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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
425 Rev. E. A. D'Alton

History of Ireland from Earliest Times to Present Day

London EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 43.75
426 J. F. Waller

Moore's Irish Melodies Lalla Rookh, National Airs, Legendary Ballads, Songs etc.

Circa 1880 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 56.25
427 Maurice Denham Jephson

An Anglo-Irish Miscellany

1964 EUR 200.00 - 250.00 EUR 150.00
428 Edward O'Reilly

An Irish-English Dictionary with copious quotations, obscure word

1864 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 162.50
429 Edited by Smith, Ohlmeyer , Kelly and Thomas Bartlett

Cambridge History of Ireland

EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 212.50
430 edited by Jacques Chuto etc...

The Collected Works of James Clarence Mangan 1832-1912

1996/2002 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 250.00
431 Kennedy

The Birds of Ireland; An Account of the Distribution Migration and Habits as Observed in Ireland

1954 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 125.00
432 John O'Hanlon, M.R.I.A.

Lives of Irish Saints, with Festivals, Commemorations of Holy Persons from Calendars, Martyrologies, and Various Sources, relating to Ancient Church History of Ireland

[1875] EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 300.00
433 Margaret Atwood

(Ten Fiction titles in Hardcover)

1989 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
434 Brendon Deacy

A Life in Relief'

EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 250.00
435

The Book of Kells: Reproductions from the Manuscript in Trinity College

1974 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 75.00
436

Atlas of Ireland

Dublin 1979 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 37.50
437

Ledger: Ledger sectioned by the alphabet

EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 75.00
438 Edmund Spenser

The Faerie Queene

EUR 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
439 (Bartlett, William Henry) Willis, N.P, & J. Stirling Coyne

The Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland

EUR 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
440

The Image of Irelande with a Discoverie of Woodkarne Derricke, John. Adam and Charles Black

1883 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 137.50
441

Pacata Hibernia; or, a History of the Wars in Ireland, During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth

Dublin 1810 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 175.00
442

Memoirs of the Political and Private Life of James Caulfield

London 1810 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 87.50
443 (Marcus)

The XII Books of Marcus Aurelius Antonius The Emperor Aurelius Antonius

London 1898 EUR 150.00 - 300.00 EUR 187.50
444

Sketches of Irish character

London 1842 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 37.50
445 Dawe

[Clonmel Literary Society]. The Life of George Morland

London 1807 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
446 Lever, Charles, editor

OUR MESS: TOM BURKE OF "OURS"

1844 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 37.50
447 Struve, Burckhard Gotthelf, 1671-1738

Antiquitatum Romanarum Syntagma sive de Sacrorum Caeremoniis Systema Absolutius

Ienae (Jena, Germany) 1707 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 50.00
448 Moore, John

A Journal During a Residence in France

Dublin 1793 EUR 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
449 Temple (Sir John)

The Irish Rebellion or A History of the Beginnings and First Progress of the General Rebellion, raised within the Kingdom of Ireland upon the three and twentieth day of October 1641

Dublin 1713 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 225.00
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