Hellmut Schumann Antiquariat

Vollständiger Lehrbegriff der Optik nach Herrn Robert Smiths Englischen mit Aenderungen und Zusätzen ausgearbeitet.

KAESTNER. - KÄSTNER, Abraham Gotthelf. · 1755

CHF 2,250.00 (€2,434.04 | $2,682.82 | £2,030.34 | ¥428,462)

1755 With engr. title-vignette by G. L. Crusius showing a bearded scholar with a telescope, and 22 engr. folding plates. Title, 10 unn. leaves, 531 pp., (5) pp. table of contents and errata. 4to. Contemp. plain boards (somewhat rubbed). Altenburg, Richter, 1755. First German e...

Memorabilia Tigurina oder Chronik der Denkwürdigkeiten der Stadt und Landschaft Zürich.

ZURICH. - VOGEL, Friedrich. · 1841

CHF 650.00 (€703.17 | $775.04 | £586.54 | ¥123,778)

1841 With 5 plates in aquatint, engr. after L. Schulthess, F. Schmid, and J. H. Reutlinger. VI, 784 pp. 4to. Contemp. half leather. Zurich, Zürcher & Furrer for the author, 1841. First edition. This still invaluable chronicle of the city of Zurich, started in 1704 by Hans Hein...

Galgenlieder.

FISCHER. - MORGENSTERN, Christian. · 1969

CHF 220.00 (€238.00 | $262.32 | £198.52 | ¥41,894)

1969 With 2 original drawings, mounted, and 43 illustrations after drawings by Fritz Fischer. 116 pp., 3 leaves. Large 8vo. Orig. illus. boards. Memmingen, Maximilian Dietrich, 1969. One of 50 numbered copies of the de luxe edition on laid paper, with the original drawings, st...

Mathematik. Ein Auszug aus dem ersten Theile seiner Elementa Matheseos Universae, ... ins Deutsche übersetzt ... durch Joseph Nagel, ... worinn die Rechenkunst, Geometrie, Trigonometrie, Algebra ... enthalten ist.

WOLF(F), Christian (Johann) von. · 1777

CHF 3,800.00 (€4,110.82 | $4,530.98 | £3,429.02 | ¥723,625)

1777 With 17 engr. folding plates. XVIII, 546 pp. Contemp. red morocco, gilt supralibros of Empress Maria Theresa, gilt floral borders, outer edges and spine gilt, all edges gilt. Vienna, Johann Thomas Edler von Trattner, 1777. Excerpts from Wolff's "Elementa matheseos univers...

Venedig, Genua, Nizza. Drei Vorlesungen.

LAUBERT, E(duard). · 1864

CHF 210.00 (€227.18 | $250.40 | £189.50 | ¥39,990)

1864 234 pp. Small 8vo. Contemp. boards. Stamp of the Prince Fürstenberg library Donaueschingen on title verso. Danzig, A. W. Kasemann, 1864. Impressions of voyages to Venice, Lake Garda, Genoa, and Nice presented in the form of lectures. Laubert from Quedlinburg (1824-1899) w...

Geschichte der Bayerischen Porzellan-Manufaktur Nymphenburg. Drei Bücher. 1. Wirschaftsgeschichte und Organisation; 2. Werkbetrieb und Personal; 3. Produktion und Verschleiss.

HOFMANN, Friedrich H. · 1921

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

1921-23 With 24 tipped-in plates, (12 in color), and 472 text illus., 4 tables with stamps and signatures. 3 vols. XIV, 732 pp. Large folio. Orig. half vellum (corners and edges slightly rubbed). Leipzig, Karl W. Hiersemann, 1921-23. Standard work offering a wealth of informat...

REPLICA; Oder Gründtliche und warhafftige allein auss dem Buchstaben der Erbverein gezogne Widerlag/ Uber Die so genandte kurtze Beantwortung/ und Gegensatz der so intitulierten Vatterländisch-Eydtgnossichen Erdaur- und Erleuterung der Anno 1511. auffgerichten Oesterreichischen Erbverein.

