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 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

Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Isaac Newton on chemistry and matter, and alchemy, Autograph Manuscript, "A Key to Snyders," 3 pp, after 1674. $100,000 - $150,000

Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Exceptionally rare first printing of Plato's Timaeus. Florence, 1484. $50,000 - $80,000

Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: On the Philosophy of Self-Interest: Adam Smith's copy of Helvetius's De l'homme, Paris, 1773. $40,000 - $60,000

Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: "Magical Calendar of Tycho Brahe" - very rare hermetic broadside. Engraved by Merian for De Bry. c.1618. $30,000 - $50,000

Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Author's presentation issue of Einstein's proof of Relativity, "Erklärung der Perihelbewegung des Merkur aus der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie." 1915. $30,000 - $50,000

Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: First Latin edition of Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed. Paris, 1520. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: De Broglie manuscript on the nature of matter in quantum physics, 3 pp, 1954. $20,000 - $30,000

Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Tesla autograph letter signed on electricty and electromagnetic theory. 1894. $20,000 - $30,000

Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Heinrich Hertz scientific manuscript on his mentor Hermann Von Helmholtz, 1891. $20,000 - $30,000

Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: The greatest illustrated work in Alchemy: Micheal Maier's Atalanta Fugiens. Oppenheim, 1618. $30,000 - $50,000

Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Illustrated Alchemical manuscript, a Mysterium Magnum of the Rosicurcians, 18th-century. $30,000 - $50,000

Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Rare Largest Paper Presentation Copy of Newton's Principia, London, 1726. The third and most influential edition. $60,000 - $90,000
Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.

Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.

Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.

Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.

Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.

Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.

Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.

Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.

Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.

Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.

Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
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