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Purcell Auctioneers: Auction of a Collection of Irish Historical Interest Books Including Maps, Journals, Periodicals, Pamphlets, Ephemera Etc. on Behalf of the Executors of Two Deceased Estates.

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Auction Name Auction of a Collection of Irish Historical Interest Books Including Maps, Journals, Periodicals, Pamphlets, Ephemera Etc. on Behalf of the Executors of Two Deceased Estates. Total Sales (EUR) 50,983.20
Auction Date April 21, 2021 - April 21, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 29,635.00
Sale Number #42121 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 51,311.00
Total Lots 685
Sold Lots 639 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 32,780.00
% of Lots Sold 93.28% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 55,871.00
Unsold Lots 46 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 91.25%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
193 Samuel Beckett.

Malone Dies.

1958 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 1,104.00
491 Oscar Wilde.

Rose-Leaf and Apple-Leaf L’Envoi.

1904 EUR 200.00 - 220.00 EUR 744.00
48 W. H. Russell.

The Atlantic Telegraph.

1865 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 660.00
139 Robert H. Sherard.

Oscar Wilde. The Story Of An Unhappy Friendship.

1905 EUR 45.00 - 50.00 EUR 480.00
506 Sean 0’Casey.

Oak Leaves and Lavender or a World on Wallpaper.

1946 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 480.00
529 Walter Harris.

The Ancient & Present State of the County of Down.

1744 EUR 400.00 - 420.00 EUR 456.00
547 Dickens, Charles.

Bleak House, First edit, Points Legal Reform.

1853 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 432.00
235

Envoy A Review Of Literature & Art. Dublin. 20 Issues,

1949-51 EUR 30.00 - 50.00 EUR 384.00
409

All Ireland Senior Hurling Final 1973 Match Programme between Aondruim and Corcaige, Croke Park, September 5th, 1943 (personal library blind stamp)

EUR 30.00 - 60.00 EUR 384.00
565

The Lepracaun Annual - Cartoons And Sketches by The Late T Fitzpatrick, May 1905 - April 1906

 1905 - 1906 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 336.00
86 W.W. Barry.

A Walking Tour Round Ireland in 1865 by an Englishman.

1867 EUR 120.00 - 140.00 EUR 264.00
195 Elizabeth C. Yeats.

Brush Work.

1896 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 264.00
211 YEATS, William Butler.

Selected Poems: lyrical and narrative.

1929 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 EUR 264.00
52 McLysaght.

Irish Life in the Seventeenth Century

1950 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 240.00
80 James Townsend Mackay.

Flora Hibernica containing the flowering plants, ferns etc. of Ireland.

1836 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 240.00
225 De Valera, Éamon -

Signed copy of The Irish Republic by Dorothy MacArdle with a preface by Éamon De Valéra.

1951 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 240.00
348 Patrick Power

Waterford and Lismore - A Compendious History of the United Dioceses, 1 volume,

1937 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 240.00
414 [WILLIAMSON FAMILY]

An Extensive and Interesting Archive relating to the Estates of Harrow and Ballyoril, Co. Wexford, property of Col. Richard Williamson & his son Major Charles, and administered by their agent and cousin Capt. J.O. Young of Portarlington,

1875-1905. EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 240.00
415 YOUNG FAMILY]

A Quantity of Legal and other Documents Tracing the History of this Distinguished Family from the 1830s for well over 100 Years.

EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 240.00
497

Athlunkard Bridge, Limerick.

1839 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 240.00
633

Cashel Urban District Council.  Wages Ledger

1931- 1955 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 240.00
170 Proust, Marcel.

Remembrance Of Things Past (Volume I: Swann's Way; Within A Budding Grove.

1981 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 228.00
340

18th Century Map of Cork County with a List of the Baronies

 18th Century EUR 220.00 - 280.00 EUR 228.00
438 Wilkinson, George.

Practical Geology and Ancient Architecture of Ireland.

1845 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 228.00
430 O'Donovan, Donal.

God's Architect: A Life Of Raymond McGrath.

1995 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 216.00
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    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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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
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  • 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.
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