Search Results: Titles starting with E from Hellmut Schumann Antiquariat

Rome, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana fondata da Giovanni Treccani, 1949-1961. With illus. Large 4to (302 x 230 mm). Orig. cloth. Rome, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana fondata da Giovanni Treccani, 1949-1961. The major scientific encyclopaedia for Italy, with detailed, signed individual articles, exhaustive bibliography and excellent illustrations. The 35 main volumes (1949) are a reprint of the originals published between 1929-1936. Added are the Index (1952), 1 vol.; Appendix I (1950), 1 vol.; Appendix II (1948-1949), 2 vols.; Appendix III (1961), 2 vols. - Zischka 10. LINGUISTIC / DICTIONARIES ;

Milan, Joseph Marelli, 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 dotted line, spine with label gilt, edges gilt. Milan, Joseph Marelli, 1758. A rare and anonymous tract on the qualities of a general, splendidly bound in contemporary Viennese burgundy morocco. The unknown author (perhaps Lancelot Turpin de Crissé, 1715-1795) not only writes critical and military notes about Julius Caesar, but also quotes such authorities as Turenne, le Père Charlevoix, Lord Bollingbrock, a.o. He states that more could have been said on the topic, but that he was going to include further material in his future works on all great men of antiquity, if his first work would meet the approval of the great Prince (?) to whom it is dedicated. - Small library ticket on front… Read More

London, (Walter Lewis at the Cambridge University Press, for) Maggs Bros., 1929-35. With 22 plates, and more than 1000 illustrations, often in red and black. LVI, 633 pp.; XII, 817 pp.; XLI, 791 pp. Large 4to. Orig. cloth, gilt Royal coat of arms on covers (spines slightly faded). London, (Walter Lewis at the Cambridge University Press, for) Maggs Bros., 1929-35. One of 650 copies on antique paper, of a total edition of 698. A catalogue raisonné of the Royal Portuguese collection. Volume I covers the period 1489-1539, volume II 1540-1569, volume III 1570-1600 and supplement 1500-1597. More than 400 books are described in detail both in English and Portuguese. With a text by Aubrey F. G. Bell "H.M. King Manuel II", and by Stanley Morison "The King and his books". This catalogue can indeed be called a "masterpiece, both of composition and press-work" (Barker, Stanley Morison, p. 335). BIBLIOGRAPHY ;

Leipzig, n. pr., 1803. With engr. frontispiece portrait of Goethe by F. Oberkogler. 168 pp. 8vo. Contemp. boards, uncut (rubbed, spine ends and corners worn). Leipzig, n. pr., 1803. Goethe's drama Egmont, set in the Netherlands in 1566 during the rebellion againt Spain. This is a reprint after volume three of "Goethe's Schriften" (1787-1791) in four volumes, published by Goeschen. With the portrait engraved by Georg Christoph Friedrich Oberkogler (1774-1858) who was mainly active in Zurich. - Somewhat browned, some light spots to frontispiece. - Hagen 192. LITERATURE: GERMAN ;

Frankfurt am Main, Johann Saur for the heirs of Peter Fischer, 1604. Title printed in red and black (sightly damaged), woodcut title-illustration showing a cook in his kitchen, half-page woodcut coat of arms of Anne Princess of Denmark on second leaf, decorative woodcut head- and tail-pieces, woodcut initials, large printer's device on final page, and 148 woodcuts including scenes of banquets and feasts, with participants in both western and oriental dress, domestic and game animals, fish and seafood, kegs of wine and beer, platters, etc., by Jost Amman, Hans Weiditz, and others. (6), 41 ff.,1 blank leaf; 200, (1) ff. Folio (290 x 190 mm). Contemp. vellum with 2 ties. Heraldic bookplate A. Sarasin. Frankfurt am Main, Johann Saur for the heirs of Peter Fischer, 1604. The first edition of this first great and famous German cookbook appeared in 1581 and is the first large-size and richly illustrated German cookbook. Present here is the third issue. Marx Rumpolt from Hungary has been the head cook to… Read More

