Purcell Auctioneers: Truly Exceptional Sale Of The Library Of An Irish Gentleman and Other Very Important Clients to include the World Renowned First Edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle (July, 1493) and Other Incunabula , 112625, Birr

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Auction Report
Auction Date
November 26, 2025 - November 26, 2025
Page Size: 344 items in 14 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
300 Y. M. Goblet, editor

A Topographical index of the parishes and townlands of Ireland in Sir William Petty's MSS barony maps (c. 1655-9) and Hiberniae Delineatio (c. 1672)

1932 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 125.00
301 Katharine Tynan

The Wild Harp

London 1913 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 187.50
302

Aubrey De Vere of Curragh Chase

Circa 1878 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 112.50
303

WestMeath: The Placenames of WestMeath

1957 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 100.00
304 John P Prendergast

The Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland

Dublin 1875 EUR 120.00 - 200.00 EUR 106.25
305 John O'Driscoll

'The History of Ireland'

1827 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 62.50
306

Saorstat Eireann. Irish Free State Official Handbook

1932 EUR 100.00 - 160.00 EUR 125.00
307

As I Was Going Down Sackville Street - A Phantasy in Fact by Oliver St J Gogarty

London 1937 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 25.00
308

[original maps] Atlas of Ireland

1837 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 500.00
309 W. B. Yeats

The Celtic Twilight

1902 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 118.75
310 Birmingham, George A.

Irishmen All. Author of "The Lighter sie Of Irish Life"

London & Edinburgh 1913 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 75.00
311

Arthur Young's Tour In Ireland (1776-1779), edited with introduction and notes by Arthur Wollaston Hutton

London 1892 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 150.00
312 Joyce, P.W.

The Origin And History Of Irish Names Of Places

1903 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 150.00
313

The Clare Elections by Kieran Sheedy

1993 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 237.50
314

The Black Book of Limerick by Rev. James MacCaffrey with introduction and notes

Dublin 1907 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 187.50
315

The Folio Society: A collection such as The Life of Charlemagne

1970 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 106.25
316 Canon John Begley

The Diocese of Limerick

1928 EUR 100.00 - 180.00 EUR 150.00
317

The Census of Elphin 1749 Marie-Louise Legg

2004 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 56.25
318 James White

Gerard Dillon: An Illustrated Biography

Dublin 1994 EUR 90.00 - 180.00 EUR 175.00
319 T Fisher Unwin

Michael Davitt- Revolutionary, Agitator and Labour Leader by F Sheehy -Skeffington

1908 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 81.25
320

Old Galway- The History of a Norman Colony in Ireland by M D O'Sullivan

Cambridge 1942 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 68.75
321

Renowned scholar, P. W. Joyce of Glenosheen. Short Social History of Ancient Ireland

1894 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 200.00
322 Foras Feasa na hEireann

The History of Ireland

1902 to 1914 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 250.00
323

[Definitive Irish Text of the Bible

1981 EUR 60.00 - 90.00 EUR 775.00
324 K Waldron, editor

Religious Interest: Archdiocese of Tuam-An Illustrated History

2004 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 37.50
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