A. Asher & Co. B.V.

Kort verhael van den oorspronck en onderganck der Loevesteynsche factie. Mitsgaders een vertoogh van ’t recht dat de gemeente in Zeelandt gehad heeft, om in den jare 1672. Sijn Hoogheyt Prins Willem Hendrik, … te herstellen … ende hoe de bedienaers des goddelijcken woorts in Zeelandt haer daar omtrent gedragen hebben …[The Hague or Amsterdam?], voor de liefhebbers van Sijn Hoogheyd, 1673. 4to. Modern brown wrappers.

[ORANGISTS]. · 1673

Den oprechten onvervalsten Deventersen waersegger. Vertoont in een t’ samen-spraek tusschen twee burgeren der stadt Deventer, namentlick: Jan Capelle, en Pont-Keersen Arent.Zwolle [or Amsterdam?], printed by “Anthony Korf-Uyle in de Rouserijck, naest 't Over-ysselsche Uylen-Nest” [Israël de Paull?], 1673. 4to. With a woodcut decoration on the title-page (triangular, with fruits and flowers). 19th-century decorated wrappers.

[WIJLICK, Joan van?]. · 1672

Historie der Hollandsche staatsregering, tot aan het jaar 1795. Of geschied- en staatkundig onderzoek, in welken zin de staten van Holland, gedurende de republikeinsche regering, zijn geweest de wettige souvereine vertegenwoordigers van 't gansche volk van Holland, of der geheele natie.Amsterdam, Wouter Brave 1802-1805. 5 volumes. 8vo. With one folding plate, in vol. 1 between pp. 462 and 463. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf, red spine labels lettered in gold, green ribbon markers.

KLUIT, Adriaan. · 1795

A small collection of valuable tracts, relating to the herring fishery; comprehending John Keymer's celebrated observations on the Dutch fisheries, in 1601. The grand pensionary John De Witt's sentiments on the same subject, and a discourse shewing the necessity, and proving the practicability, of establishing a British herring fishery, by Sir Roger L'Estrange. To which an introduction is prefixed.London, printed for Ralph Griffiths, 1751. 4 parts in 1 volume: an introduction and three tracts relating to the herring fishery. Small 8vo. An introduction and three tracts relating to the herring fishery, published together as a single edition. 20th-century half calf.

KEYMER, John; WITT, Johan de; L'ESTRANGE, Sir Roger. · 1584

Dam-praetje tusschen vier Amsterdamsche Burgers: Waermondt, Geerlof, Stouthart en Heb-recht. Handelende van de oude privilegien, vryheden, en gerechtigheden van de burgery en schuttery.[Amsterdam], voor de Doele-schutters, 1672. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title-page, and a woodcut initial. Modern light yellow marbled wrappers, with a printed label on the front.

[ORANGIST MOVEMENT]. · 1672

De balneis omnia quae extant apud Graecos, Latinos, et Arabas, tam medicos quàm quoscunque caeterarum artium probatos scriptores: qui vel integris libris, vel quoquo alio modo hanc materiam tractauerunt: nuper hinc inde accurate conquisita & excerpta, atque in vnum tandem hoc volumen redacta. In quo aquarum ac thermarum omnium, quae in toto ferè orbe terrarum sunt, metallorum item, & reliquorum mineralium naturae, vires, atque vsus exquisitissime explicantur: indicibus quatuor appositis, ...Venice, (colophon:) heirs of Lucantonio Giunta [= Tomasso Giunta], 1553. Folio. With 5 full-page woodcuts with plans and views of mineral baths and a woodcut title vignette and initials. 18th-century vellum, manuscript title on spine.

[MINERAL BATHS - BALNEOLOGY]. · 1915

Nachrichten von dem Leben und den Seereisen des berühmten Capitain Cook.Reval [= Tallinn, Estonia] & Leipzig, Albrecht und Compagnie, 1780.With: (2) Briefe aus England historisch-statistisch und artistischen Inhalts. 1s Heft.Reval [= Tallinn, Estonia] & Leipzig, Albrecht und Compagnie, 1780.2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With a woodcut ship on the title page of ad 2 and woodcut headpieces in both works. Contemporary half calf, brown sprinkled paper sides, brown morocco spine label with title in gold.

