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Auction Name
Timed Book Auction - Antiquarian, Modern Literary, Signed Editions etc. etc..
Auction Date
01/05/2026 - 01/05/2026
Sale Number
#601579
Total Lots
462
Sold Lots
334.0
Lots Sold
72.29%
Unsold Lots
128
Total Sales (EUR)
14,471.20
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)
8,255.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)
16,760.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR)
11,620.00
High Estimate of All Lots (EUR)
23,520.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
61.53%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
397

Seamus Heaney. North.

1975 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 386.07
268

The Romance Of Alexander (Der Pariser Alexanderroman).

EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 270.25
196

Dublin United Tramway Company - Folio and Sections of Junctions and Extensions

 1897 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 203.33
34

Desmond O'Grady, Louis le Brocquy: The Gododdin.

 1977 EUR 250.00 - 300.00 EUR 193.04
77 Hall, Mr. & Mrs. S. C.

Ireland: its Scenery, Character, &c.

 1842 EUR 150.00 - 300.00 EUR 193.04
205

Queens

EUR 15.00 - 30.00 EUR 158.29
192 SHAKESPEARE, William.

The Works of William Shakespeare.

 1904 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 142.85
150 John McGahern:

The Pornographer

1979 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 142.85
302 Sebastian Barry.

[Sebastian Barry rarity] Time out of Mind and Strappado Square

1983 EUR 80.00 - 140.00 EUR 129.98
28

Hugh Boulter. Letters Written by His Excellency Hugh Boulter containing an Account of The Most Interesting Transactions which passed in Ireland from 1724 to 1728

 1770 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 129.98
53 John McGahern

Memoir

2005 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 129.98
171

Introductory Essay to a New System of Civil and Ecclesiastical Topography and Itinerary of Counties of Ireland with Remembrances of Memorable Events recorded at places where they Occurred Sleater, Rev. Matthew.

1806 EUR 30.00 - 60.00 EUR 124.83
68

The History of Modern Europe. With an Account of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 118.39
151

The King's County (Offaly) Directory. First Year

 1890 EUR 30.00 - 60.00 EUR 117.11
226

Irish Nationalism: A flyer with the heading ' From any Soldier in the National Army to any old Comrade fighting with the Irregulars' Issued during the Irish Civil War.

EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 110.67
306

The Lost Distilleries of Ireland

1997 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 105.53
390 Francis Grose.

The Antiquities of Ireland.

1982 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 105.53
280 BEWICK Thomas.

History of British Birds, The figures engraved on wood

1797/1804, EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 104.24
202 Victor Hugo

Les Travailleurs De La Mer

 1866 EUR 10.00 - 30.00 EUR 104.24
193

IRAN, Vol 1-24 consecutive. Vol 29- 32.

 EUR 10.00 - 40.00 EUR 102.95
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