Hellmut Schumann Antiquariat

Lebensgeschichte und Erfahrungen David Copperfield's des Jüngern von Boz (Dickens). Aus dem Englischen von Julius Seybt. 10 parts in 2 vols.

(DICKENS, Charles). · 1849

CHF 240.00 (€259.60 | $286.13 | £216.58 | ¥45,691)

1849-50 With 19 (of 20) lithogr. plates after Hablot K. Browne. Small 8vo. Orig. cloth, spines gilt (somewhat rubbed). Leipzig, Carl B. Lorch (1-4), and J. J. Weber (5-10), 1849-50. "Boz sämmtliche Werke", vols. 70-79. German edition of "The Personal History, Adventures, Exper...

Gemme d'arte antica italiana. Rassegna illustrativa di quadri e sculture dal sec. XII al sec. XVI in raccolte private. Preface by Raimond van Marle.

(PICCIOLI, Angelo and Ludovico ROSSELLI, eds.). · 1938

CHF 850.00 (€919.43 | $1,013.38 | £767.05 | ¥161,823)

1938 With 46 plates. 362 pp., 1 leaf. Elephant folio. Orig. full leather, gilt and blind-stamped in a Renaissance type design, top edge gilt (slightly rubbed). Milan, Alfieri & Lacroix, (1938). No. 57 of 250 numbered copies printed on hand-made paper by the papermill Enrico Ma...

Galerie mythologique. Recueil de monuments pour servir à l'étude de la mythologie, de l'histoire de l'art, de l'antiquitée figurée, et du langage allégorique des anciens. 2 vols.

MILLIN, A(ubin)-L(ouis). · 1811

CHF 720.00 (€778.81 | $858.39 | £649.73 | ¥137,074)

1811 XII, 211 pp.; 290 pp., 1 leaf (text); 191 plates in outline engraving showing c. 800 antique monuments, reliefs, statues, medallions, vase paintings, etc. Contemp. half calf, spines with 2 labels (somewhat rubbed). With ms. exlibris Gaspard Schinz. Paris, Soyer, 1811. A d...

MÉMORIAL DES ALLIÉS. 2 vols.

1926

CHF 720.00 (€778.81 | $858.39 | £649.73 | ¥137,074)

1926 With numerous illus. Elephant folio. Contemp. dark green morocco, gilt vignettes on front covers, spines with gilt lettering, gilt inner dentelles, top edges gilt (by G. Ritter, spines faded). (Paris, es Fils de la liberté), 1926. Copy no. 16, printed for "Monsieur Hans S...

Letters on the French Nation. Considered in its Different Departments: With many interesting Particulars relating to its Placemen (sic). By Sir Robert Talbot, Who attended the Duke of Bedford to Paris in 1762. Translated from the French. 2 vols.

(MAUBERT DE GOUVEST, Jean Henri). · 1771

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

1771 XVI, 333 pp.; IV, 391 pp. 12mo. Contemp. calf, spines with two labels and some gilt decoration, gilt supralibros with the arms of Karl Philipp Theodor von der Pfalz (extremities slightly rubbed). With exlibris Franz Pollack-Parnau. London, B. White, 1771. First English ed...

ALBUM with handpainted coats of arms on vellum, cut out and mounted on stiff paper.

1865

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

1865 With 4 pen-and-ink drawings and 52 coats of arms, some smaller drawings interspersed. 1 leaf, 23 leaves with contents, 13 blank leaves. 12mo. Contemp. calf, gilt fillets and gilt inner dentelles, all edges gilt (rebacked with old spine laid down). N. pl., 1865. Charming g...

The Works. Edited by Peter Cunningham. 4 vols.

GOLDSMITH, Oliver. · 1854

CHF 600.00 (€649.01 | $715.32 | £541.45 | ¥114,228)

1854-55 With 4 engr. title-vignettes, and engr. frontispiece in vol. IV. 8vo. Somewhat later dark blue three-quarter morocco, spines in 6 compartments with gilt tools and gilt lettering, top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed (by Zaehnsdorf). London, John Murray, 1854-55. Fine ...

