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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
276

A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate, Market, and Post Towns, Parishes, and Villages, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions. Samuel Lewis.

1995 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 65.63
277

Atlas comprising the counties of Ireland and a General Map of Ireland. Samuel Lewis. Galway.

1995 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 66.92
278

A Social History of Ancient Ireland, Treating of Government, Religion, Law, Art, Trade, Manners and Customs. P. W. Joyce.

1997 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 54.05
279

Irish Republican Women in America. Lecture Tours 1916-1925

2002 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
280 BEWICK Thomas.

History of British Birds, The figures engraved on wood

1797/1804, EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 104.24
281

FINE BINDING. The Harmsworth Encyclopaedia. Everybody's Book of Reference. 8 volumes.

London: EUR 30.00 - 60.00 EUR 38.61
282 LAWRENCE, T. E.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom: a Triumph

London and Toronto 1935 EUR 30.00 - 60.00 EUR 78.50
283

Stair Na gConndae: Vol 1-4.

1938 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 47.62
284 John M Synge

Deirdre of the Sorrows and Poems and Translations

1911/1924 EUR 10.00 - 30.00 EUR 18.02
285 Paul Muldoon

Irish Poets: Madoc

EUR 10.00 - 30.00 EUR 23.16
286

Origin and growth of the languages of southern Europe and of their literature

EUR 10.00 - 30.00 EUR 16.73
287 John B. Keane

The Man from Clare, SIGNED and dedicated, Mercier Press

1965 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 64.35
288 Joseph Brady:

The Big Sycamore

1958 EUR 10.00 - 30.00 EUR 21.88
289 Samuel Beckett.

Eleutheria - A Play in Three Acts.

1995 EUR 15.00 - 30.00 Not Sold
290 Seamus Heaney:

100 Poems,

2019 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
291 Kerry: [Murray, John (editor)]

Shinid or the Island.

Glasgow: 1938 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 39.89
292 P. M. Egan.

The Illustrated Guide to the City of Kilkenny.

1885 EUR 60.00 - 160.00 EUR 84.94
293

Rare: Jus Primatiale Armacanum, In Omnes Archiepiscopos, Episcopos, et Universum Clerum, totius regniHiberniae. Assertum Per H A M T H P.

1728 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 65.63
294

Tadhg Gaedhealach O Sullivan 1715-1795. Scriobh Risteard O Foghludha ath-eagar ar a Dhuanta Diadha agus ar a chuid Amhran agus moran nuadh eolas ar a beatha i

1929 EUR 10.00 - 30.00 EUR 12.87
295

Plotinus on the Beautiful. Being the Sixth Treatise of the First Ennead Literally Translated MacKenna, Stephen

Stratford-upon-Avon 1914 EUR 10.00 - 30.00 EUR 28.31
296

Leabhar na hEireann - The Irish Year book

Dublin : 1909 EUR 10.00 - 30.00 EUR 52.76
297 Pearse, Padraig. Edited by Desmond Ryan.

The Story Of A Success.

1918 EUR 15.00 - 30.00 EUR 28.31
298 C.P. Abbott.

Queen Breeding for Amateurs (Bee Craft). 1951. Illustrated and Norman Douglas. Some Words on Aphrodisiacs.

1931 EUR 10.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
299 Editor and compiler: William Nolan, Contributors: Jim Wren, Marcus de Burca, David Gorry

The Gaelic Athletic Association in Dublin 1884-2000.

2005 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 51.48
300 Kevin M and A Grriffin,

Irish Interest: The Renihan Diaries c1882-1925

2005 EUR 10.00 - 30.00 EUR 39.89
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