Search Results: Titles starting with U from Hellmut Schumann Antiquariat

Troppau, n. pr., 1785-86. With 4 engraved title-vignettes. 8vo. Contemp. half calf (slightly damaged). Troppau, n. pr., 1785-86. The great success of this work led to several reprints, like this one which was printed in the year of the first edition. It is present here with the full text. This book work was edited following J. G. Zimmermann's (1728-1795) "Betrachtungen über die Einsamkeit" of 1756. The author, one of the dazzling figures of the Enlightenment, was in contact with Goethe, Lessing, Lavater, Haller, etc. The present work shows again Zimmermann's sophisticated character as a passionale reformer. "Die Einsamkeit will er schildern, nicht nur als gänzliche Abgeschlossenheit, sondern auch als ein Alleinsein mitten unter den Menschen ..." (Ischer). - Goedeke IV/1, 482, 7c; cf. Hayn/Gotendorf VIII, 655; Ischer, J. G. Zimmermann. Leben und Werk (1893), pp. 324-342; Baechtold, Gesch. d. dt. Lit. in d. Schweiz, pp. 671-672. LITERATURE: GERMAN ; HELVETICA:… Read More

1895. Color lithograph. 1895. U ;

Geneva, Jules-Guillaume Fick, 1862. With 1 double-page map of Solferino and environs. 2 leaves, 115 pp. 4to. Modern boards, orig. wrappers mounted (slightly dust-soiled). Geneva, Jules-Guillaume Fick, 1862. First edition, privately printed and not for sale, of this important document which led to the founding of the Red Cross. In summer 1859, Henry Dunant (1828-1910), travelled in northern Italy, seat of a cruel war, and was an eye-witness to appalling scenes of bloodshed at the battle of Solferino. In his book he summarizes his distressing experience of seeing wounded soldiers left to perish on the battlefield for lack of medical assistance. He stresses the need to constitute a permanent society for the aid of war casualties. The idea began to take shape in February 1863, when the "Société Genevoise d'Utilité Publique" set up a committee of five members, including Dunant, to consider his proposal. Two international conferences were held in Geneva in October 1863… Read More

Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 1905. With frontispice portrait. III, 604 pp. 8vo. Somewhat later half leather, spine gilt, front wrapper preserved. Paris, Calmann-Lévy, (1905). Marie Louise Gabrielle of Savoy (1688-1714), daughter of Victor-Amédée II, Duke of Sardinia, was married to Philippe V of Spain under the auspices of Louis XIV. - With ms. number 133 on front wrapper verso. HISTORY (KULTURGESCHICHTE) ; GESCHICHTE, KULTURGESCHICHTE ;