Hellmut Schumann Antiquariat

Scherz, List und Rache. Ein Singspiel. Von Goethe. Ächte Ausgabe.

Goethe, (Johann Wolfgang von). · 1790

CHF 750.00 (€811.26 | $894.16 | £676.81 | ¥142,785)

1790 Titel, 96 SS. 8vo. HLd. mit Rückentitel u. -vergoldung. Leipzig, G. J. Göschen, 1790. Erste "ächte" Einzelausgabe aus dem 7. Band von "Goethe's Schriften" (8 Bde. Göschen, 1787-90) nach Entfernung der Kupfer und der Bogennorm. Auf den ersten Druck der ersten Ausgabe verwe...

Anzeige von Goethes Tod.

GOETHE. - GOETHE, Ottilie von. · 1832

CHF 3,800.00 (€4,110.38 | $4,530.39 | £3,429.15 | ¥723,445)

March 23, 1832 Broadside. Oblong-16mo (c, 150 x 98 mm). Weimar, March 23, 1832. The rejected first version of Goethe's (Aug. 26, 1745 - March 23, 1832) obituary notice. The text reads: "Gestern Vormittag halb Zwölf Uhr starb mein geliebter Schwiegervater.. Johann Wolfgang von ...

Institutio christianae religionis, ab ipso authore anno 1559, & in libros quatuor digesta....Cum...opera N(icolas) Colladonis tunc contexto...duo indices ab Augustino Marlorato collecti anno 1562...accesserunt autem hac editione...hoc anno N. Collado(nis) sacrarum literarum Professor in schola Lausannensi...reddit epistola...in ipso libri initio.

CALVIN, Jean. · 1576

CHF 12,000.00 (€12,980.16 | $14,306.50 | £10,828.90 | ¥2,284,563)

1576 (16), 380, (72) leaves. With coat of armes of the city of Berne in woodcut on title. 8vo. Old calf, blind-stamped back with title, red edges. Lausanne, François Le Preux, 1576. First systematical statement of the Reformed Church (PMM), here present in a re-edition of the ...

Autograph document signed, written in ink on paper to M. Frochot, Préfet du Departement de Paris. 1 p.

REDOUTÉ, Pierre-Joseph. · 1806

CHF 4,500.00 (€4,867.56 | $5,364.94 | £4,060.84 | ¥856,711)

July 25, 1806 8vo (180 x 150 mm). Paris, July 25, 1806. Autograph document signed by famous painter and botanist P.-J. Redouté (1758-1840). Acknowledge receipt of a payment of 160 francs from Nicolas Fochot (17611-1828) for 4 issues of part 24 of his "Lillies". AND: REDOUTE, P...

Album du Wolfberg. Composé de douze vues dessinées d'après nature et lithographiées.

CONSTANCE, LAKE OF. - VIARD, G(eorges). · 1828

CHF 1,650.00 (€1,784.77 | $1,967.14 | £1,488.97 | ¥314,127)

1828 With 12 large full-page and 1 smaller lithographed views by G. Viard. Lithogr. title, and 8 pp. describing text. Folio (370 x 280 mm). Orig. lithogr. boards with leather back (bumped and rubbed). Paris, G(odefroy) Engelmann, 1828. First edition. With nice views mostly of ...

Un souvenir de Solferino. Ne se vend pas.

DUNANT, J(ean) Henry. · 1862

CHF 8,500.00 (€9,194.28 | $10,133.77 | £7,670.47 | ¥1,618,232)

1862 With 1 double-page map of Solferino and environs. 2 leaves, 115 pp. 4to. Modern boards, orig. wrappers mounted (slightly dust-soiled). Geneva, Jules-Guillaume Fick, 1862. First edition, privately printed and not for sale, of this important document which led to the foundi...

Gockel Hinkel Gackeleia. Mährchen, wieder erzählt.

BRENTANO, Clemens. · 1838

CHF 2,200.00 (€2,379.70 | $2,622.86 | £1,985.30 | ¥418,836)

1838 With figurative title in tinted lithography, and 14 tinted lith. plates by J. N. Strixner after sketches by Brentano. (I-III), IV-XIV, 346 pp. Large 8vo. 19th cent. cloth, spine label gilt (somewhat rubbed and bumped), uncut. Frankfurt am Main, Schmerber, 1838. First edit...

