Purcell Auctioneers - Auction of A Collection of Irish Historical Interest Books Removed From A Co. Meath Country House Including Maps, Journals, Periodicals, Pamphlets, Ephemera Etc. - Starts 02 Dec 2020 Lot 1 Three Boxes of General Interest Books 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 2 Three Boxes of General Interest Books 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 3 Donoughmore Papers: Manuscripts of the Duke of Beaufort, the Earl of Donoughmore, and others. Historical Manuscripts Commission, 1891, contemporary half calf. Over 100 pages in this 640 page book publish Donoughmore’s papers with much on 18th century Ireland. 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 4 Report on the Revenues and Condition of the Established Church, Ireland Dublin, Thom. 1868. Large format in contemporary half leather. ‘Ardfert and Aghadoe Diocesan Council, the gift of G[Godfrey] Day dean, January 1872’. 606 pages. Large folding colour maps of the dioceses. A treasure trove of information and statistics on the Church of Ireland at the time of the disestablishment. Estimate: 80 - 160 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids Lot 5 Daniel Grose The Antiquities of Ireland (a supplement to Francis Grose), 1991; Peter Harbison The Archaeology of Ireland, 1976; and Christopher Moriarty A Natural History of Ireland 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 6 J.R.R. Tolkien. The Hobbit. 2001. Illustrated; and James Bettley. The Art of The Book. 2001. Beautifully illustrated. 2 quarto works in fine dust jackets. 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 7 James Fairbairn. The Book of Crests of Families of Great Britain and Ireland. 1905. 2 volumes. Thick quarto with 314 plates 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 8 Myth, Legend and Romance - An Encyclopaedia of the Irish Tradition by Daith O'Hogain, 1991 Estimate: 20 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids Lot 9 The Stories of three Dublin landmark institutions – Michael O’Sullivan – The Shelbourne and it’s People. Softcover 1999. Pages 195. Illustrated b/w; Alison Maxwell – Jammet’s of Dublin. Softcover 2012. Pages xiv, 249. Illustrated b/w; Weir and Sons – Beautiful Jewellery. Colour illustrated catalogue. Hardcover 2010. Pages 128. In board covers. All clean copies. (3 Estimate: 15 - 25 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids Lot 10 Signed by Louis Sacher Holes paperback Bloomsbury London 2000. Signed limited edition of 1000 this copy numbered 552 by Michael Carroll, The New Heroes, Superhuman, First edition Paperback 2007. Signed by Oisin McGann, The Gods and Their Machines paperback 2004. Estimate: 20 - 40 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 77 Purcell Auctioneers - Auction of A Collection of Irish Historical Interest Books Removed From A Co. Meath Country House Including Maps, Journals, Periodicals, Pamphlets, Ephemera Etc. - Starts 02 Dec 2020 Lot 11 Drawings by Jack B. Yeats, In Wicklow West Kerry and Connemara, John M. Synge, Dublin 1911 seven illustrations. Frontispiece lacking 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 12 Moran, Patrick History of the Catholic Archbishops of Dublin since the Reformation. Vol. I [all published], Dublin, 1864, later quarter cloth. Inscribed by Moran “Presented to the Most Revd. Dr. Butler by the Author”. Moran became Cardinal Archbishop of Sydney. When Vice Principal of the Irish College in Rome he had access to Vatican archives when researching this book. Fine association copy. Estimate: 60 - 120 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids Lot 13 Heaney, Seamus The Whoseday Book (A Millennium Journal). Illustrated. Dublin: Irish Hospice Foundation, 1999. First edition. Hardback. Dust jacket. Good Estimate: 20 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids Lot 14 Minutes of Evidence to enquire into the State of Ireland, which led to the disturbances in that part of the United Kingdom. House of Commons. 1825. Large format. Binding detached. 420 pages of detailed information. Appears to be the second volume of the evidence but a most informative book on the Captain Rock disturbances. 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 15 Costume: Fairholts Costume in England, L. 1885, 2 vols; Costume and Fashion; On English Costume; Everyday Costume in Britain; Childrens Costume in England, 1300-1900. (6) Estimate: 25 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids Lot 16 Irish Language Movement: Irish Language Movement and the Gaelic League, about 1910; Phelan, M. J. What does the Revival of the Irish Language Mean?, about 1908; O Tiamat, S. Facts about Irish, 1970; Lambert, W & Tucker, R. The Benefits of Bilingualism, 1973; O Cleirigh, S. Casement & the Irish Language, about 1977; Misteil, P. The Irish Language & the Unionist Tradition, 1994; O Snodaigh, P. Hidden Ulster (The Other Hidden Ireland), 1973; another revised edition of the same, 1977. 8 items 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 O'Connor, Frank. The Big Fellow. Michael Collins and the Irish Revolution. Illustrated. Dublin & London, 1965. Hardback. Dust jacket. In this lengthy biography the author brings alive the legendary figure of Michael Collins Estimate: 20 - 30 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids Lot 18 Seamus Heaney The Spirit Level, 1966, 1st Edition in dust jacket 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 19 JOYCE, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Connecticut, Easton Press, 1977. Royal 8vo. Printed on archival paper. Beautifully illustrated in colour. Full green leather, decorated with gilt shamrocks; moiré-silk endpapers; green silk marker. All edges gilt. Fine binding 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 page 2 of 77 Purcell Auctioneers - Auction of A Collection of Irish Historical Interest Books Removed From A Co. Meath Country House Including Maps, Journals, Periodicals, Pamphlets, Ephemera Etc. - Starts 02 Dec 2020 Lot 20 Leabhar Ultain. The Book of Saint Ultan. A Collection of Pictures and Poems by Irish Artists and Writers. Dublin, The Candle Press. 1920. Large format. illustrated. internally an excellent copy in rebacked card covers. Estimate: 60 - 120 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids Lot 21 John Feehan, Farming in Ireland…history, heritage and environment. D. 2003, folio mint copy with attractive 4 page prepublication offer. 605 pps. The most definitive work on Irish farming. Now becoming scarce. (1) 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 22 Brush-Work Studies of Flowers, Fruit and Animals by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats. London, George Philip. 1898. Oblong shape. Colour plates. embossed boards. Elizabeth Yeats worked as an art teacher in London before founding the Dun Emer Press. 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 23 Rev. John F. Brennan - The Evolution of Everyman: Ancestral Heritage of John F. Kennedy. Hardcover 1968. Pages 259, 8vo. Illustrated colour frontis of the Armorial Bearings of President John F. Kennedy, and with numerous b/w illustrations and maps. Very clean copy in original worn/torn jacket. Nice solid copy, clean throughout. (1) Estimate: 35 - 45 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids Lot 24 Bernadette Devlin, The Price of my Soul, 1969, dj 1st ex libris, scarce and sought after; also p/b of same. McCann, Bloody Sunday in Derry. From Civil Rights to Armalites. In Holy Terror. (5) 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 25 Pre-famine tour book in modern leather binding. Ireland. Dublin, the Shannon, Limerick, Cork and Kilkenny Races, Round Towers, Lakes of Killarney, Wicklow, O'Connell and the Repeal Association; Belfast, and the Giant's Causeway.