Leben und Abenteuer Martin Chuzzlewit's. Von Boz (Dickens). Aus dem Englischen von E(dward) A(ubry) Moriarty. 10 parts in 3 vols.

(DICKENS, Charles). · 1843

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

1843-44 With 40 steel-engravings after drawings by Phiz (i.e. Hablot Knight Browne). Small 8vo. Contemp. half dark brown morocco, spines with romantic gilt decoration and gilt lettering. Leipzig, (Teubner for) J. J. Weber, 1843-44. " Boz' sämmtliche Werke". German edition of "...

Der Atem. Roman.

MANN, Heinrich. · 1949

CHF 30.00 (€32.45 | $35.77 | £27.07 | ¥5,711)

1949 354 pp. 8vo. Orig. cloth with dust-jacket. Amsterdam, Querido, 1949. First edition of this novel, the portrait of a dying lady, the last book published during his life, by Heinrich Mann (1871-1950). - Wilpert/Gühring 93; Sternfeld/Tiedemann p. 215. LITERATURE: GERMAN ; LI...

Die Frösche. Eine Komödie. Trans. by Johann Gustav Droysen.

REINER. - ARISTOPHANES. · 1961

CHF 850.00 (€919.43 | $1,013.38 | £767.05 | ¥161,823)

1961 With 23 orig. wood-engravings by Imre Reiner in the text. 126, (6) pp. Folio (350 x 220 mm). Orig. half vellum with gilt lettering on spine (handbound by Willy Pingel). In orig. slipcase. (Frankfurt am Main, Trajanus-Presse, 1961). "12. Druck der Trajanus-Presse". One of ...

BIBLIA, das ist Die ganze Heilige Schrift Alten und Neuen Testaments, Aus den Grundsprachen treulich wol verteutschet; aufs neue und mit Fleiss übersehen ... und herausgegeben von Johann Caspar Ulrich. 2 vols.

BIBLIA GERMANICA. - · 1755

CHF 2,300.00 (€2,487.86 | $2,742.08 | £2,075.54 | ¥437,874)

1755-56 With 2 engr. figured frontispieces and 1 large head-piece by Johann Rudolf Holzhalb; inserted are 150 and 100 num. engr. plates by Weigel after Luyken from his "Celebriores Veteris (Novi) Testamenti iconibus" (1712). 8 leaves, 22 pp. "Heilsamer Unterricht", 6 leaves in...

Einschränkung der schönen Künste auf einen einzigen Grundsatz, aus dem Französischen übersetzt und mit einem Anhange einiger eignen Abhandlungen versehen. Trans. by Johann Adolf Schlegel.

BATTEUX, (Charles). · 1751

CHF 350.00 (€378.59 | $417.27 | £315.84 | ¥66,633)

1751 8 leaves, 408 pp., 12 leaves index. 8vo. Contemp. calf, spine with red label gilt (somewhat rubbed). Leipzig, Weidmann, 1751. First German edition of "Les Beaux-Arts réduits à un même principe" by Abbé Charles Batteux, published in 1746. He was professor of rhetorics at t...

Die Entdeckung von Amerika, ein Unterhaltungsbuch für Kinder und junge Leute. Zur allgemeinen Schul-encyclopädie gehörig. Erster- (Dritter) Theil. 3 vols. 5th edition.

CAMPE, Joachim Heinrich. · 1801

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

1801 With 3 engr. frontispieces, and 3 engr. folding maps. VIII p., 1 leaf, 269 pp.; 264 pp.; 234 pp. 8vo. Contemp. marbled boards with 2 spine labels. Old ms. name Caspar Schinz on flyleaves. Braunschweig, Schulbuchhandlung, 1801. Nice set of Campe's (1746-1818) account of th...

Dialog ohne Worte. Fünfundsiebzig Zeichnungen.

