Search Results: Authors starting with B from Hellmut Schumann Antiquariat

Naples, n.pr., 1733. Woodcut printer's mark on title, some figurated initials. (2), 304, 4 pp. index. 4to (250 x 185 mm). Contemporary vellum. Naples, n.pr., 1733. First edition to include for the first time the life of Salvatore Rosa (1615-73), painter and poet, written by G. B. Passeri (1610-79), present here in this third enlarged printing. The first edition of Giovanni Baglione's (1566-1643) work appeared in 1642. From that time on it was considered as one of the important chronological writings on architects and artists active in Rome from 1572 to 1642, during the times of Gregor III and Urban VIII.- Nice copy. - Cicognara 2191. ART - GENERAL & APPLIED ; ITALY ; ARCHITECTURE ;

Frankfurt am Main, Eichenberg, 1776. With title-vignette and engr. frontispiece. 8 leaves, 416 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf. Frankfurt am Main, Eichenberg, 1776. First edition, co-authored by Ulysses von Salis-Marschlin, than owner of Castle Marschlins near Landquart in the Canton of Grisons. The evangelical theologian and radical philosopher of the enlightenment, Bahrdt (1741-1792), was one of the most controversial figures of his time. The I. E. Lichtigfeld school at Frankfurt/M. goes back to Mayer Amschel Rothschild. - Goedeke IV/1,821,49; VD18 14788497-001; Haller II, 207. LITERATUR ; PHILOSOPHY ;

Paris, Muguet, 1677. With engr. figured title by p. Giffart after C. le Brun, 2 engr. pictorial head-pieces and large figured intitials, several ornamental head- and tail-pieces; large engr. folding plate, 3 almost full-page engr. portraits, a few small text-woodcuts. 36 unn. leaves, 1448 columns; 4 unn. leaves, 1660 columns. Folio. 18th-century full calf, spines richly gilt with gilt lettering (spine ends and corners rest.). Paris, Muguet, 1677. First edition of this publication of earliest texts and statutes pertaining to the Merovingian and Carolingian rulers, "a landmark in the history of early medieval law". Etienne Baluze (1630-1718), historian and librarian to Jean-Baptiste Colbert for thirty-three years, was professor of canon law at the Royal College, later its director. He was also a bibliophile and collector of Grolier bindings. - Old inscriptions on titles and paste-downs. - Brunet I, 630; Quérard, La France littéraire, I, 166. HISTORY (KULTURGESCHICHTE) ;

Paris, Basan et Poignant, 1781. With engr. title, engr. head-piece and 120 engravings (incl. engraved title) on 119 (of 120) plates. Printed title with woodcut-vignette 4 pp. (misbound), 22 pp., 1 leaf. 4to (286 x 220 mm). Contemporary stiff boards, calf back (rebacked) with gold-stamped title. Paris, Basan et Poignant, 1781. First edition of a work by Basan (1723-1797) to depict paintings by Brueghel, Blanchard, Veronese, Claude Lorrain, Van Everdingen, Houbraken, Lairesse, Rubens, and Van Eyck which were included in the collection of Henri Poullain. The text at the beginning are biographies.- Lacks plate 116, otherwise nice. - Brunet I, 686; Cohen/de Ricci 116.

Leipzig, Bey des Verfassers Freunden und in Commission bey C. Fritsch, 1771. With engr. frontispiece, and 2 engr. plates by D. Chodowiecki. XXIV, 279 pp., 1 blank leaf. 8vo. Contemporary half calf (rubbed). Leipzig, Bey des Verfassers Freunden und in Commission bey C. Fritsch, 1771. First edition. A manual for the education of future rulers by Basedow (1724-1790), famous pedagogue and founder of the Philantropinum at Dessau. In the book Basedow describes the education of Prince Agathokrator of Alethinia according to his new methods of education, calling for the prince to establish a school library, a natural history cabinet, art collections, etc. Only at the end is religion taught and at the very end when the Prince has become King are the royal duties and activities discussed. - Lex. d. Päd. III, 45; Kosch, DLL I, 287; VD18 1482454X-001.

