1481. [Youghal] Williams, Alexander / Gwynn, Stephen.

Beautiful Ireland – Leinster / Ulster / Munster / Connaught. Painted by Alexander Williams / Described by Stephen Gwynn. [With 48 colour illustrations (12 in each Province-section)].

First Edition. London / Dublin / Belfast, The Gresham Publishing Company Limited, no year [c.1912]. Octavo (18 cm wide x 22.2 cm high). Frontispiece, 64, 64, 64, 64 pages [Total of 256 pages]. Original, beautiful, clover-illustrated Art Nouveau-Hardcover / Publisher’s original cloth. Very good and very firm condition with only minor signs of wear. One of the more underrated publications with 48 stunning colour-illustrations from important locations in all four Provinces.

1482. [Zelnik, Friedrich / Morel, Emma] Brugmans, H. / Loosjes, A.

Amsterdam in Beeld. [From the library of Frederic Zelnik] Met 613 Afbeeldingen.

Zesde Vermeerdere Druk. Amsterdam, Scheltema & Holkema, (ca.1925). 4°. VIII, 372 pages with 613 photographs of Old Amsterdam, prior to the second world war. Original illustrated Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Hinge slightly shaky. From the library of Frederic Zelnik / Friedrich Zelnik. Inscribed to Frederic Zelnik by one of his silent cinema actresses, Emma Morel, during the filing of “Vadertje Langbeen”, based on a Novel from Jean Webster and adapted fror the screen by Rudolph Bernauer, the film was made by Zelnik and filmed in Amsterdam. Emma Mourel was one of the stars of the Movie and inscribed the book to Zelnik: “Van ouren voorbeeldigen Regisseur den Heer Friedrich Zelnik, her herinnering van Amsterdam Augustus 1938. Voor alle….Gross-aufnahmen !! Met reeht-hartelycken dank en auf Wiedersehen von Emma Morel”.

1483. Zhuangzi (Tschuang-Tse).

Reden und Gleichnisse des Tschuang-Tse. Ausgewählt und mit einem Nachwort versehen von Martin Buber.

Frankfurt am Main, Insel Verlag, 1990. 19 cm x 12 cm. 146 Seiten. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some occasional underlining and some very few annotations by Prof. Parkes in fine pencil (erasable). From the library of philosopher Graham Parkes, with his name on the front free endpaper.

1484. [Food in Brandenburg and Berlin] – [Zille].

Det kleene Zille-Kochbuch – Gerichte mit Geschiuchte aus Berlin und Brandenburg. [Historical Dishes from Berlin and Brandenburg]

Koeln, Komet Verlag, c.2002. Octavo. 126 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

1485. [Zinn, Howard] Hershey, John.

Hiroshima [Howard Zinn’s personal copy with his name signed in full to the endpaper, markings in the text and some comments in Zinn’s hand inside the rear cover].

New York, Bantam Books, 1965. 10.6 cm x 17.7 cm. 117 pages. Original Softcover. Very Poor condition. Tears to last few pages. Pages heavily tanned. Contains blue ink markings by influential Anti-War Historian Howard Zinn. This book would have been extremely personal to him and it is telling that he marked the part of the text on page 61 in which a Hospital in Hiroshima was invaded by patients who scolded doctors, sleeping from exhaustion, into helping them. Zinn, an army veteran of World War II, would have known the cost of war and especially would have been able to imagine the cost of nuclear war.

1486. [Zohn, Harrry] Viereck, Peter.

Metapolitics. From the Romantics to Hitler.

First Edition. New York, Alfred A. Knopf Inc., 1941. 15,5 cm x 21,5 cm. XIV, 335 pages, XXIV. Original blue cloth hardcover. Gilt lettering on the spine. Geometrical flourishes impressed on the front board. Good condition with minor signs of external wear. A rip in the cloth at the bottom of the spine. Traces of foxing on the pages. From the library of Brandeis – Professor Harry Zohn. With several comments and annotations by Harry Zohn to the rear pastedown, ranging from mentioning Friedrich Ludwig Jahn to Grillparzer’s “The Jewess of Toledo”. [Books for Wartime. Borzoi Books].

1487. [Zweig, Stefan] Patsch, Sylvia M.

Exil als Österreichisches Schicksal – (Gedenktage 1982-1984) [Includes: Stefan Zweig – Ein grosser Europäer im Exil – Mit photographischer Abbildung von Zweig)].

[Wien], Freunde Der Österreichischen Exil-Literatur e.V., 1982. Octavo. 100 Seiten mit einigen photographischen Abbildungen. Original Hardcover. Einige Seiten lose. Widmungsexemplar von Sylvia Patsch an Harry Zohn. Mit beiliegendem Brief von Patsch an Zohn.

1488. [Zweig, Stefan] Verhaeren, Emile.

Rubens. Übertragung von Stefan Zweig.

26. bis 30. Tausend. Leipzig, Insel-Verlag, 1922. 15 cm x 22 cm. 83 pages. 95 plate illustrations. Original hardcover. Sehr guter Zustand / Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

1489. [John Minihan Collection] – 100 Years National Geographic Centennial Issue [1888 – 1988].

Reporting on “the world and all that is in it” [Alexander Graham Bell, 1914] / With the wonderful photo-essay by Jane Livingston: “The Art of Photography at National Geographic”

First Edition. Washington D.C., National Geographic Society, 1988. 24.5cm x 19cm. 433 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. From the library of irish photographer John Minihan. Cover signed by John Minihan.

1490. A’Beckett, Gilbert Abbott.

The Comic History of England. With Twenty Coloured Etchings, and Hundred Woodcuts by John Leech.

Two Volumes in One Volume (complete set). London, Bradbury, Evans and Co., c.1850 14.5 cm x 22.3 cm. Volume I: XVIII, 320 pages with 10 hand-coloured steelengravings and wood-engravings throughout the text. / Volume II: 304 pages with 10 hand-coloured steelengravings and wood-engravings throughout the text. Original Hardcover with gilt decoration on spine and cover. Recently professionally repaired and restored binding with new endpapers and the saved original bookplate / exlibris of J. Henry H.V. Lane of Kings Bromley in Staffordshire to the pastedown. Gilted edge. Rubbed and sign of wear on cover and spine. Overall very good condition with firm binding and clean interior. Bookplate / Exlibris to pastedown. Inscribed on Augst 10,1879 by previous owner and embossed stamp marks by bookshop W.H.Smyth in London on endpaper.