Základové ceského pravopisu a mluvnice pro skoly cesko-americké
by Zdrubek, Frantisek Boleslav
Chicago: Nákl. A. Geringera, 1889. Second edition, 16mo, pp. 92; folding table; original blue printed boards, blue cloth shelf-back; a few spots and stains, but generally good and sound. Basic Czech spelling and grammar boook for Czech-American schools. Zdrubek (1842-1911) was also the compiler of a Bohemian-English Dictionary, wrote a number of classroom history and theological texts for the Czech citizens of the United States, and translated Thomas Paine's Age of Reason into Czech. 3 copies in OCLC: Minnesota... Read More
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Birds of sorrow. A No play ... Translated by Meredith Weatherby & Bruce Rogers
by Zeami, Motokiyo
Tokyo: Obunsha, 1947. 8vo, 2 parts in 1; pp. [2], 64; [2], 29, [1]; 32 pages of illustrations; original pictorial wrappers, stab-bound in the Japanese manner; very good, clean, and sound.
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Mongolisch-Deutsches worterbuch
by Zebek, Schalonow
Leipzig: Verlag Enzyklopadie, 1961. 12mo, pp. xvi, 276; text in double column; full blue buckram; owner's signature on free endpaper, text toning but clean and sound, near fine.
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The funeral car in honors of the dead
by Prof. Zedaker
1881. Broadside, 8.5" x 5.5"; engraved headpiece; lightly soiled, very good overall; a poem mourning the assassination of President Garfield. Not in OCLC.
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![Morceaux choisis. [Edited by Jacques Pimpaneau]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/281/252/1639252281.0.m.jpg)
Morceaux choisis. [Edited by Jacques Pimpaneau]
by Mao Zedong
[Paris]: Ministere de l'Education nationale, Centre national de tele-enseignement, Institut national des Langues et Civilizations orientales, n.d.. 4to, 103 leaves printed from typescript on rectos only in Chinese and French; 11 full-page illustrations from photographs; includes Chinese-French vocabulary; original pictorial wrappers bound in red cloth of a Chinese origin; very good, sound, and clean. Propaganda texts from Mao Zedong in support of the regime, assembled, apparently, by Jacques Pimpaneau. Not found in OCLC.
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清明上河圖 (= Along the River during the Quingming festival)
by Zhao Mengfu (copying Zhang Zeduan)
N.p., Late 20th century. Facsimile printing of the Zhao Mengfu copy of Zhang Zeduan's "Along the River during the Quingming Festival," one of the most famous paintings in Chinese history. Accordion bound, 11" x 8.5", 18 panels, printed on silk, hand colored, hand printed facsimile chops, brocade boards, printed title label, fine. The original "Along the River" was painted by Zhang Zeduan during the Song Dynasty around 900-1200 AD. Its popularity is likened to that of the Mona Lisa,... Read More
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La forêt illuminée; suivie de Boule de chagrins: théâtre
by Ze, Gervais Mendo
Paris: ABC, 1988. 8vo, pp. 167, [1]; text in French; green stiff paper wrappers; pencil scribble on title page, else near fine. Gervais Mendo Ze was a Cameroonian linguist, government, official, and radio director. He was also an anti-corruption activist, and wrote a number of books and plays.
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Ο Μπεκτασισμος στη Δ. Θρακη : συμβολη στην ιστορια της διαδοσεως του Μουσουλμανισμου στον Ελλαδικο χωρο / Ho Bektasismos ste D Thrake. symvole sten historia tes diadoseos tou Mousoulmanismou ston Helladiko choro
by Zeginis, Efstratios
Thessaloniki: Institute for Balkan Studies, 1988. 8vo, pp. 313, [3]; text in Greek with summary in English; text illustrations; printed paper wrappers; slightly musty, touch of toning to edges, text clean and sound. Bektasism in Western Thrace: A contribution to the history of the propagation of Islam on Greek territory. No. 220 in the Institute for Balkan Studies series.
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Gessar Khan ... Illustrated by Theodore Nadejen
by Zeitlin, Ida
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1927. First edition, 4to, pp. viii, [2], 11-203, [1]; title page printed in maroon and black; illustrated throughout, 16 full-page; one illustration with a short tear entering from the foremargin, otherwise a very good, sound and clean copy in original terracotta cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine. Whether the origin of this epic is Tibetan or Mongolian is not clear, and there is no one definitive text.
