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
100

Richard Doyle. The Foreign Tour of Brown, Jones & Robinson in Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and Italy.

1854 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
101 Eileen O'Faolain.[ illustratedNano Reid]

The King of the Cats

1941; Lamb by Bernard McLaverty. Blackstaff. EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 24.00
102

Irish Interest: The Directory of Dublin ,1954 -listing Nobility,Gentry,Merchants amd Traders, Dublin Street Addresses by Borough with over 50 pages of advertisements; ...

EUR 40.00 - 81.00 EUR 30.00
103 Sir Bernard Burke

Burkes Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland

1958 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 288.00
104 compiledKevin J. Kenny.

Irish Manufacturers' Directory and Year Book,

Dublin 1917 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 114.00
105 Dora Sigerson,

LOVE OF IRELAND

1916, EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 72.00
106 Charles Dickens

Christmas Books-5 Titles by Charles Dickens bound as one.

EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 192.00
107 John O'Donoghue;

In Kerry Long Ago, 1960 1st Ed; In A Strange Land, 1958 1st Ed; In A Quiet Land,

EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 24.00
108 John Anthony Gaughan.

Austin Stack Portrait of a Separatist

1977 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 84.00
109

Carbery's Annual

1939 EUR 30.00 - 50.00 EUR 42.00
110

Carbery's Annual

1942-1943 EUR 30.00 - 50.00 EUR 60.00
111

Carbery's Annual

1946-1947 EUR 30.00 - 50.00 EUR 54.00
112

[Unique association of 3 of Ireland's greatest Olympians]. Golden Jubilee Banquet to honour the Olympic gold medal victories of Pat O'Callaghan and Bob Tisdall in Los Angeles in 1932 .

1982 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 336.00
113 T. S. C. Dagg.

Hockey in Ireland

1944 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 120.00
114 Brian o Driscoll

A Year in the Centre by Brian o Driscoll (and Signed by him) and other rugby interest books (6)

EUR 30.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
115

GAA: Official Guide-Containing the Constitution and Rules of the G A A,

1966; The Steadfast Rule-a history of the GAA ban by Brendan Mac Lua, EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 54.00
116

Irish Interest: Annals of the GAA in Galway 1884-1901 by Padraic O Laoi; The Kerry Footballer by Mick O'Connell plus 2 others (4)

EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 168.00
117

GAA: Annaghdown GAA 1887-1989: GAA Centenary 1884-1984 Connacht Souvenir Booklet plus 2 others (4)

EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 30.00
118 Ronnie Bellew and Dermot Crowe,

GAA: Hell For Leather

EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 36.00
119

GAA: collection of Books/Programmes: The GAA-A Peoples History by Mike Cronin; DJ- A Sporting Legend with Martin Breheny; Christy Ring, Hurling's Greatest by Tim Horgan

EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 24.00
120 Donal McAnallen,

GAA: The Cups That Cheered-a history of the Sigerson, Fitzgibbon and Highrt Education Gaelic Games

2012 EUR 30.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
121 Paul Anglim,

GAA: Askeaton-Ballysteen GAA Story 1884-2020

2021 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
122

GAA: Collection of Leinster Championship Hurling Programmes

EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
123

GAA: All Ireland Football Final Programme, 1981/1982 Kerry V Offaly; All Ireland Hurling Programme, 1989 Antrim V Tipperary; ...

EUR 40.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
124

GAA: Collection of Club Hurling Programmes

EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
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    K. Marx, Das Kapital,1867. Dedication copy. Est: € 120,000
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    Auction May 27th
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    Auction May 27th
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    Ulrich von Richenthal, Das Concilium, 1536. Est: € 9,000
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    I. Kant, Critik der reinen Vernunft, 1781. Est: €12,000
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    Arbeiter-Illustrierte Zeitung (AIZ) / Die Volks-Illustrierte (VI), 1932-38. Est: €8,000
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