Hellmut Schumann Antiquariat

Une reine de douze ans. Marie Louise Gabrielle de Savoie, reine d'Espagne.

PEREY, Lucien. · 1905

CHF 90.00 (€97.35 | $107.30 | £81.22 | ¥17,134)

1905 With frontispice portrait. III, 604 pp. 8vo. Somewhat later half leather, spine gilt, front wrapper preserved. Paris, Calmann-Lévy, (1905). Marie Louise Gabrielle of Savoy (1688-1714), daughter of Victor-Amédée II, Duke of Sardinia, was married to Philippe V of Spain unde...

History of Sweden. Trans. from the Swedish manuscript by Lajla Yapp.

HALLENDORFF, Carl and Adolf SCHÜCK. · 1929

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

1929 With numerous illus. on plates. XXII, 466 pp. Large 8vo. Contemp. leather, gilt lettering on spine, top edge gilt (slightly rubbed). London etc., Cassell and Co. Ltd., (1929). A comprehensive history of Sweden from prehistoric times to 1905. SCANDINAVIA ; GEOGRAPHIE, REIS...

Histoire secrète du Cabinet de Napoléon Bonaparté, et de la Cour des Saint-Cloud. 2nd edition. 2 vols. in one.

GOLDSMITH, Lewis. · 1814

CHF 50.00 (€54.08 | $59.61 | £45.12 | ¥9,519)

1814 270; 206 pp. 8vo. Contemp. half calf with green spine label (light rubbing)g. London, T. Harper; Paris, chez les marchandes de nouveautés, 1814. A libellous account about the court of Napoleon by Lews Goldsmith (ca. 1780-1846). A refugee in France, he served the country b...

Lettres aux hommes du monde et sur les études qui leur conviennent. Par Mgr. l'Évèque d'Orléans.

(DUPANLOUP, Félix-Antoine-Philibert de). · 1868

CHF 80.00 (€86.53 | $95.38 | £72.19 | ¥15,230)

1868 604 pp. 8vo. Slightly later half dark blue leather, spine with red label richly gilt (by Young and sons, Liverpool). Paris, Charles Douniol, 1868. This collection of letters grew out of one particular letter addressed to a member of the Académie de Sainte-Croix à Orléans,...

Le Bonhomme, ou nouvelles observations sur les moeurs parisiennes au commencement du dix-neuvième siècle.

ROUGEMONT, (Michel-Nicolas Balisson de). · 1818

CHF 520.00 (€562.47 | $619.95 | £469.25 | ¥98,998)

1818 With 2 engr. plates, and numerous wood-engraved vignettes. 382 pp., 1 leaf. 12mo. Contemp. half calf, red spine label. Paris, Pillet, 1818. First edition of this collection of anecdotes about Parisian life by the prolific writer and dramatist de Rougemont, divided into 28...

Mémoires tirées des papiers d'un homme d'Etat, sur les causes secrètes qui ont déterminé la politique des cabinets dans la guerre de la Révolution, depuis 1792 jusqu'en 1815. 13 vols.

(ALLONVILLE, Armand-François d', Alfonse de BEAUCHAMP, and Alexander SCHUBART). · 1831

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

1831-38 (III-XIII) 8vo. Slightly later three-quarter tan leather, spines richly gilt with two green lables (by Young & sons, Liverpool). Paris, Ponthieu et comp., 1828 (I-II); L.-G. Michaud, 1831-38 (III-XIII). First edition of this detailed account of the campaigns against Fr...

Genealogisch-Historische Nachricht Von denen Hochwürdigsten und Durchlauchtigsten Herren-Meistern des Ritterlichen Johanniter-Ordens in der Marck, Sachsen, Pommern und Wendland, Samt Des Jetzigen Herren-Meisters, Printz Carln,... Wahl und Installation... 2 parts in 1 vol.

DITHMAR, Justus Christoph. · 1737

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

1737 Title printed in red and black. With 16 engr. plates, and 1 folding genealogical table. 6, 128 pp.; 83 pp. 4to. Contemp. sprinkled boards (somewhat rubbed). Exlibris Eugen Graf Sylva Tarouca 1880. Frankfurt a.d. Oder, Jeremias Hartmann, 1737. First edition. Dithmar (1677-...

Vocabularium Anglo-Saxonicum, Lexico Gul. Somneri magna parte auctius.

BENSON, Thomas. · 1701

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

1701 With engr. title (by Michael Burghers), engr. title vignette. (96) leaves. Small 4to. Contemp. calf (front cover splitted). Signature of George Coleridge, Warden House, Otterly (St. Mary) on front pastedown (brother of Samuel Taylor Coleridge). Oxford, Sheldonian Theater ...

Rosa Indica Pumila. - Rosier nain du Bengale (Double Miniature Rose).

REDOUTÉ, P(ierre) J(oseph). · 1817

CHF 1,250.00 (€1,352.10 | $1,490.26 | £1,128.01 | ¥237,975)

(c. 1817-20) Stipple engraving, by Chapuy, printed in colors and finished by hand. Folio (c. 320 x 245 mm). (Paris, Didot, (c. 1817-20)). From the folio editions "Les Roses, décrites et classées selon leur order naturel", par Claude Antoine Thory, published in Paris between 18...

Autograph letter, signed.

METTERNICH, Pauline, Princess, nèe Countess Sándor von Slavnica, 1836-1921. · 1892

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

14 April (1892) 1 folded leaf, gilt-edges, with blind-stamped crowned double coat of arms, writing on 3 pp. Sm. 8vo (155 x 97 mm). Vienna, 14 April (1892). Pauline Metternich, grand-daughter of Clemens Wenzel Lothar Prince Metternich, married to his son, Richard Klemens Prince...

