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
175 John McGahen,

Irish Interest: The Collected Stories

1992 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
176

Irish Interest: The Singularities by John Banville SIGNED; The Guinness Spirit _Brewers and Bankers by Michele Guinness; Judging Dev by Diarmaid Ferriter plus 6 others (9)

EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
177 Jack B Yeats ,

The Careless Flower

1947 EUR 30.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
178 Richard Lovell Edgeworth

Memoirs Of Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Esq. Begun By Himself And Concluded By His Daughter, Maria Edgeworth

1969 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
179 D A Mac Manus

The Middle Kingdom The Faerie World of Ireland

1959. A 1st edition with dustjacket EUR 40.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
180

Sir Henry McAnally. The Irish Militia 1793-1816. Dublin.

1944 EUR 70.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
181 Rev A Donlevy,

The Catechism, or Christian Doctrine: By Way of Question and Answer in English and Irish

1822 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
182

The English in Ireland in the Eighteenth century written by James Anthony Froude, complete in 3 volumes and

1887 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
183 Fleming, Ian

You Only Live Twice

1964, bound in publisher's black cloth with titles gilt in silver and gold, in both English and Japanese. EUR 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
184 Sir Robert Matheson,

Surnames in Ireland

1909 EUR 40.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
185 Charles Squire ,

CELTIC MYTHS AND LEGAND

Dublin 1910, EUR 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
186

THE LIFE OF JOHN JEBB, Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe, with a selection of his letters by Rev Charles Forster

1836 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
187

Neligan, The Spy in the Castle.

1999 EUR 30.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
188

Authenticated Report of the Discussion which took place between the Rev T D Gregg and the Rev Thomas Maguire in the round room of the Rotunda on 29th May, 1838 .

Dublin 1839 EUR 30.00 - 60.00 Not Sold
189 Mrs Stanley Gardiner ,

WE TWO AND SHAMUS

1913. Original green cover with gilt title ,frontpiece and all illustrations present.This 1st edition is the story of a caravan holiday in the west of Ireland; THE CHARM OF IRELAND by stephen Gwynn ,published by Harrap EUR 40.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
190 [Roger Casement]

Das Geheimnisvolle Schiff, Die Fahrt der Libau zur irischen Revolution by Captain Karl Spindler .

Berlin. 1921 EUR 60.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
191 Katharine Tynan

PEEPS AT MANY LANDS IRELAND

1909 EUR 40.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
192 G. Richardson.

The Road to the Western Isle Brigham,

1963 EUR 30.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
193 W. B. Yeats.

Collected Works of William Butler Yeats in Verse and Prose.

1908 EUR 2,500.00 - 2,800.00 Not Sold
194 W B Yeats

FAIRY AND FOLK TALES OF THE IRISH PEASANTRY

1888 EUR 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
195 W B Yeats

IF I WERE FOUR AND TWENTY

1940 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
196 W B Yeats

Stories of Michael Robartes and his Friends

1931 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
197 W B Yeats

Words for Music perhaps and other Poems

1932 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
198 W B Yeats,

A Packet for Ezra Pound

1929 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
199 W B Yeats

The Death of Synge and other passages from an old diary

1928 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
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