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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
450 W.B. Yeats

The Variorum Edition of the Poems of W. B. Yeats

1957 EUR 750.00 - 950.00 EUR 875.00
451

A 1972 edition of 'The History of the Olympic Games in Thirteen Posters'

Texaco EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 50.00
452 Pauline Bewick

Kelly reads Bewick

2001 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
453 Wendy Walsh

A Lifetime of Painting

Dublin 2007 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 125.00
454

Twelve Irish Artists

Dublin 1940 EUR 150.00 - 180.00 EUR 100.00
455 William Conor

The Irish Scene

1944 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 62.50
456

The Painters of Ireland c, 1660-1920

EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 43.75
457 Thomas Bodkin

Hugh Lane and his Pictures

1932 EUR 300.00 - 320.00 Not Sold
458 Richard Lovett

Irish Pictures Drawn by pen and Pencil

London 1888 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 75.00
459

The Knights of Glin: Seven Centuries of Change

2009 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 100.00
460

White Heat - Marco Pierre White

London 1990 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 Not Sold
461 John Feehan & Grace O'Donovan

The Bogs Of Ireland - an Introduction to the Natural, Cultural and Industrial Heritage of Irish Peatlands

1996 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 200.00
462 HB, Callaway

Sean & Oisin Scully; Jack the Wolf

2023 EUR 80.00 - 100.00 EUR 81.25
463 Rene Goscinny

Asterix, First Eight English translated Editions and First Prints

1970 and 1979 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 68.75
464 John Hunt

Irish Medieval Figure Sculpture 1200 to 1600

EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 106.25
465 Anne Crookshank

Irish Art: The Painters of Ireland c1660-1920

EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 162.50
466

A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland

1837 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 93.75
467

Francis Grose - The antiquities of Ireland

1982 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 125.00
468 W Henry Bartlett

Ireland: The Scenery and antiquities of Ireland illustrated from drawings

c1850 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 68.75
469 Jacqueline O'Brien and Peter Harbison

Irish Interest Coffee Table Books: Ancient Ireland- from orehistory to the middle ages

EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 50.00
470 Sir Edward Sullivan

Irish Interest Coffee Table Books: The Book of Kells described

1986 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 43.75
471

Snaffles- Two rare first editions

EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 187.50
472 Somerville and Ross

A Patrick's Day Hunt

EUR 120.00 - 240.00 Not Sold
473

Somerville and Ross- seven volumes by and about these authors of the Irish R.M.

EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 87.50
474 Edward Fitzgerald

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

London 1913 EUR 100.00 - 120.00 EUR 93.75
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