Search Results: Titles starting with V from Hellmut Schumann Antiquariat

(Basel), n.pr, 1770. 66 pp.; 60 pp. 8vo. Contemp. calf. ExLibris Franz Philipp Gugger. (Basel), n.pr, 1770. Contains in vol. 2 an article by Ulyssess von Salis- Marschlin about transfering the educational institution "Philanthropin" to Castle Marschlins. Founder was the radical philosopher C. F. Bahrdt (1741-1792). - VD18 90741862. PHILOSOPHY ; HELVETICA ; LITERATUR ;

Danzig, A. W. Kasemann, 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) was teacher in Danzig. GEOGRAPHY: TRAVEL ; GEOGRAPHIE, REISEN ;

Prague and Jena, Widtmann & Maike, 1789. 2 unn. leaves, 579, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemp. half calf. Prague and Jena, Widtmann & Maike, 1789. First edition of Reinhold's main philosophical work. Karl Leonhard Reinhold (1758-1823), a close friend and later son-in-law of Chr. M. Wieland, was professor of philosophy in Jena (from 1787 on) which he turned into the heart of Kantian criticism. "Reinhold ging es vor allem um eine weitere Begründung der Kantischen Lehre der Erkenntnis durch den Nachweis der einheitlichen Wurzel der beiden Erkenntnisstämme Sinnlichkeit und Verstand in dem einen Vorstellungsvermögen." (Ziegenfuss). - Some spots, otherwise a nice copy. - Ziegenfuss II, 333; Adickes 252. PHILOSOPHY ; PHILOSOPHIE, GEISTESGESCHICHTE ;

Aarau, H. R. Sauerländer, 1812. 507 pp.; XII, 528 pp., 2 leaves errata. 8vo. 19th century calf, spines gilt, gilt borders around sides. Exlibris Baron Wentworth in vol. 1. Aarau, H. R. Sauerländer, 1812. First edition, vol. I from 1806 was re-issued with a new title-page in the same year as vol. II appeared ("Titelauflage"). After J. J. Bodmer in the 18th century failed to realize his plan to create a separate "Zürcherisches Idiotikon", Franz Joseph Stalder (1757-1833), a priest, philologist and canon in Beromünster produced this first Swissgerman dictionary. As the work was done prior to the foundation of modern dialectology, these two volumes present a remarkable achievement and were with other regional dictionaries the predecessors of the monumental work "Schweizerisches Idiotikon" which is published from 1881 onwards. - A nice, clean copy. - Goedeke XII, 139, 216, 6; Zaunmüller 78; Sonderegger 717; Barth 28086. LITERATURE:GERMAN ; HELVETICA:… Read More

Basel, Emanuel Thurneysen, 1748-1763 (-1764). With 7 engr., fold. maps (of which 6 are colored or in outline coloring), 54 mostly fold. town views and 52 of 59 (of which 49 are fold., and 1 colored. map of Augst) plates showing antiquities, petrefacts, a salmon, and a Roman inscription, all of them engraved by Chovin, Dublon and Holzhalb after drawings by Emanuel Büchel, as well as many woodcut illustrations in the text. Together 3077, (15) pp. 8vo. Contemp. half calf with each 2 spine labels, gilt (stamps on half-titles). Basel, Emanuel Thurneysen, 1748-1763 (-1764). (Added:) Lutz, Markus. Neue Merkwürdigkeiten der Landschaft Basel, oder Fragmente zur Geschichte, Topographie, Statistik und Kultur dieses schweizerischen Freystandes. 3 vols. 8vo. Contemporary half calf with each 2 spine labels, gilt, Basel, Schweighauser, 1805-1816. Ad I: First edition (vol. 1 in 2nd ed. dated 1764). A very nice copy of a richly illustrated work on topography, history, genealogy, archeology, botany, zoology… Read More

Bern,, 1973. Bern, 1973. 5. Aufl. XXXII, 768 S. 4to. KLdr.

Sankt Blasien, typis San-Blasianis, 1776. With engr. title vignette, large head-piece with portrait medallion of Gerbert engr. by Peter Mayr, second head-piece with a view of the monastery of St. Blasien, engr. by Peter Mayr after Joseph Hörr, large figured engr. initial, 11 engr. plates (6 folding), numerous large figured woodcut initials. 6 leaves, XL pp., 4 leaves, 416 pp, 4 leaves; pp. (417)-1048, 4 leaves. 4to. Contemp. half calf, with spine labels (somewhat rubbed, old small paper shelf labels on spines). Small ownership stamp Rev. J. F. Goggin on titles. Sankt Blasien, typis San-Blasianis, 1776. First edition. Martin Gerbert (1720-1793), Baron von Hornau, was Prince Abbot of St. Blasien. He is best known for his work on the history of Church music "De cantu et musica sacra" (1774) and his "Iter Alemannicum" (1765). On his travels in France, Italy, Switzerland, and Germany, he visited scholars and libraries to research medieval sources. This present great work on the… Read More

