Hellmut Schumann Antiquariat

Ueber die Einsamkeit. 4 parts in 4 vols.

ZIMMERMANN, Johann Georg. · 1785

CHF 220.00 (€237.97 | $262.29 | £198.53 | ¥41,884)

1785-86 With 4 engraved title-vignettes. 8vo. Contemp. half calf (slightly damaged). Troppau, n. pr., 1785-86. The great success of this work led to several reprints, like this one which was printed in the year of the first edition. It is present here with the full text. This ...

Neüeste Reise durch Teütschland, Böhmen, Ungarn, die Schweitz, Italien, und Lothringen, worin der Zustand und das merckwürdigste dieser Länder beschrieben und vermittels der Natürl(ichen) Gelehrten, und Politischen Geschichte, der Mechanick, Mahler- Bau- und Bildhauer-Kunst, Müntzen, und Alterthümer erläutert wird, mit Kupffern. 2 vols. in 1. Woodcut head- and endpieces.

KEYSSLER, Joh(ann) Georg. · 1740

CHF 1,800.00 (€1,947.02 | $2,145.97 | £1,624.34 | ¥342,684)

1740-1741 With engr. frontispiece, 1 map and 6 plates (mostly fold.). Title, 2 leaves, 82, 810 pp., (1) leaf corrigenda; title, 1344, 88, 16 pp., (28) leaves index, (1) leaf. Thick 4to. Orig. marbled boards, back old cloth. Woodcut head- and endpieces. Hannover, heirs of Nikol...

A Collection of Etchings, by that inimitable artist Stefanio (sic) Della Bella, comprising in number One Hundred and Eighty Pieces, and consisting of landscapes, marine views, animals, friezes, ornaments, &c&c to which is prefixed a bibliographical memoir of The Artist.

BELLA, STEFANO DELLA. - DODD, Thomas. · 1818

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

1818 Engr. frontispiece with French lettering, and 179 etchings on 96 plates. Printed title, 22 pp. Large 4to (365 x 265 mm). Contemporary three-quarter calf, spine in 6 compartments, gilt-lettering, marbled endpapers. London, H. R. Young, 1818. Scarce edition. The preliminary...

Dictionnaire universel de commerce: contenant tout ce qui concerne le commerce qui se fait dans les quatre parties du monde, par terre, par mer...par des voyages de long cours ...le detail du commerce de la France en general et de la ville de Paris en particulier... Nouvelle edition. 3 vols.

SAVARY des Brûlons, Jacques. · 1748

CHF 7,200.00 (€7,788.09 | $8,583.90 | £6,497.34 | ¥1,370,738)

1748 Each vol. with half-title. Titles printed in red and black. With numerous engr. head-pieces and vignettes throughout. (8), xxvii, (1), 544 pp., (545)-1140 double cols. (ie. 294 pp.), (2) pp. (last blank; (4) pp., 1772 cols. (i.e. 886 pp.); (4) pp., 1316, 684 cols. (i.e. 1...

Coralliographia subterranea, seu Dissertation de corallis fossilibus, in specie de lapidecorneo Horn- oder gemeinem Feuerstein.

BÜTTNER, David Sigismund. · 1714

CHF 4,800.00 (€5,192.06 | $5,722.60 | £4,331.56 | ¥913,825)

1714 With 4 engraved plates. (2) ff., 68 pp., (2) ff. Sm.-4to. Contemporary calf, spine gilt. Leipzig, Friedrich Groschuff, 1714. First edition of a landmark of science. This is one of the first scientific treatise on corals based on the original observations of the celebrated...

Die Gesantschaft der Ost-Indischen Geselschaft in den Vereinigten Niederländern, an den Tartarischen Cham. und nunmehr auch sinischen Kaiser: Verrichtet durch die Herren Peter van Gojern und Jacob Keisern: Darinnen begriffen Die aller märckwürdigsten sachen/welche ihnen/ auf währender reyser vom 1655. Jahre bis in das 1657. aufgestossen. Wie auch Eine wahrhafftige Beschreibung der...Städte, Flecken. Title printed in red and black, with engr. vignette.

NIEUHOF(F), Johann. · 1666

CHF 6,500.00 (€7,030.92 | $7,749.35 | £5,865.66 | ¥1,237,471)

1666 Engraved title, frontispiece portrait, folding map of China (small tears along fold), 34 double-page plates, 110 half-page text engravings of landscapes, seaports, towns and cities, engraved head-piece and initial, woodcut ornamental head- and tail-pieces. (4), 444, (10) ...

(Etudes prises dans le bas Peuple où les Cris de Paris premiere (-Cinqième) Suitte (sic). 5 issues in 1 vol.)

