Purcell Auctioneers: Timed Book Auction - Antiquarian, Modern Literary, Signed Editions etc. etc.., 601579, Birr

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Auction Date
January 05, 2026 - January 05, 2026
Page Size: 462 items in 19 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
401

Auction Catalogues

EUR 10.00 - 30.00 EUR 12.87
402 Alan Denson.

Letters From AE.

1961 EUR 10.00 - 30.00 EUR 27.02
403 CHAMBERS, Robert [Robert Carruthers, ed]

Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature. A history, critical and biographical, of British authors from the earliest to the present times. In two volumes

EUR 10.00 - 30.00 Not Sold
404

Bill Yenne. Guinness - the 250-Year Quest For The Perfect Pint

2007 EUR 10.00 - 30.00 EUR 12.87
405

Sotheby's catalogue. Illuminated manuscripts from the celebrated library of the late Major J. R. Abbey.

London. 1989 EUR 10.00 - 30.00 EUR 39.89
406

Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society: Volumes 29 to 62. 6 annual editions. Illustrated

EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 27.02
407

Irish Interest: Shell Guide to Ireland

1989 EUR 10.00 - 30.00 Not Sold
408 MacPherson, James

The Poems of Ossian, the Son of Fingal.

Edinburgh 1792 EUR 10.00 - 30.00 EUR 33.46
409

R. M. Gwynn's copy of Leibnitz's New Essays Concerning Human Understanding

1905 EUR 15.00 - 30.00 Not Sold
410 A . HEATON COOPER DESCRIBED by FRANK MATHEW

IRELAND PAINTED

LONDON 1916 EUR 10.00 - 30.00 EUR 72.07
411

Rocky Mountains of Canada. A series of 24 Sepia Vandyck photogravures

EUR 10.00 - 30.00 Not Sold
412

The Queen Mother The Official Biography, William Shawcross.

EUR 10.00 - 30.00 EUR 14.16
413 P. Kelly.

The Universal Cambist. - A treatise on the Exchanges, Monies, Weights, and Measures of all trading nations. Vol. 1

1821 EUR 10.00 - 30.00 Not Sold
414 Ann Stewart

Irish Art Societies and Sketching Clubs: "Index of Exhibitors 1870-1980, Volume 1 and 2

1996 EUR 10.00 - 30.00 EUR 64.35
415

Desmond Ryan (Edited by) The Story of a Success P. H. Pearse being a Record of St. Enda's College, September 1908 to Easter 1916.

Dublin. 1917 EUR 15.00 - 30.00 EUR 39.89
416

Christies London - The Irish Sale. Two quarto catalogues

2003 and 2007 EUR 10.00 - 30.00 Not Sold
417

Transaction of the Royal Irish Academy Vol 24

1871 EUR 10.00 - 30.00 EUR 25.74
418 E Charles Nelson and Wendy Walsh

The Burren-a companion to the wildflowers of an Irish limestone wilderness

EUR 10.00 - 30.00 EUR 46.33
419

Poetry Review: Volume 80 No 4

1990/91 EUR 10.00 - 30.00 Not Sold
420 J. M. Barrie

The Little Minister

EUR 10.00 - 30.00 EUR 12.87
421

County Clare. The Other Clare journal.

EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 86.22
422 Nottidge MacNamara

Story of Irish Sept. Origin and History of MacNamaras.

EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 64.35
423 Robert Gibbings

Sweet Cork of Thee

1951 EUR 15.00 - 30.00 EUR 19.30
424 John F Deane

Poetry: Manhandling the Deity

EUR 15.00 - 30.00 Not Sold
425

Sotheby & Co. 2 Sale Catalogues - The Chester Beatty Library (1) Catalogue of thirty-seven Manuscripts

1968 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 28.31
  • ALDE, Mar. 11: AUGUSTIN (Saint). De civitate Dei. Rome, Konrad Sweynheym et Arnold Pannartz, 1470. €20,000 - €30,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: [REGNART (LE LIVRE DE)]. [Le] Docteur en malice, maistre Regnard, demonstrant les ruzes et cautelles qu'il use envers les personnes… Rouen, 1550. €20,000 - €30,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: TRITHÈME (JEAN). Polygraphie et universelle escriture cabalistique. Paris, [Benoît Prévost pour] Jacques Kerver, 1561. €8,000 - €10,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: CAUS (SALOMON DE). La Perspective, avec la raison des ombres et des miroirs. Londres, John Norton, 1612.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: NICERON (JEAN-FRANÇOIS). La Perspective curieuse ou magie artificielle des effets merveilleux de l'optique. Paris, Pierre Billaine, 1638. €6,000 - €8,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: VONTET (JACQUES). L’Art de trancher la viande et toute sorte de fruits… S.l.n.d. [probablement Lyon, vers 1647]. €20,000 - €30,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: HUGO (VICTOR). [Paysage spectral avec une église], [vers 1837]. €20,000 - €30,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: [HERVEY DE SAINT-DENYS (LÉON D')]. Les Rêves et les Moyens de les diriger. Observations pratiques. Paris, Amyot, 1867. €3,000 - €4,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: GACHET (PAUL-FERDINAND). Les Chats de Gachet (Manuscrit). S.d. [avant mai 1873]. €6,000 - €8,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: [REDON (ODILON)]. PICARD (EDMOND). Le Juré. Monodrame en cinq actes… Bruxelles, Mme veuve Monnom, 1887. €7,000 - €9,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: [TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (HENRI DE) ET HENRI-GABRIEL IBELS]. MONTORGUEIL (GEORGES). Le Café-concert. Paris, [1893]. €4,000 - €5,000.
    ALDE, Mar. 11: [TERRY (EMILIO)]. Projet de fontaine. Dessin original au stylo et à l'encre noire. 1938. €2,000 - €3,000.
  • Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: HAMILTON, Sir William (1730-1803) - Campi Phlegraei. Napoli: [Pietro Fabris], 1776, 1779. € 30.000 - 50.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: [MORTIER] - BLAEU, Joannes (1596-1673) - Het Nieuw Stede Boek van Italie. Amsterdam: Pieter Mortier, 1704-1705. € 15.000 - 25.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: TULLIO D'ALBISOLA (1899-1971) - Bruno MUNARI (1907-1998) - L'Anguria lirica (lungo poema passionale). Roma e Savona: Edizioni Futuriste di Poesia, senza data [ma 1933?]. € 20.000 - 30.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: IL MANOSCRITTO RITROVATO DI IPPOLITA MARIA SFORZA. TITO LIVIO - Ab Urbe Condita. Prima Decade. Manoscritto miniato su pergamena, metà XV secolo. € 280.000 - 350.000