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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
351

Steven Birmingham. Real Lace - America's Irish Rich.

 1973 EUR 10.00 - 30.00 Not Sold
352

[Clonmel Literary Society]. The Life of George Morland

London. 1807 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 25.74
353 Edited by Salvador Ryan and Brendan Leahy.

Complete 3 volume set Treasures of Irish Christianity

Dublin. EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 27.02
354 Peter Bacon

Land, Lust and Gun Smoke. History of Game Shooting In Ireland

EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 25.74
355

Tipperary GAA: Tipperary Year Book

 1973/74/76/77 EUR 15.00 - 30.00 EUR 19.30
356 Edited by Arthur Mee

Harmsworth Self-Educator

1906 EUR 10.00 - 30.00 Not Sold
357 Ralph Neville.

Old English Sporting Prints & Their History.

 1923 EUR 15.00 - 30.00 Not Sold
358

Album of Continental Views

 c.1890. EUR 15.00 - 30.00 Not Sold
359 Bowness, Alan (editor )

Ivon Hitchens.

EUR 30.00 - 60.00 EUR 38.61
360 Edited by Condit and Corlett.

Above and Beyond: Essays in Memory of Leo Swan.

 2006 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 25.74
361

A Collection of scarce papers on Irish Science and Mathematics including some of the leading thinkers from the 1930s to the 1960s, including J. L Sygne, McConnell, Butler, Morton and Wheeler.

1930s- 1960s EUR 10.00 - 30.00 Not Sold
362

Irish Interest: Beyond The Moment-Irish Photojournalism in Our Time with an Introduction

EUR 15.00 - 30.00 Not Sold
363

Roderick O'Connor. Exhibition catalogue, London/Dublin/Manchester, Sept 1985 to May 1960.

 1993 EUR 10.00 - 30.00 EUR 12.87
364 J. Roberts.

The Irish Setter.

 1978 EUR 10.00 - 30.00 Not Sold
365

Patrick Kavanagh & The Leader: The Poet, the Politician and the Libel Trial Pat Walsh

2010 EUR 15.00 - 30.00 EUR 24.45
366

Cary's New Itinerary: or an Accurate Delineation of the Great Roads, both Direct and Cross throughout England and Wales

 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 25.74
367 Pol O Muiri.

Seosamh Mac Grianna. "Mireanna Saoil". Caighdean.

 2007 EUR 10.00 - 30.00 EUR 20.59
368 John de Courcy

Ireland's Sea Fisheries-a history

1981 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
369 Theo Snoddy.

Dictionary of Irish Artists of the 29th century.

 1969 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 25.74
370 Sean O'Casey,

Blasts and Benedictions-uncorrected proof copy

1966 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
371 Ward Lock.

Dublin and County Wicklow c.1900. Illustrated

 EUR 10.00 - 30.00 EUR 21.88
372 Rudyard Kipling

The Seven Seas

1896 EUR 15.00 - 30.00 Not Sold
373

Somerset Maugham, Ian Fleming, Roald Dahl. Grand Slam-13 Great Bridge Stories.

 1975 EUR 10.00 - 30.00 EUR 27.02
374

Ring the Doctor. Mary Graham SIGNED

Dublin 1967 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
375 A P Graves:

Father O'Flynn and Other Irish Lyrics. Swan Sonnenschein

 1889 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 54.05
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    University Archives
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    January 7, 2026
    University Archives, Jan. 7: Jefferson's Owned & Signed "Plutarch's Morals" Vol. 4. - 1st Time At Auction In Nearly 200 Years!
    University Archives, Jan. 7: Flown NASA Hasselblad 203S Space Camera On Endeavour STS-111, With Components, Data Module & Flown Film Magazine!
    University Archives, Jan. 7: One Of The Finest Lincoln Assassination Letters Extant, April 15, 1865 - Illustrated & Beyond Dramatic! 8pp.
    University Archives
    Rare Autographs & Books Including Lincoln & Space Exploration
    January 7, 2026
    University Archives, Jan. 7: Isaac Newton Highly Important Religious Manuscript With 85+ Words In His Hand, Ex-Bonhams
    University Archives, Jan. 7: Marilyn Monroe Gorgeous Signed & Inscribed Photograph, PSA Authenticated
    University Archives, Jan. 7: Rare Ernest Hemingway, 1 Of 10 Signed Presentation Copies Of "Farewell To Arms"
    University Archives
    Rare Autographs & Books Including Lincoln & Space Exploration
    January 7, 2026
    University Archives, Jan. 7: Ayn Rand 11pp Revised AMS "The Cold Civil War" For LA Times Newspaper- 900+ Words In Her Hand!
    University Archives, Jan. 7: Mary Todd Lincoln Calls Abe A "great & good man, who loved & served his country so well"
    University Archives, Jan. 7: Abraham Lincoln Gives Rebel Woman Pass To Visit Prisoner Of War Husband, Showing A Very Human Lincoln!
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    Rare Autographs & Books Including Lincoln & Space Exploration
    January 7, 2026
    University Archives, Jan. 7: Babe Ruth PSA Type II Signed Conlon Photo, With Ruth Miniature Louisville Slugger, 16.25"
    University Archives, Jan. 7: Armstrong, Collins, Aldrin Signed Photo - Prime Crew Apollo 11 - PSA Authenticated
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    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 1775 Map of Virginia, Fry and Jefferson, ex-John Tyler. $6,000 to $8,000.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Albrecht Durer Engraving, The Peasant Couple at Market. $3,400 to $3,800.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 1777 Map: Wm. Faden, British Colonies in N. America, ex. John Tyler. $2,000 to $2,400.
    Case Antiques
    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 30 Vols. George Eliot 1st Editions; Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Deronda, etc. $1,400 to $1,800.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Celestial Floor Globe c. 1800. $1,400 to $1,800.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1866 London MacMillan. $900 to $1,200.
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    January 31 and February 1, 2026
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    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Civil War Tintype of Calvin “Old Ballie” Walker, CSA 3rd TN Infantry, KIA, plus 3 Union Images. $800 to $1,000.
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    January 31 and February 1, 2026
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    Sotheby’s
    Year in Review
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: A Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah. Sold: 1,514,000 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: "The Freedman's Primer.” Sold: 241,300 USD
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