Search Results: Titles starting with I from Hellmut Schumann Antiquariat

Hamburg, and Weimar, later München, Frankfurt, Wiesbaden, Gesellschaft der Bücherfreunde + Ges. der Bibliophilen, 1931-2019. With illus. on plates and in the text. 4to. Mostly orig. cloth. Hamburg, and Weimar, later München, Frankfurt, Wiesbaden, Gesellschaft der Bücherfreunde + Ges. der Bibliophilen, 1931-2019. A complete set of this German periodical in the field of bookmaking and illustration. BIBLIOGRAPHY: TYPOGRAPHY ; BIBLIOGRAPHY: BUCHDRUCK / BUCHHANDEL ;

N. pl., n. pr., 1648. 77 pp. Small 4to. 20th-cent. half leather (new endpapers). N. pl., n. pr., (1648). The peace negotiations of Westphalia, which ended the Thirty Years war, are of the utmost importance in European history. The treaty was concluded on 24th October by Emperor Ferdinand III (1608-1657) with France at Münster, and with Sweden and the German Protestant leaders at Osnabrück. Here present is the text of the Osnabrück negotiations. Representatives of the Empire there were Johann Maximilian Count Lamberg, and Johannes Krane, imperial court counsellor; the Swiss confederacy at the peace congress was represented by Johann Rudolf Wettstein, mayor of Basel. The text of these Osnabrück negotiations depended for its success to a great degree on the satisfaction of the French government. The Westphalian peace became an important part of the German constitution, and the independence of Switzerland from imperial jurisdiction was confirmed. - VD 17 3:657044Y and 23:294480G. Not… Read More

Malta, Niccolo Capaci for nel Palazzo, e Stamperia di S.A.S, 1758. Title with woodcut coat of arms, 1 full-page engraving with coat of arms of the Order, head- and endpieces and initials in woodcut. (6) ff., IX pp., 1 leaf, 149 pp., (1) p. 4to. Contemporary vellum. Malta, Niccolo Capaci for nel Palazzo, e Stamperia di S.A.S, 1758. First edition in Italian. A French version of instructions on the main duties of the Knights of Malta appeared already in 1713. Manuel Pinto da Fonseca (1661-1773) was the 68th Grand Master of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem from 1741 until his death. In 1764 he negotiated with King Frederich II (the Great) of Prussia a re-unification of the Protestant Bailiwick of Brandenburg. But as Pope Clement XIII would not allow admission into a Roman Catholic organization of men viewed as heretics by the Church, the agreement came to naught. Pinto undertook many buildings projects, introducing the Baroque style throughout Malta. The book was printed by N. Capaci, a Sicilian… Read More

Strasbourg, Bernard Jobin, 1590. With Jobin's woodcut printer's mark on title, large woodcut coat-of-arms of the dedicatee, King Frederick II of Denmark (1534-1588), and 100 fine woodcut portraits by Christoph Murer (2 by Tobias Stimmer). Each page with woodcut frame. (8) leaves, 428 pp., (8) leaves. Small 8vo. Mod. vellum, edges gilt and gauffered. Strasbourg, Bernard Jobin, 1590. An outstanding German woodcut book with a fine collection of portraits after Christoph Murer (1558-1614), in its second Latin edition. It is an iconographic source for 16th-century German and Swiss humanism, scholarship, reformation, medicine, natural history, and music, containing many uncommon portraits. Among those appearing in the book are Apianus, Brant, Copernicus, Paracelsus, Bullinger, Albertus Magnus, Zwingli, Oecolampadius, Hus, Gesner, Vesalius, Hutten, Luther, Savonorola, Schwenckfeld, Münster, Amerbach, Oporinus, Melanchthon, and others of equal note. Andresen's attribution of these portraits… Read More

Amsterdam, Jan Schipper, 1659. Engraved title, and 103 engraved emblems. (12) leaves, 831 pp., 2 leaves. 12mo. Contemp. vellum. Amsterdam, Jan Schipper, 1659. A nice copy of a work in which maxims of state policy are conveyed through the media of picture, motto, and commentary, in emblem-book style. Praz calls this work "a most remarkable treatise of political devices". The author (1584-1648) was a Spanish statesman and wrote the book for Infante Baltasar, son of Philip IV of Spain. The ideas in the book reveal a Christian and humanist spirit and contrast with Machiavellian maxims of statecraft. The book was very popular, and was translated into many languages. This is the 6th Latin edition. - Palau 283483; Praz, p. 484.

