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Capitularia regum Francorum. Additae sunt Marculfi monachi & aliorum formulae veteres & Notae doctissimorum virorum ... 2 vols.

BALUZE, Etienne. · 1677

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

1677 With engr. figured title by p. Giffart after C. le Brun, 2 engr. pictorial head-pieces and large figured intitials, several ornamental head- and tail-pieces; large engr. folding plate, 3 almost full-page engr. portraits, a few small text-woodcuts. 36 unn. leaves, 1448 col...

Icones sive imagines virorum literis illustrium ... Additis eorundem elogiis diversorum auctorum. Ex secunda recognitione.

REUSNER, Nicolaus. · 1590

CHF 1,880.00 (€2,033.56 | $2,241.35 | £1,696.53 | ¥357,915)

1590 With Jobin's woodcut printer's mark on title, large woodcut coat-of-arms of the dedicatee, King Frederick II of Denmark (1534-1588), and 100 fine woodcut portraits by Christoph Murer (2 by Tobias Stimmer). Each page with woodcut frame. (8) leaves, 428 pp., (8) leaves. Sma...

Etymologicon linguae latinae. Praefigitur ejusdem de literarum permutatione tractatus. With privilege.

VOSSIUS, Gerardus Joannes. · 1662

CHF 800.00 (€865.34 | $953.77 | £721.93 | ¥152,304)

1662 Title printed in red an black. With woodcut Minerva device on title. 34 unn. leaves, 606 pp., 1 blank. Folio. Modern polished calf. Amsterdam, Louis & Daniel Elzevir, 1662. First edition. Probably the first attempt at a Latin etymological dictionary. The great Dutch (Germ...

Moguntiacarum rerum ab initio usque ad ... hodiernum Archiepiscopum, ac Electorem, Dominum D. Ioannem Schwichardum, libri quinque.

MAINZ. - SERARIUS, Nicolaus, S.J. · 1604

CHF 3,700.00 (€4,002.22 | $4,411.17 | £3,338.91 | ¥704,407)

1604 Title printed in red and black. With woodcut device on title, full-page heraldic woodcut on title verso, woodcut head-piece and large figured intital on leaf 2, and 7 engr. plates (one folding, with a view of Mainz). 8 unn. leaves, 980 pp., 7 unn. leaves. 4to. Contemp. ri...

Annales, non tam de augustorum vitis, quam aliorum germanorum gestis et docte et compendiose disserentes, ante sexingentos fere annos editi. Cum privilegio Imperiali. (Ed. by Sebastian von Rotenhan, dedicated to Emperor Charles V).

REGINO, Abbot of Prüm, O.S.B. · 1521

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

August 1521 With wide historiated woodcut title-border, full-page woodcut portrait of Rotenhan, full-page woodcut of his coat-of-arms, and a large woodcut criblé initial at beginning of dedication, few smaller initials. 12 unn. leaves, 58 leaves, 2 unn. leaves. Folio. Full dar...

ASSEMBLEE NATIONALE CONSTITUANTE (1789-1791). Extrait des procès-verbaux de l'Assemblée Nationale, des 9, 11, 12, 14, 17, 21, 24, 27, 30 Septembre et 1 Octobre 1789: Articles de Constitution.

1789

CHF 8,400.00 (€9,086.11 | $10,014.55 | £7,580.23 | ¥1,599,194)

1789 With woodcut floral head-piece. 6 (1) pp. 8vo (c. 215 x 140 mm). Loose as issued. N. pl., n. d. (Versailles), Baudouin, 1789. FIRST EDITION of the earliest French Constitution. This document, being the first French constitution, is of major historic significance. It refle...

A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in the Northern Counties of England and Scotland. 2 vols.

DIBDIN, Thomas Frognall. · 1838

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

1838 With 44 engr. plates incl. 2 frontispieces, text illus. and tipped-in woodcuts and facsimiles. XV pp., (5) leaves, 436 pp., XXX pp. index to the whole work; (2) leaves, pp. (439)-1090. Large 8vo. Red cloth. London, printed for the author by C. Richards, and sold by James ...

