Purcell Auctioneers: Sale of the Library of the Late Bruce Arnold (1936-2024). Part Two of the Bruce Arnold Library includes a Collection of Irish & World Interest Books - Antiquarian Books, Rare, Signed & First Editions, 42325, Birr

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Auction Report
Auction Date
April 23, 2025 - April 23, 2025
Page Size: 666 items in 27 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
266

Dublin and South Eastern Railway. Time & Fare Tables

1915 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 81.25
267

Great Southern & Western Railway. Time & Fare Tables

1907 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 175.00
268

Henry Ford: Perfect Instruction Book, Henry Ford & Son Ltd, Cork, Ireland, 1951, still in its original envelope...

1951 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
269

The New Ireland Review Vol XIX No 5, July 1903

Dublin, Ireland 1903 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
270

W B Yeats: Cutting from 'The Irish Times'-11/1/1913

1913 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
271 Evie Hone 1894-1955

Exhibition July-September 1958 at The Great Hall, University College, Earlsfort Terrace

Dublin 1958 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 87.50
272 Conrad Loddiges and George Cooke

Botanical Cabinet

1825 EUR 120.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
273

The Dolmen Chapbook...

EUR 400.00 - 800.00 EUR 300.00
274

The Dream of Gerontius

EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 100.00
275

Richard 1st Earl of Rosse, M W Grand Master 1725

1925 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 106.25
276

Element No I Autumn Winter 1993

EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
277 Phil Lynott

Songs for While I'm Away

1974 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,250.00
278

Horsemanship by Major J. G. O'Dwyer

EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 75.00
279

Joyful Pilgrimage: voyage of Iona curragh by John Barry

EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 106.25
280 Ernest Bennis

Reminiscences of Old Limerick by Ernest Bennis, member of a well-known Quaker family

1939 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 68.75
281

Irish Coast Distance Tables and information concerning Buoy depots and Lighted Buoys

1900 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 106.25
282

Saga of Irish Brigade to Spain 1936 [Eoin Duffy's] by Seosamh O'Cuinneagain

1936 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 62.50
283 Maire MacEntee

A Heart Full of Thought

Dublin 1959 EUR 30.00 - 60.00 EUR 62.50
284

Cosaint Shibhialta. Bas Beatha

Dublin 1965 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
285

Rutherford Mayne, Irish dramatist

1909 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 25.00
286

Souvenir of the pilgrimage to Lourdes, September 29 -- October 7. 1934

1934 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
287 Macklin, Charles

Love a la Mode: A farce.

London 1793 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
288

English State Policy towards the Irish Language

1956 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 37.50
289 Patrick Cranley

Just Standing Idly

[1978] EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 37.50
290 Shane Leslie

Shane Leslie. Twenty - Five Poems

1959 EUR 120.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
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