Florence, Filippo & Iacopo Giunti, October 1582. Printer's woodcut device on title, large historiated woodcut initials, a different printer's device on last leaf. In Italics. 16 leaves, 585 pp., (1), (38) leaves. 4to (c. 210 x 145 mm). 18th century half calf (rep.). Florence, Filippo & Iacopo Giunti, October 1582. An important edition of this classic of Italian literature by Giovanni Boccaccio (1331-1375). This literary ten-day odyssey became the emblem of creative expression in the Italian Renaissance about the human experience, its nature and psyche. Boccaccio's epic is edited here by Leonardo Salviati (1540-1589), a Florentine nobleman, who was a founder member of the Accademia della Crusca. Its avowed aim was to uphold the purity of the Tuscan language as it had been in the fourteenth century. The Accademia Florentina, founded in 1540, was dedicated to the same purpose and Salviati was active in both bodies. In 1584 Salviati published his "Degli Avvertimenti della Lingua… Read More

Augsburg,, 1643. Silver. Diameter c. 40 mm. Weight c. 18 grams. In a box. Augsburg, 1643. This is a rather charming schraubtaler (screw-thaler) made from an Augsburg silver thaler of Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor. At that time such thalers were popular and precious memorabilia and used as gifts for family occasions. Augsburg was the center for the production of screw-thalers in the 17th century, and these coins were also exported empty. Inside the case on metal-disc recto a hand-painted portrait color miniature of H(an)s Cas(par) Escher (vom Glas, 1625-1696, mayor of Zurich 1691), ancestor of the famous Alfred Escher, founder of Credit Suisse and ETH Zurich. On verso Escher's engr. data and titles.- Nice condition, probably unique in its kind. - Cf. Forster 298.

New York, H. P. Kraus, 1978. With 144 illus. 225 pp. with register. 4to. Orig. illus. wrappers, with d/j. New York, H. P. Kraus, (1978). BIBLIOGRAPHY ;

Basel, Joh. Froben, Febr. 1527. Half-title with woodcut printer's device, title-page within woodcut architectural border, 2nd title-page fol. 1v. with different figured woodcut border, different printer's device on last leaf verso and at the end, numerous large and small figured woodcut initials in the text, by Urs Graf, Ambrosius Holbein, and Hans Frank. 4 leaves, 710, (1) pp.; (28) leaves index. Folio. 17th century calf, back gilt (joints and foot of spine somewhat restored). Old ms. name on title. Basel, Joh. Froben, Febr. 1527. An important document of the humanistic spirit , and remarkably beautifully printed with outstanding book decoration during Erasmus' lifetime. In the early years of the 16th century the demand for the original text of the New Testament began to mount and Erasmus (1467-1536) soon saw the necessity to translate the original Greek text into Latin. His first text-critical edition of the New Testament was one of the important foundations for Reformation theology.… Read More

Paris, G. Masson, 1875. With 38 wood-engraved plates by Boetzel, 3 chromolithogr. plates (1 folding) and 8 chromolithogr. plates by Erhard. (4) leaves, 388, (4) pp.; (2) leaves, 424 pp., (2) leaves. 4to (283 x 195 mm). Contemporary half red morocco, gilt-lettered spines, marbled boards. Paris, G. Masson, 1875. First edition. Denis Jourdanet's (1815-1892) observational work in remote areas of Latin America and Asia proved that altitude sickness is due to anoxaemia. Jourdanet worked closely together with Paul Bert (1833-1886), the former doing all the observational work and the latter the laboratory work on altitude physiology. - Garrison/Morton 943.1. MEDIZIN ;

