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Zodiacus christianus seu signa XII. divinae Praedestinationis... Editio Quarta prioribus omnibus auctior.

DREXEL, Jeremias, S.J. · 1628

CHF 420.00 (€454.31 | $500.73 | £379.01 | ¥79,960)

1628 With engr. pictorial title and 11 (of 12) emblematic engravings by Raphael Sadeler. 4 unn. leaves, 229 pp. 12mo. Contemporary vellum. Munich, Cornelius Leysser, 1628. Drexel's (1581-1638) second publication (first ed. 1622 in Latin) dedicated to Johann Count of Hohenzolle...

Horologium Auxiliaris Tutelaris Angeli...Editio quinta.

DREXEL, Jeremias, S.J.. · 1629

CHF 550.00 (€594.92 | $655.71 | £496.32 | ¥104,709)

1629 With engraved pictorial title and 2 full-page engravings, by Raphael Sandeler. (7) leaves, 288 pp. 12mo. Contemporary vellum (ties lacking). Munich, Nicolai Henricus, 1629. The book is divided into "hours", each with the theme how to die, to pray, to life and is dedicated...

Trismegistus Christianus seu Triplex Cultus: Conscientiae, Caelitum Corporis...Editio altera correctior et auctior.

DREXEL, Jeremias, S.J. · 1627

CHF 480.00 (€519.21 | $572.26 | £433.16 | ¥91,383)

1627 With engr. pictorial title. 14 unn. leaves, 616 pp. 12mo. Contemp. vellum. Munich, Nicolaus Heinrich, 1627. Second edition. As the title "Trismegistus" suggests, the reader is told that there are three important things in Christian life: the devotion of the Saints, the ex...

Gymnasium Patientiae...tertia editio.

DREXEL, Jeremias, S.J.. · 1630

CHF 410.00 (€443.49 | $488.81 | £369.99 | ¥78,056)

1630 With engraved pictorial title and 3 full-page engravings. (13) leaves, 601 pp., 1 unn. leaf. 12mo. Contemporary vellum (ties lacking). Munich, Cornelius Leysser, 1630. Third of 4 issues published in the year of the first edition. In this work Drexel (1581-1638) compares t...

Heliotropium seu Conformatio humanae voluntatis cum divina; Libris quinque...Editio quarta..

DREXEL, Jeremias, S.J.. · 1630

CHF 480.00 (€519.21 | $572.26 | £433.16 | ¥91,383)

1630 With engraved pictorial title, and 5 full-page emblematic engravings. (12) leaves, 724 pp., (1) leaf. 12mo. Contemporary vellum (ties lacking). Munich, Cornelius Leysser, 1630. "This work (here present in its 4th edition), which deals with the problem of the freedom of th...

Rerum morumque in regno Chinesi maximè notabilium historia...Ex Hispanica lingua in Latinam transtulit F. Ioachimus Brulius. 2 parts in 1 vol.

GONZALES DE MENDOZA, Juan. · 1655

CHF 3,100.00 (€3,353.21 | $3,695.84 | £2,797.47 | ¥590,179)

1655 Woodcut printer's devise on title, and decorative initials. 2 unn., 176 pp.; 222 pp., 14 unn. pp. index. 4to. Contemporary brown calf, t.e.g. Old monastery library stamp on title. Antwerp, F. Frickaert, 1655. First Antwerp edition in Latin. Gonzalez de Mendoza (1545-1618)...

Contra octoaginta (sic) haereses opus, Panarium, siue Arcula, aut Capsula Medica appellatum, continens libros tres, et tomos siue sectiones ex toto septem. Iano Cornario Medico Physico interprete. Vna cum alijs eiusdem ... operibus ... Together 6 works in 1 vol.

EPIPHANIUS ELEUTHEROPOLIS. · 1560

CHF 3,500.00 (€3,785.88 | $4,172.73 | £3,158.43 | ¥666,331)

March 1560 With several figured woodcut initials. 12 unn., 590 numb., 16 unn. pp. index. Folio. 18th century marbled boards (sm. monastery library stamp on title). Basel, (Johannes Herwangen and (J.) Oporius, March 1560). Second Herwangen edition of bishop Epiphanius' treatise...

Heutelia, Das ist: Beschreibung einer Reiss, so zween Exulanten durch Heuteliam gethan, darinn verzeichnet, 1. Was sie denckwürdig gesehen vnd in obacht genommen, so wol in Geistlichen als Weltlichen. 2. Was sie für Discursen gehalten. 3. Was jhnen hin vnd wider begegnet.