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

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 ;

London, Nour Foundation, 2009. With color illustrations throughout. Folio. Orig. cloth, d/j. In orig. slipcase. London, Nour Foundation, 2009. "The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, vol. 4, part 1". This volume deals mainly with Qur ans from Turkey, and Iran.- As new. MANUSCRIPTS:ORIENTAL ; BIBLIOGRAPHY ; KORAN ;

Paris, Prault père, 1735. With engr. title-vignette by Lepicié after Boucher, 9 engr. head-pieces and 4 tail-pieces by Joullain after Blondel, several figured engr. initials, 2 folding tables. 6 unn. leaves, 166 pp.; half-title, 334 pp.; half-title, 321, (1) pp. Large 4to. Contemp. calf, spine with label richly gilt, with crowned arms in lowest compartment, gilt outer and inner dentelles (corners somewhat bumped, edges and spine ends somewhat rubbed). Paris, Prault père, 1735. First edition. Large paper copy of the quarto issue of this comprehensive history of French theatre, arranged in chronological order. The work starts with Provençal poets, leading up to 1552; the following section is entitled "Théatre françois depuis 1552. jusqu'en 1735", divided in four periods; the third section deals with Ballets and Mascarades, the Théatre de l'Opéra, the Théatre Italien, and the Opéra comique ou Théatre de la… Read More

N. pl., n. pr., 1973/74-1980/81. With 1 full-page drawing. 2 folded biofolios, 2 single leaves. Various sizes. Loose as issued. N. pl., n. pr., 1973/74-1980/81. Contains: 1. Das Lerchenlied. Zur Jahreswende 1973/74 für seine Freunde als Manuskript bedruckt, signed. - 2. Gestillter Baum, für Eugen Sporer in alter Freundschaft... With a drawing of a tree in red chalk. 1975. - 3. Nicht Ammenmär. Gotthard de Beauclair seinen Freunden zum Fest ... für 1981. - 4. Das Fest ist gekommen. Dem Persischen nachgeformt und seinen Freunden zugeeignet. BIBLIOGRAPHY ; BIBLIOGRAPHIE, BUCHKUNDE, TYPOGRAPHIE ;

Paris, Alexis Eymery, 1818. With 12 engr. plates. 435 pp.; 480 pp. 8vo. Contemp. calf, spines dyed dark green, gilt (boards somewhat rubbed). Paris, Alexis Eymery, 1818. First edition of this detailed history of China and Japan for young persons, covering all aspects such as the great philosophers, government, customs, sciences, art and commerce, compiled by François-Marie Marchant de Beaumont (1769-1832), who published similar works on the Netherlands and on Persia. - Fine. - Quérard, La France littéraire, V, 516; Hoefer 33, 484; Cordier, Bibliotheca Japonica, 485-486; Cordier, Bibliotheca Sinica I, 66. Not in Gumuchian, who cites other titles by this author. GEOGRAPHY: ASIA/CHINA ; GEOGRAPHY: ASIA/JAPAN ;

Leipzig, G. Wigand, 1838. With 30 steel-engr. plates after O. Wagner. 291 pp. 8vo. Contemp. half cloth, orig. typographic wrapper laid down (somewhat soiled and spotted). Leipzig, G. Wigand, (1838). "Das malerische und romantische Deutschland", IV. First edition. Thuringia was the foremost topic of Bechstein. His "Wanderungen" were part of a series on this country in which the illustrations were the main concern. But unlike other authors' explanatory texts, Bechstein wrote more extensively, couching the information in a narration of a hiking tour undertaken by friends, thereby providing atmosphere, including a love story. The steel-engraved views after designs by Otto Wagner show Arnstadt, Meiningen, Suhl, Schleusingen, Blankenburg, Schwarzburg, Rudolstadt, Jena, Weimar, Erfurt, Gotha, Salzungen, etc. - Foxed throughout, plates mostly clean. - Goedeke XIII, 167, 27; Rümann 2725; Kosch I, 341; Cat. Wolfenbüttel, Die Kunst der Illustration (1986), 50. GERMANY ;… Read More

