Purcell Auctioneers: Timed Book Auction - Antiquarian, Modern Literary, Signed Editions etc. etc.., 601579, Birr

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Auction Report
Auction Date
January 05, 2026 - January 05, 2026
Page Size: 462 items in 19 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
26

Instruct

EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 68.21
27

De La Famille, Consideree Comme L'Element Des Societes

EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 27.02
28

Hugh Boulter. Letters Written by His Excellency Hugh Boulter containing an Account of The Most Interesting Transactions which passed in Ireland from 1724 to 1728

1770 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 129.98
29 Edward Whelan Edited by Jacqui Hayes.

Ranks Mills the industrial heart of Limerick city

Limerick. 2012 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 34.75
30

Robert T. Vyner. Notitia Venatica - A Treatise of Fox-Hunting.

C.1890 EUR 10.00 - 30.00 EUR 45.04
31

limited edition of 200 copies, Signed author. Classic and Gothic. Michael McCarthy

EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 25.74
32 Justin Horgan & Paddy Cummins,

Luftwaffe Eagles Over Ireland, The story of German Air Crashes over Neutral Ireland 1940 --1945

2016 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
33 Nicola Pierce

Ulster Local History: A collection of titles such as Ballymena City of Seven Towers

2007 EUR 10.00 - 30.00 EUR 28.31
34

Desmond O'Grady, Louis le Brocquy: The Gododdin.

1977 EUR 250.00 - 300.00 EUR 193.04
35 compiled & Edited by Ciaran Tinkler

Ballyfin: Patrician College Ballyfin 1930-2009

EUR 30.00 - 50.00 EUR 38.61
36

GAA: County Annuals for Louth

1984 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
37

GAA: The Green and White, Limerick GAA Youth Magazine

EUR 20.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
38

GAA Magazines: Greats of Gaelic Games- Top GoalKeepers, Tpo Score Getters

EUR 15.00 - 30.00 Not Sold
39

Native Trees & Forests of Ireland

-2002 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
40

The Journals of the House of Commons of the Kingdom of Ireland. From the Eleventh Year of King James the First. ANON.

Dublin 1763 EUR 30.00 - 60.00 EUR 68.21
41 Edited by Doctor Costecalde

Irish Interest X 3 Titles: The Church of Ireland-an illustrated history

EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 27.02
42 Jacqueline O'Brien and Peter Harbison

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

1996 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 25.74
43 T F Hornbien,

Everest: The West Ridge

1980 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 33.46
44

Dr. Julius Hoffmann. Alpine Flora.

1903 EUR 10.00 - 30.00 EUR 12.87
45

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. In Two Volumes.

London: 1820 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
46

Nanga Parbat Pilgrimage, a mountaineer's autobiography

1956 EUR 10.00 - 30.00 EUR 12.87
47 D.L. Kelleher.

The Glamour of the South.

1929 EUR 15.00 - 30.00 EUR 46.33
48

The Speech of the Right Hon. John , Earl of Clare, Lord High Chancellor of Ireland. Dublin.

1800 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 55.34
49 Robert Hamilton.

A Inquiry concerning the rise and progress of the National Debt of Great Britain and Ireland.

1818 EUR 15.00 - 30.00 EUR 19.30
50

Proceedings in connection with the visit to Dublin by the Marquis of Ripon and the Right Hon., John Morley M.P. f rom the ist to 3rd February, 1885,

Dublin 1888 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 25.74
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