Hellmut Schumann Antiquariat

Histoire de Genève, rectifiée et augmentée par d'amples notes (par Jean-Antoine Gautier et Firmin Abouzit). Avec les actes et autres pièces ... 2 vols.

GENEVA. - SPON, (Jacob). · 1730

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

1730 With engraved title-vignettes and 2 (of 3) engr. folding maps, 1 plan, 11 engr. plates (incl. 2 large fold. views of Geneva) after Antoine Chopy and Robert Gardelle, engr. by Daudet and Seiller, and numerous woodcuts in the text. 2 leaves, XV, 556 pp.; 6 leaves, 518 pp., ...

Analytische Dioptrik in zwey Theilen. Der erste enthält die allgemeine Theorie der optischen Werkzeuge: der zweyte die besondere Theorie und vortheilhafteste Einrichtung aller Gattungen von Fernröhren, Spiegelteleskopen, und Mikroskopen. 2 parts in 1 vol.

KLÜGEL,Georg Simon. · 1778

CHF 1,500.00 (€1,622.52 | $1,788.31 | £1,353.61 | ¥285,570)

1778 With 4 engr. folding plates, and large woodcut head-piece. 12 unn. leaves incl. title, 303, (1) pp. 4to. Contemp. half leather. Leipzig, Johann Friederich Junius, 1778. First edition, dedicated to the famous mathematician Leonhard Euler (1707-1783), of an important work i...

ESSAI sur les qualités et les connoissances nécessaire à un général d'armée ou dissertation préliminaire aux campagnes de Jules César dans les Gaules.

1758

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

1758 With engr. title-vignette and 1 large decorative engr. initial. 2 leaves, 116 pp. 4to. Contemp. Viennese burgundy morocco, with rich rococo border around sides, composed of 4 flower baskets, various small flower stamps, leafy sprigs, surrouded by a single fillet and a dot...

The Works. Edition de Luxe. 15 vols.

ARNOLD, Matthew. · 1903

CHF 3,400.00 (€3,677.71 | $4,053.51 | £3,068.19 | ¥647,293)

1903-04 Titles printed in red and black. With frontispiece portrait. Large 8vo. Three-quarter morocco, spines in 6 compartments, 4 of them with rich gilt floral design, top edges gilt (spines faded; by Riviere). London, Macmillan and Co.; Smith, Elder and Company, 1903-04. De ...

Memorabilia Tigurina, oder Merkwürdigkeiten der Stadt und Landschaft Zürich. Third augmented edition, ed. by Johann Balthasar Bullinger.

BLUNTSCHLI, Hans Heinrich. · 1742

CHF 1,750.00 (€1,892.94 | $2,086.36 | £1,579.22 | ¥333,165)

1742 Engr. frontispiece "Memorabilia Urbis et Agri Tigurini" with a small view of Zurich, 1 folding map (c. 415 x 370 mm) engr. by Johann Heinrich Freytag after J. J. Scheuchzer and H. C. Gyger, and 39 small engr. views by Johann Melchior Füssli, originally mounted on blank pa...

Estampes de Freude(n)berg pour le monument du costume.- Estampes de Moreau de Jeune pour le Monument du costume. Gravées par Dubounet. 2 vols. in 1.

RÉTIF DE LA BRETONNE, Nicolas-Edme. · 1881

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

1881-83 With portrait of Freudenberger after Mind, engr. title, engr. illus. table of contents, and 12 engr. plates after Freudenberger; engr. portrait of Moreau after Cochin, engr. title, engr. illus. table of contents, and 24 engr. plates (2 suites) after Moreau le Jeune, al...

Nova Literaria Helvetica (pro anno 1701).

SCHEUCHZER, Johann Jacob. · 1702

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

1702 With title-vignette. 169 pp. Small 8vo. Boards. Zurich, David Gessner, 1702. First edition of the first issue of Scheuchzer's (1672-1733) annotated Swiss bibliography which was continued up to 1715. This is a precursor of his "Bibliotheca Helvetica" (1733). This catalogue...

Princeps, Consiliarius, Palatinus, sive Aulicus, et Nobilis. Editio postrema, aucta varié aut innovata. Cum rerum et verborum indice copiosissimo.

COLLIBUS, Hippolytus a (i.e. COLLI, Hippolyt von). · 1598

CHF 9,600.00 (€10,384.13 | $11,445.20 | £8,663.12 | ¥1,827,650)

1598-99 With woodcut device on title (repeated). 4 leaves, 383, (1) pp., 16 leaves. 8vo. Contemp. brown morocco, both sides with the gilt-stamped supralibros of Jacques-Auguste de Thou, spine in 7 compartments, with gilt lettering and with his gilt monograms, outer edges gilt ...

Bishop San Zeno - Patron of Verona.

OFFICINA BODONI. - (MONTANO, Lorenzo). · 1949

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

(June) 1949 With frontispiece and 2 smaller woodcuts by Gunter Böhmer after a statue and the reliefs in the Basilica San Zeno. 14 pp., 2 leaves. Small folio. Orig. boards. In slipcase. Verona, Officina Bodoni, (June) 1949. One of 60 copies printed on Fabriano paper in Zeno 16 ...

Engelberg. Eine Dichtung.

MEYER, C(onrad) Ferdinand. · 1872

CHF 950.00 (€1,027.60 | $1,132.60 | £857.29 | ¥180,861)

1872 111, (1) pp. 12mo. Orig. boards, printed in red an black with decorative border on upper cover, edges gilt (slightly bumped) With Meyer's autograph dedication "Meinem l(ieben) Freunde R(udolf) Rahn" on front flyleaf. Leipzig, (O. Wigand for) H. Haessel, 1872. First editio...

