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

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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
126 Carpenter, H.

Masters of Boxing

 1964 EUR 10.00 - 40.00 EUR 12.87
127

Irish Poetry: William Butler Yeats A Memoir

EUR 10.00 - 40.00 EUR 14.16
128

Coffee Table Books: Heritage Trees of Ireland

2013 EUR 10.00 - 40.00 EUR 38.61
129

Dublin/Clare/Galway/Kildare/Donegal Related: James Joyce's Dublin

1974 EUR 10.00 - 40.00 EUR 12.87
130 Molloy, J. F.

Romance of the Irish Stage with Pictures of the Irish Capital in the Eighteenth Century. New York:

 1897 EUR 10.00 - 40.00 EUR 15.44
131 Theo Snoddy,

Dictionary of Irish artists 20th century

 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 33.46
132 S A Ossory Fitzpatrick

Dublin: Dublin-A Historical and Topographical Account of the City

1907 EUR 10.00 - 40.00 EUR 20.59
133 Seosamh MacCathmhaoil

IrIsh Related: The Mountainy Singer

1919 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 33.46
134

In Memoriam Sir Robert Baird. Belfast: Privately printed.

 1934 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
135 Tom MacIntyre

Irish Poetry/Literature: The Harper's Turn

1982 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 36.03
136 J. Fitzgerald.

The Romance of the Irish Stage.

 1897 EUR 30.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
137 Seosamh MacCathmhaoil.

The Mountainey Singer

Dublin 1909 EUR 10.00 - 30.00 EUR 12.87
138 Edited by Roger McHugh

Carlow Local History: Voice of Rebellion Carlow in 1798

 1998 EUR 10.00 - 40.00 EUR 32.17
139

Leabhuir an tSean Tiomna [The Book of the Old Testament]. (Ar na dtarruing on teanguidh ughdarach go gaidhlig tre churam agus saothar, an Dochtur Uilliam Bhedel, Roimhe so Easpog Chillemoire a nErin) [Translated from the original to Irish through the care

 Dublin, 1827 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 61.77
140 Knox, William.

Extra Official State Papers. Addressed to The Right Hon. Lord Rawdon and the other members of the Two Houses of Parliament...

1789 EUR 15.00 - 30.00 EUR 39.89
141 Edited by John O'Daly.

Ossianic Society - Fenian Poems,

Dublin: 1859 EUR 30.00 - 60.00 EUR 59.20
142 Milbank, Kitty.

The Flighty Prince. Privately

New York 1963 EUR 10.00 - 30.00 EUR 18.02
143 Katharine Tynan.

A Little Book for John O'Mahony's Friends

Maine. 1909 EUR 15.00 - 30.00 EUR 41.18
144

Irish Language Booklets/Pamphlets: The Leigean Eirean Series No 2/4/7

EUR 15.00 - 30.00 EUR 46.33
145

A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. Containing Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate, Market, and Port Towns, Parishes, and Villages, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions. Samuel Lewis.

 1837 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 59.20
146

Scripturae Linguaeque Phoeniciae: Monumenta Quotquot Supersunt, Pars Tertia Wilhelm Gesenius

1837 EUR 30.00 - 60.00 EUR 52.76
147 Pender, Seamus

Council Books of the Corporation of Waterford 1662-1700, together with nine documents of 1580-82.

Lipsiae 1964 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 46.33
148 Lawrence, T. E.

Seven Pillars Of Wisdom. London: Jonathan Cape, 30 Bedford Square and at Toronto.

 EUR 30.00 - 60.00 EUR 33.46
149

Irish Poetry: Collected Poems of John Montague 1995/Derek Mahon 1999/Richard Murphy, 2000/Michael Hartnett, 2001

EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 52.76
150 John McGahern:

The Pornographer

London 1979 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 142.85
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