Hellmut Schumann Antiquariat

Das mächtige Kayser-Reich Sina und die Asiatische Tartarey: vor Augen gestellet, in aussführlicher Beschreibung der Königreiche, Provinzien, Landschafften, Städte, Flüsse...)..

WAGNER, Johann Christoph. · 1688

CHF 2,450.00 (€2,650.40 | $2,921.29 | £2,210.82 | ¥466,548)

1688) With engraved head-piece on opening page, woodcut initials, 16 engr. plates (of 33) with 24 illus. (7) leaves (frontispiece and main title lacking), misnumbered 167 (of 168 pp., lacking pp. 138/139, small portion of p. 127 remargined, no loss of text), 2 ff. index. Folio...

Itineraire instructif de Rome ancienne et moderne ou description générales des monumentes antiques et modernes, et des ouvrages les plus remarquables en peinture, sculpture et architecture de cette ville et des ses environs. Nouvelle édition augmentée et enrichie. 2 vols.

(VASI, Mariano). · 1806

CHF 480.00 (€519.26 | $572.33 | £433.14 | ¥91,405)

1806 With engr. frontispiece- portrait of Pope Pius VII, 2 engr. foldings and 88 engr. views. (6) leaves, XXVI, 360 pp.: (1) leaf, pp. 359- 370. 8vo. Contemporary half calf. Rome, chez l'Auteur, 1806. An edition of this guide to ancient Rome and its surroundings with beautiful...

SINDBAD der Seefahrer. Die Geschichte der Prinzessin von Deryabar. Mit Bildern von Edmund Dulac.

DULAC. - · 1920

CHF 120.00 (€129.82 | $143.08 | £108.28 | ¥22,851)

1920 With 14 tipped-in color plates. 134 pp. 4to. Contemp. smooth half leather, spine with gilt lettering (gilt paper on lower cover replaced in copy). Potsdam, Müller, (1920). Two tales from the "Arabian Nights" in German translation, with the congenial illustrations by Edmun...

Wanderungen durch das Riesengebirge und die Grafschaft Glatz.

HERLOSSSOHN, H. (i.e. Karl Borromäus Sebastian HERLOSS). · 1840

CHF 420.00 (€454.35 | $500.79 | £379.00 | ¥79,980)

1840-41 With 30 steel-engraved plates after Ludwig Richter. 244 pp., 2 leaves (emendations). 8vo. Contemp. half cloth, orig. typographic wrapper laid down (somewhat soiled or spotted). Leipzig, Georg Wigand, (1840-41). "Das malerische und romantische Deutschland", VI. First ed...

Catalogue 163: Illustrated Books and Fine Bindings ( 230 items). With illus., incl. 4 color plates.

KRAUS, H. P. - · 1982

CHF 30.00 (€32.45 | $35.77 | £27.07 | ¥5,713)

1982 4to. Orig. illus. wrappers. New York, (1982). BIBLIOGRAPHY ;

Wanderungen durch Tyrol und Steyermark. 2 vols.

SEIDL, Joh(ann) Gabr(iel). · 1840

CHF 390.00 (€421.90 | $465.02 | £351.93 | ¥74,267)

1840 With 30 and 29 steel-engraved plates. 303 pp.; 245 pp. 8vo. Contemp. half cloth, orig. typographic front wrapper laid down (somewhat soiled and spotted). Leipzig, Georg Wigand, (1840). "Das malerische und romantische Deutschland", VII. First edition of this literary descr...

Einleitung in die Bücherkunde. Erster Theil: Bibliographie. Zweyte verbesserte Ausgabe; Zweyter Theil: Literargeschicht (sic). 2 vols.

DENIS, Mich(ael). · 1795

CHF 780.00 (€843.80 | $930.04 | £703.85 | ¥148,534)

1795 and 1778 Titles printed in red and black, engr. title-vignette to vol. II, engr. head- and tail-pieces. (8) leaves, 293 pp., 1 folding table; (4) leaves, 423 pp. 4to. Contemp. half red morocco, flat spines with two labels (edges rubbed). Vienna, Johann Thomas von Trattner...

Wanderungen durch Franken.

HEERINGEN, Gustav von. · 1839

CHF 420.00 (€454.35 | $500.79 | £379.00 | ¥79,980)

1839-40 With 30 steel-engraved plates after Ludwig Richter. 183 pp. 8vo. Contemp. half cloth, orig. typographic front wrapper laid down (somewhat spotted). Leipzig, Georg Wigand, 1839-40. "Das malerische und romantische Deutschland", III. First edition. Gustav von Heeringen (1...

Die Lithographie. Trans. by Sylvia Herbst.

LOCHE, Renée. · 1971

CHF 40.00 (€43.27 | $47.69 | £36.09 | ¥7,617)

1971 With 8 tipped-in color plates and numerous illus. 127, (1) pp. 4to. Orig. illus. boards. Geneva, Bonvent, 1971. "Das Kunsthandwerk", vol. 1. With synoptic table, glossary, and bibliography. ART - GENERAL & APPLIED ;

Lexikon der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur. Personen-, Länder- und Sachartikel zu Geschichte und Gegenwart der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur. 4 vols.

DODERER, Klaus, ed. · 1984

CHF 350.00 (€378.63 | $417.33 | £315.83 | ¥66,650)

1984 Large 8vo. Orig. red wrappers. In a box. Weinheim and Basel, Beltz, 1984. Special edition of this much consulted encyclopedia on children's literature, edited and catalogued at the Institut of the Jugendbuchforschung der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt/Mai...