PARIS. - (BOUCHARDON, Edme). · 1736

CHF 18,000.00 (€19,470.24 | $21,459.74 | £16,243.36 | ¥3,426,844)

1736-1746 With 60 numbered engravings after drawings by Calys after Bouchardon, including 5 pictorial titles (the last suit unnumbered). Large 4to (343 x 260 mm). Contemporary boards, with gold-lettered title on spine. (Paris ), Fessard, (1736-1746). First edition of these bea...

Het Gezantschap Der Neêrlandtsche Oost-Indische Compagnie, aan den grooten Tartarischen Cham, den tegenwoordigen Keizer van China...Een Naukeurigen Beschreyving der Sineesche Steden...2 parts in 1 vols. Title printed in red and black.

NIEUHOF(F), Joan. · 1665

CHF 6,500.00 (€7,030.92 | $7,749.35 | £5,865.66 | ¥1,237,471)

1665 With engraved frontispiece, 2 full-page coat of arms, folding map of China (small tears along fold), engraved author's portrait, 34 double-page plates, 110 half-page text engravings, engraved head-piece and initial, woodcut ornamental head- and tail-pieces. (8), 208, 258,...

Heidi kann brauchen, was es gelernt hat. Eine Geschichte für Kinder und auch für Solche, welche die Kinder lieb haben.

SPYRI, Johanna. · 1881

CHF 1,550.00 (€1,676.60 | $1,847.92 | £1,398.73 | ¥295,089)

1881 2 leaves, 178 pp. 8vo. Orig. red half cloth with color illustration by F(riedrich) W(ilhelm) Pfeiffer on front cover (spine faded and corners slightly bumped). Gotha, Friedrich Andreas Perthes, 1881. First edition of the second Heidi book. Johanna Spyri (1827-1901) create...

STATUTI DELLA SACRA Religione Gerosolimitana; le ordinazioni dell' ultimo Capito Generale, che sono le sole, che sussistone; il nouvo Cerimoniale prescritto dalla Santità di N. Sig. Papa Urbano VIII. sopra l'Elezione de' Gran Maestri; il modo , o sia instruzione Di far i Processi de' Miglioramenti delle Commende...e come deuono farsene li Cabrei; l'ordine, che si tiene nel dar l'Arbito, a chi professa nella Religione; E per ultimo i privilegi concessi da'Sommi Pontefici alla Religione, e suoi Dependenti. 6 parts in 1 vol.

1719

CHF 7,500.00 (€8,112.60 | $8,941.56 | £6,768.07 | ¥1,427,852)

1719 With woodcut illustrations of the Cross and large initials. (8) pp. incl. engraved allegorical title, dated 1718, 16, 308 pp.; engr. title (repeated), 210 pp.; printed title with coat of arms of Pope Urbanus VIII in woodcut, 12 pp.; 32 pp. incl. printed title with same co...

(Genealogy of the nobel families of Gutierrez de Arze, and Gutierrez de la Huerta). Illuminated manuscript in Spanish, signed and sealed by Don Ramon Zazo y Ortega. Written in a calligraphical hand in ink on vellum.

GUITERREZ. - CHARLES III, King of Spain (1716-1788). · 1771

CHF 6,500.00 (€7,030.92 | $7,749.35 | £5,865.66 | ¥1,237,471)

September 12, 1771 With 2 full-page coat of arms painted in beautiful colors and heightened in gold (2nd with Royal stamp below crown in upper part), 4 calligraphic headers in red, familiy names Gutierrez, Huerta and Arze, colored and partly placed above, 4 smaller coat of arm...

Das Antipapistisch eins und hundert Ausserlessner, gewiser, Evangelischer Warhait, bey wölchen...die reyn lehr soll und müss erkan(n)t werden.

NAS (or NASE), Johannes. · 1570

CHF 680.00 (€735.54 | $810.70 | £613.64 | ¥129,459)

1570 Title printed in red and black within woodcut-border. (16) 232, 8 leaves. 8vo. Contemporary blind-ruled vellum, 1 (of 2) metal claps (small old library stamp and owner's ms. entry on title). (Ingolstatt, Alexander Weissenhorn), 1570. Fourth issue of one of the many polemi...

Von der Arbeit der evangelischen Brüder unter den Heiden. With woodcut title-vignette.

(SPANGENBERG, August Gottlieb). · 1782

CHF 280.00 (€302.87 | $333.82 | £252.67 | ¥53,306)

1782 168 pp. 8vo. Boards. With woodcut title-vignette. Barby, Christian Friedrich Laur, 1782. First edition. Spangenberg (1704-92) was biograph of Count Zinzendorf and bishop. On behalf of the theologian Christian Walch he describes the activities of the Bohemian Brethren and ...

