Search Results: Authors starting with U from Hellmut Schumann Antiquariat

Zurich, (Nicolaus Köllner, Basel for) Johannes Hofmeister an der Rosengass, 1770. With engr. frontispiece, 3 engr. plates (1 folding), and engr. vignette in the text by and after Johann Rudolph Holzhalb and Johann Balthasar Bullinger. 8 leaves, 504 pp. 4to. Orig. wrappers, uncut (rebacked, part of backstrip laid down, rubbed). In half morocco folder with 2 spine labels. Zurich, (Nicolaus Köllner, Basel for) Johannes Hofmeister an der Rosengass, 1770. First Zurich reissue ("Titelauflage", i.e. second edition of the 1768 Basel first edition) of this unsurpassed chronicle of Jewish life in Switzerland from the 13th century to 1762. The author, J. C. Ulrich (1705-1768), a minister in Zurich, was an expert on Jewish culture and religion. His knowledge was acquired during a lengthy stay with Christian Gottlieb Fromann in Bremen, who had converted to Christianity, and with Jewish scholars in Hamburg, Altona, and Berlin. His work, which he arranged by cantons, is mostly based on source… Read More

Cork, n.d. (c. 1980). 1 p. writing on a leaf of official stationery (Ambassador to the council of Europe for childhood and education) stamped "Dun Lough, Goleen, Co. Cork, Ireland", and old postcard with picture of Cléire (Ireland), with some lines drawn on the picture by Ungerer. Cork, n.d. (c. 1980). To a bookdealer. The letter starts "Als Bibliophil schätze ich immer Ihre Hoch leistung im Gebiet der Buch Liebe"; the postcard confirms receipt of books "Welch ein Fest für meine visuelle Natur". AUTOGRAPHS ;