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
450	P W Joyce:	Atlas and Cyclopedia of Ireland / General History. A. M. Sullivan		1905	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	EUR 125.00
451		Ireland Industrial and Agricultural,		1902	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
452	Kenneth E.L. Deale.	Memorable Irish Trials.		1960	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 50.00
453	Samuel Lewis	'A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland'		1837	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 200.00
454	Samuel Lewis	'A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland'		1837	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
455		The History of Ireland: From the Earliest Period of the Irish Annals to the Present Time.			EUR 150.00 - 250.00	EUR 187.50
456	Young (Arthur)	A Tour in Ireland; With General Observations on the Present State of that Kingdom: Made in The Years 1776, 1777 & 1778... Brought down to the End of 1779.	Dublin	1780	EUR 150.00 - 300.00	EUR 187.50
457		The History of Ireland. Ancient and Modern. Taken from the most authentic Records and dedicated to the Irish Brigade. Abbe Mac Geoghegan / O'Kelly Patrick (translator).	Dublin,	1844	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 200.00
458	V. Rev. Canon John O'Hanlon,	Irish-American History of the United States -	Dublin	1902	EUR 80.00 - 100.00	EUR 125.00
459	Bram Stoker (John Banville) --	DRACULA.		2008	EUR 200.00 - 240.00	EUR 450.00
460		Folio Society: A Dance to the Music of Time Anthony Powell, 2006; The Rise and Fall of the Medieval Monastery. ...			EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 43.75
461		Folio Society: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volumes 1 - 8 Gibbon, Edward; A HISTORY OF ENGLAND 7 Volumes, 2001,...			EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 68.75
462		Folio Society: Reformation; Europe's House Divided, 1490-1700 ,		2013	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 87.50
463	Smith, Adam,	Folio Society: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of THE WEALTH OF NATIONS		2008	EUR 60.00 - 80.00	EUR 125.00
464		Folio Society: Wonders Of The World : Simon Goldhil , Richard Barber , Theodore K. Rabb & Jonathan Glancey ; ( Illustrator ) Neil Gower, 2006;...			EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 43.75
465		Folio Society: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Simon Armitage, 2008; Empires of the Nile, Derek A. Welsby and David W. Phillipsom, 2008; ...			EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 81.25
466	Barber, Richard,	Folio Society: British myths & legends - in 3 volumes		2004	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 50.00
467		Folio Society: The Folio History Of Ancient Greece 1-4: The Lyric Age. The Persian Wars. The Classical Age. The Hellenistic Age.			EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 56.25
468		Folio Society: A History of the Crusades			EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 50.00
469	Burton, Robert; Jackson, Holbrook (Ed.);	Folio Society:The Anatomy of Melancholy, The First through Third Partitions		2005	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 112.50
470	Plutarch	Folio Society: Plutarch: Lives (four volume boxed set).	London	2011	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 93.75
471		Folio Society: The Black Death Ziegler, Philip, 1999; The Monks of War. The Military Orders Seward, Desmond, 2000; ...			EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 56.25
472		Notable Historical Trials: Socrates to the Gunpowder Plot/ Galileo to Admiral Byng/ Boston Massacre to Queen Caroline/ Burke & Hare to Oscar Wilde (4 Volume set), 2010;...			EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 75.00
473		Folio Society: The Towers of Trebizond Rose Macaulay, 2005; The Assassins A Radical Sect in Islam Lewis, Bernard, 2005; ...			EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 37.50
474		Folio Society: Aristotle Ethics Thomson, J.A.K., 2003; The Trial of the Templars Barber, Malcolm, 2005;...			EUR 60.00 - 100.00	Not Sold

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