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
325	Lucien Freud	Lucien Freud			EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 25.00
326		A Selection of Jasper Johns and Salvador Dali Catalogues including homage to Salvador Dali which has a lithograph by the artist			EUR 60.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
327		A series of six Catalogues, five of Picasso and one of Degas			EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
328		Tria, a children's book, Limited edition of 500 copies, beautifully illustrated, written, signed & illustrated by Jole Bortoli			EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 31.25
329		THE ITALIAN LAKES Painted by Ella Du Cane. Described by Richard Bagot Ella Du Cane, Richard Bagot	London.,	1912	EUR 60.00 - 80.00	EUR 31.25
330		Series of five Catalogues relating to the Impressionist Period			EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 25.00
331		Lund, Hakon & Anne Lise Thygesen; C. F. Hansen. A very good set in the slipcase.			EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 31.25
332	William Shakespeare; Charles Knight (Ed).	The Works of Shakspere Imperial Edition Edited by Charles Knight ,	London,		EUR 200.00 - 400.00	EUR 187.50
333	Prepared Irish National Committee for Geography.	Atlas of Ireland.	Dublin,	1979	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 87.50
334	Sullivan, Edward.	The Book of Kells. Described by Edward Sullivan, Bart., and illustrated with twenty-four Plates in Colours.	London, Paris, New York,	1914	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 62.50
335	Mr & Mrs S C Hall (1841/42/43)	Ireland: Its Scenery, Character, &c. Vol 1-3		1846	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 200.00
336		John Feehan Misc: Atlas, The Landscape of Clonmacnoise, mint copy; Camcor The River of Birr; The Dippers Acclaim; Tearmann, vol 2, 2002; ...			EUR 50.00 - 70.00	EUR 81.25
337		[with original letter from Harold Leask, dated 1941] Irish Castles by Leask. 1941; Ireland's Hospitals. 1930-1955.			EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 375.00
338	James Berry.	Tales of the West of Ireland.		C. 1965	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
339		A collection of Dolmen Press limited edition books including a 1965 programme for the Sligo Yeats Summer School and associated ephemera.			EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
340	Stephen Gwynn with illustrations Hugh Thompson.	The Famous Cities of Ireland		1915	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 25.00
341	Both Patrick and Maura Shaffrey	Buildings Of Irish Towns, 1983; Irish Countryside Buildings, 1985		1983, 1985	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 112.50
342	Frederick O'Dwyer.	The Architecture of Deane and Woodward.		1997	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 162.50
343	John Feehan,	'Farming in Ireland' ; Offprint of JF's foreword to George Cunningham's Anglo-Norman Advance 198, ...			EUR 80.00 - 160.00	EUR 125.00
344		The Irish Hand.			EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 43.75
345	Louis Hyman.	The Jews of Ireland from Earliest Times			EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 87.50
346	Mark Condren	The Guards: Behind the scenes with the men and women of An Garda Siochana		2011	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	EUR 100.00
347		Castles and Fortifications in Ireland 1485-1945 by Kerrigan; The Barracks History of Victoria Collins Barracks in Cork by Harvey; The First Irish Cities an 18th century6 transformation and The Industrial Archaeology of Northern Ireland by McCutcheon.			EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 125.00
348	David Hickie	Native Trees & Forests of Ireland		2002	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 25.00
349		Protestant Dissent in Ireland 1687-1780 by J. C. Beckett. 1948; the Great Hunger Ireland 1845-49 by Woodham-Smith.1962			EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 25.00

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