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
550	Kingsley Amis --	Memoirs	London	1991	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 50.00
551	Barack Obama --	The Long Journey Home, official Commemorative book of his visit to Moneygall 2011. The Audacity of Hope, published 2006 and Dreams from my father, published 2009.			EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 31.25
552	Kinsella, Thomas	A collection of eleven works by Floyd Skloot including the dedication copy of 'The Evening Light' (2001) a proof copy of the same and ten other works spanning 1979 to 2014 all inscribed by the author to Thomas (and Eleanor) Kinsella, all in near fine cond			EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 25.00
553	George Ensor;	The Poor and their Relief		1823	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 300.00
554	Robert Friese,	Deutche Lieder nebst ihren Melodien,		1843	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	Not Sold
555	Dieulafait,	'Diamonds and Precious Stones',		1874	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 31.25
556	Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, My Diaries,, 2 vols,		1923	EUR 40.00 - 70.00	EUR 100.00
557	THACKERAY, William Makepeace	The History of Pendennis. The Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy	London,	1849/50	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
558		The Yelverton Marriage Case.			EUR 150.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
559	Menashe, Samuel	Collected Poems		1986	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 50.00
560	Edmund Wingate --	A Treatise of Common Arithmetic		1751	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
561		A Series of Portraits of Illustrious, Or Distinguished Characters illustrative of British History and Biography.		1820	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 125.00
562	Thomas Moore.	Paradise and the Peri.		C. 1845	EUR 200.00 - 240.00	Not Sold
563	John Rushworth.	The Tryal of Thomas Earl of Strafford, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.		1680	EUR 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
564	Walter Crane,	Flowers from Shakespeare's Garden: A Posy from the Plays pictured by Walter Crane -		1906	EUR 180.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
565	Herbert Ceskinsky,	THE OLD-WORLD HOUSE: Its Furniture and Decoration -	London		EUR 60.00 - 80.00	EUR 87.50
566		World Interest Booklets/Pamphlets from early to mid 1900's: The Coming Fight With Famine by William Jameson, 1896; ...			EUR 60.00 - 80.00	EUR 25.00
567	Humphry, CE (Ed)	The Book of the Home Vol 1-6.		1914	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 25.00
568	Truer, Andrew;	Bartolozzi and His works. A biographical and Descriptive Account of the life and Career.	London	1881	EUR 30.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
569	NICHOLS, Beverley BROCK, H.M. [illustrated by]	A Book of Old Ballads		1934	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 43.75
570	HALL, S. C. Esq.:	The Book of British Ballads	London	1842	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 25.00
571	Guilielmi Estii S.	Theologiae Doctoris et in Academia Duacensi primarii professoris Sacrae Scripturae loca.	Antverpiae.	1699	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 25.00
572		5 Victorian photo albums of the Butler-Stoney family of Portland Place, Birr and Portland House near Portumna.			EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 375.00
573		An album of early 20th century photographs and ephemera relating to Calvert family from Co. Carlow,		early 20th century	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	Not Sold
575		From The Personal Library of PAUL DURCAN: 18 titles ALL SIGNED by their authors most with an inscription to Paul Durcan;			EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 87.50

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