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Purcell Auctioneers: Auction of a Collection of Irish Historical Interest Books, World Books, Maps, Periodicals, Ephemera. G.A.A. Interest, Signed Soccer & Rugby Jerseys Etc.

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Auction Name Auction of a Collection of Irish Historical Interest Books, World Books, Maps, Periodicals, Ephemera. G.A.A. Interest, Signed Soccer & Rugby Jerseys Etc. Total Sales (EUR) 61,481.44
Auction Date June 16, 2021 - June 16, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 37,175.00
Sale Number #61621 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 57,320.00
Total Lots 669
Sold Lots 589 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 47,485.00
% of Lots Sold 88.04% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 72,030.00
Unsold Lots 80 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 85.36%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
161 Bernard Scale.

An Hibernian Atlas or General Description of The Kingdom of Ireland.

1776 EUR 1,500.00 - 1,600.00 EUR 3,084.25
191

Barcelona. Signatures include, Messi, Busquets, Alves, Piques, Puyol, Villa, Valdes, Pedro. Inestia.

EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 1,135.00
666

The British & Irish Lions 2013. Signatures include Warren Gatland (coach) plus Irish players Paul O Connell, Brian O Driscoll, Rob Kearney, Simon Zebo, Jonathon Sexton, Tommy Bowe, Jamie Heaslip and Cian Healy. 32 signatures in total

 2013 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 986.96
33 Denis 0’Driscoll.

Stepping Stones – Interviews with Seamus Heaney

 2008 EUR 150.00 - 180.00 EUR 863.59
432 PETTY, Sir William.

A Map of The County of Corke from Sir William Petty's Hiberniae Delineatio.

1732 EUR 150.00 - 550.00 EUR 863.59
318 John 0’Donovan.

The Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland.

 1856 EUR 700.00 - 900.00 EUR 764.89
494 Samuel Beckett.

Company.

 1980 EUR 750.00 - 900.00 EUR 764.89
160 Miles Byrne

Memoirs of Miles Byrne, Chef de Bataillon in the Service of France – Edited by his Widow.

 1863 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 740.22
426

Irish Arts Review: A complete run from number 1 to volume 30. Scarce to find a run like this in excellent condition (82)

 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 740.22
123 O'Faolain (Sean), O'Connor (Frank) Editors, & others.

The Bell' Periodical: an almost complete run of 120 of the 131 issues published, plus 10 duplicate issues.

 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 678.54
619

Abbey Leix House School. Rules. Opened January

 1844 EUR 350.00 - 450.00 EUR 641.52
67 W.H. Russell.

The Atlantic Telegraph.

 1865 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 616.85
129

An Universal History from the earliest account of time to the present.

1745 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 592.18
23

WEST, Mrs. Frederic. A Summer Visit to Ireland in 1846.

1847 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 542.83
428 PETTY, Sir William.

A Map of The County of Mayo from Sir William Petty's Hiberniae Delineatio.

 1732 EUR 450.00 - 550.00 EUR 542.83
509

Maurice Craig architectural historian. Collection of approximately 125 postcards addressed to Craig in London and later Dublin from correspondents,

 1950-1980 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 518.15
328

Buffon’s Natural History containing a Theory of the Earth and A General History of Man.

 1797 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 493.48
669

Number 10’s – Ireland rugby jersey signed by Jonathan Sexton and Ronan Gara.

 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 468.81
65

Kinsella, Thomas & Le Brocquy, Louis. The Tain.

1985 EUR 250.00 - 350.00 EUR 444.13
323 Rev. R.H. Ryland.

The History, Topography and Antiquities of the County and City of Waterford.

 1824 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 444.13
455

A Folk-Lore Survey of Clare. Thomas J. Westropp. Bound volume of articles on Clare supernatural by Westropp

1910-1912. EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 444.13
159

Eoin 0’Duffy. Crusade in Spain.

 1938 EUR 200.00 - 250.00 EUR 431.80
307 W. Bennet

BALLADS. A Collection of 25 Broadside Ballads: The Irish Rake; Lines Written on the Barley Corn; A New Song Call'd Annie Leslie; A New Song Call'd the Girl I Left Behind Me; The Church Bill and Downfall of Bribery

 EUR 350.00 - 450.00 EUR 431.80
71 Tim Robinson

The Connemara Trilogy – Connemara: Listening to the Wind (2006), Connemara: The Last Pools of Darkness (2008) & Connemara: A Little Gaelic Kingdom (2011).

 2006, 2008, 2011 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 419.46
513 [Gonne, Maud]

The Coming of Lugh. A Celtic Wonder-Tale retold by Ella Young. Illustrated by Maud Gonne.

 1909 EUR 250.00 - 350.00 EUR 419.46
  • 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.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
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    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • 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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