Co(n)tra temerarium Martini Lutheri, de votis monasticis iudicium. libri duo...2 vols in 1.

DIETENBERGER, Johann. · 1525

CHF 1,550.00 (€1,676.60 | $1,847.92 | £1,398.73 | ¥295,089)

June 1525 Printer's mark with coat of arms of the city Cologne on last leaf. 274 (i.e. 276), (12) leaves. 8vo. Contemporary pigskin (library stamp on title). Cologne, Peter Quentell, June 1525. First edition of a polemical work by J. Dietenberger (1475-1537) against Martin Lut...

Divinarum institutionum libri VIII. De ira Dei liber I. De opificio Dei, Liber I. Epitome in libros suos liber acephalos, Phoenix. Carmen de mominica resurrectione. Carmen den passione Domini.

LACTANTIUS, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus. · 1521

CHF 1,200.00 (€1,298.02 | $1,430.65 | £1,082.89 | ¥228,456)

February 1521 With fine woodcut title-border by Hans Holbein the Younger, and numerous woodcut initials. 10 unn. leaves, 433 num., 3 un. pp. Small 4to. Contemp. blind-stamped calf, 1 metal clasp (of 2). (Basel, A. Cratander, February 1521). First edition. A very fine and inter...

Habes candiss(imus) lector ... opera omnia, quae hactenus ubiq(ue) gentium maxima eruditorum industria inueniri potuerunt ... 4 vols. in 1.

EUSEBIUS CAESARIENSIS, Pamphilius. · 1542

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

(August) 1542 Title within richly figured and ornate woodcut border by Hans Holbein the younger. With woodcut printer's device on last leaf verso, several woodcut initials and head-pieces. 18 unn. leaves index (incl. title), 214 pp., 1 blank leaf; 287 pp.; 221 (recte 223) pp; ...

Colloquium Oder Gespräch Zwischen einem Catholischen Bidermann, Und Einem genannt Reformierten Hächlenmann, Die Zürcherische Rettung der Alten Anklag wider die Newe Anklag Gottes betreffend... Beschrieben in bester Wolmeynung Durch einen Gottes und dess Vatterlandts liebhabenden Alten Eydgnossen. Together 952 pp.

FORER, Laurenz, (S. J.). · 1650

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

1650-1652 5 parts in 1 vol. Thick-8vo. Contemporary vellum (small monastery libr. stamp on title, back slightly damaged). Lucerne and Vienna, David Hautt, 1650-1652. First edition. This nice sammelband contains five theological controverses, a.o. against the Zurich theologian ...

Georgius Zeaemann Kemptisch Wunderthier. Das ist: Erzöhlung etlicher sonderbarer Wunder, welche Georgius Zeaemann Kemptischer Praedicant und Spiegelmacher mit seinem ubelformiertem Wunderspiegel erwöckt, und sich zu einem Wunderthier gemacht hat.

GRAFF, Elias (S.J.). · 1626

CHF 2,400.00 (€2,596.03 | $2,861.30 | £2,165.78 | ¥456,913)

1626 Title printed in red and black. (6) leaves, 268 pp., (4) leaves. 4to. Contemporary vellum. Dillingen, Jacob Sermodi, 1626. (Bound with:) FORER, Laurenz (S.J.). Uberschlag Uber den Starensichtigen, und von den Sächsischen Praedicanten ubelgehailten AugApffel Deren, die sic...

Opera,...accessit...Erasmi Roterodami Paraclesis, ipsius que Athanasij vita.

ATHANASIUS MAGNUS, St., Patriarch of Alexandria. · 1522

CHF 1,850.00 (€2,001.11 | $2,205.58 | £1,669.46 | ¥352,203)

March 1522 Title within fine wide woodcut border of numerous scenes from the lives and miracles of Saints Peter and Phillip. (6), 314 ff. Folio. 17th vellum. (small monastery library stamp on title). Strasbourg, Johannes Knobloch, March 1522. Important collections of Athanasiu...

Recta intentio Omnium humanarum actionum Amussis. Edition terza.

DREXEL, Jeremias, S.J. · 1636

CHF 250.00 (€270.42 | $298.05 | £225.60 | ¥47,595)

1636 With engr. pictorial title and 2 engr. plates. 24 unn., 625 pp., 16 unn. leaves. 12mo. Contemp. vellum. Munich, Cornelius Leysser, 1636. Early edition of a work by Jeremias Drexel (1581-1638), dedicated to the Elector Maximilian I of Bavaria. Treats the subject of the rig...