Madrid, Antonio Marin, 1757. With engr. portrait of Maria- Anna by Josef Flipart. 12 unn. leaves (incl. title), 282 pp. 8vo. Contemp. red morocco, wide border around sides formed of 2 different flower stamps, spine richly gilt, e.g., gilt heraldic supralibros with the arms of Maria-Barbara of Portugal, Queen of Spain. Madrid, Antonio Marin, 1757. First edition in Castellan of a biography of Maria-Anna of Austria (1683-1754), Queen of Portugal, daughter of Emperor Leopold I of Austria. She was married to King John V (the Magnanimous) of Portugal, whose reign was marked by a long period of peace. Written in Latin by the Jesuit Joseph Ritter (1698-1761), her confessor, the work was initially published in Latin by Trattner in Vienna in 1756. This biography was commissioned by her daughter Maria-Barbara of Portugal (1711-1798), married to Ferdinand VI, King of Spain, to whom it is dedicated, and whose arms adorn the binding.- Fine typography, printed on heavy stock, in a beautiful binding. - Sommervogel… Read More

Florence, Bartolomeo Sermartelli, 1576. With woodcut printer's device of a tortoise with sail on the two title-pages, and several delicate woodcut initials. Roman and Italic letters. (4) ff., 116 pp., (2) ff., 80 pp. 8vo. Contemp. Italian limp vellum. In a cloth case. Florence, Bartolomeo Sermartelli, 1576. Editio princeps of Dante's (1265-1321) first sustained major work. He began his career when he was 18 years old as a lyric poet, and some of his early lyrics together with a prose narrative about his love of Beatrice are incorporated here in a combination of both prose and verse: It contains 42 brief chapters with commentaries on 25 sonnets, 1 ballata, and 4 canzoni, a fifth canzoni is left dramatically interrupted by Beatrice death. With Dante's other works, it helped to establish the Tuscan dialect in which it is written as the Italian standard. "The New Life" was completed by 1300. This present book was published after a codex in the possession of Niccolo Carducci and… Read More

Berlin, Insel, 1903. Double-spread frontispiece and title, decorative initials, and tail-piece designed by Heinrich Vogeler. 337 pp.; 308 pp. 8vo. Contemp. three-quarter cloth with, spine labels (somewhat faded), orig. wrappers designed by Vogeler bound in. Berlin, Insel, 1903. First edition. 2000 copies were printed on Insel laid paper. Ricarda Huch's (1864-1947) second novel, with its title alluding to Böcklin's famous painting, is a thematical continuation of her first novel "Erinnerungen von Ludolf Ursleu dem Jüngeren" (1893); from 1930 onwards, it bears the title "Michael Unger". Both novels reflect her intensive preoccupation with literary romanticism. - Sarkowski 806; Wilpert/Gühring 16; KNLL VIII, 122-23; Insel Sammlung Alfred Bergmann (1982), no. 436. LITERATURE: GERMAN ;

Antwerp, Henricus Aertssius, 1622. With printed title, engr. title and 76 engr. plates. (16), 392, (2) pp. 8vo. Late 19th century French light brown morocco, triple gilt fillets around sides, spines tooled in gilt in compartments, morocco lettering pieces, inner gilt dentelles, all edges gilt (Selz). Antwerp, Henricus Aertssius, 1622. First edition of this beautiful graphic work about the life of Jesus Christ by the well-known Baroque engraver Boetius Bolswert (1580-1633). This is one of the most important Belgian illustrated books from the beginning of the 17th century. Some of the best of Bolswert's prints - each engraving with caption and description- are summarized in this suite here: A.o., The Lord's Supper, the raising of Lazarus, Christ on the Cross between the malefactors, etc. Many of the engravings are after Rubens.- A nice copy. - Brunet I, 1179; De Backer/Sommervogel II, 34; Thieme/Becker IV, 254. RELIGION / THEOLOGY ; JESUITS; ILLUSTRATED BOOKS ; LOW COUNTRIES ;

Oxford, Sheldonian Theater (on engr. title: London, Sam. Smith & Benj. Walford), 1701. With engr. title (by Michael Burghers), engr. title vignette. (96) leaves. Small 4to. Contemp. calf (repaired). Signature of George Coleridge, Warden House, Otterly (St. Mary) on front pastedown (brother of Samuel Taylor Coleridge). Oxford, Sheldonian Theater (on engr. title: London, Sam. Smith & Benj. Walford), 1701. Standard work by Th. Benson (1654-1715), an abridgement of William Somner's "Dictionarium Saxonico-Latino-Anglicum" (1659). An inserted letter by W. Povey, Univ. of Liverpool Library, states that the book came from the library of W. H. Coleridge, which was bought by George Coleridge. A pencil note in the back states that another title published at Oxford 1698 bears the same engraving, which is signed there by the Dutch engraver M. Burghers. A copy of this book was also in Thomas Jefferson's library. - Name cut off from upper outer corner of printed title-page. - Allston III,… Read More

