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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
76

Waterford: The faith Journey of the Deise People by Michael G Olden

 2018 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 37.50
77

The Houses of Wexford by David Rowe and Eithne Scallon

 2004 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 125.00
78

Annals of Westmeath, James Woods, Sealy, Bryers & Walker

 1907 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
79 C E B Brett

Buildings of County Antrim and County Armagh

 1996-2002 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 43.75
80 Alfred S Moore

Belfast: Old Belfast

 1951 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 37.50
81 T.W. Moody

The Londonderry Plantation 1609-41

 Belfast 1939 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
82 Rev. John Graham

Derriana Consisting of a History of the Siege of Londonderry and Defence of Enniskillen in 1688 & 1689

 Londonderry 1823 EUR 100.00 - 140.00 EUR 81.25
83 Leathem

History of St. Mary Magdalene Parish Belfast

 1939 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 37.50
84 Micheall O Morain

[scarce Kerry pamphlets] Tomas Aghas. Thomas Ashe, 1885-1917

 1985 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 87.50
85

Seventh Annual Report of the Commissioners for Administering the Laws for Relief of the Poor in Ireland with Appendices

 1854 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 37.50
86 Willie Costello

(Local memoir and local History) - The Rambling House, tales of the west of Ireland

 2003 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
87 Jeremiah O'Mahony

Cork/Galway: West Cork and its story

 2006 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 150.00
88 Peadar O' Dowd

Galway/Mayo/Tipperary/Ulster: The Diocese of Galway, Kilmacduagh and Kilfenora-an illustrated history

 1959 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 75.00
89 Geraldine Stout

Newgrange and the Bend of the Boyne

 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 75.00
90 Muiis De Buitleir

Dublin/Wexford/Wicklow: A portrait of Dublin in Maps-History/Geography/People/Society

 2013 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
91 Peter Harbison & Stephen Conlin

Coffee Table Books, all First Prints with Dublin the Story of the City signed

 2006 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
92 Ignatius Murphy

The Diocese Of Killaloe

 1991-1995 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 EUR 175.00
93 Rev. Canon O'Hanlon & E. O'Leary

History of the Queen's County

 1981 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 150.00
94 Rev John

History of the Ely O'Carroll Territory of Ancient Ormond Gleeson

 Kilkenny 1982 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 175.00
95

Cogan, The Diocese of Meath, ancient and modern

 1862 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 75.00
96

The History and Antiquities of the Diocese of Ossory Rev. William Carrigan

 Dublin, Ireland 1981 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 EUR 275.00
97 North Munster Antiquarian Journal

Thomond Archaeological Society

 1938-170 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 81.25
98

Journal of the Galway Arch. & Historical Society

 199, 2000, 2009, and 2010 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 37.50
99

Irish Publications: The National Monuments of the Irish Free State

 1911 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 87.50
100

Pickering & Chatto, bookseller's catalogue, 1906-08

 London EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 350.00
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    Year in Review
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: A Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah. Sold: 1,514,000 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: "The Freedman's Primer.” Sold: 241,300 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Smith, William. "The Map that Changed the World." Sold: 139,700 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Psalter, C13th. Illuminated Psalter. Sold: 330,200 GBP
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Lincoln, Abraham. The abolition of slavery. Sold: 13,697,500 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Vergilius. Opera, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, 1501. Sold: 1,041,400 USD
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