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Auction Date
January 21, 2026 - January 21, 2026
Page Size: 601 items in 25 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
351 William Allingham.

Songs, Ballads and Stories.

1877 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 37.50
352

1798 Rebellion: a) Some Notes of an Irish Exile of 1798 (Miles Byrne, Maunsel and Co., n.d.); b) Memoirs of Miles Byrne, edited by his widow. (Irish University Press 1972 -- First published Paris 1863)

EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 200.00
353

Wexford Interest: Three anthologies by Wexford woman W.M. Letts: Songs from Leinster

1923 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 68.75
354 N Bailey.

Dictionarium Britannicum: Or a more CompleatUniversal Etymological English Dictionary Than any Extant

London 1736 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 125.00
355 Thomas Wrigh7

The History of Ireland, From the Earliest Period of the Irish Annals to the Present Time

EUR 70.00 - 150.00 EUR 62.50
356

Lepper and Crosbie; History of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons in Ireland with volumes 2, History of the Grand Lodge of Ireland

EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 275.00
357 Alex Williams.

My Ireland of Dreams.

1985 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 175.00
358 Crowley, Smyth and Murphy eds,

Irish Great Famine: Atlas of the Great Irish Famine

2012 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 68.75
359

Major-General Colby. Principal Lines of Spirit Levelling in Ireland.

1853 EUR 80.00 - 100.00 EUR 37.50
360 DR Claude Costecalde & Jack Gallagher,

Hunting in Ireland, A Noble Irish Tradition --

Dublin 2004 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 125.00
361 W. Beckford.

Thoughts on Hunting.

1809 EUR 80.00 - 100.00 EUR 125.00
362 J. Fairfax-Blakeborough.

30 Years a Hunt Servant being the Memories of Jack Molyneux.

1933 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 75.00
363 Wilde, William.

Lough Corrib: Its Shores and Islands; With Notices of Lough Mask

Dublin. 1867 EUR 350.00 - 450.00 Not Sold
364 Izaak Walton and C. Cotton.

The Complete Angler.

1870 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 125.00
365 Philip Geen.

What I Have Seen While Fishing.

1924 EUR 70.00 - 90.00 Not Sold
366

The Spectator -- A New Edition -- published 1808. Ten volumes, issues No. 1 (March 1

1710-1714 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 125.00
367 G.H. Orpen, ed.,

Song of Dermot and the Earl

1892 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 62.50
368 Justin McCarthy,

A History Of Our Own Times. 7 Volumes

London 1910 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 100.00
369

Report of the Poor Law Commissioners or The Medical Charities in Ireland.

Dublin. 1841 EUR 70.00 - 100.00 EUR 350.00
370 W.E.H. Lecky

History of Ireland in the Eighteenth Century -- 5 vols COMPLETE

1892 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 50.00
371 R.R. Madden,

The United Irishmen -- Their Lives and Times

London 1842 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
372 Patrick Heffernan.

[scarce family History] The Heffernans and their Times. A Study in Irish History

London, [1940] EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 75.00
373 George Westropp.

[Privately Printed Limited edition family history] . The Westropp Family 1250-2000.

2000 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 62.50
374 J.C. Walsh,

100 x J.C. Walsh, The Lament For John Mac Walter with notes on the history of the family of Walsh from 1170 to 1600.

1936 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
375

Onomatology: The Surnames of Ireland

1969 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 37.50
  • 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