London, H. R. Young, 1818. Engr. frontispiece with French lettering, and 179 etchings on 96 plates. Printed title, 22 pp. Large 4to (365 x 265 mm). Contemporary three-quarter calf, spine in 6 compartments, gilt-lettering, marbled endpapers. London, H. R. Young, 1818. Scarce edition. The preliminary text contains a biography of the famous Florentine engraver Stefano della Bella (1610-1664) by Thomas Dodd, an English publisher and well-known printseller in London (1771-1850). Dodd acquired a wide knowledge of prints, and was able to bring together many plates engraved and signed by Stefano della Bella for this suite of etchings, printed on heavy paper: 1) 13 etchings without title, dedicated to "Baron Charon de Dormelles" 2) 8 etchings entitled "Varie figure" 3) 6 etchings "Varii capricii militarii" 4 + 5) each 4 etchings without title or dedication 6) 8 etchings without title, dedicated to "Lorenzo di Toscanae" 7) 24 etchings "Diversi animali" 8) 16… Read More

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

Düsseldorf and Cologne, Eugen Diederichs, 1958. With 13 illus. after woodcuts, handcolored. 110 pp., 3 unn. leaves. 4to. Orig. half vellum (old name on flyleaf). Düsseldorf and Cologne, Eugen Diederichs, 1958. One of 1000 numbered copies. A selection from "Der Heiligen Leben Sommer- und Winterteil", which is based on the "Legenda aurea". Text and illustrations follow the Augsburg editions by Schönsperger, 1482 and Otmar, 1507. The editor used as additional sources the "Heiligenleben" of Herman von Fritzlar, and the "Vitae patrum". FACSIMILES ;

Thun , Roland de Weck, 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 1313 copies, signed by the author, the artist and the publisher, with the name of the subscriber "Georg Sulzer" added by hand. The total edition comprised 1345 copies. Hommage to the federal military stables in Thun, which were closed down after 100 years. The illustrations show various equestrian exercises. - KLS, XXth cent., p. 75. MILITARIA ; HELVETICA ;

Paris, Durand & Pissot, 1752. XII, 323 pp. 12mo. Contemp. calf, spine with red label richly gilt (slightly rubbed). Paris, Durand & Pissot, 1752. A collection of mostly short quotes from classical authors, with French translations or interpretations by authors like La Fontaine, Rousseau, Corneille, Racine a.o. The Abbé Berthelin (ca. 1720-1780) was professor of Latin at the école militaire in Paris. - Quérard, La France littéraire, I, 302 .; Hoefer V, 702. LITERATURE: FRENCH ; LITERATUR: FREMDSPRACHIGE ;

Lyon (i.e. Geneva), Barth'elemy Vincent, 1578. Architectural title-page with classical figures, grotesques and geometric forms. With 60 engraved plates by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau the Elder, unsigned, elaborate grotesque head- and tail-pieces, and initials. Text in Roman and Italic types. [40] pp. (some spotting on title and light foxing in following leaves). Folio (390 x 270 mm). Modern vellum imitating the old style, with ornamentation in blind tooling on sides and back. Lyon (i.e. Geneva), Barth'elemy Vincent, 1578. First edition, second issue. According to the catalogue of the BnF this issue was preceded by a slightly different one printed in the same year by the same publisher, where the title-page is in French and dated in Roman numerals MDLXXVIII. Our copy has a bilingual title-page Latin and French, and is dated in modern spelling 1578. Both editions are augmented with text in French by François Béroalde de Verville. This book is one of the most important pictorial… Read More

Frankfurt am Main, Suhrkamp, 1986. With 75 black and white plates. 4 leaves text. Folio. Orig. half cloth. In cloth slip case. Frankfurt am Main, Suhrkamp, 1986. One of 750 numbered copies. With a text by Siegfried Unseld "Der Dialog des Bildermalers" written on the occasion of Böhmer's (1911-1986) 75th birthday. MODERN ILLUSTRATED BOOKS (1900-1999) ; MODERNE ILLUSTRIERTE BÜCHER ;

Basel,, 11 and 15 November 1941, 22 April 1942. 29,3 x 21 cm. Basel, 11 and 15 November 1941, 22 April 1942. (Added:) The first issue of the periodical "Officina", March 1941, under the artistic direction of Imre Reiner. In the first letter, the publisher asks Böhmer if he would like to contribute a drawing for this new publication, offering 50 Swiss Francs royalties. On recto and verso is Böhmer's ms. draft for his reply. The second letter is a confirmation, with Böhmer's ms. note at the bottom; they are both signed by Benno Schwabe. The third letter is signed by Konrad Farner, he is pleased that Böhmer likes the magazine and tells him that his drawing will be used in the second issue. ART - GENERAL & APPLIED ; KUNST, KUNSTHANDWERK ;