Topographia Helvetiae, Rhaetiae et Valesiae. Dat is Een Beschryuinge en Eygentlyke Afbeeldinge der Steden en Plaetsen vant loffelyke Eetgenootscap anders Schweitserland, Graubunters, Wallissers en toegehorige plaetsen. Naart leven afgetekent door Matheo Merian ....

MERIAN, Matthäus. · 1644

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

1644 Engr. figured title, engr. heraldic head-piece to dedication, large engr. folding map of Switzerland by Blaeu after Mercator, 55 large engr. plates (almost all double-spread, 1 folding) with a total of 75 views. VI, 48 pp. Folio (310 x 200 mm). Contemp. vellum. Amsterdam,...

INSTRUMENTUM Pacis, Ab utriusq(ue) partis Plenipotentiariis, Caesareis & Regiis Suecicis, Osnabrugi d. 27. Julij, 6. Augusti, Anno M.DC.XLVIII. In Praesentia Sacri Romani Imperii Statuum, Apud Dnn. Suecicos Legatos congregatorum, Primò clarè & distinctè lectum, Deinde manuum stipulatione Solenniter Adprobatum.

1648

CHF 380.00 (€411.04 | $453.04 | £342.92 | ¥72,344)

1648 77 pp. Small 4to. 20th-cent. half leather (new endpapers). N. pl., n. pr., (1648). The peace negotiations of Westphalia, which ended the Thirty Years war, are of the utmost importance in European history. The treaty was concluded on 24th October by Emperor Ferdinand III (...

Autograph letter, signed. Addressed to "il Sig. Platner Agente di S.M. il Re di Saxonia" in Rome.

BUNSEN, Christian Karl Josias von, Prussian ambassador, 1791-1860. · 1833

CHF 880.00 (€951.88 | $1,049.14 | £794.12 | ¥167,535)

1833 2 pp. on a folded sheet of 4 pp., with address on verso (traces of sealing wax, small piece of paper missing). Frascati, 1833. Interesting letter by the diplomate and archaeologist Bunsen to Ernst Zacharias Platner (1773-1855), painter and art historian, who had settled i...

Schrifften. 2 vols.

GESSNER, Salomon. · 1777

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

1777-78 With 2 engr. titles with a small etched vignette, 20 etched plates, and 39 etched vignettes in the text, all by Salomon Gessner. 191 pp.; 194 pp. 4to. Contemp. half calf, with 2 spine labels, spines gilt (repaired, slightly rubbed). Zurich, for the author, 1777-78. Onl...

Bibliotheca Graeca, Sive notitia Scriptorum Veterum Graecorum. 4 vols. in 1.

FABRICIUS, Jo(hann) Albert. · 1707

CHF 2,100.00 (€2,271.53 | $2,503.64 | £1,895.06 | ¥399,798)

1707-08 Titles printed in red and black. With 3 engr. frontispieces (none was published for vol. II), title-vignettes and 1 engr. plate in vol. III. Together 2482 pp. Thick 4to. Contemporary vellum (small library stamp on verso of title). Hamburg, Christian Liebezeit, 1707-08....

Occasio arrepta. Neglecta. Huius commoda: illius incommoda. (Second title:) Occasio. Drama. 2 parts in 1 vol.

DAVID, Joannes (i.e. Jan), S.J. · 1605

CHF 2,800.00 (€3,028.70 | $3,338.18 | £2,526.74 | ¥533,065)

1605 With engr. title, 12 full-page etchings by Theodoor Galle, engr. printer's device on second title (p. 271), woodcut printer's device at end. 8 leaves, 307, (1) pp., 13 leaves index (lacking last blank). Small 4to. Mottled calf in contemp. style (new endpapers). In slipcas...

PABLO PICASSO. Catalogue raisonné des livres illustrés. Ed. by Sebastian Goeppert, Herma Goeppert-Frank and Patrick Cramer.

