A. Asher & Co. B.V.

Gramatica indostana a mais vulgar que se practica no imperio do gram Mogol, para uso dos muitos reverendos padres missionarios do dito imperio.Lisbon, Impressão Regia, 1805. Small 8vo (17.5 x 11.5 cm). With a woodcut vignette on the title page. Mid-19th-century half gold-tooled tanned sheepskin, marbled paper sides. With the title in gold on the spine, marbled endpapers.

[HINDUSTANI - GRAMMAR]. · 1526

Arte China constante de alphabeto e grammatica comprehendo modelos das differentes composiçoens.Macao, Real collegio de S. José, 1829. 4to. The text is set in roman type and Chinese characters. Half blue cloth, marbled paper sides and pink paste paper endpapers.

GONÇALVES, Joaquim Affonso. · 1781

Parafraze dos proverbios de Salomão em verso portuguez, dedicada ao serenissimo principe da beira nosso senhor.Bahia, Brazil, Manuel Antonio de Silva Serva, 1815. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on title page and with head-pieces built-up from typographical ornaments throughout. Contemporary gold-tooled tanned sheepskin with a black morocco label on the spine, blue sprinkled edges.

OTTONI, José Eloi. · 1764

[Invoice document (albarán) for falconry expenses].[Mallorca?], Saturday, 12 June [1330s?]. 4to (ca. 165 × 230). Catalan manuscript on cotton paper.

[FALCONRY - JAUME III OF MALLORCA].

Sophologium.[Strasbourg, R-printer (Adolf Rusch), ca. 1468]. Folio (21 × 28.2 cm). With the text set in 35 lines in Roman type, spaces for initials show tiny guide letters, rubricated throughout, with 3- and 5-line blue or red Lombardic initials. 18th-century gold-tooled red morocco, with a triple-fillet frame on the boards and elaborate ornaments and a title-label lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, marbled endpapers and bluish flyleaves.

MAGNI, Jacobus [Jacques Legrand]. · 1470

'T Hooge Heemraedschap van Rhynland.[Amsterdam], Isaak Tirion, 1746. Atlas folio (58.5 x 37.3 cm). With 15 double-page engraved plates, all coloured by hand, including 13 maps. The plate size is mostly ca. 44.5 x 55 cm and ca. 41.5 x 55 cm, the map of the Haarlemmermeer has plate size 55 x 63 cm. An illustration of existing and projected sluices for drainage of the polder and another illustration with title, both after drawings by Melchior bolstra. All plates mounted on stubs so that they open flat. Half red sheepskin and intricately marbled paper sides.

DOU, Jan Jansz. (Johannes Dou I), Steven van BROECKHUYSEN and Melchior BOLSTRA. · 1745

Viage del comandante Byron al rededor del mundo, hecho ultimamente de orden del almirantazgo de Inglaterra.Madrid, Don Francisco Mariano Nipho, 1769. 4to. With a full-page, copper-engraved frontispiece, a large, folding, copper-engraved map of the Strait of Magellan in the back with the coasts highlighted in blue, and ornamental head-pieces throughout. Contemporary vellum with the manuscript title and a (later) shelf mark ("143") on the spine.

ORTEGA, Casimiro de (translator), [Charles CLERKE (attributed)]. · 1723

Histoire des avanturiers qui se sont signalez dans les Indes ...Paris, Jacques le Febvre, 1686. 4 parts in 2 volumes. 12mo. With an engraved title page in vol. 1, 3 engraved folding maps (the Caribbean, the Bay of Maracay in Venezuela, and the Isthmus of Panama), 4 engraved plates outside of collation, 5 decorated woodcut initials, 5 woodcut headpieces, and 4 woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary gold tooled mottled brown calf.

EXQUEMELIN, Alexandre Olivier. · 1678

Historia de cosas del oriente primera y segunda parte...Cordoba, Diego Galván, 1595. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With a woodcut coat of arms on the title-page and the divisional title-page for part 2, an elaborate Jesuit woodcut IHS vignette on the verso of the last leaf above the colophon and woodcut initials throughout, with a few typographical or woodcut tail-pieces, al text is set within a simple woodcut frame. Later tree marbled sheepskin.

