Purcell Auctioneers: c.640 Lots to include Signed, First & Rare Editions including WB Yeats, Antiquarian Books, Maps, Broadsides, Literature & Poetry, GAA & Sport, Local Histories, Irish Language, Postcards & Ephemera., 22124, Birr

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
February 21, 2024 - February 21, 2024
Page Size: 643 items in 26 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Hodges, Rev. Richard J EditedW. T. Pike.

Cork and County Cork in the Twentieth Century / Contemporary Biographies

1911 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 720.00
2

A History of the Diocese of Cork by Evelyn Bolster. 3 Vol; Ferom the Reformation to the Penal Era; From the Penal Era to the Famine; the Episcopate of William Delany, 1847-1886.

1982/1989/1993 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 132.00
3

County Cork. The O'Callaghan Family of North Cork. ; The Collegiate Church Cork; History of Medieval Diocese of Cloyne in dj; Sailors and Characters of Youghal; Fill. Collected Works of Liam O'Buachalla;...

EUR 50.00 - 90.00 EUR 48.00
4

Purcell's Cork Almanac 2 issues,

1916, 1923 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 144.00
5 Robert Gibbings ,

Cork Interest---Lovely is the Lee

1945 EUR 30.00 - 60.00 EUR 84.00
6 William O Sullivan ,

The Economic History of Cork City from the Earliest Times to the Act of Union

1937 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 48.00
7 Sean O'Mahony.

Cork interest. The History and Folklore of Carrigaline a gateway to the past

1993 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 108.00
8 editedC F Smith

Dublin: Whigs on the Green-the Stephens green Club, 1840-1990

EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 60.00
9

Dublin Penny Journal. Dublin Penny Journal.

1833-34: 1834-35; 1835-36 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 54.00
10

Dublin: Handbook to the City of Dublin and the Surrounding District, prepared for the meeting of the British Association ,

1908 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 24.00
11

Dublin: The History and Heritage of St James's Hospital Dublin by Davis and Mary Coakley; O' Connell School Centenary,

1928 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 84.00
12 Pat Liddy.

Dublin interest. Dublin Today changing face in text and illustration

1984 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 24.00
13 R. J. O'Duffy.

Historic Graves in Glasnevin Cemetery

1915 EUR 50.00 - 90.00 EUR 84.00
14

Hore, Philip Herbert. History of the Town and County of Wexford.

1978 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 408.00
15 FLOOD, W.H. Grattan.

Notes towards a Parochial History of the Diocese of Ferns.

Waterford 1915 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 132.00
16

Wexford Interest: Clongeen Through the Ages compiled by Imelda Murphy; Our Lady's Island-Millennium Memories edited by H Murphy; ...

EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 90.00
17 Rev Francis J Kirk,

Wexford Interest: Some Notable Conversions in the County of Wexford

1901 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 102.00
18 Moore, Michael

Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford

1996 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 96.00
19

Wexford Interest: Wexford History and Society edited by Kevin Whelan; A Parish and its People-History of the Parish of Carrig-On -Bannow; ...

EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
20

Wexford Interest: Davidstown Courtnacuddy by Patrick Hennessy; Rathangan by Richard Lambert; St Albans Cross, Adamstown Cementry, 1700-2011

EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 132.00
21 Nicholas Furlong,

Wexford Interest: Father John Murphy of Boolavogue 1753-1798

1991 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 168.00
22

Wexford Interest: Collection of Journals such as Journal of the Wexford Historical Society X 11; Journal of the Old Wexford Society X 3; ...

EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 156.00
23

Wexford: The Hook Peninsula and Wexford Castles by Billy Colfer SIGNED; St Mary and St Michael Parish Church New Ross 1902-2002-a centenary history

EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 180.00
24

Irish Interest: Healy, Most Rev. John (1841-1918). Maynooth College, It's Centenary History, 1795-1895 ...

1995 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 36.00
25

The History of Bandon - And the Principal Towns in the West Riding of County Cork. Bennett, George.

Cork 2011. A reprint of the rare EUR 30.00 - 50.00 EUR 90.00
  • Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 27th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    K. Marx, Das Kapital,1867. Dedication copy. Est: € 120,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    Latin and French Book of Hours, around 1380. Est: € 25,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    Theodor de Bry, Indiae Orientalis, 1598-1625. Est: € 80,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 27th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    Breviary, Latin manuscript, around 1450-75. Est: € 10,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    G. B. Piranesi, Vedute di Roma, 1748-69. Est: € 60,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    K. Schmidt-Rottluff, Arbeiter, 1921. Orig. watercolour on postcard. Est: € 18,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 27th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: € 20,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    C. J. Trew, Plantae selectae, 1750-73. Est: € 28,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    M. Beckmann, Apokalypse, 1943. Est: € 50,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 27th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    Ulrich von Richenthal, Das Concilium, 1536. Est: € 9,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    I. Kant, Critik der reinen Vernunft, 1781. Est: €12,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    Arbeiter-Illustrierte Zeitung (AIZ) / Die Volks-Illustrierte (VI), 1932-38. Est: €8,000
  • ALDE, May 28: KIPLING (RUDYARD). Le Livre de la Jungle. – Le IIe livre de la Jungle. Paris, Sagittaire, Simon Kra, 1924-1925. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, May 28: NOAILLES (ANNA DE). Les Climats. Paris, Société du Livre contemporain, 1924. €50,000 to €60,000.
    ALDE, May 28: MILTON (JOHN). Paradis perdu. Quatrième chant. S.l., Les Bibliophiles de l'Automobile-Club de France, 1974. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, May 28: LEBEDEV (VLADIMIR). Russian Placards - Placard Russe 1917-1922. Saint-Petersbourg, Sterletz, 1923. €1,000 to €1,200.
    ALDE, May 28: MARDRUS (JOSEPH-CHARLES). Histoire charmante de l'adolescente sucre d'amour. Paris, F.-L. Schmied, 1927. €1,500 to €2,000.
    ALDE, May 28: TABLEAUX DE PARIS. Paris, Émile-Paul Frères, 1927. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, May 28: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Les Fables illustrées par Paul Jouve. S.l. [Lausanne], Gonin & Cie, 1929. €4,000 to €5,000.
    ALDE, May 28: SARTRE (JEAN-PAUL). Vingt-deux dessins sur le thème du désir. Paris, Fernand Mourlot, 1961. €1,500 to €2,000.
    ALDE, May 28: [BRAQUE (GEORGES)]. 13 mai 1962. Alès, PAB, 1962. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, May 28: MIRÓ (JOAN). Je travaille comme un jardinier. Avant-propos d'Yvon Taillandier. Paris, Société intenationale d'art XXe siècle, 1963. €1,000 to €2,000.
    ALDE, May 28: MAGNAN (JEAN-MARIE). Taureaux. Paris, Michèle Trinckvel, 1965. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, May 28: PICASSO (PABLO). Dans l'atelier de Picasso. 1960. €15,000 to €20,000.
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