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
601		A Tour in Ireland: with General Observations on the Present State of that Kingdom: made in the Years 1776.		1777, and 1778	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 500.00
602		Conversations of Botany.		1820	EUR 120.00 - 150.00	EUR 150.00
603		Mockba; Moscow rare large color photo album showing Soviet Russia. Presented to the delegation of Irish Transport and General Workers Union on a visit to Russia 1967.			EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 56.25
604		Attractive bindings. Book for Every Land by Paterson.		1857	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 43.75
605	GRAY Thomas, LL.B.	Beauties Selected from the Writings of James Beattie, LL.D. Late Professor of Moral Philosophy and Logic in the Marischal College and University of Aberdeen,...	London.	1809	EUR 60.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
606		Baptisterium, et caeremoniale sacramentorum juxta ritum Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae, et Rituale Pauli V Ad usum fere omnium Ecclesiarum dominiorum Lusitaniae Olisipone [Lisbon] ;		1818	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 56.25
607		De Rebus Gestis Beati Aloysii Gonzagae e Societate Iesu. Annibale Marchetti.	Florentiae	1687	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	EUR 93.75
608		Nennii Banchorensis Coenobiarchae Eulogium Britanniae sive Historia Britonum. Editio Nova. Prioribus longe correctior.	Havniae	1758	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 56.25
609		[Printed by the Vatican printer] Manuale di architettura di Giovanni Branca architetto Con figure in rame, delineate, ed incise da Filippo Vasconi .	Rome,	1718	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	EUR 187.50
610	[MOORE (Thomas)]	Memoirs of Captain Rock, the Celebrated Irish Chieftain, with some Account of his Ancestors. Written by Himself	London.	1824	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
611	Kennedy, John Pitt,	Instruct; Employ; Don't Hang Them or Ireland Tranquilized without soldiers and enriched without English Capital.	London.	1835	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
612		History of the wars occasioned by the French Revolution : from the commencement of hostilities in 1792, to the end of the year 1816 : embracing a complete history of the Revolution, with biographical sketches of most of the public characters of Europe : C	London :	1817	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 62.50
613	Lord Dunsany.	Guerrilla - A Novel.		1944	EUR 50.00 - 70.00	EUR 125.00
614	T.C. Barnard.	Cromwellian Ireland. English Government and reform in Ireland 1649/1660.		1973	EUR 60.00 - 80.00	EUR 62.50
615	Henry Coulter.	The West of Ireland.		1862	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
616	Mc Cormack (W.J.) ed.	In the Prison of His Days, A Miscellany for Nelson Mandela, 8vo,	Dublin	1990	EUR 250.00 - 360.00	EUR 212.50
617	Mc Cormack (W.J.) ed.	In the Prison of His Days, A Miscellany for Nelson Mandela, 8vo,	Dublin	1990	EUR 250.00 - 350.00	EUR 237.50
618	Fitzpatrick, Thomas	The Bloody Bridge And other papers Relating to the Insurrection of 1641 (Sir Phelim O'Neill's Rebellion)		1903	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 43.75
619	J J O' Connell.	The Irish Wars: A Military History of Ireland from the Norse Invasions to 1798		c 1920	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 68.75
620	Alexander Williams.	Beautiful Ireland.		c.1910	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 50.00
621	Betts, John	The Story of The Irish Society. Being a Brief Historical Account of the Foundation and Work of The Honourable The Irish Society of London,	London	1913	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 43.75
622	G A Hayes-McCoy	Irish Manuscripts Commission: The Compossicion Booke of Conought 1585 transcribed by A Martin Freeman with Index		1936/1942	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 150.00
623	Meda Ryan.	Tom Barry-Irish Freedom Fighter		2003	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
624	Fraser, James	A Hand Book for Travellers in Ireland, Descriptive of Its Scenery, Towns, Seats, Antiquities, Etc.	Dublin.	1845	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 87.50
625	W B Yeats	Irish Interest: Essays		1924	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 50.00

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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