Purcell Auctioneers: Irish Interest to include Signed, First & Rare Editions, Antiquarian Books, Maps, Broadsides, Literature & Poetry, GAA & Sport, Local Histories, Irish Language & Ephemera., 41724, Birr

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
April 17, 2024 - April 17, 2024
Page Size: 120 items in 5 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
76 by Paddy Devlin,

Irish Republicanism: The Fall of The N.I. Executive

1975 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 43.75
77

Irish Ulster Interest: Sailing Directions, East and North Coasts of Ireland by the Irish Cruising Club,

 1979 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 50.00
78 Pauline Bewick

RHA FOSSETT'S HORSE RIDES,

 2001 EUR 1,800.00 - 2,200.00 Not Sold
79 Bewick Pauline.

Seven Ages

EUR 140.00 - 180.00 EUR 200.00
80 William Orpen -

A Centenary Exhibition at N. G. I. Nov/Dec 1987

 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 37.50
81 Louis Le Brocquy.

Travelling exhibition catalogue "Towards an Image of James Joyce" 1977 to 1978 at Genoa, Zurich, London, Belfast, Dublin, New York, Montreal and Toronto.

EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 56.25
82 Andrew Sinclair.

Francis Bacon - His Life and Violent Times.

 1993 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 37.50
83

The Brendan Voyage. Composed by Shaun Davey. Uilleannn Pipes by Liam O'Flynn. Dublin Irish Music Festival. Programme.

 [1983] EUR 50.00 - 90.00 EUR 300.00
84 Thomas Bodkin,

The Noble Science, John Leech in the Hunting Field

 1948 EUR 30.00 - 50.00 EUR 37.50
85 Hilary Pyle

The Different Worlds of Jack B. Yeats. Illustrations.

 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 25.00
86

Irish Art: Paintings from Irish Collections, Municipal Gallery of Modern Art Catalogue

 1957 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 25.00
87 Pauline Bewick.

Painting a Life.

1985 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 175.00
88 Jim Fitzpatrick

The Book of Conquests

 1978 EUR 30.00 - 50.00 EUR 175.00
89 Gerard Dillon.

An Illustrated Biography by James White.

1994 EUR 90.00 - 160.00 EUR 175.00
90 by Garrett Cormican.

Camille Souter the Mirror in the Sea

Dublin. 2006 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 50.00
91

Whytes catalogue of the library of Antiquarian books accumulated by James Fenning on the 19th & 20th October,

 2012 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 43.75
92

Auction catalogue re sale of contents of Old Bridge House, Drogheda by P.B. Gunne 19-21 June 1984.

1984 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 125.00
93 Brian Siggins.

The Great White Fair - The Herbert Park Exhibition of 1907.

 2001 EUR 30.00 - 50.00 EUR 43.75
94

Atlas of Ireland. Prepared by Irish National Committee for Geography.

Dublin 1979 EUR 30.00 - 60.00 EUR 75.00
95 ALDIN, Cecil

Pickles

 1909 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
96

Victorian scrap album with topographical plates, some coloured

 EUR 30.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
97 Waring, J. B.

Illustrations of Architecture and Ornament,

1871 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 62.50
98 Edited by Professor Harry White and Barra Boydell.

The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland.

2013 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 125.00
99 Sir John Stevenson/Thomas Moore

A Selection of Irish Melodies with Symphonies and Accompaniments,

EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 93.75
100 by T H MacDermott

Music: Recollections of the Blackwater-Six Melodies in the Irish Style written for the Piano Forte

EUR 30.00 - 50.00 EUR 56.25
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