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More whispers and chants
by ZEITLIN, JAKE
Pasedena: the Ampersand Press, 1952. First edition, 8vo, pp. [6]; 19, [2]; fine in original brown paper wrappers; printed paper cover label.
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Elements of electricity
by Zeleny, Anthony
New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Company Inc, 1930. First edition, 8vo, pp. xxiii, [1], 438, [2]; text illustrations; publisher's navy cloth, gilt title on spine, boards soiled and rubbed, text clean and sound, owner's signatures on pastedown, very good.
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清代藏史硏究 / Qing dai Zang shi yan jiu [= Research on Tibetan history during the Qing]
by Zeng, Guoqing
[Lasa]: Tibet People's Publishing House, 1999. First edition, 8 x 5.5 in., pp. [4], 2, 319, [3]; text in Chinese; printed paper wrappers; ex-Bringham Young University with stamps on flyleaves, otherwise unmarked, near fine.
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Pan-Turkism and Islam in Russia
by Zenkovsky, Serge A.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1960. First edition, 8vo, pp. x, [4], 345, [3]; 3 maps (1 double-page); fine copy in a fine dust jacket. "This book is the first comprehensive political and cultural history of the major Turkic groups of Russia, which together exceed twenty million in population and form the second largest linguistic unit in the Soviet Union. Professor Zenkovsky traces their history from its beginnings up to the 1920's, emphasizing the transitory period in the early twentieth... Read More
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Beyond the sky and the earth. A journey into Bhutan
by Zeppa, Jamie
New York: Riverhead Books, 1999. Third printing, 8vo, illustrated, map endpapers; fine copy in the dust-jacket.
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Uber den Satzschluss in der Historia Augusta
by Zernial, Hans Leberecht
Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1956. 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 156; text in German; printed paper wrappers; near fine. Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Schriften der Sektion fur Altertumswissenschaft 2.
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![Moralia Horatiana. [Volume I:] das ist, Die horazische Sittenlehre nach der deutschen Erstausgabe von Kornelis Dankers Amsterdam 1656. Mit den Kupfern der Originalausgabe von Hieronymus Verdussen, Antwerpen 1607. [Volume II:] Bd. La doctrine des moeurs, tiree de la philosophie des stoiques, nach der französischen Originalausgabe von Pierre Daret, Paris, 1646](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/886/191/1720191886.0.l.jpg)
Moralia Horatiana. [Volume I:] das ist, Die horazische Sittenlehre nach der deutschen Erstausgabe von Kornelis Dankers Amsterdam 1656. Mit den Kupfern der Originalausgabe von Hieronymus Verdussen, Antwerpen 1607. [Volume II:] Bd. La doctrine des moeurs, tiree de la philosophie des stoiques, nach der französischen Originalausgabe von Pierre Daret, Paris, 1646
by Zesen, Philipp von, & M Le Roy Gomberville
Wiesbaden: Guido Pressler, 1963. Facsimile editions, 2 volumes, folio, pp. [16], 119, [1], [6], 85, [3]; [78], 73-115, [3]; publisher's cream paper-covered boards, each volume with a vignette of Horace within a double ruled border; slight soiling, else fine throughout. Facsimile reproduction of the 103 engravings from O. von Veen's Q. Horatii Flacci emblemata, 1607, with text (comprising selections from Horace and other classical authors and German interpretations) reproduced from Moralia Horatiana, a 1656 version by P. von Zesen.... Read More
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Schouwtoneel des menschelyken Leevens... Le spectacle de la vie humaine, ou, leçons de sagesse, exprimées avec art en 103. tableaux en taille douce, dont les sujets sont tirés d'Horace par l'ingénieux Othon Vaenius: accompagnés non-seulement des principales maximes de la morale, en vers françois, hollandois, latins and allemands, mais encore par des explications très belles sur chaque tableau par feu le savant and très célébre Jean Le Clerc
by Zesen, Phillip von
La Haye: chez Jean van Duren, 1755. Small 4to, pp. [8], iv, 420; title pages in Dutch and French, both printed in red and black and both within typographic borders; text in Latin, French, German, and Dutch; 103 engraved illustrations throughout by Otto van Veen (1556-1629); contemporary scruffy old calf, gilt decorations on spine, label perished; internally clean and the binding remains sound. Mills College Check List 662; German Baroque Literature, 819; Landwehr, Emblem and Fable Books Printed in... Read More
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An eastern miscellany
by Zetland, Lawrence John Lumley Dundas, Earl of Ronaldshay
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1911. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiv, 422; original blue cloth, gilt-stamped spine; endpapers a touch toned; all else very good, sound, and clean. "Includes the chapters "Across the Himalayas in Mid-Winter," "Notes of a Journey Across Asia," "The Anglo-Russian Agreement, 1907," etc." (Yakushi). Yakushi R328.