1691

CHF 220.00 (€238.00 | $262.32 | £198.52 | ¥41,894)

1691 43 pp. 4to. Wrappers. N. pl., n. pr., 1691. Reply to an agressive attack called "Beantwortung" written by an Austrian anonymous author to the "Erdaur und Erleuterung" of the agreement of 1511, which was reached between Emperor Maximilian I (also on behalf of Archduke Char...

Rhetia, ubi Eius verus situs, Politia, bella, foedera, et alia memorabilia accuratissimè describuntur.

SPRECHER, F(ortunatus). · 1633

CHF 680.00 (€735.62 | $810.81 | £613.61 | ¥129,491)

1633 With engr. title incorporating three coats of arms and two symbolical figures representing the two sources of the Rhine. 424 pp., 4 leaves. 24mo. Contemp. vellum with ms. title on spine (somewhat discolored). Leiden, Elzevir, 1633. The chronicle of the Grisons by Fortunat...

Von dem Regiment Der Lobl(ichen) Eydgenossschaft Zwey Bücher, In deren Ersterem Ein kurtzgefasste Politische Historie der Helvetisch- und Eydgenössischen Sachen, ... In dem Anderen aber Eine Beschreibung der Eydgenossen Fridens- und Kriegs-Uebungen, ... Nun aber mit erforderlichen Anmerckungen erläuteret, und bis auf disere Zeiten fortgesetzet.

SIMLER, Josias and Hans Jacob LEU. · 1722

CHF 1,600.00 (€1,730.87 | $1,907.78 | £1,443.80 | ¥304,684)

1722 Title printed in red and black. With engr. frontispiece by Johann Melchior Füssli, and 1 engr. folding map of Switzerland by Michael Kauffer after Christoph Weigel. 8 unn. leaves, 717 pp. (recte 709, pp. 268-277 omitted in the numbering, pp. 671-672 numbered twice), 23 un...

Luzerner Bilderchronik 1513. Zur VI. Jahrhundertfeier des Eintrittes Luzerns in den Bund der Eidgenossen. Ed. for the commune of Lucerne by Robert Durrer and Paul Hilber.

SCHILLING, Diebold. · 1932

CHF 1,850.00 (€2,001.32 | $2,205.87 | £1,669.39 | ¥352,291)

1932 With 405 illus. on plates, sometimes printed recto and verso (40 in color and some double-page), and 1 heraldic vignette. 4 leaves, 289 pp., 1 leaf index. Folio. Orig. vellum with the coats of arms of the 13 cantons on both covers, spine gilt. Geneva, Sadag, 1932. Numbere...

Anleitung für das Landvolk in Absicht auf seine Gesundheit. Nach der dritten, von dem Herrn Verfasser selbst vermehrten, rechtmässigen Auflage, aus dem Französischen übersetzt durch H(ans) C(aspar) Hirzel.

TISSOT, S(imon)-A(ndré-Auguste)-D(avid). · 1768

CHF 260.00 (€281.27 | $310.01 | £234.62 | ¥49,511)

1768 LXXXVI, 736 pp. 8vo. Contemp. calf. Zurich, Füesslin & Compagnie, 1768. Tissot's (1728-1797) "Avis au peuple sur sa santé" (Lausanne 1761) which gained him fame and which was translated into thirteen European languages. The present German edition was translated by the Zur...

Panorama vom Rigi Kulm - Panorama du Rigi Koulm. Nouvelle édition.

RIGI KULM. - (MEYER VON SCHAUENSEE, Ludwig). · 1855

CHF 800.00 (€865.44 | $953.89 | £721.90 | ¥152,342)

1855 Folding panorama in color lithography (540 x 540 mm). Orig. boards with small vignette on front cover and explanations on inner cover (spine defective). Rigi Kulm, Alphons Zimmermann, 1855. First edition of this rare impressive panorama taken on Rigi Kulm (5542 feet above...

Aphrodite.

MAGLIN. - LOUYS, Pierre (i.e. Pierre-Félix Louis). · 1930

CHF 100.00 (€108.18 | $119.24 | £90.24 | ¥19,043)

1930 With 12 etched color plates by Firmin Maglin. XII, 233, (1) pp., 1 leaf. 8vo. Private 3/4 leather, flat spine gilt, orig. front wrapper and spine bound in. Paris, Kra, 1930. "Byblis", 2. Numbered copy, printed on Vélin du Marais. Erotic novel by Pierre Louys (1870-1925), ...

