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Bertrand, J. De l'eau relativement a l'économie rustique, ou traité de l'irrigation des prés. Avignon and Lyon, G. Regnault, 1764. With 7 engraved plates showing schemes for irrigation and one figure in the text. 16, 176 pp. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, back richly gilt with label. (# 5578)

I.N.E.D., Cahier No. 28, 56. Quérard, La France Litt., I, 312. Not in Kress. First edition of this work on rural economy and the irrigation of land. Deals with the advantages of grain and cattle, not only for the population but also for the wealth of the State. Dedicated to the Société Economique de Berne, who awarded three times a prize to Bertrand. Jean Bertrand (1708 - 1777) was a Swiss agriculturist, the author of several books, and pastor at Orbe in Switzerland. - With library stamp on fly-leaf of the 'Fürstlich-Starhember'sche Familien Bibliothek Schloss Eferding'. Nice copy.

(Derodon, D.) Dispute de la messe ou discours sur ces paroles, ceci est mon corps. Genève, Ph. Albert, 1662. Vignette on title. 1 lf., 218 pp. - Bound with: Derodon, D. Le tombeau de la messe. Genève, P. Aubert, 1662. With small woodcut on title. 139 pp. Together 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Modern half vellum. (# 4595)

Ad I: Haag (2nd ed.) V, 258 No. XIV. Peignot I, 99-100. Rare first edition. Ad II: Haag (2nd ed.) V, 256 No. IV Peignot I, 100. Second edition. Derodon fights energetic against the dogma of transubstantiation. 'Le tombeau de la messe' was burnt publicly by the executioner in 1663. The author, protestant professor of philosophy in Nimes, was banished from France. He found exile in Geneva, where he died in 1664. - Very lightly browned; upper margin a bit short, but without loss of text.

Hondius, H., the Elder (Duffel 1573 - Den Haag 1650). Augustinus Marloratus. ca. 1610. Very fine engraved portrait. 165 x 121 mm. (# 5455)

The New Hollstein, Hondius, No. 190. Not in Wurzbach. 2nd state (of 2). Fine imprint on laid paper. With signature H fe(cit) in right upper corner. With engraved name in lower margin 'Augustinus Marloratus' and four lines Latin text underneath: 'Huic Augustino regnabat pectore candor, Huic uni caelum cura laborque fuit. Ex monarcho factus, purus sanctusque minister Divini verbi: martij amore Dei'. In margin right: 'cum privill.' Hendrik Hondius first lived in Mechelen, Antwerpen and Brussel, for a short period in Amsterdam and Leiden, but mostly in Den Haag. The French Reformer Augustin Marlorat (Bar le Duc 1506 - Rouen 1562), minister at Rouen and the author of several theological books, became a Protestant martyr. He worked some time in Geneva and Lausanne (see: Haag, La France Protestante VII, 256-259). - Tear in background, not touching portrait. With margins, top margin trimmed within the borderline.

(Jetzler) Iezler, J. De diuturnitate belli Eucharistici liber unus: in quo causae notantur: per quas hactenus videtur stetisse: quò minus partes litem sustinentes inter se sint reconciliatae. Tiguri (Zürich), Chr. Froschauer, 1584. Several words in Greek. 8, 120 lvs. (last blank). 8vo. Modern boards. (# 1261)

VD 16 J-243. Rudolphi No. 795. Rare first edition. Theological tract by the Swiss dramatist and theologian Johann Jetzler (1543-1622) from Schaffhausen. The prelim. lvs. contain laudatory neolatin verse by loan. Guil. Stuckius, Felix Truebius from Zürich and a long Greek poem by Erhardus Schieggius from Zürich. - Slightly browned.

(Oeschinensee). Lac d'Oschy. (Paris, 1825). Color lithograph designed by E. Pingret, lithographed by Langlois. Ca. 18,4 x 27,9 cm. (# 5796)

Nice view of the Oeschinensee in Kanton Bern in Switzerland. From: Sazerac, Un mois en Suisse, Paris, Sazerac & Duval, 1825. - Slightly foxed, with very ample margins.