(VEIRAS, Hans Franz and Jacob von GRAVISSETH). · 1658

CHF 1,900.00 (€2,055.19 | $2,265.20 | £1,714.58 | ¥361,722)

1658 With engr. title. Printed title, 2 unn. leaves, 297 pp. (=295 pp.), 1 blank p., 4 unn. pp. (last blank) "Clavis Heutelia" (keys for the numerous anagrams and acyrogolia). 8vo. 18th century half calf. Sm. monastic libr. stamp on title. Lutetia (i.e. Ulm), n. pr., 1658. Bou...

Heutelia, Das ist: Beschreibung einer Reiss, so zween Exulanten durch Heuteliam gethan, darinn verzeichnet, 1. Was sie denckwürdig gesehen vnd in obacht genommen, so wol in Geistlichen als Weltlichen. 2. Was sie für Discursen gehalten. 3. Was jhnen hin vnd wider begegnet.

(BEIRAS, Hans Franz and Jacob von GRAVISETH). · 1658

CHF 1,900.00 (€2,055.19 | $2,265.20 | £1,714.58 | ¥361,722)

1658 Engr. title, printed title. 2 unn. leaves, 297 (=295) pp., 1 blank p., 2 leaves "Clavis" (name keys). 8vo. Contemporary half calf. (sm. library stamp on title). Lutetia (i.e. Ulm), n.pr., 1658. Bound with: GRIMM, Hans Rudolf. Kleine Schweitzer Cronica Oder Geschicht=Buch....

Nova relatio historica de rebus in India orientali a patribus Societatis Jesu, anno 1598, & 99, gestis. a r.p. Nicolao Pimena...ad r.p. Claudium Aquauiuam.

PIMENTA, Niccolo, S.J. · 1601

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

1601 Jesuit device on title, some woodcut initials. 2 unn. leaves, 200 pp., 1 unn. leaf. Sm. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, paper title-label on back. Contemp. ms. exlibris of a monastery library on title-page. Mainz, Johann Albin, 1601. First Mainz edition, published also at Ro...

STATUTA HOSPITALIS HIERUSALEM. Ed. by Giovanni Battista Rondinelli.

1588

CHF 15,800.00 (€17,090.54 | $18,836.89 | £14,258.06 | ¥3,008,007)

1588 Fine etched title with the figures of Faith, Charity, and Hope, 1 plate showing the investiture of Hughes de Loubens-Verdale as cardinal, engraved divisional title, 12 plates with 48 portrait medallions engraved by Philippe Thomassin, 1 plate (portraits of the last 3 Gran...

Geschwister Tanner. Roman.

WALSER, Robert. · 1907

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

1907 319 pp. 8vo. Orig. boards with orig. color lithography on front cover, and book design by Karl Walser (cover slightly split and discolored). Berlin, Bruno Cassirer, 1907. First edition. A second, undated edition appeared in the same year. It was the poet (1878-1956) who s...

Versuch eines Schweizerischen Idiotikon mit etymologischen Bemerkungen untermischt. Samt einer Skizze einer Schweizerischen Dialektologie. 2 vols.

STALDER, Franz Joseph. · 1812

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

1812 507 pp.; XII, 528 pp., 2 leaves errata. 8vo. 19th century calf, spines gilt, gilt borders around sides. Exlibris Baron Wentworth in vol. 1. Aarau, H. R. Sauerländer, 1812. First edition, vol. I from 1806 was re-issued with a new title-page in the same year as vol. II appe...

Natur- Historie des Schweizerlandes. Erster Theil. Welcher enthaltet die Beschreibung der Elementen, Grenzen und Bergen...Zweyter Theil. Welcher enthalter die Beschreibung der Seen, Flüssen, Brünnen, warmen und kalten Bäderen und anderen Mineral-Wassern...Dritter Theil. Welcher enthaltet die Beschreibung der Luft-Geschichten, Steinen, Metallen, und andern Mineralien des Schweitzerlandes, absonderlich auch der Ueberbleibseln der Sündfluth. Zweyte und verbesserte Ausgabe. 3 parts in 1 vol.. Title-pages printed in red and black.

SCHEUCHZER, Johann Jacob. · 1752

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

1752 With engr. frontispiece in part 1, woodcut title-vignette (repeated) and 32 engravings (of which 25 are foldings, 1 with a over-slip) including views, town plans and maps by Joh. Meyer, Joh. Melchior Füssli, and J. G. Seiller. (4), 268 pp., (4) leaves; (16), 480, (6) pp.;...

