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Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
December 10, 2025 - December 10, 2025
Page Size: 617 items in 25 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Thomas McGrath, editor

Carlow, History and Society

2008 EUR 100.00 - 160.00 EUR 137.50
2

Carlow: Cnoc Beag Centenary Year Book

1948 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 118.75
3 Art Kavanagh

Carlow: Battle of 1798 Series

2003 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 37.50
4

Carlow: The Carlow College Magazine

1869-1890 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 37.50
5 edited by Matthew Lynch and Patrick Nugent

Clare: History & Society

2008 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 68.75
6 Duthaighe Dail gCais

[In Dalcassian Territory] Cameos of Historic Clare [illustrated]

Circa 1935 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 56.25
7

The Horse in County Clare

2001/2006 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 125.00
8

County Clare interest

EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 100.00
9 James Frost

Clare: The History and Topography of the County of Clare

1978 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 50.00
10 Patrick O' Flanagan, editor

Cork Interest: Cork History & Society

1993 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 75.00
11

Rev W Holland: History of West Cork and the Diocese of Ross

1949 EUR 180.00 - 280.00 EUR 400.00
12

Where Araglen so Gently Flows

EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 62.50
13 Kathleen Keyes McDonnell

There is a Bridge at Bandon

1972 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 112.50
14 Charles Benson

The Dublin Book Trade 1801-1850

2021 EUR 30.00 - 50.00 EUR 37.50
15

The Irish Tourists Illustrated Hand Book

1852 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 62.50
16

Bolton Street Prospectus for 1923-24 & 1928-29

1923 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 75.00
17 Flora H. Mitchell

Vanishing Dublin

1966 EUR 280.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
18

A Book of Dublin, official handbook

1929 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 37.50
19 William Ridgeway

A Report of the Proceedings in Cases of High Treason at an adjournment of a commission of Oyer and Terminer held in and for the County and City of Dublin in the month of December 1795

Dublin 1796 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 112.50
20 Kevin Bright

Dublin: The Royal Dublin Society 1815-1845

2004 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 37.50
21

[Dublin] Warburton, Whitelaw & Walsh History of the City of Dublin

1818 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 300.00
22 James Hardiman

History of the Town & County of the Town of Galway

1926 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 50.00
23 R. C. Simington

The Transplantation to Connacht 1654-58

1970 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 125.00
24 Ethel Mannin

Connemara Journal

1947 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 175.00
25 William Henry

St. Clerans - The Tale of a Manor House

1999 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 37.50
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