Gesammelte Werke in zehn Bänden. Ausgabe für die Schweiz. Sechstes bis achtes Tausend. Volksausgabe. 10 Bde.

Keller, Gottfried. · 1920

CHF 90.00 (€97.35 | $107.30 | £81.22 | ¥17,134)

1920 8vo. Orig.-HLn. (leicht gebräunt). Zürich, Rascher & Co., 1920. "Schweizerische Klassiker-Ausgaben". Mit Genehmigung des Verlages Cotta nur für die Schweiz veranstaltete Ausgabe. Die Durchsicht des Textes besorgten Fritz Hunziker und Emil Ermatinger. - Zippermann 522. LIT...

Oeuvres complètes (Extra illustrated). 25 vols.

FRANCE, Anatole (i.e. Jacques-François Anatole THIBAUD). · 1925

CHF 1,100.00 (€1,189.85 | $1,311.43 | £992.65 | ¥209,418)

1925-35 With engr. frontispiece portrait of Anatole France by J. A. Hoffmann after Edgar Chahine in 2 states in vol. I, numerous woodcut illustrations, and 25 extra suites of the illustrations on China. 4to. Orig. wrappers (somewhat browned). Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 1925-35. One ...

Die Mode. Menschen und Moden im sechzehnten, siebzehnten, achtzehnten, neunzehnten Jahrhundert. 7 vols.

BOEHN, Max von. · 1913

CHF 180.00 (€194.70 | $214.60 | £162.43 | ¥34,268)

1913-23 With numerous color plates and text illus. 8vo. Contemp. half leather, spines with labels gilt (spines and corners rubbed). Munich, Bruckmann, 1913-23. Boehn's history of fashion, still the most comprehensive work on this topic in German. 1) 16th cent.: first ed. 1923;...

Gesammelte Werke in neun Bänden. New edited and corrected by Werker Juker, after the 24 vols. edition from 1911-43 ed. by Rudolf Hunziker, Hans Bloesch, Werner Juker and Kurt Guggisberg. 9 vols..

GOTTHELF, Jeremias (i.e. Albert Bitzius). · 1982

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

(1982) 8vo. Orig. full brown calf. Zurich, Eugen Rentsch, (1982). One of 990 numbered copies bound in leather with gilt- stamped labels, inner covers with facsimile signature of Jeremias Gotthelf, and inner gilt fillets. LITERATURE: GERMAN ; LITERATUR: DEUTSCHE ;

Gouvernement de Saintonge et Angoumois. Engr. map in outline coloring. C. 1 : 440,000.

FRANCE: MAPS. - PARDIEU, Pierre François. · 1798

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

1798 C. 330 x 430 mm. Framed (510 x 610 mm). (Paris, Edme Mentelle, 1798). Fine map of the mouth of the Gironde river, with Cognac and Angoulème in the centre. On upper corner right the map bears the no. 41. GEOGRAPHY: MAPS ; KARTEN, KARTOGRAPHIE ; FRANCE ;

(Oeuvres choisies). Edition stéréotype d'Herhan. 21 vols.

VOLTAIRE, (François-Marie Arouet de). · 1808

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

1808-16 With 178 engraved plates, mostly by Moreau le Jeune. 8vo (c. 210 x 140 mm). Late 19th century full red morocco, gilt lettering on spines (somewhat faded), gilt outer and inner fillets, all edges gilt. From the library of James Arthur Taylor with his engr. bookplate). P...

(Collected Works). 16 vols.

AINSWORTH, William Harrison. · 1880

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

n. d. (c. 1880) Profusely illustrated. 8vo. Slightly later three-quarter tan leather, spines with 2 labels gilt, top edges gilt (by Rivière). London, George Routledge and Sons Ltd., n. d. (c. 1880). A collection of his novels in an undated edition, beaufifully bound by Rivière...

Recherches sur la valeur des monnoies, et sur le prix des grains, avant et après le Concile de Francfort.

(DUPRÉ de SAINT-MAUR, N(icolas)-F(rançois)). · 1762

CHF 650.00 (€703.09 | $774.94 | £586.57 | ¥123,747)

1762 XXXVII, (3), 389, (3) pp. 12mo. Contemp. calf, spine with red label gilt (slightly rubbed). Paris, Nyon, Didot, Saugrain, 1762. First edition. Dupré de Saint Maur (1695-1774), member of the Académie Française, was initially known as translator of English literature, a.o. ...

Aktenstücke, betreffend die Reorganisation und neue Umschreibung des Bisthums Basel.

1828

CHF 90.00 (€97.35 | $107.30 | £81.22 | ¥17,134)

1828 17 SS. 4to. Orig.-Brosch. Aarau, in der obrigkeitlichen Buchdruckerei, 1828. Text der Konvention zwischen den Kantonen Luzern, Bern, Solothurn, Zug und dem Vatikan, betreffend die Neuordnung des Bistums Basel. Französischer Text mit deutscher Übersetzung. - Vgl. Barth 223...

(History of England and Other Works). 32 vols.

FROUDE, James Anthony. · 1856

CHF 3,000.00 (€3,245.04 | $3,576.62 | £2,707.23 | ¥571,141)

1856-96 Illustrated. 8vo. Somewhat later green three-quarter morocco, spines gilt, top edges gilt. London, John W. Parker and Son; Longmans, Green & Co., 1856-96. Fine set of the collected writings of James Anthony Froude (1818-1894), the English historian of literary excellen...