PICASSO. - · 1983

CHF 580.00 (€627.37 | $691.48 | £523.40 | ¥110,421)

1983 With numerous illus. 425 pp., 2 leaves. Large 4to. Orig. cloth, dust-jacket. Geneva, Patrick Cramer, 1983. Indispensable catalogue of Picasso's book illustrations, spanning the period from 1905-1974. Describes in detail 156 books, albums and catalogues with original etchi...

Traité des maladies qui arrivent aux parties genitales des deux sexes; et particulièrement de la maladie vénérienne. Trans. from the Latin by Devaux.

VERCELLONI, Jacques (i.e. Jacopo VERCELLONE). · 1730

CHF 450.00 (€486.76 | $536.49 | £406.08 | ¥85,671)

1730 12 leaves, 464 pp., 2 leaves. 8vo. Contemp. calf (slightly rubbed). Paris, Clousier, 1730. First French edition of "De pudendorum morbis et lue venerea tetrabiblion", first published in Asti in 1716. The present French edition was translated after the Leiden edition of 17...

(PROCLAMATION). Mit wirklichem Kummer sehe Ich den Stand des Kurses der Bancozettel auf der Wiener Börse.

FRANZ der Erste, First Emperor of Austria, 1768-1835. · 1809

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

11 December 1809 1 leaf, folded. Folio. Pressburg, 11 December 1809. Printed proclamation to his subjects regarding measures to support the value of state bonds. The eldest son of Emperor Leopold II was, as Franz II Karl Joseph, last Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire until 1806...

Autograph letter, signed.

LENBACH, Franz von, German portrait painter, 1836-1904. · 1882

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

10 March 1882 1 p. 8vo. Munich, 10 March 1882. Autograph note to "Lieber Josef, mit herzlichem Gruss Dir u. Deiner Frau danke ich Dir für Deine letzten aufmerksamen Zeilen, Dein Franz". - Added: Printed calling card with ms. note to "Lieber Bruder, gutes neues Jahr wünscht Dir...

Handbuch der Pharmakognosie. 3 in 6 vols., and general index by E. Remy. Together 7 vols.

TSCHIRCH, (Wilhelm Oswald) A(lexander). · 1909

CHF 900.00 (€973.51 | $1,072.99 | £812.17 | ¥171,342)

1909-27 With tables and numerous illus. in the text and on plates. 4to. Three quarter brown morocco, with gilt lettering. Leipzig, Tauchnitz, 1909-27. First edition of this sought-after comprehensive work by the Prussian born Alexander Tschirch (1856-1939). He came to the Univ...

Koehler's Medizinal-Pflanzen in naturgetreuen Abbildungen mit kurz erläuterndem Texte. Atlas zur Pharmacopoea germanica, austriaca, belgica, danica, helvetica, hungarica, rossica, suecica, Neerlandica, British pharmacopoeia, zum Codex medicamentarius, sowie zur Pharmacopoeia of the United States of America. Ed. by Gustav Pabst. New ed. 3 vols.

KOEHLER, Hermann Adolph. · 1923

CHF 2,700.00 (€2,920.54 | $3,218.96 | £2,436.50 | ¥514,027)

(1923, I-II); Gera-Untermhaus, Fr. E. Köhler, (1898, III) With 203 chromolithogr. plates to vols. I-II, and 80 to vol. III (some signed W. Müller del., some E. Gunther del. and lith.). 4to. Orig. russet half leather (repaired). Berlin-Lichterfelde, Hugo Bermühler, (1923, I-II)...

AHNENTAFELN um 1800. Collected and ed. by Friedrich Wecken (and Friedrich Gatzemeyer). 5 vols.

1929

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

1929-1942 8vo. Orig. wrappers, partly uncut and unopened. Leipzig and Marktschellenberg, Degener, 1929-1942. Vol. I: 5 issues, 1929-30; Vol. II: 1 vol. 1932-33; Vol. III: Sippschaften aus Stadt und Stift Hildesheim. Ed. by Friedrich Gatzemeyer. Part I. 1 vol. 1925; Vol. IV: 5 ...