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
350		The Glamour of the South by Kelleher.			EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 62.50
351		Guinness: The Book of Guinness Advertising by Brian Sibley, 1985; The Harp-Journal of the Home of Guinness Spring 1972 plus 4 others (6)			EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
352		Ballyfin: The Restoration of an Irish House & Demesne by Kevin Mulliga, 2011 and Luggala Days: The story of a Guinness house by Robert O'Byrne.			EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 81.25
353	Collected and edited P. W. Joyce., M.R. I. A.	Ancient Irish Music containing one hundred Airs hitherto unpublished, many of the Old Popular Songs, and Several New Songs.			EUR 150.00 - 300.00	EUR 175.00
354		Irish Interest: The Grand Irish Tour by Peter Somerville-Large, 1982; A History of Ploughing in County Galway by Tom Fahey SIGNED; ...			EUR 40.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
355		Coffee Table Irish Interest Books: Buildings of Irish Towns by Patrick and Maura Shaffrey ...or, 1988 plus 4 others (6)			EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 50.00
356		Vanishing Ireland, 2006; Vanishing Ireland Further Chronicles of a Disappearing World, 2009; ...			EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 137.50
357		The Irish Century by Michael MacCarthy Morrogh, 1998, HB; Shackelton-An Irishman in Antarctica by J Shackelton and John MacKenna, 2002, HB; ...			EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 50.00
358		(Folklore and Celtic studies) .			EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 62.50
359		A Biographical Dictionary of Irish Writers by Brady and Cleeve; A Dictionary of Irish Biography by Boylan; ...			EUR 50.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
360		Bog People: Iron Age Man Preserved Glob, P.V.		1969	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	EUR 87.50
361		Terence de Vere Whyte and Paddy Lynch misc: Ireland		1968	EUR 90.00 - 120.00	EUR 37.50
362	Praeger,	The Botanist in Ireland,	Dublin	1934	EUR 90.00 - 130.00	EUR 425.00
363		The Quest of Three Abbots -- Brendan Lehane, published 1968. The Celtic Churches, A History A.D. 200 to 1200 -- John McNeill, published 1976.			EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 100.00
364	John O'Hart-	Irish Pedigrees or the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation.		1881	EUR 100.00 - 160.00	EUR 93.75
365		Monica's Kitchen -- Monica Sheridan, signed and inscribed by the author to the front end page.	Dublin	1963	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 106.25
366	Sean MacStiofain.	Memoirs of a Revolutionary; UDR declassified; Drums and Guns. Revolution in Ulster; The British Army in Northern Ireland; the Troubles by Coogan; ...			EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 56.25
367		Clongowes Wood College. The Clongownian. Vol IV number 1 June 1905.		1905	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
368		Irish Castles - Harold G. Leask, published 1973. Irish Folk Ways -- E.Estyn Evans, published 1979.			EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 62.50
369		Irish leaders and learning through the ages - Paul Walsh (Essays collected, edited and introduced by Nollaig O Muraile ),		2004	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 100.00
370	D.J O'Donoghue,	Life of Robert Emmett --	Dublin	1908	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 50.00
371	Longmans Green.	Countess Markievicz - Prison Letters of Countess Markievicz,		1924	EUR 120.00 - 160.00	EUR 118.75
372	Smith,	The Fighting Irish in the Congo, cards		1962	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 68.75
373	William John Fitzpatrick.	Secret Service under Pitt -		1892	EUR 100.00 - 140.00	EUR 81.25
374	Beaslai, Piaras	Michael Collins and the Making of a New Ireland.	Dublin	1926	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	EUR 87.50

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