BIBLIA, Das ist: Die gantze Heilige Schrifft Altes und Neues Testaments. Verdeutscht von ... Martin Luther: Und auf ... Verordnung ... Ernsts, Herzogen zu Sachsen ... von etlichen reinen Theologen ... erkläret ... Von neuem mit Fleiss übersehen ... und ... vermehret. 2 parts in 1 vol.

BIBLIA GERMANICA. - · 1720

CHF 9,600.00 (€10,384.13 | $11,445.20 | £8,663.12 | ¥1,827,650)

1720 With engr. illus. title, 12 full-page engr. portraits by J. C. Claussner, 9 plates with portraits of biblical figures, 4 double-page maps with fine baroque cartouches and illustrations, 2 double-page plans, 21 engr. pictorial titles and plates (some double-page and foldin...

Narrative Of A Journey To The Shores Of The Polar Sea. In the Years 1819, 20, 21. And 22.

FRANKLIN, John. · 1823

CHF 5,800.00 (€6,273.74 | $6,914.81 | £5,233.97 | ¥1,104,205)

1823 With 30 engraved plates by E. Finden and J. Curtis after drawings by Curtis, G. Back, and R. Hood, of which 10 are handcolored (9 of these aquatints), 1 text illus. and 4 engr. folded maps at the end of the Appendix. XVI pp. incl. half-title, errata-slip, 768 pp. 4to. Con...

Collection of c. 350 original artistically high-quality watercolors mostly of butterflies, beetles, and caterpillars party sitting on flowers or leaves. Finely drawn and colored on 87 heavy paper sheets with watermark on some leaves "WZ" (i.e. J. Whatman Turkey Mills), dated 1821-25.

ENTOMOLOGY. - (SCHELLENBERG, Johann Rudolf). · 1847

CHF 12,800.00 (€13,845.50 | $15,260.26 | £11,550.83 | ¥2,436,867)

(early 19th century) 85 sheets size 235 x 215 mm; 2 sheets size 151 x 134 mm. In contemporary cloth slipcase, richly decorated with gilt rocaille decors on front and rear covers, all sides with gilt rocaille in same decor (slightly rubbed). Exlibris Heinrich Angst (1847-1922),...

An History of Marine Architecture. Including an Enlarged and Progressive View of the Nautical Regulations and Naval History, Both Civil and Military, of All Nations. 3 vols.

CHARNOCK, John. · 1800

CHF 8,800.00 (€9,518.78 | $10,491.43 | £7,941.20 | ¥1,675,346)

1800-1802 With engraved title dated 1801, and 99 engraved or aquatint plates, some folding. 100,368 pp.; 496 pp.; 436 pp. 4to (300 x 240 mm). Contemporary calf (1 back repaired). With an old armorial bookplate, unidentified. London, R. Faulder, 1800-1802. First edition of "The...

TAPISSERIES du Roy, ou sont representez Les Quarte Elemens et le Quarte Saisons...Königliche Französische Tapezereyen Oder überaus schöne Sinn-Bilder.

LE BRUN. - · 1687

CHF 3,450.00 (€3,731.80 | $4,113.12 | £3,113.31 | ¥656,812)

1687 With engr. frontispiece, engr. title-page, 8 double-page engravings (The Four Seasons and The Four Elements), and 32 engravings ( 4 for each division) in the text. 4 unn. leaves, 10 pp., 142 pp. Folio (330 x 210 mm). Old boards. Augsburg, Jacob Koppmayer for Ulrich Krauss...

XL. EMBLEMATA miscella nova. Das ist: XL. Vnderschiedliche Ausserlesene Newradierte Kunststuck ... mit allerley darzu dienstlichen aufferbawlichen Reymen erkläret: Durch Johann Heinrich Rordorffen.

MURER, Christoph. · 1622

CHF 1,500.00 (€1,622.52 | $1,788.31 | £1,353.61 | ¥285,570)

With 40 numb., nearly full-page emblematic engravings by Christoph Murer. 6 lines rhymed text below the engravings. 6 unn. pp., 40 leaves. 4to (228 x 170 mm). Contemp. marbled boards (rebacked). Zurich, Johann Rudolff Wolff, 1622 (for Orell Füssli, 1820), Christoph Murer (1558...

