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

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Auction Report
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
525 Richard Adams --

The Girl in a Swing,

1980 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
526 Greene, Graham;

Stamboul Train,

London 1932 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 100.00
527 Dickens, Charles.

Dombey and Son.

London 1848 EUR 150.00 - 300.00 EUR 162.50
528 Thomas Hardy,

The Wessex Novels: Tess of the D'Urbervilles, 1895 ; Far from The Maddening Crowd, 1895,; Jude The Obscure, 1896; ...

EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 325.00
529 Richard Little Purdy and Michael Millgate (eds)

The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy, Vol. 1-8: 1840--1892

1978 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 400.00
530

Ten First UK Edition, First Printings.

EUR 70.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
531 W.B. Yeats.

Poems : Second Series.

1909 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 50.00
532 Mary H. Kingsley

Travels in West Africa: Congo Francais, Corisco and Cameroons -

1897 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 62.50
533 John Tyndall.

A collection of four early works by John Tyndall.

EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 300.00
534

Memoirs of Ireland from Restoration: Designs of Tories in Ireland.

EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 175.00
535

Commumist/Socialist Booklets/Pamphlets: Socialism by J Ramsay MacDonald MP, 1907; Programme of Easter 1916 by Montagu Slater performed at The Left Theatre plus 18 others (20)

EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 150.00
536 Brian O' Higgins:

"The voice of Banba: songs, ballads and satires"

Dublin; 1931 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 68.75
537

World Interest Booklets/Pamphlets from early to mid 1900's: Memorandum on Slavery by C W W Greenidge published by The Anti Slavery Society; ...

EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 25.00
538

World Interest Booklets/Pamphlets from early to mid 1900's:

EUR 60.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
539 William J. Barrow,

Barrow Research Laboratory, Richmond, 1963 -- 1974.

EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 56.25
540 Charles Darwin.

A Naturalist's Voyage - Journal of Research into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World.

London. 1889 EUR 350.00 - 500.00 EUR 275.00
541 Shan F. Bullock.

Thomas Andrews - Shipbuilder.

1912 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
542

A collection of two works in German from the library of Aloys Fleischmann (1910 -- 1992) the renowned Cork composer, professor and conductor.

EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
543

Irish Interest Booklets/Pamphlets: The Eighteenth Century Memorials by Dennis Cullen of Monaseed by Ada K Longfield

EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 43.75
544

Booklets/Pamphlets: The Labour Woman 10 issues from 1946/47; The Nationalisation of Women-The Natural History of a Lie by C M Roebuck; ...

EUR 60.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
545

18th and 19th Century: Collection of Booklets from the 18th and 19th Century.

EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 25.00
546

A collection of 24 pamphlets and sermons, all early 19th century, bound together, with original title pages.

early 19th century EUR 80.00 - 160.00 Not Sold
547 Stevenson, Robert Louis

First Editions: Valima Letters

London, 1895 EUR 100.00 - 160.00 Not Sold
548 Jc deGraft-Johnson

African Experiment, 1958; African Glory, 1955; An Intro to the African Economy, Delhi, 1962.

EUR 50.00 - 70.00 EUR 25.00
549 Oliver Goldsmith

The poetical and dramatic works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.

London 1786 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 25.00