CENTENO, Amaro. · 2004

O Senhor D. Pedro II imperador do Brasil, biographia.Porto, typographia Pereira da Silva, 1871. 8vo. With a small portrait (5.5 x 9 cm) of the emperor of Brazil, Dom Pedro II, pasted on a separately inserted leaf before the title-page. The original orange publisher's printed paper wrappers show the title, author and imprint information set in a decorative frame on the front wrapper and a similar frame with an ornamental centre-piece on the back wrapper. Gold-tooled calf with the author, title, and year of publication lettered in gold on the front board. Bound with the original orange printed paper wrappers.

CAMPOS, Joaquim Pinto de. · 1819

Memoravel relaçam da perda da nao conceiçam que os Turcos queymàraõ à vista da barra de Lisboa; varios successos das pessoas, que nella cativàraõ. E de scripçaõ nova da Cidade de Argel, & de seu governo; & cousas muy notaveis acontecidas nestes ultimos annos de 1621 atè 1626Lisbon, "Antonio Alvares, 1627" [=Antonio Pedrozo Galram, 1706]. 4to. With two woodcut tail-pieces and woodcut decorated initials (2 different series). Later quarter vellum with paste paper over boards.

CARVALHO MASCARENHAS, João de. · 1589

[Album amicorum of Carl Gottlieb Heinrich with entries written in Bischofswerda and surroundings, The Netherlands, France, Batavia in the Dutch East Indies, Bengal, and Reading, England].[Bischofswerda and surroundings, etc., 1802-1818]. 8vo oblong (12.8 x 18.2 cm). Richly illustrated with 13 watercolour drawings, some full-page, of tombs, a temple of friendship, vases, hunting scene, nice portraits, basket with fruit, etc., 2 views: washed drawings of Cape Town (folding) and Jamestown, St Helena, 2 drawings of children and an altar, 6 (stippled) engraved small plates pasted down of Amor, the military camp of Wallenstein, children and exotic people, and 3 embroideries. Contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf with a lighter brown leather oval inset as a centrepiece in both boards, gold-tooled spine with red and green morocco labels lettered in gold "Denkmal der Freundschaft" and an initial "H" (= Heinrich) in a gold-tooled laurel wreath, gilt edges, marbled endpapers.

[ALBUM AMICORUM - HEINRICH, Carl Gottlieb]. · 1771

[Collection of communist essays for the Arabic-speaking and Middle Eastern market].China, Israel, Russia (USSR), United States, [various publishers], 1968-1984. 16 publications. Several fold-out maps and some works with photographic plates. Including (in chronological order):(1) LANE-POOLE, Stanley. Coins of the Amawi Khalifehs. Catalogue of the collection of Oriental coins belonging to Col. C. Seton Guthrie.Chicago, Argonaut Publishers, 1968.(2) [SOVIET REVISIONISTS versus the CHINESE PEOPLE'S LIBERATION ARMY]. [Title in Arabic:] Down with the new tsars! Soviet revisionists' anti-China atrocities on the Heilung and Wusuli Rivers.Beijing, Foreign Languages Press, 1969.(3) [AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE]. [Title in Arabic:] Search for peace in the Middle East: a report prepared for the American Friends Service Committee.Philadelphia, 1970.(4) [AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE]. [Title in Hebrew:] Search for peace in the Middle East: a report prepared for the American Friends Service Committee.Tel Aviv, 1970.(5) [AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE]. Search for peace in the Middle East: a report prepared for the American Friends Service Committee.[New York], [Hill and Wang], 1970.(6) [AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE]. Search for peace in the Middle East: a report prepared for the American Friends Service Committee.New York, Hill and Wang, 1971. (7) MAO ZEDONG. [Title in Arabic:] On the correct handling of contradictions among the people.Beijing, Foreign Languages Press, 1971.(8) MAO ZEDONG. [Title in Persian:] People of the world, unite and defeat the U.S. aggressors and all their running dogs!Beijing, Foreign Language Press, 1971.(9) MAO, ZEDONG. [Title in Persian:] Talks at the Yenan forum on literature and art.Beijing, Foreign Languages Press, 1971.(10) [1972 NEW YEAR'S DAY EDITORIAL?]. [Title in Arabic:] Unite to win still greater victories.Beijing, Foreign Languages Press, 1972.(11) [RENMIN RIBAO (editor)?]. [Title in Arabic:] A vicious motive, despicable tricks: a criticism of M. Antonioni's anti-China film "China".Beijing, Foreign Languages Press, 1974.(12) [NATIONAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS - CHINA]. [Title in Arabic:] Documents of the first session of the fourth National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China.Beijing, Foreign Languages Press, 1975.(13) LENIN, Vladimir Ilyich. [Title in Arabic:] A letter to American workers.Moscow, Progress Publishers, 1978.(14) LENIN, Vladimir Ilyich. [Title in Arabic:] Two tactics of social-democracy in the Democratic Revolution.Moscow, Progress Publishers, 1978. (15) ENGELS, Friedrich. [Title in Arabic:] Anti-Dühring.Moscow, Progress Publishers, 1984.(16) [REVOLUTIONARY INTERNATIONALIST MOVEMENT]. [Title in Arabic:] Declaration of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement.[1984?].Mainly works in their original publisher's printed paper wrappers, occasionally in a hardcover binding.

