Purcell Auctioneers: Sale of an Exceptional Library and other select Lots to include Incunabula, Early Printings, Early Manuscripts, Maps, Significant Books from the 16th to the 19th Centuries of Irish and World Interest, 52726, Birr
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- May 27, 2026 - May 27, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 104 | Patrick Kavanagh; Brian O Nolan | Kavanagh's Weekly: A Journal of Literature and Politics |
Dublin | 1952 | EUR 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | Unknown |
| 105 | Captain William Cornwallis Harris | The Wild Sports of South Africa |
1852 | EUR 600.00 - 800.00 | Unknown | |
| 106 | W.B. Yeats | The Trembling of the Veil |
1922 | EUR 700.00 - 900.00 | Unknown | |
| 107 | William Butler Yeats | A Vision |
1925 | EUR 850.00 - 950.00 | Unknown | |
| 108 | W.B. Yeats | Poems |
1895 | EUR 1,800.00 - 2,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 109 | W.B. Yeats | The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems |
1889 | EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 110 | W. B. Yeats | The Cutting of an Agate |
1919 | EUR 350.00 - 450.00 | Unknown | |
| 111 | Yeats W B | Poems |
London | 1895 | EUR 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | Unknown |
| 112 | W. B. Yeats | The Winding Stairs |
1933 | EUR 500.00 - 700.00 | Unknown | |
| 113 | William Butler Yeats | The Celtic Twilight. Men and Women, Dhouls and Faeries |
London | 1893 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | Unknown |
| 114 | Mary Wollstonecraft | Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark |
1796 | EUR 500.00 - 900.00 | Unknown | |
| 115 | Seamus Heaney | Human Chain |
2010 | EUR 500.00 - 600.00 | Unknown | |
| 116 | Seamus Heaney | Opened Ground - Poems 1966-1996 |
N/A | EUR 250.00 - 350.00 | Unknown | |
| 117 | Seamus Heaney | Sweeney Astray - A Vision From The Irish |
New York | 1984 | EUR 400.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 118 | Robert Boyle | The Christian Virtuoso |
1690; 1691 | EUR 500.00 - 800.00 | Unknown | |
| 119 | William Wilde | Lough Corrib: Its Shores and Islands; With Notices of Lough Mask |
Dublin | 1872 | EUR 280.00 - 380.00 | Unknown |
| 120 | Wildes Loch Coirib its Shores and Islands with notices of Loch Measga |
1938 | EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | Unknown | ||
| 121 | Robert Boyle | Medicinal Experiments : or A Collection of Choice Remedies for the most part, Simple and Easily Prepared; A Catalogue of the Philosophical Books & Tracts written by the Hon. Robert Boyle |
1692 | EUR 400.00 - 800.00 | Unknown | |
| 122 | James Fraser | A Hand Book For Travellers in Ireland, descriptive of it's scenery, towns, seats, antiquities etc. with various statistical tables |
Dublin | 1849 | EUR 150.00 - 250.00 | Unknown |
| 123 | Geoffrey C Warren; Harry Clarke | Elixir of Life (Uisce Beatha) |
Ireland | 1925 | EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Unknown |
| 124 | The Relation of ther Trial of Edward Fitz-Harris and Oliver Plunkett. Who were Tried at the Kings-Bench on the 8th and 9th of this instant June 1681. And there found guilty and Condemned for High Treason |
1681 | EUR 450.00 - 550.00 | Unknown | ||
| 125 | Brendan Behan; Paul Hogarth | Brendan Behan's Island An Irish Sketch-Book |
1962 | EUR 250.00 - 300.00 | Unknown | |
| 126 | Phil Lynott; Jim FitzPatrick; Tim Booth | Songs for While I’m Away |
1974 | EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 127 | James Joyce | Finegans Wake |
London | 1964 | EUR 250.00 - 350.00 | Unknown |
| 128 | Thomas Kinsella; Louis LeBrocquy | The Tain |
Portlaoise | 1985 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
