Purcell Auctioneers: c.600 Lot Library Sale of Exceptional Irish and World Antiquarian Books (from 1516 onwards), Fine Bindings, Scarce Irish Local Histories, Irish & World Maps, World Travel vols., Irish Language etc., 12225, Birr

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Auction Date
January 22, 2025 - January 22, 2025
Page Size: 602 items in 25 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
201 Moody, T. W. and Simms, J. G:

The Bishopric of Derry and the Irish Society of London Vol. I-2 1602-70

Published by Dublin 1968/1983 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 50.00
202

The Diocese Of Killaloe by Ignatius Murphy (3 vol set); A History of the Diocese of Killaloe by Aubrey Glynn and Dermot Gleeson.

1962 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 93.75
203

The Shannon Estuary : report and plan for the development of tourism and recreation.

EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 43.75
204 de Bourgoanne, Chevalier;

Travels in Spain, containing a new, accurate and comprehensive view of the Present state of that Country.

Dublin and London 1789 to 1790 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 56.25
205 Budge, E. A. Wallis.

The Monks of Kublai Khan, Emperor of China, Or The History of the Life and Travels of Rabban Sawma,...

EUR 30.00 - 60.00 EUR 137.50
206 edited by Cecile O ' Rahilly

Irish Interest: Tain Bo Cualnge- from the Book of Leinster

1970 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 56.25
207 edited by William O'Sullivan

Irish Related: The Strafford Inquisition of County Mayo

1958 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 50.00
208 Vincenzo Cartari

Imagini Degli Dei De Glantichi

Venice, 1647 EUR 150.00 - 300.00 EUR 375.00
209 Brendan Jennings.

The Wild Geese in Spanish Flanders 1582-1700. Documents relating to Irish Regiments

1964 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 275.00
210 Jim Herlihy. 2005.

Royal Irish Constabulary Officers. A Biographical Dictionary and Genealogical Guide 1816-1922

EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 100.00
211 edited by Murphy editor. 2000.

The American Commission on Irish Independence 1919. Diary, Correspondence and Report. 1985; King's Inns Admission Papers 1607-1867 and A History of Irish Emigrant Missionary Education

EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 37.50
212 Stella Tillyard

Irish Interest: Citizen Lord Edward Fitzgerald 1763-1798

1997 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 137.50
213 J J Buckley

Irish Interest: Some Irish Altar Plate-Descriptive List of Chalices and Patens

1943 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 112.50
214 Seward, Wm. Wenman.

Topographia Hibernica; or the Topography of Ireland, Ancient and Modern. Giving a complete view of the Civil and Ecclesiastical State of that Kingdom ...

Dublin 1795 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 112.50
215

Frateris Dominici Soto Segoniensis, Theologi, Ordinis Praedicatorum.... "Ex libr Ant Limerick".

Salmanticae (Salamanca, Spain). 1566 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 EUR 350.00
216 Laurence Sterne

THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDY, GENTLEMAN Easton Press

Norwalk, Connecticut 1980 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 25.00
217 Stanley. Henry M.

Through the dark continent or the sources of the Nile around the great lakes of Equatorial Africa and down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean.

London 1879 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 175.00
218 Thomas, Avril.

The Walled Towns of Ireland, Volume I and Volume II.

2006 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 150.00
219 George Taylor and Andrew Skinner

Irish Interest: Maps of the Roads of Ireland

1969 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 137.50
220 John O'Donovan

The Book of Rights with translations and notes

1847 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 81.25
221 Hubert Gallwey

Irish Interest: The Wall Family in Ireland 1170-1970

1970 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 93.75
222 Barnabas O'Farrell and Daniel O Connell Vol I-IV 1932-1941 plus 2 others (6)

Commentarius Rinuccinianus

EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 75.00
223

Idylls of Theocritus Ancient Greek Poetry Latin & Greek Scaliger.

Oxford 1699 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 375.00
224

1856 Kerry Magazine: A Monthly Journal of Antiquities, Polite Literature, Criticism and Poetry. Tralee Printing: Ancient Laws of Ireland Vol 1 1865 (2)

EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 31.25
225 O'Hart, John.

Irish Pedigrees or The Origin and Stem of The Irish Nation. Fifth Edition in two vols.

Dublin 1892 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 106.25