Romanet, Antoine Louis (Paris 1742/43-after 1810). Portrait de Jean Grimoux peint par lui même. Paris, D.Ch. Buldet, 1765. Beautiful engraved and etched portrait of the painter Jean Alexis Grimou(x), bust directed to right, lettered in lower margin 'Dédiée à Monsieur Emmanuel Handmann Peintre à Bâle. Tiré de la Coll.n de Tableaux de Mr Handmann - Par son Ami et Serviteur Chr.t de Mechel. Gravé à Bâle par A.L. Romanet en 1765. A Paris chez Buldet rue de Gesvres au Grand Coeur'. 25 x 19,8 cm (plate-mark). (# 5850)

Le Blanc III, 353, No. 26. Nagler XV, 89, No. 6. Beautiful artist's portrait engraved after the painted self-portrait of the painter Jean alias Alexis Grimou (Argenteuil 1678-Paris 1733). The engraver Antoine Louis Romanet worked 1765-1767 with Christian von Mechel in Basel and then returned to Paris. This dedicator Christian von Mechel (Basel 1737-Berlin 1817) was a Swiss engraver. The portrait belonged to the Collection of Paintings of the Swiss painter Jakob Emanuel Handmann (Basel 1718-Bern 1781). - Ample margins. Paper slightly foxed.

Strauss, Carl (Boston 1873-Laax 1957). Aus Graubünden. Nice oblong etching depicting a mountainous Swiss landscape, to the left two alpine huts and a fence, a village and trees in the background; signed in the plate in lower left corner 'Strauss', signed below image with pencil 'Carl Strauss', 'BJe', 'Aus Graubünden'. 9,5 x 22 cm. (# 5925)

The American painter and etcher Carl Sumner Strauss was active and died in Graubünden in Switzerland. See Thieme-Becker XXXII, 172. - Ample margins. Framed under glass.

Stuckius, J.G. Carolus Magnus redivivus, hoc est. Caroli Magni Germanorum, Gallorum, Italorum... monarchae cum Henrico M. Gallorum & Navarrorum Rege... comparatio. Tiguri (Zürich), J. Wolf with types of Froschauer, 1592. On title woodcut double-portrait of Charlemagne and Henri IV of France. Woodcut printer's mark at the end. 79, 1 lvs. 4to. 19th century half calf; gilt lettering on back. (# 1309)

VD 16 S-9772. Rudolphi No. 861. Only edition of this elaborate comparison of Charlemagne and Henri IV (1553-1610), 'the Great', king of France. The work deals in detail with their qualities as rulers and discusses also their studies, eating and drinking customs, religion etc. The prelim. lvs. include laudatory poems for the author by Heinrich Wolf of Zürich, Gabriel Gerber and Joh. Turnowski. Joh. Wilh. Stucki (1542-1607), was a prominent Swiss theologian and philosopher, supporter of the Calvinists. - A few neat marginal repairs at the beginning; light waterstain in inner blank margins of some lvs; slightly browned.

Vautier, Otto (Düsseldorf 1863-Genève 1919). Half nude standing woman and sitting man in a bedroom. Before 1905. Watercolour on thick paper. The woman leans against a bed, the man is sitting in front of a window, underneath in pencil 'No. 3'. At the reverse side a drawing in black chalk, showing several figures, at bottom name 'Otto Vautier'. 25,5 x 33,3 cm. (# 5843)

Otto Vautier worked first in Germany in München, Dachau, and Überlingen, from 1890-92 in Paris, and then in Switzerland, first in Wallis and from 1906 in Genève. He is especially known for his fine paintings and drawings of women. See on him Thieme-Becker XXXIV, 142-143. - On verso collector's stamp of Victor Sieger (Wien 1843-Wien 1905), with number 522. Sieger worked as a painter in München, his collection was sold in München in 1905 (Lugt No. 2377).

Verronius (Werro), S. Chronica ecclesiae et monarchiarum a condito mundo. Friburgi in Helvetia (Freiburg in Switzerland), W. Maess, 1599. Title with vignette and border of type-ornaments, some nice initials, head- and tail-pieces. 4 lvs., 534 (recte 536) pp., 4 lvs. 4to. 19th century boards (one corner slightly damaged). (# 5608)

VD 16 W-2096. Schnürer, Die Anfänge des Buchdrucks in Freiburg/Schweiz, No. 72. Not in the STC of German Books. Not in Lonchamp. First edition. World-chronicle from the Creation until the author's own time, with special emphasis on the Swiss Confederacy (Eidgenossenschaft). Contains also a history of the kings of Poland and Hungary, the history of the persecution of the Church in England, and the religious wars in France. Sebastian Werro (Freiburg/Schweiz 1555 - Freiburg/Schweiz 1614) was an influential theologian and leader of the Catholic reform in Switzerland. Very extensive sections of this work are devoted to Jewish history: 'De iudicibus Israëlitis', 'De Regibus Israelis & Prophetis', 'De Synagoga', possibly influenced by Werro's pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1581. - Small hole in title affecting title-border, library stamp on verso of title, lightly browned.