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 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
1	by Wallace [Michael Herity's copy]	The Viking Age Buildings of Dublin			EUR 50.00 - 90.00	Not Sold
2	by Peter Pearson	Dublin Interest: Between the Mountains and the Sea-Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County			EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 31.25
3	by Kevin C Kearns,	Dublin Interest: Dublin's Lost Heroines- Mammies and Grannies in a Vanished City		2004	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 25.00
4		Royal Dublin Society-Bi Centenary Souvenir Brochure 1731-1931 with c 40 pages of Advertisements			EUR 50.00 - 90.00	EUR 87.50
5	by John Wyse Jackson and Bernard McGinley	James Joyce's Dubliners, An Illustrated Edition		1995	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 31.25
6		Ward Lock illustrated Guide to Dublin, Dun Laoghaire, Bray, Boyne valley			EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 25.00
7	by Helen Burke	Irish Local History: The Royal Hospital Donnybrook-a heritage of caring 1743-1933			EUR 30.00 - 50.00	EUR 25.00
8		Dublin Interest: Dublin-alphabetical street guide and postal district numbered			EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 31.25
9	by Rev Ailbe Luddy,	Dublin Interest: St Mary's Abbey Dublin		1935	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 75.00
10		Dublin: The Rotunda Hospital-its Architects and Craftsmen, Published Three Candles,		1946	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 75.00
11	Kathleen Villiers-Tuthill,	Beyond the Twelve Bens - A History of Clifden and District 1860-1923,		2006	EUR 30.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
12		Dublin Interest: Directory of Graveyards in The Dublin Area-an index and guide to burial records			EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 106.25
13	by T Percy C Fitzpatrick,	Irish Interest: The History of Doctor Stevens' Hospital Dublin 1720-1920		1924	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 25.00
14	by C T McGready	Dublin Interest: Dublin Street Names-Dated and Explained		1975	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 25.00
15		Cork: Its Trade and Commerce.		1919	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	EUR 75.00
16		The Banner Published By the Claremen and Women's Patriotic Association of New York. 1963.	Ireland	1963	EUR 90.00 - 180.00	EUR 118.75
17		Irish Local History: A Hundred Years of Carrigallen School			EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 93.75
18		Irish Local History: Tipperary -County Guide and Maps c 1950's with 16 pages of Advertisements and Folding map			EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 25.00
19		Council Books of the Corporation of Drogheda. Rev. T. Gogarty. County Louth Archaeological and Historical Society,		1988	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 43.75
20		County Louth Interest. Shoulders to the Wheel			EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 31.25
21	by Murnane.	At the Ford of the Birches. History of Ballybay, its People and Vicinity		1988	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 150.00
22	Gleeson, Rev John	History of the Ely O Carroll Territory of Ancient Ormond.		1982	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 93.75
23		History of the Ely O'Carroll Territory or Ancient Ormond. Situated in North Tipperary and North-Western King's County Ireland.	Dublin	1915	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 150.00
24	Burke, William P.	History of Clonmel	Kilkenny	1983	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 125.00
25	by William J Hayes	Irish Co-Operative Interest: Knocknagow to Brussels-Origins of South Tipp NFA/IFA 1955-2005			EUR 30.00 - 60.00	EUR 87.50

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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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