Bern, Mathias Apiarius, 1539. With 15 near half-page woodcuts including 2 repeats, of which 9 are signed J[akob] K[allenberg], 2 different printer's woodcut device on title and last leaf (honey-licking bears), one by H. Holbein. [6], LXXXI, [1] ff. Small folio. 18th-century calf (worn). From the library of G. Wüthrich with his engr. supralibros. Bern, Mathias Apiarius, 1539. (Bound with:) MAZZOCCHI, Giacomo (ed.). Epigrammata antiquae urbis. With 21 woodcut illustrations of classical architecture and inscriptions, including large depiction of the Pantheon on B2v, more than 100 woodcut borders in text. Roman type. (10), CLXXXI leaves, further 8 ff. with index and errate lacking at the end. Folio. (Rome, Jacobus Mazzocchi, April 1521). Ad I: First edition of the earliest books from the press of the first printer of Bern, and a beautifully illustrated edition of Boccaccio's encomium of famous women. It is notable as the first collection devoted exclusively to biographies of women in Western… Read More

Lausanne, François Le Preux, 1576. (16), 380, (72) leaves. With coat of armes of the city of Berne in woodcut on title. 8vo. Old calf, blind-stamped back with title, red edges. Lausanne, François Le Preux, 1576. First systematica statement of the Reformed Church (PMM), here present in a re-edition of the authorative Latin text. Taking its final form in 1559 and subsequently much revised, enlarged and later re-oublished again from this present edition. The "Institutio Christianae" is certainly one of the most influential books of all time. It was composed in its first form when Jean Calvin (1509-1564) was twenty-six and dedicated his book to Francis I. Highly influential in the Western world and still widely read by theological students today. The book was written as an introductory textbook on the Protestant faith for those with some previous knowledge of theology and covered a broad range of theological topics from the doctrines of church and sacraments to justification by… Read More

Amsterdam, J. Wetstein, 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 Sigrais (1715-1791), member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres. There were several editions, the first in 1743 in Paris. Vegetius wrote his "Epitoma rei militaris", dedicated to the emperor Valentinian, for patriotic reasons, as a boost for the Roman military forces; it is excerpted from the writings of older historians and military writers. - Tiny holes in the plan, some light browning. - Quérard, La France littéraire, X, 90; Graesse VI/2, 272. MILITARIA ; LITERATUR: FREMDSPRACHIGE ;

Cracow, (Jan Haller), 1507. With 3 large zodiacal and 11 schematic diagrams in woodcut in the text, large woodcut with coat of arms of Poland, Lithuania, and Cracow on title-page. (32) pp. 4to. Modern calf in old style (215 x 150 mm). Cracow, (Jan Haller), 1507. First edition. Michael Falkener (c. 1460-1534), born in Silesia was professor of mathematics, physics, logic and Aristotle's philosophy at Cracow. It is worth mentioning that his students included the founder of modern astronomy Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), who entered the University of Cracow in 1491. Especially interesting is that at the same time two more important teachers of astronomy (Albertus de Brudzewo, Johann von Glogau also known as Jan Glogowczyk) together with Falkener (also known as Michael von Breslau or Vratislavia), who was in fact at this times a great light at Cracow, hold controversy and basic lectures at the university about the world system. Falkener's first printed astrological predictions were published in… Read More

London, printed for Harding and Lepard; and for G. B. Whittaker, 1827. With 1 facsimile plate. XIII, 562 pp.; 579 pp., (1) p. corrigenda. 8vo. Somewhat later smooth calf, spines with 2 labels, gilt double fillets around sides, gilt outer edges and inner dentelles, e.g. London, printed for Harding and Lepard; and for G. B. Whittaker, 1827. Nice set of Dibdin's (1776-1847) first published work of importance, which, when published in 1802, brought him to the attention of Lord Spencer, his lifelong patron. The present, definitive edition is entirely rewritten, and contains for the first time an account of the best editions of the Hebrew Bibles and of the Greek and Latin Fathers. Dibdin remains best known for his "Bibliotheca Spenceriana" (1814-15) and the Roxburghe Club of which he was the originator and vice-president. The plates show a page of the Complutensian Polyglot Bible. - Very slight even browning. - Bohatta/Hodes, p. 56. BIBLIOGRAPHY ;

