Purcell Auctioneers: Timed Book Auction - Antiquarian, Modern Literary, Signed Editions etc. etc.., 601579, Birr

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Auction Report
Auction Date
January 05, 2026 - January 05, 2026
Page Size: 462 items in 19 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Maraini, Fosco.

Secret Tibet.

London 1952 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 46.33
2 Unsworth, Walt

Savage Snows: The Story of Mont Blanc

1987 EUR 15.00 - 30.00 EUR 32.17
3

Dublin: Corporation of Dublin- Dublin City Development Plan

1971 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
4

Irish Interest: In Search of Peaks, Passes and Glaciers-Irish Alpine Pioneers,

2013 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 39.89
5 Gherardo Priuli.

Mont Blanc, Chamonix, Courmayeur in the Old Prints, second edition revised and enlarged

1987 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 25.74
6 Hodges, Rev. Richard J Edited by W. T. Pike.

Cork and County Cork in the Twentieth Century / Contemporary Biographies

1911 EUR 250.00 - 450.00 Not Sold
7

Collection of Novels and Romances of the Author of Waverley, Half Calf (10) Collection of Novels and Tales of the Author of Waverley, Half Calf (11)

EUR 30.00 - 60.00 EUR 38.61
8

Irish Independent Eucharistic Congress Souvenir and Record

1932 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 64.35
9 Lewis, Samuel (-1865)

A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland

London 1837 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 64.35
10 Lilly, John

Modern Entries: being a Collection of Select Pleadings. Savoy [ie. London]:

1741 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 25.74
11 Hall, Edward

Hall's Chronicle. Containing The History Of England During The Reign Of Henry The Fourth, And The Succeeding Monarchs, To The End Of The Reign Of Henry The Eighth

1809 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
12 Sir Robert Ker Porter.

A Narrative of the Campaign in Russia during the year

1812. c.1815. EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 59.20
13 T M Healy

Irish Related: Letters and Leaders of my Day

1929 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 25.74
14 William Wilde

The Boyne and Blackwater

EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 39.89
15 Edited by K M Lanigan

Kilkenny/Carlow/Kildare: Kilkenny Its Architecture & History

1977 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 52.76
16 Edited by John Crowley.

Atlas Of The Irish Revolution

EUR 50.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
17 Edited by Robert Devoy, Val Cummins, Barry Brunt, Darius Bartlett and Sarah Kandrot.

The Coastal Atlas of Ireland.

2021 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 66.92
18 Edited by Crowley Smyth and Murphy.

Atlas of the Great Irish Famine

EUR 50.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
19

Female Authors: Deirdre Purcell. That Childhood Country

1992 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
20

Dublin Related: County Borough Of Dublin and Neighbourhood, Town Planning Report Sketch Development Plan

1941 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 28.31
21

Signed Poetry Books. John Liddy (Co. Cork) The Well, Lorna Shaughnessy (Belfast) Torching the Brown River, Joan McBreen (Dublin)...

EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 25.74
22

100 Years of the Meath Chronicle Newspaper

EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 33.46
23

British Liberties or the Free-born Subject's Inheritance

EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 25.74
24

Irish Language: Mearcair

1996 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 32.17
25

Irish Interest: A Secret History of the IRA

2002 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 33.46
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