XL. EMBLEMATA miscella nova. Das ist: XL. Vnderschiedliche Ausserlesene Newradierte Kunststuck ... mit allerley darzu dienstlichen aufferbawlichen Reymen erkläret: Durch Johann Heinrich Rordorffen.

MURER, Christoph. · 1622

CHF 1,500.00 (€1,622.52 | $1,788.31 | £1,353.61 | ¥285,570)

With 40 numb., nearly full-page emblematic engravings by Christoph Murer. 6 lines rhymed text below the engravings. 6 unn. pp., 40 leaves. 4to (228 x 170 mm). Contemp. marbled boards. Zurich, Johann Rudolff Wolff, 1622 (for Orell Füssli, 1820), Christoph Murer (1558-1614) was ...

Layenspiegel. Von rechtmässigen ordnungen inn Burgerlichen und Peinlichen Regimenten, Mit Addition ursprünglicher rechtsprüchen. Auch der Guldin Bulla, Küniglicher Reformation, Landfriden, etc. Samt bewärungen gemeiner rechten und anderm anzeygen Newlich getruckt (ed. by Seb. Brant).

TENGLER, Ulrich. · 1544

CHF 12,300.00 (€13,304.66 | $14,664.16 | £11,099.63 | ¥2,341,677)

1544 Title with woodcut, 30 woodcuts, of which 4 are repeated once and 2 twice, and of which 6 are full-page or almost so, woodcut initials. (6), 128, (3) leaves. Small folio. Antique styled full brown calf over wooden boards, blind-stamped borders on sides, spine on 5 raised ...

Passio domini nostri Jesu Christi ex Evangelistarum textu (qua...) accuratissime deprompta additis sanctissimis exquisitissimisq(ue) figuris.

RINGMANN, Matthias. · 1508

CHF 11,500.00 (€12,439.32 | $13,710.39 | £10,377.70 | ¥2,189,372)

1508 25 full-page woodcuts, 24 of them by Urs Graf, mostly with his monogram, and 1 woodcut by Hans Wechtlin. Roman type. 30 leaves. Folio (c. 295 x 200 mm). Early 17th cent. vellum, gold fillets, with large central colored and gold-stamped armorial supralibros on both covers ...

Die vier und zwentzig Alten (German).

(OTTO VON PASSAU, O.F.M.)). · 1508

CHF 17,850.00 (€19,307.98 | $21,280.91 | £16,108.00 | ¥3,398,287)

18 Feb. 1508 With large title woodcut (153 x 104 mm plus a narrow border on left) representing St. John before the Almighty and the 24 Elders; an angel on right, and 23 large woodcuts including many repeats, all in contemporary coloring, and initials. Gothic type. 47 lines. 2 ...

Idea principis Christiano-Politici 101 sijmbolis (sic) expressa.

SAAVEDRA FAJARDO, Diego de. · 1659

CHF 720.00 (€778.81 | $858.39 | £649.73 | ¥137,074)

1659 Engraved title, and 103 engraved emblems. (12) leaves, 831 pp., 2 leaves. 12mo. Contemp. vellum. Amsterdam, Jan Schipper, 1659. A nice copy of a work in which maxims of state policy are conveyed through the media of picture, motto, and commentary, in emblem-book style. Pr...

Tabvlae posi=tionvm pro variis ac di=versis poli elevationibvs, ad directiones necessario pertinentes, sum=ma fide, cura & diligentia sup=putatae, atq(ue) nunc pri=mum in lucem editae. Per Cypriavm Leouitium à Leonicia.

LEOWITZ (or KARASEK), Cyprian. · 1551

CHF 2,500.00 (€2,704.20 | $2,980.52 | £2,256.02 | ¥475,951)

October 1551 Diagrams showing eclipses and celestial positions in the format of astrological squares. [346] leaves (author's name crossed out on title). 4to. Contemporary vellum. Augsburg, Philip Ulhard, October 1551. First edition of a little known work by Cyprian Leowitz (15...

Insigne opus de claris mulieribus.

BOCCACCIO, Giovanni. · 1539

CHF 6,400.00 (€6,922.75 | $7,630.13 | £5,775.42 | ¥1,218,433)

1539 With 15 near half-page woodcuts including 2 repeats, of which 9 are signed J[akob] K[allenberg], 2 different printer's woodcut device on title and last leaf (honey-licking bears), one by H. Holbein. [6], LXXXI, [1] ff. Small folio. 18th-century calf (worn). From the libra...