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 Report
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
651 Conor Cruise O'Brien

The Great Melody-a thematic biography of Edmund Burke

1992 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 37.50
652

The Police Gazette or Hue and Cry, for Ireland. December 1870.

1870 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 68.75
653

Sex Madonna

1992 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 87.50
654 Rith Dudley Edwards

Patrick Pearse The Triumph Of Failure

1977 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 37.50
655 Petri Mirala.

Freemasonary in Ulster 1733-1813

2007 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
656 Eugene O'Curry.

Lectures on The Ancient Irish Manuscript Materials of Ancient Irish History.

Dublin, 1861 EUR 70.00 - 120.00 EUR 50.00
657 Paul Walsh.

Irish Men of learning.

1942 EUR 75.00 - 90.00 EUR 275.00
658 Hugh Boulter.

Letters Written by His Excellency Hugh Boulter containing an Account of The Most Interesting Transactions which passed in Ireland from 1724 to 1728.

1770 EUR 120.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
659 John Montague.

Company- A Chosen Life

2001 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
660

Report from Select Committee on County Cess (Ireland) .

1836 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 200.00
661 Fearghal McGarry.

The Abbey Rebels of 1916- a lost Revolution

2015 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 62.50
662 (Edward Fitzgerald)

The Book of The Salmon.

1850 EUR 140.00 - 180.00 EUR 300.00
663 Le Roux, Louis N.

Tom Clarke and the Irish Freedom Movement.

1936 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 37.50
664 Willaim C. Braithwaite

The Beginnings of Quakerism,

London. 1910 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 56.25
665 David Fitzpatrick.

Harry Boland's Irish Revolution

2003 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 62.50
666

The Sportsman's Dictionary; or, the gentleman's companion: for town and country.

Dublin. 1786 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 50.00
667 Lindsay, John.

A View Of The Coinage Of Ireland From The Invasion of the Danes to the Reign of George VI with Some Account of the Ring Money.

Cork: 1839 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 37.50
668 Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon: Three Essays, Of Truth Beautie and Goodnesse,

1926 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 43.75
669 Colbert Kearney

The Writings of Brendan Behan

1977 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 43.75
670 Kevin Haddick-Flynn

Orangeism- The Making of a Tradition

1999 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 37.50
671

Cave Birds: An Alchemical Drama Ted Hughes, Poetry; Drawings by Leonard Baskin

1978 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 50.00
672 Maxwell, William Hamilton

WILD SPORTS OF THE WEST. WITH LEGENDARY TALES, AND LOCAL SKETCHES [Two volumes]

London. 1833 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 175.00
673 anna Redlich

Irish Dog Interest: The Dogs of Ireland

1949 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 56.25
674 Edwards, Lionel

My Irish Sketch Book

1938 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
675 Huntsman, Lynch (Stanislaus)

Rhymes for an Irish

London. 1937 EUR 100.00 - 160.00 Not Sold
  • 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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