Die Vögel und ihre Welt. 50 Darstellungen unserer nützlichen Vögel. (Trans. from the French by H. Forster).

RAMBERT, Eugène and L(eo) Paul ROBERT. · 1916

CHF 110.00 (€119.00 | $131.16 | £99.26 | ¥20,947)

1916 With 50 color plates, mounted. 414, 2 pp. 4to (c. 200 x 253 mm). Contemp. decorated green cloth. Bern, Biel, Zürich, Ernst Kuhn, (1916). First German edition of "Les oiseaux dans la nature" (Paris, 1878) by the Swiss historian, and illustrated after watercolors by L. P. R...

Autograph letter, signed.

GREGOROVIUS, Ferdinand. · 1821

CHF 250.00 (€270.45 | $298.09 | £225.59 | ¥47,607)

n.d 1 p. 8vo. N.p., n.d. Addressed to a highly honored baroness. Expresses to travel to Rome tomorrow morning, and asks the Baronesse to recommend him to Charles Count Moy de Sons. Gregorovius (1821-1891) was a German historian who specialized in the medieval history of Rome. ...

Biblioteca Modenese, o notizie della vita e delle opera degli scrittori natii degli stati del ... Duca di Modena. 6 vols. (all published).

MODENA. - TIRABOSCHI, Girolamo. · 1781

CHF 850.00 (€919.53 | $1,013.51 | £767.02 | ¥161,864)

1781-1786 With head- and endpieces. 4to. Contemporary half calf. Modena, Presso la Societa' Tipografica, 1781-1786. First edition. Girolamo Tiraboschi (1731-1794) was an Italian scholar born in the region of Bergamo, and a professor for rhetoric and belles-lettres at the Brera...

Die moderne Graphik. Eine Darstellung für deren Freude und Sammler. 2nd ed.

SINGER, H(ans) W. · 1920

CHF 40.00 (€43.27 | $47.69 | £36.09 | ¥7,617)

1920 With numerous illus. (VIII), 543 pp. Large 4to. Orig. cloth. Leipzig, E. A. Seemann, 1920. A comprehensive work in its second edition for print collectors, with the groups Germany - Austria - Switzerland, Great Britain, America, The Netherlands, Scandinavia, and France. -...

Catalogue of Botanical Boos in the Collection of Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt. Vol. I: Printed books 1477-1700. With several manuscripts of the 12th, 16th & 17th centuries.

HUNT COLLECTION. - QUINBY, Jane. · 1958

CHF 180.00 (€194.72 | $214.63 | £162.43 | ¥34,277)

1958 With plates II-XXV (printed on both sides; lacking the frontispiece). LXXXIV, 458 pp. (printed on recto only). Large 8vo. Library cloth with spine label. Pittsburgh, PA, The Hunt Botanical Library, 1958. One of 750 copies on handmade paper, not for sale. Probably printer'...

Panorama vom Aussichtsturm auf dem Eschenberg, aufgenommen und gezeichnet von A. Bosshard.

BOSSHARD, Albert. · 1895

CHF 430.00 (€465.17 | $512.72 | £388.02 | ¥81,884)

1895 Panorama in color photolithography, c. 165 x 3220 mm, folded. 8vo. Orig. illus. wrappers. Winterthur, J. Schlumpf, Wurster Randegger & Cie, 1895. Far reaching panorama taken from the Eschenberg near Winterthur, drawn by Albert Bosshard (1870-1948). It shows on the left th...

De latinorum bibliorum cum nota anni 1462 impressa duplici editione Moguntina exercitatio bibliographico-critica.

SEEMILLER, Sebastian. · 1785

CHF 280.00 (€302.90 | $333.86 | £252.66 | ¥53,320)

1785 10 pp. 4to. Later plain boards. Ingolstadt, Sebastian Valentin Haberberger, 1785. Bibliographical work by Sebastian Seemiller (1752-1798), theologian, librarian and rector of the University of Ingolstadt. His main work is a catalogue of the incunables kept at Ingolstadt l...

Wanderungen an der Nord- und Ostsee.

KOBBE, Theodor von and Wilhelm CORNELIUS. · 1841

CHF 420.00 (€454.35 | $500.79 | £379.00 | ¥79,980)

1841 With 30 steel-engraved plates. 116, 128 pp. 8vo. Contemp. half cloth, orig. typographic wrapper laid down and bound in (somewhat soiled and spotted). Leipzig, Georg Wigand, (1841). "Das malerische und romantische Deutschland", X. First edition. Theodor Christian August vo...

Denkmäler islamischer Buchkunst.

GROHMANN, Adolf and Thomas W. ARNOLD. · 1929

CHF 1,400.00 (€1,514.51 | $1,669.31 | £1,263.32 | ¥266,599)

1929 With 104 plates, 10 in color, each accompanied by a short description on a separate leaf, and 19 text-illus. XII pp., 2 leaves, 142 , (1) pp. Large 4to. Orig. half leather with spine label (corners somewhat scuffed). From the library of the Swiss orientalist Rudolf Tschud...

Gesammelte Werke. Ed. by Adelheid Wildermuth. 10 vols.

WILDERMUTH, Ottilie. · 1892

CHF 190.00 (€205.54 | $226.55 | £171.45 | ¥36,181)

(1892-94) Illus. by Fritz Bergen. 8vo. Orig. decorated publisher's cloth. Stuttgart, Berlin and Leipzig, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1892-94). First edition of the collected works of Ottilie Wildermuth (1817-1877), German writer and author of books for young people, e...