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
316 Sir William Orpen

Stories of Old Ireland and Myself

1924 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 EUR 175.00
317 Strickland Walter George [ Introduction By Theo J. Snoddy ]

A Dictionary of Irish Artists [ Complete in 2 Volumes ]

Ireland 1969 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 50.00
318

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent

London 1820 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
319 Jack B Yeats:

Jack B Yeats His Watercolours...

EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 87.50
320 Jack B Yeats

Jack B Yeats: The masters Series No 40...

EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 50.00
321

Ireland's painters 1600 -- 1940, Anne Crookshank and the Knight of Glin...

2002 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 75.00
322 Jack B Yeats:

The Sketch Book of Jack B Yeats 1897-1955...

2013 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 137.50
323

Royal Hibernian Academy Of Arts Index Of Exhibitors 1826 - 1979

Dublin 1986 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 250.00
324 Sean O'Casey -

The Plough and the Stars...

London 1926 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 56.25
325 Jack B. Yeats.

A Littles Book of Book Plates

1979 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 212.50
326 Pauline Bewick:

The South Seas and a Box of Paints SIGNED

EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 200.00
327 Sir John Lavery

British Artists at the Front

1918 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 87.50
328 Arthur Rackham

Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures....

London 1923 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 87.50
329 Michael Kane

Michael Kane HIS LIFE AND ART

1983 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 75.00
330 Fuller, Peter

Robert Natkin

1981 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
331 Louis Le Brocquy

The Irish Landscape Louis Le Brocquy Published by Gandon Editions

Dublin 1992 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 150.00
332

Irish Silver: Irish Georgian Silver by Douglas Bennett

1972 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 212.50
333

English Goldsmiths and their Marks

Dover 1964 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 37.50
333A

A series of reproductions of Old Master Drawings by the Vasari Society

1920 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
334

Large coloured map ex Thomson General Atlas C. 1810 depicting Jersey, Guernsey, Sark, Isle of Mann, Isles of Scilly and Isle of Wight including views of Edystone Light House

EUR 70.00 - 90.00 EUR 62.50
335

Large coloured map C. 1780 "Les Isles Britanniques"

1780 EUR 75.00 - 100.00 EUR 68.75
336

Decorative coloured map by Creepy

Paris 1767 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 56.25
337

Gross. Britanien und Ireland

1849 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
337A

A Down Survey Map of Ireland

EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 425.00
338

The Hibernia Magazine earliest edition 1963 to 1966

EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 250.00
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