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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.

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Auction Name 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. Total Sales (EUR) 52,031.25
Auction Date February 19, 2025 - February 19, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 36,775.00
Sale Number #21925 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 61,710.00
Total Lots 627
Sold Lots 534 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 46,050.00
% of Lots Sold 85.17% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 76,260.00
Unsold Lots 93 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 68.23%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
409

An Extremely scarce collection of Reuters News Telegrams (Publications) commencing April 26th, 1916 and ending 30th June, 1916.

1916 EUR 500.00 - 800.00 EUR 1,187.50
55 Evelyn Philip Shirley.

The History of the County of Monaghan.

1879 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 1,100.00
438 John Speed.

The Province of Connaugh with the Citie of Galway Described.

1610 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 975.00
448

The Book of Ballymote, A Collection of Pieces (Prose and Verse) in the Irish Language.

EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 875.00
441 G. Blaeu.

Hibernia Regnum Vulgo-Irelany.

17th Century EUR 700.00 - 900.00 EUR 850.00
235

A tribute to Kevin Sullivan - Seamus Heaney, Thomas Flanagan, Benedict Kiely, June K. Davis & Sean White,

1991 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 725.00
132

WORLD WAR II - HOLOCAUST The German Extermination Camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau. Two Eye-witness Accounts,

November, 1944 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 EUR 575.00
399

Notes on I. R. A. Activities etc. 1941-1947 Confidential.

EUR 250.00 - 500.00 EUR 575.00
30 T.H. Holding.

Cycle and Camp.

1897 EUR 300.00 - 340.00 EUR 500.00
437 Homans.

Fine 17th Century map of Magna Britannia comprising Angliae, Scottiae et Hibernia Regna.

17th Century EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 500.00
19 Lucy O'Donnell.

Ceallphort Naoimh Padraig le Eilis O'Domhaill. St. Patrick's Cathedral. A Tale of the Sixteenth Century

1855 EUR 350.00 - 700.00 EUR 475.00
173

Glimpses of Ireland in 1847 by Rev. John East.

1847 EUR 150.00 - 300.00 EUR 475.00
459 Bram Stoker (John Banville) --

DRACULA.

2008 EUR 200.00 - 240.00 EUR 450.00
362 Praeger,

The Botanist in Ireland,

1934 EUR 90.00 - 130.00 EUR 425.00
489

Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland; reprint of the scarce first five volumes.

EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 425.00
521

Agatha Christie - The Hound of Death and Other Stories.

1933 EUR 240.00 - 380.00 EUR 425.00
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
44 James Dwyer.

A Map of Part of the Lands of Northpriars, ...

EUR 250.00 - 500.00 EUR 375.00
337

[with original letter from Harold Leask, dated 1941] Irish Castles by Leask. 1941; Ireland's Hospitals. 1930-1955.

EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 375.00
572

5 Victorian photo albums of the Butler-Stoney family of Portland Place, Birr and Portland House near Portumna.

EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 375.00
300 Andrew Bonar Law

The Printed Maps of Ireland 1612-1850

EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 350.00
598

Annie M P Smithson - Author, Nurse, Republican, and Trade Unionist.

EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 350.00
237 Seamus Heaney,

A Lough Neagh Sequence

1969 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 325.00
269 E O Somerville, .

The States through Irish Eyes

1930 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 EUR 325.00
440

18th Century map of St. Georges Channel and The Irish Sea, including all the Coast of Ireland.

18th Century EUR 250.00 - 300.00 EUR 325.00