A vse-taki ona vertitsja (Russian) And yet the world goes round.

ERENBURG (or EHRENBURG), Ilya (Grigorevich). · 1922

CHF 2,900.00 (€3,136.87 | $3,457.40 | £2,616.99 | ¥552,103)

(January) 1922 Illustrated with 16 photogravures on plates, and line illustrations by F. Léger, and others. 140, 2 (publisher's adv.), 2 (blank) pp. 8vo. Orig. illus. wrappers with a Cubist drawing by F. Léger (220 x 160 mm). Moscow and Berlin, Gelikon, (January) 1922. First e...

ThurnierBuch. Von Anfang, Vrsachen, Vrsprung vnd Herkommen, der Thurnier im heyligen Römischen Reich Teutscher Nation... von Keyser Heinrich dem ersten ... biss auff Keyser Maximilian den andern ... von neuwem zusammen getragen, mit schönen neuwen Figuren ... zugericht ... (And: FRANCOLIN, Johannes von). Thurnier Buch. Wahrhaffte Beschreibung aller kurtzweil vnd Ritterspil, so ... Maximilian, König zu Beheym...Herrn Ferdinand, erwehlten Römischen Keyser...zu...wolgefallen, vnd zu frölicher ankunfft...in...Wien...lassen halten (And:) Des Allerdurchleutigste(n) Grossmechtigsten Keyser Carols dess fünfften...fröliche...Ankunfft gen Bintz, den 22. Augusti dess 1549. Jars. 3 parts in 1 vol.

(RUEXNER, Georg and Johannes von FRANCOLIN). · 1566

CHF 6,800.00 (€7,355.42 | $8,107.01 | £6,136.38 | ¥1,294,585)

1566 First title printed in red and black (small piece cut out from upper and lower part of title, re-margined) with numerous large woodcuts (some repeated) of tournaments and other festivities, 2 large double-page cuts (203 x 348 mm) of a tournament (dated 1565) 2 small and 2...

Mort d'Abel. Traduit par [Michael] Hubert (sic). Édition ornée d'estampes imprimées en couleur, d'après les dessins de M. [Nicolas André] Monsiau.

GESSNER, Salomon. · 1793

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

1793 With color-printed engraved frontispiece and 5 color-printed plates engraved by Colibert, Clément and Casenave. 3 blank ff.; 161 pp., 3 blank ff. Royal 4to. Contemp. full calf with red spine, triple gilt fillets on covers, gilt inside dentelles (back rep.). Paris, Defer d...

Oeuvres. 3 vols.

GESSNER, Salomon. · 1786

CHF 3,600.00 (€3,894.05 | $4,291.95 | £3,248.67 | ¥685,369)

1786-93 With 2 engr. frontispieces, 3 engr. titles, 72 engr. plates and 70 vignettes engr. after Le Barbier by Bacquoy, Dambrun, Godefroy, a.o. XII pp., 1 leaf, 215 pp.; 182 pp.; 236 pp. Large 4to. Contemp. calf, gilt lettering on spine, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers (slig...

Die Helden von Sempach. Zweite Auflage.

Pusikan (d.i. Oskar Göschen). · 1886

CHF 120.00 (€129.80 | $143.06 | £108.29 | ¥22,846)

1886 Mit farblith. Frontispiz, 2 lith. Ansichten (Schlacht-Kapelle bei Sempach und Erinnerungsdenkmal in Sempach), 1 farblith. Karte und 185 Wappen auf 20 farblith. Tafeln, gez. von Wilhelm Bergen. 2 Bll., 82 SS. 4to. Farblith. Orig.-HLn. Exlibris. Zürich, Hofer & Burger, (188...

Wappen der Bürger von Luzern 1798-1924.

AM RHYN, A(ugust und Karl MOSSDORF-ROBBIANI). · 1936

CHF 150.00 (€162.25 | $178.83 | £135.36 | ¥28,557)

1936 Titel in Rot und Schwarz. Mit 75 farblith. Tafeln mit Wappenillustr. von Otto Landolt. 54 SS. Text. Kl.-folio. Illustr. Orig.-Ln. Exlibris. Luzern, (Roto-Sadag, Genf), für den Verfasser, 1936. Limitierte Auflage dieses Luzerner Wappenbuches. Die Verfasser waren Architekte...