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On the outskirts of empire in Asia
by Zetland, Lawrence John Lumley Dundas, Earl of Ronaldshay
Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1904. First edition, 8vo, pp. [2], xxii, 408; 2 folding maps printed in color (the first with a few short splits at the folds), 56 plates largely from photographs; original pictorial blue cloth stamped in silver and gilt; the binding a little dull and soiled, but still good and sound. This copy with a presentation from the author "To Newburgh Free Library with the author's comps" on the half-title, and with the... Read More
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Lands of the thunderbolt: Sikhim, Chumbi & Bhutan
by Zetland, Lawrence John Lumley Dundas, Earl of Ronaldshay
London, Bombay, Sydney: Constable, 1923. First edition, 8vo, pp. xvii, [1], 267; large folding map, 32 photo illustrations, original blue cloth gilt; minor wear, very good. Exploration in the eastern Himalayas among some of the most impressive mountain ranges in the world. Includes an interesting journey into Bhutan between 1916 and 1921 when the Earl was Governor of Bengal.
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India: a bird's-eye view
by Zetland, Lawrence John Lumley Dundas, Earl of Ronaldshay
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924. Second impression, 8vo, pp. [2], xiii, [1], 322, [2] ads; large folding map, 24 plates from photographs; original green cloth, printed paper label on spine; the binding with a few spots, but overall a very good, sound, and clean copy. 1930 ownership signature of Mary C. Johnston. Yakushi R330.
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Sport and politics under an eastern sky. By the Earl of Ronaldshay
by Zetland, Lawrence John Lumley Dundas, Earl of Ronaldshay
Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1902. First edition, 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 413, [1]; frontispiece portrait, 13 full-page illustrations, 52 illustrations in the text, large folding map printed in color at the back, plus one other folding map also printed in color; fore-margin of p. xv-xvi roughly opened, else a very good, sound and clean copy in original pictorial green cloth stamped in gilt and white on upper cover, and in gilt on spine. "The author travelled... Read More
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Lands of the thunderbolt: Sikhim, Chumbi & Bhutan
by Zetland, Lawrence John Lumley Dundas, Earl of Ronaldshay
London, Bombay, Sydney: Constable, 1923. First edition, 8vo, pp. xvii, [1], 267; large folding map, 32 photo illustrations, original blue cloth gilt; minor wear, near fine. Exploration in the eastern Himalayas among some of the most impressive mountain ranges in the world. Includes an interesting journey into Bhutan between 1916 and 1921 when the Earl was Governor of Bengal. Yakushi R329.
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Lands of the thunderbolt: Sikhim, Chumbi & Bhutan
by Zetland, Lawrence John Lumley Dundas, Earl of Ronaldshay
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923. First edition, American issue; 8vo, pp. xvii, [1], 267, [1]; large folding map, 32 photographic illustrations on plates; near fine copy in original red cloth, printed paper label on spine, and preserving the uncommon unclipped dust jacket, with very small breaks at the extremities and very slight loss at the spine ends. Bookseller's ticket of the Chinese American Publishing Co., 78 Nanking Road, Shanghai Exploration in the eastern Himalayas among some... Read More
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Lord Cromer being the authorized life of Evelyn Baring First Earl of Cromer
by Zetland, Marquess of
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1932. First edition, 8vo, pp. 366; portrait frontispiece; fine copy in original terracotta cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine. Cromer (1841-1917) was "British controller-general in Egypt during 1879, part of the international Control which oversaw Egyptian finances after the 1876 Egyptian bankruptcy. He later became the agent and consul-general in Egypt from 1883 to 1907 during the British occupation prompted by the 'Urabi revolt. This position gave Baring de facto control over... Read More
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