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
521	The Rev. Canon S. R. Wills,	Kilkee, a Poem -	Limerick	1889	EUR 60.00 - 80.00	EUR 50.00
522	by David M Butler,	Irish Interest: The Quaker Meeting Houses of Ireland		2004	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 81.25
523	Hickey and Doherty,	A new Dict of Irish History from 1800		1800	EUR 50.00 - 70.00	EUR 43.75
524	by Edward O Reilly	Irish Interest. A varied collection of Irish related tiltes such as Irish English Dictionary		1821	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 68.75
525		Coffee table treasures: De Breffny, The Irish World		1978	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 25.00
526		Geology and Revelation or Ancient History of Earth: Geological Facts and Revealed Religion. Gerald Molloy, Professor of Theology in Royal College of St. Patrick, Maynooth.		1870	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 25.00
527	E. Charles Nelson & Wendy Walsh	THE BURREN -		1991	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 125.00
528		History of the World in Trade Maps		2000	EUR 50.00 - 70.00	EUR 25.00
529	edited Whitley Stokes and John Strachan.	Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus Old Irish Glosses Scolia, Prose and Verse		1975	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 25.00
530		Transport: The Lough Swilly Railway. The County Donegal Railways. Railways in time of Civil War. Pictorial Encyclopedia of Railways, Ireland by Rail, box of railway posters pcs c20 with envelopes. ...			EUR 50.00 - 70.00	EUR 25.00
531	by Seran Rothery	Coffee Table Books, Irish Interest: The Shops of Ireland		1978	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 37.50
532	by Gerald Dawe,	Coffee Table Books, Irish Interest: Faces in a Bookshop -Irish Literary Portraits with an introduction		1990	EUR 60.00 - 100.00	EUR 37.50
533		Coffee Table Books: Aras An Uachtarain- A history of the President's House,		2013	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 25.00
534		A wonderful collection of varied Irish Interest Tiles, such as A Woman Without A Country by Eavan Boland, SIGNED		2014	EUR 60.00 - 120.00	EUR 87.50
535	by Brendan Behan,	Irish Interest: Collection of Irish Titles such as Borstal Boy		1958	EUR 60.00 - 80.00	EUR 137.50
536		Small box of modern Irish Literary works including 11 first esitions; also TS Eliot's Plays and Poems; Maud Joynt copy's of AE first ed Avatar. C 15 vols.			EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 37.50
537		A series of reproductions of Old Master Drawings by the Vasari Society.		c1920-30's	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 25.00
538	by Praeger & Stewart	George Russell [AE], Eoin O'Duffy, Joyce Flora of Ireland		1937	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 25.00
539	Scott, Sir Walter	Marmion, Tale Of Flodden Field	Edinburgh	1808	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 25.00
540	R C Hutchuinson	R C Hutchuinson, British novelist and short story writer. A wonderful collection of 12 titles from this renowned author such as Image of my Father,		1961	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 75.00
541	Bernard Shaw:	FINE COMPLETE FIRST EDITIONS SET OF 4 VOLUMES: vol 1 The Search For Love SIGNED: vol 2: The Pursuit of Power SIGNED: vol 3: The Lure of Fantasy: vol 4: The Last Laugh		1988	EUR 40.00 - 60.00	EUR 25.00
542		Box of travel related books, mostly 19th and 20th century.		19th and 20th century.	EUR 60.00 - 80.00	EUR 62.50
543		Irish Interest: Collection of titles such as I Believed by Douglas Hyde,		1951	EUR 40.00 - 80.00	EUR 112.50
544		Small box of antiquarian: includes 4 16mo vols on Shakespeare's play, Bell's ed,			EUR 40.00 - 60.00	Not Sold
545		Small box on religion, church history, early art including Treasures of Early Christian Art, folio; Gougaud's Gaelic Pioneers of Christianity; The Gelasian Sacramentary,		1894	EUR 50.00 - 70.00	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
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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.

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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.