Purcell Auctioneers: c.630+ Lot Auction of a Collection of Irish & World Interest Books - Antiquarian Books, Rare & Signed First Editions, Maps, GAA Interest, Local Histories, Journals, Maps, Irish Language etc., 21925, Birr

Auction Details

Auction Date: February 19, 2025 - February 19, 2025

Page Size: 627 items in 26 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
300	Andrew Bonar Law	The Printed Maps of Ireland 1612-1850			EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 350.00
301		From The Personal Library of PAUL DURCAN: 9 hardbacks ALL SIGNED by their Authors with an inscription to Paul Durcan.			EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 106.25
302	O'Farrell.	Who's Who in the Irish War of Independence		1980	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 37.50
303		Six Irish Art Catalogues including publications on Colin Davidson and a Barrie Cooke catalogue signed by editor Aidan Dunne			EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 25.00
304		Series of five Art Catalogues including publications on Basil Blackshaw			EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 25.00
305		Five Tony O'Malley Catalogues			EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 37.50
306	edited Catherine Cruan	William Crozier,		2007	EUR 60.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
307	Camille Souter,	The Mirror in the Sea by Garrett Cormican		2006	EUR 60.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
308		Eight Gandon Press Catalogues including Profile 28 by Camille Souter			EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 25.00
309		Twelve Irish Art Catalogues including publications on Sean Mc Sweeney, Colin Middleton & Patrick Scott			EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 25.00
310	O'Grady.	The Life and Work of Sarah Purser		1996	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 56.25
311		Irish Art: Louis Le Brocquy - The Head Image - Interview with the Artist Le Brocquy, Louis - Pierre Le Brocquy (editor)	xCork,	1996	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
312	Saul Field & Morton P. Levitt	Bloomsday, an interpretation of James Joyce's Ulysses			EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 25.00
313	Hilary Pyle.	Yeats Portrait of an Artistic Family			EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 56.25
314		Coffee Table Titles.			EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 175.00
315	Louis le Brocquy	Two Louis le Brocquy Publications by Gandon Press, Procession and The Irish Landscape			EUR 60.00 - 80.00	EUR 81.25
316	Louis le Brocquy	Four Louis Le Brocquy Art Catalogues including studies towards an image of W. B. Yeats			EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 37.50
317		Nine Irish Art Catalogues including a Centenary Exhibition by Jack B. Yeats, also Graphic Studio 50 Years in Dublin			EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 25.00
318		Twelve Irish Art Catalogues including two on Francis Bacon			EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 43.75
319		Two scarce Art Catalogues of Markey Robinson, Thirty Years at the Oriel Gallery and Maverick Spirit plus a series of Irish art catalogues			EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 50.00
320	Wendy Shea.	O BRIEN of The Sunday Tribune (1985)		1985	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 68.75
321		The Earliest Anglo-Irish Coinage; Jack B. Yeats. Collection of Eleanor Bretteville Reid; Knockbreda Monuments and People; ...			EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 37.50
322		Enid TENNYSON, Alfred; DORE, Gustave		1868	EUR 75.00 - 150.00	EUR 75.00
323	Tennyson (Alfred)	Vivien. Illustrations de Gustave Dore	London,	1867	EUR 75.00 - 150.00	EUR 43.75
324	Picasso,	Les Dames de Mougins,		1964	EUR 80.00 - 100.00	Not Sold

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