Vienna, Johann Thomas von Trattner, 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, 1795 and 1778. Fine testimony to the understanding of learning at the end of the 18th century, by the Vienna court librarian Michael Denis (1729-1800), a fine scholar, bibliographer, poet (Sined der Barde) and entomologist. Volume I is in its second, volume II in the first edition. The work offers a systematic bibliography divided into three historical periods, and a detailed survey of the literature of all disciplines, theology, law, philosophy, medicine, mathematics, history, and philology with their subdivisions. The engraving shows the "Bibliotheca Garellia" of which Denis was in charge. - A few old annotations, occasional spotting on lower edge, otherwise fine. - De… Read More

Leipzig, Weidmann, 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 the Collège de Navarre in Paris, later of Greek and Latin philosophy at the Collège de France. His present work basically maintains that art ought to imitate nature. The translator Johann Adolf Schlegel (1721-1793), professor of theology, father of the romanticists August and Wilhelm, was a poet in his own right. His version of Batteux must have been quite popular, further editions followed in 1759 and 1770. - Internally fine. - Fromm I, 2171; Wilpert/Gühring 3. ART - GENERAL & APPLIED ; KUNST, KUNSTHANDWERK ; PHILOSOPHY ;

Zurich, Christoph Froschauer, 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, Christoph Froschauer, 1543. First bilingual edition with the first Latin translation of the famous anthology, compiled from the writings of Greek poets, philosophers, and orators by the Macedonian scholar Joannes Stobaeus (5th cent. A.D.), and intended in the first instance for the instruction of his son Septimius. It deals with a variety of topics, from metaphysics to household economy, and it is concerned chiefly with ethical questions. The illustrative extracts, which Stobaeus probably owed in a large measure to earlier collectors, are arranged under thematic headings. Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople and the best of Byzantine scholars (9th cent.), commends the work for its usefulness to… Read More

Leipzig, (O. Wigand for) H. Haessel, 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 edition of Meyer's (1825-1898) poem of roughly 1800 free rhyming verses in 12 chapters, written from 1871 to 1872. It was inspired by an excursion to the Engstlenalp which Meyer undertook together with his sister Betsy in the summer of 1859, when, lying in the meadows, he started to think about and formulate the poem in his mind. It contains some passages of particular beauty which are rare in his other poetry. The copy has a handwritten dedication to his friend Johann Rudolf Rahn (1841-1912), the famous Zurich art historian. - Occasional minimal foxing, title leaf about 5 mm shorter than the rest, otherwise well-preserved. _ - Gerlach 207; Borst 3165; Weber, Conrad Ferdinand… Read More

Madrid, Imprente Real, 1805. With engr. frontispiece and 18 partly fold. engr. plates. X, 268 pp. Sm. 4to (200 x 140 mm). Contemporary Spanish calf. Ex Bibliotheca J. H. Anderhub 1937. Madrid, Imprente Real, 1805. First edition. This treatise on the true principales of horsemanship is written as a dialog by Laiglesia. The work describes the art of horseriding from its historic past to all other aspects of horse ownership, i.e. the various uses, health issues, value, etc. The text is enriched with numerous engraved illustrations and leaflets.- A nice copy. - Palau 130182.

Schaffhausen, J. Brodtmann, (1836). Printed title, lithogr. title, and 60 lithographed plates. 2 cols. 118 pp., 2 pp. index. Folio (360 x 260 mm). Modern half calf over marbled boards, gilt lettering on spine. Text- and atlas in 1 vol. Schaffhausen, J. Brodtmann, (1836). Beautifully illustrated and complete German edition of Dumont d'Urville's (1790-1842) account on his second expedition to the Pacific. He can be considered "the most celebrated Pacific explorer after Cook...at heart a frustrated anthropologist, long before the profession had been invented..." (E.S. Dodge). The Corvette "Astrolabe", with its crew of 79, of which ten died, thirteen deserted, and twenty had to be left behind on various islands, around the Cape of Good Hope, visited a.o., islands in the Pacific, Australia, New Zealand, Tonga, Fiji, and a plethora of Islands in Sulawesi and the Moluccas. Two of the interesting plates show a.o. Sidney, other include many landscape scenery and ethnografic… Read More

