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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.

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Auction Name	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.	Total Sales (EUR)	11,010.00
Auction Date	February 21, 2024 - February 21, 2024	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	5,435.00
Sale Number	#22124	High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	9,171.00
Total Lots	643
Sold Lots	111	Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	39,585.00
% of Lots Sold	17.26%	High Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	63,476.00
Unsold Lots	532	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	17.35%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	Hodges, Rev. Richard J EditedW. T. Pike.	Cork and County Cork in the Twentieth Century / Contemporary Biographies	1911	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	EUR 720.00
14		Hore, Philip Herbert. History of the Town and County of Wexford.	1978	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	EUR 408.00
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.	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
97		Jack Coughlin; Brendan Behan, Signed Etching		EUR 120.00 - 150.00	EUR 336.00
112		[Unique association of 3 of Ireland's greatest Olympians]. Golden Jubilee Banquet to honour the Olympic gold medal victories of Pat O'Callaghan and Bob Tisdall in Los Angeles in 1932 .	1982	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 336.00
103	Sir Bernard Burke	Burkes Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland	1958	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	EUR 288.00
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
81	Rev. C. P. Meehan. Duffy.	The Fate and Fortunes of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone and Rory O'Donel, Earl of Tyrconnel; their Flight from Ireland and death in exile		EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 264.00
96A	John B.Keane;	Programme for the Field, Olympia Theatre 29th November	1965	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 264.00
94	John B.Keane;	Letters of an Irish Parish Priest, first edition, first print, signed , dedicated and dated. Mercier Press	1972	EUR 60.00 - 80.00	EUR 216.00
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
106	Charles Dickens	Christmas Books-5 Titles by Charles Dickens bound as one.		EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 192.00
23		Wexford: The Hook Peninsula and Wexford Castles by Billy Colfer SIGNED; St Mary and St Michael Parish Church New Ross 1902-2002-a centenary history		EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 180.00
30		The Place Names of Decies Power, P.	1907.In English and Irish. Quarter leather binding.	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 180.00
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
21	Nicholas Furlong,	Wexford Interest: Father John Murphy of Boolavogue 1753-1798	1991	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 168.00
116		Irish Interest: Annals of the GAA in Galway 1884-1901 by Padraic O Laoi; The Kerry Footballer by Mick O'Connell plus 2 others (4)		EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 168.00
22		Wexford Interest: Collection of Journals such as Journal of the Wexford Historical Society X 11; Journal of the Old Wexford Society X 3; ...		EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 156.00
42	James George Robertson.	The Antiquities And Scenery Of The County Kilkenny	1983	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	EUR 156.00
73	Edith Somerville and	Through Connemara in a Governess Cart	1893	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 156.00
4		Purcell's Cork Almanac 2 issues,	1916, 1923	EUR 20.00 - 40.00	EUR 144.00
58		Leitrim: County Leitrim Resource Survey, Part 1, Land Use Potential, 1973; Part 2, Some Aspects of Production, 1975; Part 3, Demography, Sociology and economics,...		EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 144.00
2		A History of the Diocese of Cork by Evelyn Bolster. 3 Vol; Ferom the Reformation to the Penal Era; From the Penal Era to the Famine; the Episcopate of William Delany, 1847-1886.	1982/1989/1993	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 132.00
15	FLOOD, W.H. Grattan.	Notes towards a Parochial History of the Diocese of Ferns.	1915	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 132.00
20		Wexford Interest: Davidstown Courtnacuddy by Patrick Hennessy; Rathangan by Richard Lambert; St Albans Cross, Adamstown Cementry, 1700-2011		EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 132.00

Sotheby’s
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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

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Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 27th

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
K. Marx, Das Kapital,1867. Dedication copy. Est: € 120,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Latin and French Book of Hours, around 1380. Est: € 25,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Theodor de Bry, Indiae Orientalis, 1598-1625. Est: € 80,000

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 27th

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Breviary, Latin manuscript, around 1450-75. Est: € 10,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
G. B. Piranesi, Vedute di Roma, 1748-69. Est: € 60,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
K. Schmidt-Rottluff, Arbeiter, 1921. Orig. watercolour on postcard. Est: € 18,000

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 27th

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: € 20,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
C. J. Trew, Plantae selectae, 1750-73. Est: € 28,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
M. Beckmann, Apokalypse, 1943. Est: € 50,000

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 27th

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Ulrich von Richenthal, Das Concilium, 1536. Est: € 9,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
I. Kant, Critik der reinen Vernunft, 1781. Est: €12,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Arbeiter-Illustrierte Zeitung (AIZ) / Die Volks-Illustrierte (VI), 1932-38. Est: €8,000

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