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	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
447		Everest, The Best Writing and Pictures from Seventy Years of Human Endeavour, P Gillman & Edmund Hillary; ...		EUR 30.00 - 60.00	EUR 25.00
448	Huntford, Roland [Editor]	The Shackleton Voyages : A Pictorial Anthology of the Polar Explorer and Edwardian Hero	2002	EUR 30.00 - 60.00	EUR 31.25
449	John Richardson Auldjo, Esq.	NARRATIVE OF AN ASCENT TO THE SUMMIT OF MONT BLANC, on the 8th and 9th August, 1827.	1972	EUR 80.00 - 100.00	EUR 50.00
450		Nanga Parbat Pilgrimage, a mountaineer's autobiography by Hermann Buhl who climbed alone to the summit of Nanga Parbat. Translated by Hugh Merrick.	1956	EUR 30.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
451	Unsworth, Walt	Savage Snows: The Story of Mont Blanc	1987	EUR 30.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
452	Curl, J.S.	The Londonderry Plantation 1609-1914	1986	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
453		Mont Blanc, Chamonix, Courmayeur in the Old Prints	1987	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	Not Sold
454		Collection of Mountaineering Interest Titles - 1 box		EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 25.00
455		Collection of Mountaineering Interest Titles - 1 box		EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 25.00
456		Collection of Mountaineering Interest Titles - 1 box		EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
457		Collection of Mountaineering Interest Titles - 1 box		EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 25.00
458		Collection of Mountaineering Titles c 40		EUR 60.00 - 80.00	EUR 37.50
459		Collection of Mountaineering Titles c 45		EUR 60.00 - 80.00	EUR 50.00
460		Sailing and Maritime: An extensive collection of titles relating to Sailing and Maritime c 50		EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 106.25
461	John Speede	Original John Speede map dated 1610 of the Countie of Leinster with the Citie Dublin described	1610	EUR 700.00 - 800.00	EUR 1,500.00
462	John Speede	Original John Speede map dated 1610 41 x of The Province of Connaugh with the Citie of Galwaye described.	1610	EUR 700.00 - 800.00	EUR 650.00
463	John Speede	Original John Speede Map of The Province of Mounster	1610	EUR 750.00 - 900.00	EUR 687.50
464		Irish Railway Commission Plan for new lines Mallow to Cork and Blarney to Inchygeelagh.	1837	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 81.25
465		Kilkenny: Map and Tenants List of the Estate of Charles Cuffe, Greenridge Co Kilkenny,	1818	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 175.00
466		Collection of Ordnance Survey Maps for the Counties Limerick/Tipperary/Offaly/Laois,Wexford/Wicklow Earliest	1899	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 43.75
467		Public Auction Poster, 444cms x 57 cms, black print, mounted on light card. For farm at Ardavagga, Shinrone, King's County,	1903	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 187.50
468		Superb theatrical poster for Marylebone Theatre, May 1875,	1875	EUR 50.00 - 70.00	EUR 37.50
469		Limerick: Poster Addressed to Limerick Citizens for support of Loca lEnterprise Spend your Money with Limerick Shopkeepers..........	c1900	EUR 80.00 - 160.00	Not Sold
470		Pilgrims Travelling Set of Stations of the Cross. Original Set in Mount St Alphonsus Church (The Redemptorists) Limerick.		EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 43.75
471		CAR TRAVELLING IN THE SOUTH OF IRELAND IN THE YEAR 1856, BIANCONI'S ESTABLISHMENT , 5 hand coloured engravings.		EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 62.50

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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.