Amsterdam, Herman Uytwerf, 1722. 4 leaves, pp. 105-208. Small 8vo. Contemp. half calf with spine lable (boards somewhat rubbed). Amsterdam, Herman Uytwerf, 1722. The second of twelve ficitious conversations held in the Enchanted Fields by famous deceased, a genre which was much en vogue at the time, as the well-known "Gespäche im Reiche der Toten" by David Fassmann published from 1718-40. Present here is the conversation between Pope Sixtus V and Molière. - Quérard, Supercheries, II, 437. LITERATURE: FRENCH ;

Antwerp, ex officina Plantiniana, apud Ioannem Moretum, 1605 (i.e. 1601-07). Printer's device on titles (repeated). 4 leaves, 213 (1) pp., 1 leaf; 4 leaves, 108 pp., 2 leaves; 6 leaves, 83 pp., 2 leaves; 6 leaves, 112 pp., 4 leaves; 4 leaves, 92 pp., 2 leaves; 4 leaves, 79 pp., 4 leaves, 102 pp., 1 blank; 4 leaves, 99 pp.; 4 leaves, 118 pp., 1 blank; 23 pp. 4to. Contemp. vellum (small repair to top of spine). From the collection of Hendrik D. L. Vervliet. Antwerp, ex officina Plantiniana, apud Ioannem Moretum, 1605 (i.e. 1601-07). Collected letters of the Belgian humanist and classical scholar Justus Lipsius or Joost Lips (1547-1606), one of the most learned men of his days (Montaigne), founding father of Neostoicism. His correspondence, of great significance for the history of the intellectual life of the time, was from the start conceived as a work of art. Among his correspondents are such famous contemporaries as Montaigne, Isaac Casaubon, Henri Estienne, Joseph Scaliger, Paulus Manutius,… Read More

Paris, Robert Estienne, 1547. With woodcut printer's mark on title (repeated in second work). Printed in Italics. 111 pp., 7 unn. leaves (last blank). Small 8vo. Old limp vellum with ties (some spots, warped). From the collection of Hendrik D. L. Vervliet. Paris, Robert Estienne, 1547. (Bound with:) HEGENDORFF, Christoph. Methodus conscribendi epistolas, per Christoph. Hegendorphinum. Eiusdem Dragmata locorum tum Rhetoricorum, tum Dialecticorum ... 44 pp., 1 leaf. Paris, Robert Estienne, 1547. Ad I: Excerpts from the "Institutio oratoria" of Quintilian (1st. cent. A.D.), the first officially appointed teacher of rhetorics in Rome, prepared by Ionas Philologus, a pseudonym for the physician Johann Winter von Andernach, also known as Gonthier von Andernach, or Johann Guenther, or J. Guntherius. - STC (French) 370; Ebert II, 18488 (quotes Barbier and gives the name J. Gonthier); Weller, Lexicon pseud., 441 (Johann Guenther); Quérard, Supercheries, II, 416 (J. Guntherius). Ad II: A… Read More

Paris, L. Conquet, 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, all present in 2 states, with tissue-guards bearing short descriptions of the illustrations. XXIX, 224 pp.; XXIII, 104 pp., 3 leaves; engraved text throughout. 4to. Contemp. red morocco, with triple fillet around sides, spine richly gilt, double gilt fillet on outer edges, inner dentelles, edges gilt (by Chambolle-Duru). Paris, L. Conquet, 1881-83. No. 384 of 200 copies (291-490; épreuves terminés 4e état); and no. 111 of 70 copies (71-140; eaux-fortes avancées 2e état), of a total edition of 490 copies, with the ms. monogram of the publisher under both limitations. Sigmund Freudenberger (1745-1801) was a Swiss painter. studied as a portraitist and lived from 1765 to 1773 in… Read More

