Purcell Auctioneers: c.640 Lots to include Signed, First & Rare Editions including WB Yeats, Antiquarian Books, Maps, Broadsides, Literature & Poetry, GAA & Sport, Local Histories, Irish Language, Postcards & Ephemera., 22124, Birr

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
February 21, 2024 - February 21, 2024
Page Size: 643 items in 26 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
26

Clare/Kerry Interest: Before The famine Struck-life in West Clare, 1834-1845 by Ignatius Murphy; The Blasket Islands-next parish America by Joan and Ray Stagles plus 6 others

 -9 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 42.00
27

The History and Topography of The County of Clare from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the 18th Century. James Frost. map and illustrations

 1973 reprint of 1893 EUR 50.00 - 90.00 EUR 42.00
28

The History, Topography and Antiquities of the County and City of Waterford by Rev. R. H. Ryland. With an account of the present state of the peasantry of that part of the South of Ireland.

 London 1824. large folding coloured map of Waterford plus plates, some folding. lovely copy in original boards on quarter cloth EUR 120.00 - 240.00 EUR 336.00
29

Wicklow/Waterford; Shipbuilding in Waterford, 1820-1882 by Bill Irish; A Pictorial History of Bray Co. Wicklow by Henry Cairns plus 6 others (8)

 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 96.00
30

The Place Names of Decies Power, P.

1907.In English and Irish. Quarter leather binding. EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 180.00
31

Succession lists of the clergy of Waterford, Lismore and Ferns, revised ed; mint copy. Donal Foley, Man Bites Dog and Three Villages.

 EUR 30.00 - 50.00 EUR 120.00
32

Local History, Mixed Bundle: Monu-Mental About Prehistoric Waterford by Tom Fourwinds; The Castles of Leinster by Mike Salter; Blasket Spirit by Anita Fennelly; Mainstir Leathra G F C official opening Oliver Lynch Memorial Park,

 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 120.00
33

Clare interest, The Burren by Charles Nelson and Wendy Walsh, The time of the Tans, In search of Biddy Early by Edmund Lenihan (signed) and 4 more Clare interest (6)

 EUR 20.00 - 40.00 EUR 30.00
34

Wicklow/Wexford/Carlow/Irish Interest: Shillelagh Looking Back; The Christian Brothers in New Ross 1849-1949- History of Mount St Joseph by P Donovan plus 8 others (11)

 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 120.00
35 St John Whitty ,

The Flaming Wheel ,nature studies in Wicklow and Dublin

1924 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 24.00
36 John McEvoy,

Leinster Interest: Carlow College, 1793-1993-The ordained students and teaching staff of St Patrick's College

1993 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 132.00
37

Mayo: Women in Mayo, 1821-1851 by Maureen Langan-Egan; Westport-100 years of golf, 1908-2008 by Padraig McLoughlin plus 12 others (14)

 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 60.00
38

[Signed 'C. P. Crane, 6th October, 1927'] Kerry by C. P. Crane D.S.O.

 1914 EUR 50.00 - 90.00 EUR 192.00
39

In The Kingdom of Kerry by Richard Hayward drawings by Theo. Gracey.

 1970 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 24.00
40

Hall, Mr. & Mrs. S.C. A Week at Killarney London,

 1865 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 48.00
41 Frank Whelan.

Limerick History. Capppagh a sense of history

 1987 EUR 50.00 - 90.00 EUR 54.00
42 James George Robertson.

The Antiquities And Scenery Of The County Kilkenny

 1983 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 156.00
43

Kilkenny Interest: Kilkenny-History and Society edited by William Nolan; The Chief Butlers of Ireland and the House of Ormond edited by John Kirwan plus 8 others (10)

 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 96.00
44 Dermot F. Gleeson.

Roscrea A History of the Parish.

1947 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 48.00
45

Tipperary ephemera: Nenagh Choral Society, 1952, The Belle of New York', 4to prog. St Mary's Choral Society Clonmel, Oliver,

 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 EUR 264.00
46

Local Irish History, Mainly Tipperary: Tipperary Historical Journal

 2006/2011/2013 EUR 30.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
47 Aubrey Glynn and Dermot Gleeson.

The Diocese Of Killaloe by Ignatius Murphy (3 vol set); A History of the Diocese of Killaloe

1962 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 180.00
48 James White. Dundalgan.

Tipperary Interest. My Clonmel Scrap Book. Famous Trials, Romances, Sketches, Stories, Ballads

 Circa1925 EUR 50.00 - 90.00 EUR 36.00
49 Mainchin Seoighe [Mannix Joyce].

The Story of Kilmallock

 1987 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 EUR 78.00
50 Archdeacon Begley

THE DIOCESE OF LIMERICK

1938 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 EUR 48.00
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