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Auction Name Irish Interest Book & Ephemera Auction Total Sales (EUR) 45,462.00
Auction Date October 07, 2020 - October 07, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 26,540.00
Sale Number #100720 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 45,010.00
Total Lots 593
Sold Lots 552 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 30,570.00
% of Lots Sold 93.09% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 51,150.00
Unsold Lots 41 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 88.88%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
322

Codex Lindisfarnensis (The Lindisfarne Gospel)

1956/59 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,176.00
59 John Gwynn

Liber Ardmachanus (The Book of Armagh)

1913 EUR 350.00 - 500.00 EUR 840.00
72 Lady Gregory

Lady Gregory, Three Last Plays,

 1928 EUR 80.00 - 130.00 EUR 660.00
451

Lady Gregory, My First Play,

1930 EUR 120.00 - 160.00 EUR 576.00
548

Lady Gregory, Seven Short Plays,

1909 EUR 120.00 - 160.00 EUR 576.00
457

Brother Bookbinder [Sir Edward Sullivan Bart.] compiled by Brother Ivor Stewart-Liberty Sciolist to the Sette and Imprinted for him by Alabaster, Passmore.

1929 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 552.00
152 Halloran, Wae yang jin

Halloran, Wae yang jin: Eight Months Journal kept on board one of her Majesty’s sloops of war…visits to Loochoo, Japan and Pootoo.

1856 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 528.00
84

Land Owners in Ireland 1876.

1876 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 456.00
155 W.H.Russell 

The Atlantic Telegraph 1865.

1865 EUR 350.00 - 400.00 EUR 420.00
483

Early Book Auction. Catalogue of Scarce and valuable Books elected from the Library of Joseph Wallace, a well-known collector of Irish and Other Books. October 1957 by Alfred Sexton.

 EUR 60.00 - 120.00 EUR 408.00
82 Philip H. Hore

History of Wexford – Old and New Ross 1900.

1900 EUR 350.00 - 500.00 EUR 384.00
117 Wilson, William

Wilson, William:  The Post Chaise Companion, or, Traveller's Directory through Ireland.

 with particulars of the Noblemen and Gentlemen's Seats EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 384.00
203

Burke's History Of The Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland - 4 vol set, London 1836 in gilt red half calf

 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 384.00
210 Eoin O'Duffy

Crusade in Spain with dedication from O'Duffy

 EUR 150.00 - 300.00 EUR 384.00
25 Petrie, George Christian

Inscriptions in the Irish Language. Dublin, 1872 & 1878 2 vols. (bound in one) first edition, about 300 pages of text and 131 plates, mostly tinted lithographs and a few real photo prints, engraved illustrations throughout, well bound in half black morocc

 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 EUR 360.00
174

13 issues of Republican magazine ‘An Phoblacht’

 1966-1967 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 360.00
274 Thoas Bodkin 

Hugh Lane and His Pictures 1932. 1st edit. Signed by Liam Cosgrave.

EUR 300.00 - 350.00 EUR 360.00
371 Sean 0’Casey

Rose and Crown, 

 1952 EUR 250.00 - 300.00 EUR 312.00
481

Catalogue of the Books in the Diocesan Library of Lismore, 1851

 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 312.00
363 Hugh Lane

Hugh Lane: Lady Gregory. Case for the Return of the Lane Pictures, 1926, card covers but detached; Maurice Craig’s copy. Hugh Lane’s Life and Achievements, large 8vo, 1921. Thoms Bodkin, Hugh Lane and his Pictures. D. 1934;

EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 288.00
456

U.C.C. Catalogue of the Irish Library, Cork 1914

 EUR 30.00 - 60.00 EUR 288.00
58

Four-volume set bound in half-vellum and marbled boards: A collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts … chiefly such as relate to the History and Constitution of [Britain and Ireland] … principally from the Library of Lord Somers.

 Published 1809-1810 EUR 200.00 - 250.00 EUR 264.00
277 Beaslai, Piaras

Michael Collins and the Making of a New Ireland.

1926 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 264.00
67 D. Laurentii Heisteri.

Compendium Anatomicuim, 1736.

 1736 EUR 200.00 - 220.00 EUR 240.00
120 Seamus Heaney.

Phoenix No. 1 March 1967;  Field Work. 1979;   Preoccupations Selected Prose 1968-1978, 1980; The Haw Lantern 1987;  Station Island 1984; Sweeney Astray. 1984.

1967-1987 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 240.00
  • 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.
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
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