Institutions militaires de Végèce. (Trans. by Claude Guillaume Bourdon de Sigrais).

VEGETIUS RENATUS, Flavius. · 1757

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

1757 With engr. title vignette, and 1 engr. folding plan. XXVI pp., 3 leaves, 148 pp., 2 leaves. Small 16mo. Contemp. calf, spine with red label gilt (somewhat rubbed). Amsterdam, J. Wetstein, 1757. French translation of Vegetius (fl. c. 400 A.D.) by Claude Guillaume de Sigrai...

Tableaux topographiques, pittoresques, physiques, historiques, moraux, politiques, littéraires, de la Suisse (vol. I); (and:) Tableaux de la Suisse ou voyage pittoresque fait dans les treize cantons et états alliés du Corps hélvetique; (followed by) Table analytique et raisonnée des Tableaux de la Suisse ... par (F.A.) Quétant (vol. II); Tableaux de la Suisse, ou Voyage pittoresque fait dans les treize cantons et états alliés du Corps Helvétique (vol. 3: plates).

(ZURLAUBEN, Beat Fidel Anton and Jean-Benjamin de LA BORDE). · 1780

CHF 32,000.00 (€34,617.46 | $38,155.61 | £28,875.98 | ¥6,093,686)

1780-88 With frontispiece after Moreau le jeune engr. by Née, engr. title with view by Née, and 430 copper engravings numbered 1-278. Large folio. 19th century red morocco, spines with gilt lettering, gilt borders on covers, gilt inner dentelles, t.e.g., signed Koehler on spin...

Das roemische Carneval. Specimen. - (And:) Prospectus.

OFFICINA BODONI. - GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von. · 1924

CHF 950.00 (€1,027.71 | $1,132.74 | £857.26 | ¥180,906)

February 1924 Printed in red and black. 4 pp.; 4 pp. Folio. Montagnola, Officina Bodoni, February 1924. Printed in a small edition in Bodoni Cancellersco on Fabriano hand-made paper. Specimen of pages 8 and 9, with the Officina Bodoni printer's device on last page. The typogra...

Le crépuscule des dieux.

RANFT. - BOURGES, Élémir. · 1925

CHF 2,200.00 (€2,379.95 | $2,623.20 | £1,985.22 | ¥418,941)

1925 Eaux-fortes en couleurs de Richard Ranft. With 31 full-page and 31 smaller original color etchings. 259 pp., 1 leaf. Large 4to. Maroon morocco, both covers richly gilt in a classicist style, edges gilt, orig. illus. wrappers bound in, sign. by (Charles) Weckesser in gilt ...

Neues historisches Wappenbuch der Stadt Zürich. Nach den besten Quellen bearbeitet. Edited and lithographed by Jean Egli. Color printing by C. Knüsli.

EGLI, Jean. · 1860

CHF 4,750.00 (€5,138.53 | $5,663.72 | £4,286.28 | ¥904,531)

1860 With figured title in color lithography, 46 plates, 6 plates of variants showing c. 670 coats of arms lithogr. in color, gold and silver, with tissue-guards. (252) pp. (incl. errata leaf), (12) pp. 4to. Orig. black cloth with gilt-stamped lettering and seal on upper cover...

Uetliberg=Bahn. Color lithograph.

ZURICH. - · 1895

CHF 2,300.00 (€2,488.13 | $2,742.43 | £2,075.46 | ¥437,984)

1895 Color lithograph. 1895. U ;

HELVETISCHER ALMANACH für das Jahr 1818.

1817

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

1817 With engr. frontispiece portrait (Fred. Guillaume Roi de Prusse, Prince de Neuchatel) by Leopole Robert, engr. title with border small coat-of-arms, 8 engr. views by Hegi (6 folding, 2 full-page, 3 with some coloring), 1 engr. colored costume plate, 1 engr. folding map by...