Beschreibung der Burgundischen Kriegen. Und einicher anderer in der Schweitz, und sonderlich zu Bern, Um selbige Zeit vorgefallenen Merckwürdigen Begebenheiten.

SCHILLING, Diebold. · 1743

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

1743 With large engr. title-vignette and some head- and tailpieces, 2 woodcut initials. 6 leaves, 403, (1) pp. Small folio. Contemp. boards with spine label (slightly bumped). Bern, Franz Samuel Fätscheryn, 1743. First edition of this important source for the history of the Bu...

Denkmäler der Weltgeschichte. Eine Sammlung der hervorragendsten Monumente, grösstenteils nach Originalansichten. Geschichtlich und kunsthistorisch erläutert. 2 vols.

VÖGELIN, (Friedrich) S(alomon). · 1870

CHF 2,400.00 (€2,596.03 | $2,861.30 | £2,165.78 | ¥456,913)

1870-78 With 2 engr. titles, and 200 steel-engr. plates, most of them by Chr. Krüsi and J. L. Rüdisühli. 2 leaves, 512 columns, 3 leaves; 2 leaves, columns 513-984, VII pp. 4to. Orig. gilt-decorated cloth, edges gilt (spines faded). Basel, Chr. Krüsi, (1870-78). Important coll...

Lettera a Giovanni Anchiseo. (Lo incarica di procurargli libri).

PETRARCA, Francesco. · 1967

CHF 290.00 (€313.69 | $345.74 | £261.70 | ¥55,210)

1967 35 pp., 1 leaf. Tall 8vo. Orig. wrappers. In a slipcase. Milan, (Stamperia Valdonega, Verona, for) Alberto Chiesa, 1967. A gift for fellow bibliophiles offered by Alberto Chiesa, bookdealer at Milan. With the Latin text, the Italian version by Vittorio Enzo Alfieri, the E...

Jamais plus. (German translation by Gaston Delaquis).

BERNARD. - PRESTRE, W.-A. · 1950

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

1950 With 32 plates, loose as issued, and numerous text illus. by Auguste-Ernest Bernard. XLV, (1) pp. Large 4to. Orig. half leather, in matching slipcase (by O. Rohrbach, Thun). (Thun ), Roland de Weck, (1950). No. 450 of 606 copies of the German version of a total edition of...

Gravures militaires. Cavalerie IV (Zurich, Thurgau, St. Gallen, Graubünden). With 20 handcolored plates, each matted (320 x 250 mm).

ESCHER, A(lbert) von. · 1937

CHF 400.00 (€432.67 | $476.88 | £360.96 | ¥76,152)

1937 Folio. In orig. cardboard folder. Lausanne, Les Editions d'Art Suisse Ancien, 1937. No. 241 of a limited edition. Splendid handcolored representations of cavalry uniforms from the Swiss cantons of Zurich (6), Thurgau (8), St. Gall (4), and Grisons (2). Included is a text-...

Le jardinier d'amour. Traduit de l'anglais par Henriette Mirabaud-Thorens. 17th ed.

TAGORE, Rabindranath. · 1920

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

1920 144, (3) pp. Small 8vo. Contemp. russett morocco, gilt fillett around sides, spine with gilt lettering an pattern of dots, top edge gilt (by Fischer & Sohn, Zürich). Paris, nrf Gallimard, 1920. Collection of musings about love by Tagore (1861-1941) in a fine binding. - Wi...

DEUTSCHE LIEDER für Jung und Alt.

1818

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

1818 With music. IV, 130 pp., 1 leaf. 8vo. Contemp. half vellum with red spine label (somewhat bumped). Exlibris Bibliothek Heinrich Stiebel, Frankfurt. Berlin, Realschulbuchhandlung, 1818. Collection of 121 songs from the baroque to the age of romanticism, including four poem...

Der centralamerikanische Staat Nicaragua in Bezug auf sein Volk, seine Natur und seine Denkmaeler. Nebst einer ausführlichen Abhandlung über den projectierten interoceanischen Kanal. Trans. by Eduard Hoepfner, with a preface by Carl Ritter.

SQUIER, E(phraim) G(eorge). · 1854

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

1854 With engr. folding frontispiece, 4 maps (2 folding), 24 unn. plates, most of them engr. by Robert Kupfer (4 handcolored, 2 printed in colors), and VIII num. folding plates at the end. XVIII, 570 pp. 8vo. Contemp. half cloth. Leipzig, Dyk, 1854. German edition of Squier's ...

COLLECTION of 6 reports from the Papal nunciature in Switzerland. Manuscript copies on paper.

NUNCIATURE RELATIONS. - · 1612

CHF 4,850.00 (€5,246.15 | $5,782.21 | £4,376.68 | ¥923,344)

c. 1612-1703 188 leaves. Small folio. 19th-century half leather (somewhat rubbed and bumped). Lucerne and Rome, (c. 1612-1703). The Holy See established a permanent nunciature at Lucerne during the time of the counter reformation, to intensify diplomatic relations with Switzer...

Les amours d'un poète. Pointes-sèches de Georges Robert.

ROBERT. - BARTHOU, Louis. · 1933

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

1933 With 42 etchings in the text. V, 237 pp., 3 leaves, loose as issued. 4to. Orig. wrappers. In sleeve and boards slip-case. (Paris), Bibliophiles Franco-Suisses, 1933. No. 88 of 160 copies printed for the "Bibliophiles Franco-Suisses", a society of book lovers which merged ...