[COMMUNIST ESSAYS]. · 1970

Missale ad consuetudinem Ecclesie Romane; ...[Paris], Thielman Kerver, [colophon: anno domini 1506. x. kalendas apriles = 23 March 1507]. 8vo. Printed in red and black throughout in 2 columns, with Kerver’s finely executed criblée armorial device on the title page, a crucifixion woodcut, hundreds of impressions of at least 28 finely executed lombardic initials with decorations, as well as dozens of spaces left for manuscript initials, about half with printed guide letters, and a two-impression plainchant music type. The capitals are rubricated throughout. The main text is set in a rotunda gothic type, and the Canon in a larger textura gothic. The woodcut crucifixion, Kerver’s device and the criblée initials are all coloured by a contemporary hand. Gold- and blind-tooled black goatskin morocco (1st half of the 18th century), the front board dated “ANNO|DOMINI|1506” in gold, and the spine-title “MISSALE|ROMANUM” in gold, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, 2 brass fastenings.

[ROMAN MISSAL]. · 1501

Relacion de la real tragicomedia ...Lisbon, Jorge Rodriguez, 1620. 4to. With the elaborate woodcut coat-of-arms of the dedicatee, the Duke of Braganza, on the title-page, and the woodcut coat of arms of Portugal and/or King Philip II of Portugal at the head of his dedication on leaf [6]r, all text is set within a double fillet frame, and with woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary parchment binding with manuscript title on spine.

MIMOSO, João Sardina. · 1591

Die persisch-islamische Miniaturmalerei. Ein Beitrag zur Kunstgeschichte Irans.Leipzig, Karl W. Hiersemann, 1914. 2 volumes. Folio. With 200 full-page table illustrations in volume 2, mostly black-white. Contemporary blind-tooled red cloth, with the title on the spine, and a decorated title and printer’s mark on the front board.

SCHULZ, Walter Philipp.

Le livre-joujou.Paris, Louis Janet, [24 December 1831]. Large 16mo in 8s (14.5 x 11 cm). With a letterpress title-page, an engraved title page and 12 engraved plates, the engraved title page and all plates with movable parts (moved with tabs), all 13 engravings and their movable parts hand-coloured for the publisher. Further with a wide variety of decorated types. Publisher’s original gold-tooled black half sheepskin, original publisher’s blue paper sides, printed letterpress, the front and back with the same cover-title, with a wood-engraved vignette, marbled edges.

BRÈS, Jean-Pierre. · 1831

Al-salaam alaykum. [= Peace be unto you]. Quanzhou, 990 AH [= 1582 CE]. Folio (ca. 20.5 x 30 cm). Arabic manuscript on paper. Black sini script in nine lines with red verse markers, titles in red, glossing in black. With beautifully illuminated full-page 'Unwan with Chinese influence on designs, in gold, blue, red, green, and black. 18th-century cloth and paper wrappers.

[MANUSCRIPT - CHINESE MUSLIM PRAYERBOOK]. · 1582

Memoire sur le commerce des Negres.Paris, Migneret, 1802. 8vo. Stitched as issued with a paper spine.

FRANK, Ludwig. · 1761

Critical study of the campaign in Mesopotamia up to April 1917. Part II - Maps.Calcutta, Government of India Press, 1925. 25 (of 26) folding maps, sketches etc., as always lacking the "Explanation of the Method of giving Map Co-ordinates adopted in Chapters XIII and XX". Original tan cloth map-case with original printed label to cover.

[MESOPOTAMIAN CAMPAIGN]. · 1923