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Auction Name: Rare Books and Collectors' Sale
Auction Date: 04/30/2025 - 05/01/2025
Sale Number: #43025
Total Lots: 723
Sold Lots: 675
Lots Sold: 93.36%
Unsold Lots: 48

Total Sales (EUR): 185,531.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 120,430.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 170,870.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 129,120.00
High Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 183,425.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 101.15%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
709		A Prototype of the Liam McCarthy Cup G.A.A.	1923	EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	EUR 10,000.00
702		1903 All-Ireland Football Championship The Kingdom's First Football All-Ireland Medal: G.A.A. 1903, Football, a 9ct gold Celtic Cross design Medal, the obverse with pierced center and harp overlay and 'Eire' across an inscribed 'Cumann Luith Cleas Gaedhai	1903	EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	EUR 10,000.00
703		1904, All-Ireland Football Championship Back to back wins for the Kingdom Medal: G.A.A. 1904, Football, a 9ct gold Celtic Cross Medal, the obverse with pierced center and harp overlay and 'Eire' across and inscribed 'Cumann Luith Cleas Gaedheal'	1904	EUR 3,500.00 - 5,000.00	EUR 7,500.00
568	Heaney (Seamus) & Egan (Felim)artist	One of 100 Copies Signed by Author & Artist Squarings, Twelve Poems	1991	EUR 1,750.00 - 2,250.00	EUR 3,375.00
455		Signed Limited Edition of 70 Copies Heaney (Seamus)trans. The Light of the Leaves...	1999	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 3,312.50
474	Fleming (Ian)	The Third James Bond Novel Moonraker	1955	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 2,750.00
337	Scale (Bernard)	With Hand Coloured Maps Irish Atlas: An Hibernian Atlas or General Description of the Kingdom of Ireland	1776	EUR 625.00 - 850.00	EUR 2,500.00
570		Set of 7 Rare Original Photographs Co. Clare: Vandeleur Estate Seven Very Rare large original mounted Photographs of The Evictions at the Vandeleur Estate in Co. Clare, showing the police, the battering rams, those evicted, the crowds, protests etc.		EUR 400.00 - 600.00	EUR 2,125.00
179	Powerscourt (Viscount)	Author's Presentation Copy A Description and History of Powerscourt	1903	EUR 350.00 - 500.00	EUR 2,125.00
535		Limited Edition with Fine Reproduction Photographic Prints	1980	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 1,625.00
707		The 1916 Kilkenny Hurling Final - At Last! [G.A.A.,] Medal	1916-18	EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 1,500.00
654		Signed by Diego Maradona Soccer: Argentina F.A., an Official Team Jersey		EUR 400.00 - 600.00	EUR 1,437.50
511	Hockney (David)illus. & Spender (Stephen)ed.	Signed by Artist and Editor Hockney's Alphabet	1991	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 1,437.50
565	Heaney (Seamus)	First US Edition Signed by the Author Death of a Naturalist	1966	EUR 1,250.00 - 1,750.00	EUR 1,375.00
444	Heaney (Seamus)	One of 30 Copies The Singer's House		EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 1,312.50
665		The 'Thunder and Lightning' All-Ireland Hurling Final G.A.A.: Hurling 1939, Clar Oifigeamhail i bPairc an Chrocaigh, Craobh Iomana na hEireann, Cill Choinnigh v Corcaigh	1939	EUR 500.00 - 700.00	EUR 1,312.50
690		The G.A.A. Stateside G.A.A. Football & Hurling 1954-58...		EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 1,312.50
35	Taylor (Geo.) & Skinner (A.)	Very Fine Copy Maps of the Roads of Ireland, Surveyed 1777	1778	EUR 500.00 - 750.00	EUR 1,125.00
656		Signed Manchester United Jersey, 2000-01		EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 1,125.00
104A		One of 125 Copies Signed by the Contributors Heaney (Seamus)et al, Dantes Inferno	1993	EUR 600.00 - 900.00	EUR 1,125.00

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