BÖHMER, Gunter. · 1986

CHF 110.00 (€118.98 | $131.14 | £99.26 | ¥20,942)

1986 With 75 black and white plates. 4 leaves text. Folio. Orig. half cloth. In cloth slip case. Frankfurt am Main, Suhrkamp, 1986. One of 750 numbered copies. With a text by Siegfried Unseld "Der Dialog des Bildermalers" written on the occasion of Böhmer's (1911-1986) 75th bi...

The Life and Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson in twelve volumes. Edition de luxe. 12 vols.

TENNYSON, Alfred Lord. · 1898

CHF 2,350.00 (€2,541.95 | $2,801.69 | £2,120.66 | ¥447,393)

1898-99 With 12 frontispieces, 4 plates,and 1 facsimile. 8vo. Slightly later three-quarter morocco, spines gilt with gilt lettering and date, top edge gilt (by Zaehnsdorf). London, Macmilland & Co. Ltd., 1898-99. One of 1050 copies of this de luxe edition, dedicated to the Que...

(Works). 38 vols.

LYTTON, Edward Bulwer Lytton. · 1873

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

1873-77 With 29 frontispieces. 8vo. Slightly later three-quarter green morocco, gilt fillets, lettering and date on spines, t.e.g. London and New York, George Routledge and sons, 1873-77. A fine illustrated set of the collected prose works of Lord Lytton (1803-1873). In the 18...

Neue Appenzeller Chronick oder Beschreibung des Cantons Appenzell der Innern- und Aussern-Rooden ... Samt einer chronologischen Erzehlung der Merckwürdigen Geschichten des Landes ... und einem Anhang der vornehmsten Instrumenten, Diplomatum, Bündnissen, Friedens-Schlüssen etc.

WALSER, Gabriel. · 1740

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

1740 Title printed in red and black. With richly figured engr. frontispiece by Jacob Gottlieb Thelot, and engr. folding map of canton Appenzell by Gabriel Walser, in contemp. handcoloring. 8 unn. leaves, 752 pp., 112 pp. appendix. 8vo. Contemp. leather with gilt spine label (s...

Appelschnut. Neues und Altes von Ihren Taten, Abenteuern und Meinungen. Mit Bildern von Richard Scholz. 51.-55. Taus.

ERNST, Otto (i.e. Otte Ernst SCHMID). · 1926

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

1926 With numerous illus., some full-page, many in color. 147 pp. 4to. Orig. blue cloth with illus. on front cover and gilt lettering. Leipzig, L. Staakmann, 1926. Nice copy of this classic, first published in 1907. The charming illustrations are by Ernst Scholz (1860-ca. 1939...

RIFLESSIONI su'd'una memoria segreta, che il Sr. di Mellarede ha' composta nelli Svizzeri, il cui originale e' stato intercettato in Italia, mandato all'ambasciadore del Re' cristianissimo presso del L.C.E., e communicato ad alcuni de'lodevoli cantoni.

1706

CHF 100.00 (€108.17 | $119.22 | £90.24 | ¥19,038)

1706 16 unn. leaves. 4to. Plain stiff wrappers. N. pl., n. pr., (1706). Anonymously published "Reflexions" about a "Memorial" by Pietro de Mellarède (1659-1730), one of the most important diplomats serving Vittorio Amedeo II of Savoy. In 1703 he was sent to Switzerland to assu...

Eklogaì Apophthegmáton. Sententiae ex thesauris Graecorum delectae (Graece et Latine) ..., nunc primum ... in Latinu(m) sermonem traductae. Ed. and trans. by Conrad Gesner.

JOANNES STOBAEUS. · 1543

CHF 5,400.00 (€5,841.07 | $6,437.92 | £4,873.01 | ¥1,028,053)

1543 With woodcut printer's mark on title, and numerous woodcut initials. 12 unn. leaves (last blank), 301, (1) pp., leaves 302 (-537), 20 unn. leaves index. Folio. 17th-century full calf, back gilt, marbled end-papers, all edges red. With old ownership entries. Zurich, Christ...