Leipzig, Karl Hiersemann, 1924. With 24 plates in heliogravure (8 in colors, some gilt). 3 leaves, 36 pp., 2 leaves. Large 4to. Orig. cloth, gilt decorated. Leipzig, Karl Hiersemann, 1924. Descriptions of the most precious oriental manuscripts in the Bavarian State Library. Augmented edition, the first to contain the plates, and taking into account the standard work by Frédéric Sarre on the subject (1923). - Schmidt-Künsemüller 3305. BINDINGS ;

Faenza, Gioseffantonio Archi, 1792-97. Thick 4to. Later half calf, gilt lettering on spines. Faenza, Gioseffantonio Archi, 1792-97. The authoritative history of the council of Trent which took place from 1545 to 1563, by cardinal Pietro Sforza Pallavicino (or Pallavicini, 1607-1667). He joined the Jesuit Order in 1637, and was professor of theology at the Collegium Romanum. After the publication of the rather negative account of the council by Sarpi, published under the pseudonym Pietro Soave Pollano in 1619, Pallavicino was ordered to write a new history, based on material already gathered, and with unlimited access to the secret archives of the Vatican. His well-balanced and comprehensive account was initially published in 1656-57; in 1733, the annotated edition by Zaccaria was printed for the first time and saw three more editions. The concil of Trent's main purpose was to react against Protestantism. Catholic teachings were formulated more precisely, and documents for teaching were published.… Read More

Berlin and Stettin, Nicolai, 1827-31. X pp., 1 leaf, 355, (1) pp.; VIII pp., 1 leaf, 420 pp., 1 leaf (corrections); XVI pp., 1 leaf, 242 pp., 1 leaf (corrections). 8vo. 19th-cent. half leather, spines gilt (hinges repaired). Berlin and Stettin, Nicolai, 1827-31. First edition, "a work of epoch making importance for the art history of Italy". Rumohr (1785-1843), art critic and historian, conducted extensive research regarding the early period of Italian art and literature. He was considered a practical esthete, a very versatile talent whose works also deal with such themes as gastrosophy and rules of conduct. The present work reunites essays und research on Italian art from the 12th century on; volume III deals almost exclusively with the painter Raffael and his work. - Fine set. - Wilpert/Gühring 7; Kosch XIII, 555; Thieme/Becker XXIX, 202. ART - GENERAL & APPLIED ; LITERATURE: GERMAN ;

Rome, chez l'Auteur, 1806. With engr. frontispiece- portrait of Pope Pius VII, 2 engr. foldings and 88 engr. views. (6) leaves, XXVI, 360 pp.: (1) leaf, pp. 359- 370. 8vo. Contemporary half calf. Rome, chez l'Auteur, 1806. An edition of this guide to ancient Rome and its surroundings with beautiful full-page engravings, The work is divided in "eight journeys" done by M. Vasi (1744-1820). This "Itinerario" was first published in 1760 and re-edited and republished up to the mid-19th century. - A fine copy. - Brunet V, 1098. GRAPHIC ARTS:ILLUSTRATED BOOKS ; ITALY ;

Lyon, Seb. Gryphius, 1551. With woodcut printer's mark on title, elaborate woodcut initials, Gryphius Griffon devise on last page verso. Printed in Italics. 313, (27) pp. 8vo. 18th-century leather (rebacked), blind library stamp on first and last leaf. From the collection of Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland (lot 7007 in his sale, 1882). Lyon, Seb. Gryphius, 1551. Rare edition of the Epitome of Pompeius Trogus' "Historiae Philippicae", the only version in which this text exists. The original text, in forty-four books, was a general history of the world concentrating on the Macedonian Empire founded by Philip II and the Hellenistiic kingdoms. ut began with Ninus, the founder of Nineveh, and ended about A.D. 9. Apart from the Epitome by Justinus (3rd century), we possess summaries of the forty-four books, and fragments in other writings. It is still considered, even in this abridged state, an important authority for ancient history, including ethnographical and geographical… Read More