Madrid, Real Academia de Nobles de San Fernando, c. 1855. 215 x 150 mm (etching), 320 x 215 mm (sheet). 355 x 280 mm (framed). (Madrid, Real Academia de Nobles de San Fernando, c. 1855). From: "Los Caprichos", plate 29, 2nd issue, printed in 50 copies only. "This edition is well printed and the plates still show relatively little wear" (Harris). Goya describes this leaf: "They are combing his hair, they are putting on his shoes, he is sleeping and he is studying. No one shall say that he is not making the most of his time" (after Harris). - Delteil 66; Harris II, pp. 66 and 99, no. 64. GRAPHISCHE EINZELBLAETTER ; ORIGINALGRAPHIK ;

Paris, Louis-Michaud, (Dec. 10, 1910). With 40 revealing erotic original etchings in 2 states (of which 20 etchings of the first state are signed in pencil), and with 1 original watercolor of a nude, signed by Alméry Lobel-Riche. (2) ff., 124 pp., (2) pp., 10 pp. prospectus. Large 4to (385 x 285 mm). Full reddish tan morocco, front and back sides with inlaid figurative Art Nouveau Decor, in each corner differently in gold and black, gilt fillets, spine in panels with author's name at head and title below in gold, on each innerside doublures in blue decoration, fly-leaves marbled and first one verso with Kieffer's printed label, t.e.g., orig. front wrapper with 1 signed etching in 2 states bound in. Upper cover inside sign. René Kieffer. In matching marbled slipcase. Paris, Louis-Michaud, (Dec. 10, 1910). A fine copy of the de luxe edition of this esteemed book and one of the best works by Alméry Lobel-Riche. Limited to 250 numbered copies this is one of 73 copies on Japan… Read More

Paris , Fessard, 1736-1746. With 60 numbered engravings after drawings by Calys after Bouchardon, including 5 pictorial titles (the last suit unnumbered). Large 4to (343 x 260 mm). Contemporary boards, with gold-lettered title on spine. (Paris ), Fessard, (1736-1746). First edition of these beautiful large engravings of Paris' barkers. A scarce set of the "Cries of Paris" after the original designs by Edme Bouchardon, the eminent sculptor for King Louis XV of France and Pope Clement XII. Illustrating the habits and costumes of various professions of the working-class people, this series gives a vivid picture of street life in Paris in the eighteenth century: "Chaudronier Auvergnat, Décroteuer, L'orgue de Barbarie, ou plustost d'Allemange, Porteur d'Eua, Savoyarde, la Lanterne Magigue, Vieux Maçon, Tonnellier, Espéce de Parapluye, Marchand d'Images, Crieuse de vieux Chapeaux, Caffé Caffé", etc, and also various tradesmen and… Read More

Amsterdam, Louis & Daniel Elzevir, 1662. Title printed in red an black. With woodcut Minerva device on title. 34 unn. leaves, 606 pp., 1 blank. Folio. Modern polished calf. Amsterdam, Louis & Daniel Elzevir, 1662. First edition. Probably the first attempt at a Latin etymological dictionary. The great Dutch (German born) philologist Gerhard Johannes Vossius (1577-1649) does not aim for comprehensiveness, he offers those terms for which he can provide explanations, a.o. words stemming from Greek. His immense knowledge enabled him to undertake the task of sifting through an enormous amount of information and concentrate on what seemed important. - The word "latinum" on p. 1 is printed on a separate piece of paper and pasted over the word "romanum". Stamp with crowned interlaced monogram AM on half title and title, light browning. - Willems 1295; Zaunmüller 254; Brunet V, 1373; Graesse VI/II, 398. PHILOLOGY ;

Munich, Vienna, Basel, Kurt Desch, 1962. With 41 plates after drawings. 98 pp. Large 4to. Orig. cloth, pinted glassine cover (slightly chipped at foot of spine). Munich, Vienna, Basel, Kurt Desch, (1962). A work of the artist Josef Hegenbarth (1884-1962), treating one of his favorite topics. MODERN ILLUSTRATED BOOKS (1900-1999) ;