Altenburg, Richter, 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 edition of Robert Smith's (1689-1768) "A compleat system of opticks in four books", 1738. It was translated and revised by Abraham Gotthelf Kästner (1719-1800), professor of mathematics at Leipzig, later of mathematics and physics at Göttingen, teacher of Lessing and Lichtenberg, friend of Gottsched. Smith's work "became probably the most influential optical textbook of the eighteenth century. It was also published in Dutch in 1753, in German in 1755, and in two different French translations in 1767" (DSB). The work consists of two books, a general text on light, reflection, the eye, colors etc.; and a second book divided into three parts: analytical catoptrics,… Read More

Berlin, Arnold Wever, 1770. With woodcut head- and tailpieces. 8 leaves, 832 pp., (1) leaf corrections. 8vo. Contemp. half vellum. Berlin, Arnold Wever, 1770. Pharmaceutical work by Richard Brookes (fl. 1721-1763), English physician and author of compilations and translations on medicine, surgery, natural history, etc. most of which went through several editions. First published in the original English "The general dispensatory" it is present here in a probably unrecorded German edition posthumously published. With an introduction on pharmaceutical therapies, it gives advice about the use and effect of medicines, and deals with absorbents, anodynes, purgatives, laxatives, restoratives, diuretics, diaphretics, a.o. - Nice copy. - Not in Blake nor Lesky, Wellcome, etc.; no bibliographical records found. SCIENCE: MEDICINE ; SCIENCE: PHARMACY ;

Lucerne, Eglin, 1842. Lithographed map, lakes colored blue, borders blue, pink and light green. Mounted on linen in 16 sections. 480 x 662 mm. Lucerne, Eglin, 1842. Large map of the cantons Schwyz, Unterwalden and Zug, lithographed by Karl Martin Egli (1787-1859), wo was head of this first lithographic workshop in Lucerne after the death of his brother Bernard in 1826. The area aroud the landslip of Goldau is marked in color, heights are given in French feet. - Graf 108; Blaser, Luzerner Buchdruckerlexikon II, p. 9. GEOGRAPHY: MAPS ;

Aarau, H. R. Sauerländer, 1827-28. 8vo. Contemp. half leather with spine labels. Aarau, H. R. Sauerländer, 1827-28. Nice copy of this first geographical encyclopedia of Switzerland, a much revised and augmented edition of "Geographisch-statistisches Handlexikon der Schweiz" (1822). The main work of Markus Lutz (1772-1835), it is the precursor of the still consulted "Geographisches Lexikon der Schweiz" (1902-1920). Volumes I-III form the alphabetically arranged encyclopedia, volume IV contains additions and emendations, plus a topographical statistical essay on the Duchy of Savoy. A French edition was published in 1839, and a concluding supplement, not present here, in 1835. - Engelmann 917; Wäber 60; cf. GLS (1902) I, V; Zischka 101. GEOGRAPHY ; HELVETICA: ALLGEMEIN ;

Frankfurt am Main, for the author, 1767. 3 unn., 816 num., 6 unn. leaves. 4to. Contemp. vellum with ms. title on spine. Engr. exlibris Karl Friderich von Ditten and ms. entry on front pastedown. Frankfurt am Main, (for the author), 1767. "Neues teutsches Staatsrecht", vol. 2. Each part of this three-volume work is self-contained. The present volume deals with the election and coronation of the ruler of the Holy Roman Empire, his privileges, duties, and revenues, various court offices, legal status of the empress and the offspring, definition of the Roman king, etc. The contents is made accessible by a useful index. HISTORY (KULTURGESCHICHTE) ;

Zurich, David Gessner, 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 unn. pp. index. 4to. Contemp. leather. Zurich, David Gessner, 1722. First edition of Johann Jakob Leu's new version of Josias Simler's main work "De republica helvetiorum" (1576). Commissioned by the publisher David Gessner, Hans Jacob Leu (1689-1768) started in 1720 with his revisions, against considerable odds since information about the regiments of the cantons were considered top secret. His aim was to continue the original text up to his own times, and to augment it with an historical part about the period from the origins of the Helvetians up to the time of Emperor Rudolf I. On the other hand he annotated the constitutional texts to conform with contemporary practice. This was… Read More

Barby, Christian Friedrich Laur, 1782. 168 pp. 8vo. Boards. With woodcut title-vignette. Barby, Christian Friedrich Laur, 1782. First edition. Spangenberg (1704-92) was biograph of Count Zinzendorf and bishop. On behalf of the theologian Christian Walch he describes the activities of the Bohemian Brethren and shows here the remarkable quality of them. As a highly talented wandering missionary and restless crisis manager he worked for colony projets in the West Indies on the Island of St. Thomas, and in Georgia, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina, a.o. - Sabin 888934 and cf. the same 888925.

Bern, Francke, 1912. Bern, Francke, 1912.