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
101 C. L. Graves.

The Blarney Ballads with Illustrations by G. R. Halkett.

London: 1888 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 25.74
102 Henry Giles.

Lectures and Essays on Irish and Other Subjects.. New York.

1869 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 25.74
103 Rev. Denis Murphy.

Monastern Sanctae Crucis in Hibernia.

Dublin 1895 EUR 30.00 - 60.00 EUR 46.33
104 Graeme Dingle.

Two Against The Alps

1972 EUR 20.00 - 60.00 EUR 42.47
105 Karl Baedeker.

Switzerland and the Adjacent portions of Italy, Savoy, and The Tyrol.

1889 EUR 15.00 - 30.00 EUR 33.46
106 Rv. M. Resselu.

History of Ancient & Modern Greece and Humboldt's Travel and Researches.

1855 EUR 10.00 - 30.00 EUR 12.87
107

A Catholic and Burkist. An Argument against extermination. Dublin.

1800 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 27.02
108 May Crommelin.

Over the Andes from the Argentine to Chili and Peru.

1896 EUR 10.00 - 30.00 EUR 46.33
109 McBey, James.

Modern Masters of Etching with Introduction by Malcolm Salaman Number Two

EUR 10.00 - 30.00 EUR 41.18
110 Fuller, Peter

Robert Natkin

1981 EUR 30.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
111

Oscar Wilde: The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde Holland, Merlin

2000 EUR 10.00 - 30.00 EUR 12.87
112 Conrad Loddiges and George Cooke.

Botanical Cabinet.

1825 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 33.46
113

Dublin: The Future of Dublin-Practical Slum Reform

1917 EUR 10.00 - 30.00 EUR 39.89
114 Wheatley, Dennis.

Murder of Miami.

1936 EUR 30.00 - 60.00 EUR 39.89
115

Our Summer School in Paris September 1925

EUR 10.00 - 30.00 EUR 12.87
116 Tomas de Bhaldraithe,

"Cin Lae Amhlaoibh". Caighdean, an 3u clo

1976 EUR 10.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
117

Journals: Royal Irish Academy( title faint on spine) An Early Battle of The Boyne

EUR 15.00 - 30.00 Not Sold
118

Recollections Of The Life of John O'Keefe, written

London, 1826 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 45.04
119

The Golden Lotus: A Translation from the Chinese Original, of the Novel "Chin P'ing Mei", 4 Volumes Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng. First Complete Translation

1972 EUR 10.00 - 30.00 EUR 36.03
120

A History of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland - to the treaty of Amiens.

EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 27.02
121 John Barlow,

Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Dublin, : established for the investigation and revival of ancient Irish literature . Vol. I. Gaelic Society of Ireland ( Theophilo O Flanagan, P. M'Elligott ) Printed

London, 1808 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 91.37
122 K H Connell

Irish Related: Irish Peasant Society - Four Historical Essays

1968 EUR 10.00 - 30.00 EUR 46.33
123 J M Synge: Edited by Colm Toibin,

Synge: A Celebration

2005 EUR 10.00 - 40.00 EUR 27.02
124 Deirdre Kelly

Dublin Related: hands off Dublin

EUR 10.00 - 40.00 EUR 28.31
125 K. Villiers-Tuthill.

Patient Endurance - The Great Famine in Connemara.

2017 EUR 10.00 - 40.00 EUR 38.61
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