Purcell Auctioneers: Auction, Comprising a Portion of the Library of the Late Kenneth Nicholls (Historian and Irish Academic at UCC) From Templemartin, Co. Cork) and Other Clients, 100825, Birr

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Auction Report
Auction Date
October 08, 2025 - October 08, 2025
Page Size: 578 items in 24 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
399

Blake family records, 1300 to 1600; a chronological catalogue with copious notes and genealogies of many branches of the Blake family

1902 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 600.00
400 Margaret Franklin

History of the White Family first written by John Davis White re-issued with much additional information

EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 93.75
401 compiled by Robert Hallam Studdert

The Studdert family : notes and records

1960 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 200.00
402 Edgar Lambert.

Leaves From a Family Tree

1902 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 450.00
403 Complied by Edith Somerville

Records of the Somerville Family of Castlehaven and Drishane from 1174 to 1940

EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 475.00
404 J Stirling Coyne

Irish Coffee Table Books: The Scenery and Antiquities of ireland

2003 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 37.50
405 Harold G Leask

Irish Interest: Irish Churches and Monastic Buildings Vol 1-2

1955/1966 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 106.25
406 Maurice Jephson

An Anglo-Irish Miscellany - Records of the Jephson family of Mallow

1964 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 275.00
407

Corpus Ivris Canonici Emendatvmet Notis Illv Stratvm Gregorii XIII Pont Max iuffueditum indicibvs variis et novis

1622 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 EUR 112.50
408

Boz Mugabe, 2004-2014, Divine Turbulence, oblong quarto, pic cover

Stanford 2012 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
409

Cookery: The Tailtean Cookery Book

1935 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 112.50
410

Christian Literature in Moslem Lands

NY 1923 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
411 Edna O'Brien

The Little Red Chairs

EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 87.50
412 Edna O'Brien

The Country Girls Trilogy

2017 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 87.50
413 Anne Enright

The Portable Virgin

1991 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
414 Anne Enright

(Five Anne Enright Editions, First Prints) The Wig My Father Wore

1995 EUR 50.00 - 70.00 EUR 100.00
415 Kevin Barry

BEATLEBONE

2015 EUR 50.00 - 70.00 EUR 56.25
416 Anne Enright

The Wren, The Wren

2023 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 50.00
417 J.M. Coetzee

Boyhood, Youth & Summertime

Published between 1997 and 2009 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
418 Maurice Walsh

Green Rushes

-1935 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 275.00
419

The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway

New York 1952 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 212.50
420 Raymond Chandler

Playback

1958 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 75.00
421 Praeger, Robert Lloyd

Beyond Soundings

Dublin & Cork 1930 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 150.00
422 Bram Stoker

DRACULA -- (Introduction Colm Toibin )

2012 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
423 Brendan Behan

BORSTAL BOY

1957 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 75.00
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    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
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    December 9, 2025
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