Irish Interest: Ireland

1927 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 106.25
592 Hogan, ML.

Lays and Legends of Thomond, 1 volume.

1880 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 EUR 68.75
593 Charlie Browne.

The Story of the 7th - A Concise History of the 7th Battalion Cork No. 1 Brigade - Irish Republican Army from 1915 to 1921. n.d.

EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 75.00
594 O'Donoghue (D.J.)

Life of Robert Emmet

Dublin. 1902 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 68.75
595 Liam Blake, Text Brendan Kennelly,

Real Ireland: Photographs,

1984 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 43.75
596

J. Amman Wappen & Stammbuch 1881.

EUR 130.00 - 180.00 EUR 62.50
597

Irish Seal-Matrices and Seals by E. C. R. Armstrong.

Dublin. 1913 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 275.00
598

De La Famille, Consideree Comme L'Element Des Societes; Par Toussaint Guiraudet, Secretaire General des Relations Exterieures.

A Paris. 1791 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
599

***WITHDRAWN***

EUR 40.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
600

A philosophical survey of the south of Ireland, in a series of letters to John Watkinson, M.D.

Dublin : 1778 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 106.25
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