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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
500 Edited by Angelique Day

Letters from Georgian Ireland -- The Correspondence of Mary Delaney 1731-1768

1991 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 37.50
501 Sir F.J. Aylmer

The Aylmers of Ireland

1931 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 187.50
502 Jonathan Guinness

Requiem for a Family Business

1997 EUR 50.00 - 70.00 Not Sold
503

The Voice of the Nation

Dublin 1844 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 37.50
504 Katharine Stewart

(Folklore and Irish Music) - Crofts and Crofting

1980 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 37.50
505 edited by Rev. W. MacIlwaine, D.D., M.R.I.A.

Lyra Hibernica Sacra

Belfast Circa 1879 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 56.25
506 Liam Miller

(Print Related)

1973 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 100.00
507

Proceedings of the Dublin Zoological & Botanical Association

1859 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 93.75
508

Apologia Pro Hibernia Adversus Cambri Calumnias: sive Fabularum et Famosorum Libellorum Silvestri Giraldi Cambrensis sub vocabulis Topographie, sive de Mirabilibus Hibernie, et Historie Vaticinalis, sive Expugnationis Ejusdem Insulie Refutatio

Dublin 1849 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 175.00
509

In Memoriam Sir Robert Baird

Belfast 1934 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
510

[Dail Eireann and the War of Independence]

August 1921 to June 1922 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
511 Oscar Wilde

Stuart Mason. Art and Morality

1912 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 112.50
512 Charles Squire

Celtic Myth and Legend

EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 87.50
513 George MacDonald

(Vintage Children's) -- The Princess and the Goblin

1952 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 43.75
514 Mrs. S. C. Hall

Stories of the Irish Peasantry

Edinburgh Circa 1844 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 100.00
515 Louis De Bernieres

(Six Limited Editions, Signed) -- Birds Without Wings

2004 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 125.00
516 John O'Hart

The Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry when Cromwell came to Ireland

Dublin 1884 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 150.00
517 John O'Mahony

The Sunny Side of Ireland

Circa 1900 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 56.25
518 Alexis Roche

Journeys with Jerry the Jarvey

London 1915 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
519 W. Steuart Trench

Realities of Irish life

1869 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 68.75
520 Liam S. Gogan

The Ardagh Chalice

EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 37.50
521 Newport White

Extents of Irish Monastic Possessions 1540-1541 from MSS in PRO London

1943 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 75.00
522

Murroe and Boher the history of an Irish Country Parish by Dom Mark Tierney and Bruree

1971 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 100.00
523 Maire MacNeill

The Festival of Lughnasa (A Study of the Survival of the Celtic Festival of the Beginning of Harvest)

1962 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 106.25
524

Padraic Colum. A Half Day's Ride or Estates in Corsica

New York 1922 EUR 80.00 - 100.00 EUR 125.00
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