Purcell Auctioneers: c.650+ Lot Auction of a Collection of Irish & World Interest Books - Antiquarian Books, Rare & Signed First Editions, Early World Travel Guides, Maps, GAA Interest, Local Histories, Literature etc., 32625, Birr

Auction Details

Auction Date: March 26, 2025 - March 26, 2025

Page Size: 624 items in 25 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
321	Desmond Egan	Understanding God Too Quickly In Topeka		Published 2006	EUR 80.00 - 100.00	Unknown
322	Desmond Egan	The College			EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Unknown
323	Brian Bourke HRHA, -	MARCEL MARCEAU FROM THE WINGS...		1975	EUR 500.00 - 650.00	Unknown
324	Michael Hartnett	Culu Ide: The Retreat of Ita Cagney, Folder containing the only known working draft of Michael Hartnett's'		1975	EUR 3,500.00 - 4,000.00	Unknown
325		The Oak Tree and the Olive Tree...		-1991	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	Unknown
326		U2 -- BOY, CBS, Ireland 1980...		1980	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	Unknown
327		U2 - U2 The Unforgettable Fire 1984...		1984	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	Unknown
328	H.P. Lovecraft adapted by John Coulthart...	The Haunter of the Dark --			EUR 40.00 - 80.00	Unknown
329		An pota sto?**ir : ceol seite Chorca Dhuibhne...		1995	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Unknown
330		Irish Mythology: A Dictionary (With an Essay by Patrick Kavanagh)...		1959	EUR 200.00 - 260.00	Unknown
331		Two Hundred Years 1750-1950, The Story of a Family and an Industry...		1917-1977	EUR 30.00 - 60.00	Unknown
332		(Limerick Interest) The Call from the Pope...		1925	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	Unknown
333		Two page hand written document detailing the leasing of property in parts of Clare from the late 18th to early 19th Century...			EUR 40.00 - 80.00	Unknown
334		Nuacht Chorca Dhuibhne		1973 -- 1980	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	Unknown
335		(Clare Interest) To H.V. Macnamara Christmas 1911, written anomalously			EUR 40.00 - 80.00	Unknown
336		THE ORANGE CARD, ONE VOTE EQUALS TWO & DISCRIMINATION a study in Injustice to a Minority		1949	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	Unknown
337		Davitt's Life in Sunshine and Shade by One Who Knew Him	Dublin	1881	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	Unknown
338		Very rare original 19th C. Guinness			EUR 150.00 - 300.00	Unknown
339		Guinness Promotional Booklets: The Guinness Alice, 1933...			EUR 150.00 - 250.00	Unknown
340		Guinness Promotional Booklets: Prodigies and Prodigals...			EUR 150.00 - 250.00	Unknown
341		Guinness Promotional Booklets: Songs of Our Grandfathers, 1936...			EUR 150.00 - 250.00	Unknown
342		Guinness Promotional Booklets: Alice Where Art Thou, 1952...			EUR 150.00 - 250.00	Unknown
343		Guinness Promotional Booklets: The Guinness Alice...		1933	EUR 150.00 - 300.00	Unknown
344		(Irish Politics Interest, Millstreet Co Cork) A thank you letter on becoming a member of "Our Club" to F.W.Hamstede from Morgan O'Connell, an Irish Repeal Association politician who was an (MP) for Kerry from the 1835 until 1852			EUR 40.00 - 80.00	Unknown
345	W.B. Wright and H. Muff.	The Pre-Glacial Raised Beaches of the South Coast of Ireland		1904	EUR 120.00 - 150.00	Unknown

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