Purcell Auctioneers - Auction of a Collection of Irish Historical Interest Books, Maps, Journals, Periodicals, Pamphlets, Ephemera etc. etc. Viewing by appointment from June 8th, in accordance with government guidelines - Starts 24 Jun 2020 Lot 1 Irish interest books pamphlets and booklets. 2 boxes Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids Lot 2 Two Boxes of Irish and General Interest Books Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids Lot 3 Journal of Royal Society Antiquaries c.1890's on. 2 boxes of over approximately 130 issues. Very interesting articles by Westropp etc. Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids Lot 4 Two Boxes of Irish and General Interest Books Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids Lot 5 Megalithic Tombs of Ireland Vol. 3, Galway etc & Wadding Papers by Jennings & Civil Survey of Limerick 1937 & Kenmare Manuscripts & 2 others. All dis-bound, most sewn. 6 books Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids Lot 6 Captain James Cook. Volumes One and Two and Captain James King –Volume Three. A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean undertaken by the Command of His Majesty for Marine Discovery in the Northern Hemisphere. 1785. 3 volumes. Folio. Second edition. (Vol 1 lacks title page) Ex library. Folding maps etc. Quarter calf. Estimate: 300 - 500 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids Lot 7 John Plaw. Rural Architecture. 1796. 1st edit. Folio. 62 fine aqua-tinted plates. Irish book plate. Fine binding, half calf. Rare Estimate: 300 - 400 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids Lot 8 Tullaroan Co-Op Creamery, Co. Kilkenny. Minute book of the management committee from March 1947 to April 1966, over 350 pages in manuscript Estimate: 50 - 100 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids Lot 9 An Act for improving road from Newcastle, Co Limerick to the City of Limerick & Charleville, Co Cork. 1830. Attractive modern binding Estimate: 100 - 150 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids Lot 10 Jim Fitzpatrick a Portfolio Ltd Edition of 500 Copies Inquisition Press – this copy from the Victoria and Albert 1973 also contains his Irish Writers series of images of Brendan Behan, W.B. Yeats, Joyce and Wilde. Estimate: 100 - 150 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids page 1 of 61 Purcell Auctioneers - Auction of a Collection of Irish Historical Interest Books, Maps, Journals, Periodicals, Pamphlets, Ephemera etc. etc. Viewing by appointment from June 8th, in accordance with government guidelines - Starts 24 Jun 2020 Lot 11 Irish Education. Six books, including ‘The Catholic Case Stated’ (1859), a withering criticism of the national school system by a former prominent Board of Education official, J.W. Kavanagh; and ‘The Ruin of Education in Ireland’ (1902), an equally damning criticism of Catholic Church ‘interference’ in the government-funded scheme. Estimate: 50 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids Lot 12 S. O’Kelly. Waysiders – Stories of Connacht, Mat Mulcaghey. Ballymulcaghey Calling. 1944 and Kuno Meyer. The Irish Odyssey 1886. (3) Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids Lot 13 Hibernia Venatica with photographs by M O’Connor Morris. London 1878. Deals with fox-hunting in various parts of Ireland and includes photographs of a number of ladies who followed the hunt. First Edition. Estimate: 100 - 150 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids Lot 14 O’Donoghue, David. The Poets of Ireland. Part I (A to F). London, Paternoster Steam Press, 1892. Octavo. Cloth Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids Lot 15 Griffith, Arthur Re: Resurrection of Hungary and two other books on Arthur Griffith (3) Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids Lot 16 Lennox Robinson. Ireland's Abbey Theatre a History 1899-1951 W.G. Fay and Catherine Carswell, The Fays of the Abbey Theatre 1935 Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids Lot 17 W.H. Grattan Flood. History of The Diocese of Ferns. Waterford. 1915 1st edit. Illustrated. Interesting ephemera re-wedding of Miss Fitzgerald of Johnston Castle, Wexford Estimate: 80 - 100 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids Lot 18 Irish History Bundle includes ‘A New History of Ireland VIII’, ‘The Tribes of Ireland’ (Tower Books), Foster’s ‘Modern Ireland’, and four similar (7). Estimate: 40 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids Lot 19 Brendan Kennelly. A Time For Voices. 1990 and Sean McManus. A Book of Irish Quotations. 1984. Fine dust jackets. (2) Estimate: 40 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids Lot 20 Pedigree of the Family of Greene of Kilkenny, Tipperary, Waterford etc., 1899 by J J Greene. Limited to 150, nice copy Estimate: 200 - 300 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids page 2 of 61 Purcell Auctioneers - Auction of a Collection of Irish Historical Interest Books, Maps, Journals, Periodicals, Pamphlets, Ephemera etc. etc. Viewing by appointment from June 8th, in accordance with government guidelines - Starts 24 Jun 2020 Lot 21 E.R. Dix : Catalogue of Early Dublin Printed Books 1601-1700 parts 1-3 volume one (of 2) Burt Franklin of new York reprint of original and Henry Bradshaw’s Correspondence on Incunabula with J.W. Holthrop and M.F.A.G. Campbell 1966 maroon hardback , published by Menno Hertzberger and Co Amsterdam (2) Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids Lot 22 The Antiquities of Ireland by Francis Grose. Wellbrook Press, 1982. 2 volumes in a boxed set in slip case, from a limited edition. Numerous engravings. Attractive reprint of the original 1797 edition Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids Lot 23 Recollections of Ireland Collected from Fifty Years Practice and Residence in the Country by A Late Professional Gentleman. [William Pryce Maunsell] Printed for the Author. 1865. Old ownership stamps on preliminary pages . important reminiscences relating to Limerick city and county Estimate: 50 - 100 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids Lot 24 R.N.D. Wilson. The Holy Wells of Orris. 1927. First. Signed presentation copy & manuscript from Wilson (Belfast poet) inserted. And Elizabeth Shane. Piper’s Tunes from Donegal. 1927. 1st (2) Estimate: 60 - 100 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids Lot 25 [Achill Missions] Incidents in Life and Ministry of Rev. Alex. R. C. Dallas, Secretary to Society for Irish Church Missions to the Roman Catholics by his Widow. 1873. Cloth. Superb copy Estimate: 100 - 200 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids Lot 26 Roger Casement - A scrap book containing a 35pp handwritten essay on him, probably unpublished, and newspaper clipping etc mainly from the 1930's Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids Lot 27 Hugh Taylor. A Treatise on Physical Chemistry. 1924. 2 volumes. Illustrated. Fine blue gilt calf Estimate: 80 - 100 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids Lot 28 Banim John Tales of The O Hara second series in three volumes London 1826 Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids Lot 29 Tim Robinson. Connemara – Listening to the Wind. 2006 and K. McNally. The Islands of Ireland. 1978. 2 first edits with pictorial d.j.s Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids Lot 30 Irish Biography.