Purcell Auctioneers: C.600 Lot Auction of Irish & World Interest Books Which includes a Collection of Signed John B Keane Titles and Ephemera, Antiquarian Books, Rare & Signed First Editions etc., 52125, Birr

Auction Details

Auction Date: May 21, 2025 - May 21, 2025

Page Size: 579 items in 24 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
422	Francis Carty -	"Lecture on England's Difficulties To-day and Ireland's Opportunity - Our Rightful International Position"		1922	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
423	Eamon de Valera:	Signature of Eamon de Valera on a copy of Bunreacht Na hEireann ( Constitution of Ireland)			EUR 80.00 - 160.00	EUR 100.00
424	John Crowe:	Invitation card to a Mr M Gough to the Unveiling of the Crowe Memorial at Mount St Lawrence Cemetery, Nov 1924.		1924	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 31.25
425	P H Pearse:	Farewell Letter of P H Pearse. Written to his Mother a few hours before he was shot in Kilmainhaim Jail, April 1916.	Limerick		EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 62.50
426		Eamon de Valera: A Head and Shoulder photograph of de Valera		c1920	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	EUR 25.00
427		Young Ireland- Eire Og. Tabloid size newspaper dated November, 1918		1918	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
428		Proclamation of the Irish Republic, facsimile of the original.			EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 25.00
429		Irish Republicanism: Newspapers. Eire Og Young Ireland, Sept 1921.		1922	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 37.50
430		Irish Republicanism: Poblact na h-Eireann-The Republic of Ireland, 10 issues.		1922	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	EUR 106.25
431		Thomas Ashe: Collection of copy photographs showing Thomas ashe in Kilmainham Jail. His Funeral pasing through Dublin Quays and at Glasnevin Cemeter. Copy of his Courtmartial Documents		1916	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 350.00
432		[Fenians and the Manchester Martyrs]. The Police Gazette or Hue and Cry, for Ireland. November 1870.		1870	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 50.00
433		NI and Irish Politics: IRA, Gunrunning, 1798 warfare and including Mary Lou, Kelly, Orders for the Captain,			EUR 70.00 - 90.00	EUR 37.50
434		Revolutionary Ireland: eclectic collection with various vols on events in Dublin, Limerick, Galway; events, fake news, Connolly (signed copy from Andy Johnston), Micheal Collins; elections			EUR 70.00 - 90.00	Not Sold
435		Dublin Docklands: An Urban Voyage,	Dublin	2009	EUR 60.00 - 80.00	EUR 100.00
436		Saorstat Eireann' Irish Free State Handbook.		1932	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 87.50
437	by Eric Shipton.	The Mount Everest Reconnaissance Expedition 1951	London	1952	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
438		Everest: The West Ridge by T F Hornbien, Mountaineers Books, 1980, dj; The Ordinary Route Drasdo, Harold, SIGNED, The Ernest Press, 1997; ...		1961	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
439	Maraini, Fosco.	Secret Tibet.	London	1952	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
440		THE HIGHEST ANDES FITZ GERALD E.A.	London	1899	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	EUR 50.00
441		Irish Interest: In Search of Peaks, Passes and Glaciers-Irish Alpine Pioneers,		2013	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
442	Mummery, A.F. [Albert Frederick]	My Climbs in the Alps and the Caucasus.	London and New York	1895	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	EUR 50.00
443	by Thomas Chubb,	The Printed Maps Of Great Britain And Ireland 1579-1870	Folkestone	1974	EUR 30.00 - 60.00	EUR 25.00
444		Two Against The Alps by Graeme Dingle. A great mountaineering feat - The winter traverse of the Southern Alps by the author and Jill Treman.		1972	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	Not Sold
445	by Jean Francois Marie, Arouet de Voltaire. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent.	Candide	New York	1975	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
446	Porter, Eliot	Galapagos the Flow of Wildness	San Francisco	1968	EUR 30.00 - 60.00	EUR 25.00

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Bibliothèque Jacques Dauchez - Autour de Dubuffet
5-19 June

Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Bissière, Roger. Cantique à notre frère soleil de saint François. 1954. 1,000 - 1,500 EUR

Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Céline, Louis-Ferdinand. La vie & l’œuvre de Philippe Ignace Semmelweis. 1924. Rare édition originale, avec envoi. Joint : La Quinine en thérapeutique, 1925. 4,000 - 6,000 EUR

Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Céline, Louis-Ferdinand. Mort à crédit. 1936. Édition originale. Bel exemplaire sur Hollande. 2,500 - 3,500 EUR

Sotheby's
Bibliothèque Jacques Dauchez - Autour de Dubuffet
5-19 June

Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Chillida, Eduardo ─ Emil Cioran. Face aux instants. 1985. Un des 100 exemplaires sur Arches. Eau-forte signée. 600 - 800 EUR

Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Dubuffet, Jean. Ler dla canpane. L’Art Brut, 1948. Édition originale. 3,000 - 5,000 EUR

Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Dubuffet, Jean. L'Herne Jean Dubuffet. 1973. Un des 100 exemplaires du tirage de luxe avec une sérigraphie originale en couleurs. 1,000 - 1,500 EUR
Finarte
Books, Autographs & Prints
June 24 & 25, 2025

Finarte, June 24-25: ALIGHIERI, DANTE / LANDINO, CRISTOFORO. Comento di Christophoro Landino Fiorentino sopra la Comedia di Danthe Alighieri poeta fiorentino, 1481. €40,000 to €50,000.

Finarte, June 24-25: ALIGHIERI, DANTE. La Commedia [Commento di Christophorus Landinus]. Aggiunta: Marsilius Ficinus, Ad Dantem gratulatio [in latino e Italiano], 1487. €40,000 to €60,000.

Finarte, June 24-25: ALIGHIERI, DANTE. Il Convivio, 1490. €20,000 to €25,000.

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Books, Autographs & Prints
June 24 & 25, 2025

Finarte, June 24-25: BANDELLO, MATTEO. La prima [-quarta] parte de le nouelle del Bandello, 1554. €7,000 to €9,000.

Finarte, June 24-25: LEGATURA – PLUTARCO. Le vies des hommes illustres, grecs et romaines translates, 1567. €10,000 to €12,000.

Finarte, June 24-25: TOLOMEO, CLAUDIO. Ptolemeo La Geografia di Claudio Ptolemeo Alessandrino, Con alcuni comenti…, 1548. €4,000 to €6,000.

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Books, Autographs & Prints
June 24 & 25, 2025

Finarte, June 24-25: FESTE - COPPOLA, GIOVANNI CARLO. Le nozze degli Dei, favola [...] rappresentata in musica in Firenze…, 1637. €6,000 to €8,000.

Finarte, June 24-25: SPINOZA, BARUCH. Opera posthuma, 1677. €8,000 to €12,000.

Finarte, June 24-25: PUSHKIN, ALEXANDER. Borus Godunov, 1831. €30,000 to €50,000.

Finarte
Books, Autographs & Prints
June 24 & 25, 2025

Finarte, June 24-25: LIBRO D'ARTISTA - LECUIRE, PIERRE. Ballets-minute, 1954. €35,000 to €40,000.

Finarte, June 24-25: LIBRO D'ARTISTA - MAJAKOVSKIJ, VLADIMIR / LISSITZKY, LAZAR MARKOVICH. Dlia Golosa, 1923. €7,000 to €10,000.

Finarte, June 24-25: LIBRO D'ARTISTA - MATISSE, HENRI / MONTHERLANT, HENRY DE. Pasiphaé. Chant de Minos., 1944. €22,000 to €24,000.