541. Maskerade / Ceremony of Dutch Students – Bos, Gerardus Johannes (1825 – 1898).

Maskerade gehouden door de leden van het Leidsche Studenten – Corps den 24sten Juni 1890, ter viering van den 315ste Verjaardag der Leidsche Hoogeschool, Voorstellende De intocht van Karel V binnen Nijmegen in 1546.

Original Lithographs. Leiden, P.Somerwil, 1890. Each Lithograph measures 36 cm wide x 25 cm high. Excellent condition. Lacks the title-page-sheet but all the 27 beautiful, coloured lithographic plates are complete.

542. [Mann, Thomas] Pohli, Paula.

Thomas Mann.

Original Linocut – Portrait of Thomas Mann. [County Mayo], Paula Pohli, no year [c.2015]. 39 cm x 51 cm. Excellent condition. Signed and limited edition (No.6 of only 25). Stunning portrait of Thomas Mann in an unusual Linocut by irish artist Paula Pohli.

543. Lalor, Brian. (1941 – )

A Vision of Glendalough in the thirteenth century.

Excellent, original Etching. Artist Proof No. I (AP I), signed and titled in pencil. West Cork, 2008. Beautifully Framed. Size of frame with etching: 56 cm x 86 cm. Size of the actual etching: 49 cm x 79 cm. Excellent, strong and fresh etching in wonderful framing.

544. Keil, Peter Robert. (1942 – )

“Selbstdarstellung”

Oil on Board. Signed: “Keil – Berlin” [Berlin], no year (c.1995). 50 cm x 70 cm. Das Bild mit einigen Schaeden an den Raendern / Some damage to the outer margins (see images).

545. [Joyce, James] Pohli, Paula.

James Joyce.

Original Linocut – Portrait of James Joyce. [County Mayo], Paula Pohli, no year [c.2015]. 33 cm x 40.5 cm. Excellent condition. Signed and limited edition (No.11 of 50).

546. Glass, Philip (born 1937).

Original Portrait Photograph – signed in green ink by Philip Glass.

Original Black-and-White Photograph on archival paper. no place, no year (c.1990). Framed: 31 cm x 36 cm. Image size: 14 cm x 18 cm. Excellent condition, mounted and framed. Signed photographs by Glass are extremely rare !

547. Egypt – Ortelius, Abraham. (1527 – 1598).

Aegyptus Antiqua.

Original engraving. Antwerp, Ortelius, [c.1595]. Plate Size: 51.2 cm x 35.8 cm. Sheet Size: 58 cm x 43.4 cm. Original map. In very good condition. Discreet tears near lower left and top right. Slight staining to top of sheet. Central vertical fold as issued. Professional repaired wormholes to above centre top border and near centre of map. A very minor hole along each lower vertical border of plate frame. Reverse carries Latin text. The map was orientated with Egypt’s north to the right.

548. California – Homann, Johann Baptist / Landteck, Zacharias.

[California shown as an Island] Geographische Universal-Zeig und Schlag-Uhr.

Original hand-coloured engraving, with the Cartographer showing California as an Island. Nürnberg, Homann, [c.1735]. Plate Size: 57 cm x 48.5 cm. Sheet Size: 60.5 cm x 51.7 cm. Original map. Very good, actually stunning, condition. Some faint trace of browning to upper corners of sheet. Very minor tears to edges at centre-fold.

549. [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.

550. Voigt, Wilhlem.

Hvorledes Jeg Blev Kaptain von Köpenick. Mit Levnedsløb af Wilhelm Voigt (Kaldet Kaptain von Köpenick). Med et Forord af Hans Hyan. Autoriseert Oversaettelse for Danmark og Norge.

First Danish Edition. Kobenhavn, Laurits Eibys Forlag, [1909]. Octavo. 110 pages. Hardcover / Private Cloth binding of the early 20th century. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear (some minor spotting to the cloth and minor lesion to page 5). Even though no sign of it, this book comes from the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator, Erik Haugaard. Extremely Rare !