[COOK, James (subject)]. · 1775

Naturhistorische Bilder-Gallerie aus dem Thierreiche.[Zurich or Schaffhausen?], Brodtmann, [1816 and later] (title-page of the "ersten Heft": Lindau, 1816). Heft 1-33 including the supplements, bound in 1 volume. Large folio (46 x 38 cm). With a lithographed title-page and 144 lithographs drawn by Brodtmann himself showing humans, other mammals, reptiles and amphibians, birds, insects, etc. 19th-century brown marbled paper over boards.

BRODTMANN, Karl Joseph. · 1787

Grammaire Turque ou méthode courte et facile pour apprendre la langue Turque ...Istanbul, [Ibrahim Müteferrika & Zaïd Aga Effendi], 1730. 4to. With a double-page engraved table of Arabic letters in 7 different styles. Set in roman type with frequent Turkish words and phrases in naskh Arabic type. Contemporary blind-tooled calf.

[HOLDERMANN, Jean-Baptiste Daniel]. · 1726

Vetus Graecia, illustrata studio & operâ Ubbonis Ebbii. Opus distinctum in tomos tres: quorum I. Descriptionum habet regionum à Graecis habitatum … II. Complectitur Res gestas Graecorum. III. Representat Statum …praecipuarum ejus gentis rerumpublicarum …Leiden, Bonaventura & Abraham Elzevier, 1626. 3 parts in 2 volumes. Large 8vo. With the printer's device of the Elzeviers on all three title-pages, woodcut initials. Uniformly bound in contemporary vellum.

EMMIUS, Ubbo. · 1547

Veris oeconomiae animalis, seu potius humanae, principiis innixae pathologiae cerebri delineation practica: in qua morborum soporosorum, per notas characteristicas, distinction: nec non spasmorum accuratior distribution traditor.Amsterdam, Gerardus Borstius I, 1704. Small 4to. Title-page in red and black, with Borstius’s woodcut palm-tree device, woodcut decorated initials (2 series) and tailpieces. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum with a centerpiece on each board, title in ink on spine.

MOOR, Bartholomaeus de. · 1649

Lexicon Hebraicum et Chaldaicum: complectens omnes voces, tam primas quam derivatas, quae in Sacris Bibliis, Hebraeâ … extant. ...Basel, heirs of Ludovicus König, 1645 (dedication signed 17 August 1647). 8vo. With woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary vellum.

BUXTORF, Johannes. · 1564

Kerk-zeeden ende gewoonten die huiden in gebruik zijn onder de Jooden ...Amsterdam, Timotheus ten Hoorn, 1683.Including: Richard SIMON; Abraham GODART (transl.). Vergelyking der Joodsche ceremonien of kerk-zeeden. ...2 works in 1 volume, issued as 1. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece, dated 1684, of a circumcision and 4 folding engraved plates. Also with woodcut vignettes on the title pages and woodcut initials. Contemporary vellum, manuscript title on spine.

MODENE, Leo de; Abraham GODART (transl.); Richard SIMON. · 1637

Diario di un viaggio in Arabia Petrea (1865).Including: Atlante per servire al Diario di un viaggio in Arabia Petrea.Torino, Vincenzo Bona, 1872. 2 volumes. Royal 4to (31 x 27 cm). With 2 title-pages printed in red and black, each with the author's wood-engraved decorated GAV-monogram and motto; vol. 1 with 2 folding lithographed maps (1 printed in black, brown and blue, with the route coloured by hand in red, of the Sinai Peninsula; the other in black and white, of the city of Petra); 40 mounted albumen prints after paintings by Emile Pierre Metzmacher (mainly 11.5 x 16 cm), individually mounted with letterpress captions on the mount; and 2 engraved plates; vol. 2 with 6 numbered engraved plates of molluscs and insects. The Diario in the original publisher's maroon cloth with the author's crowned monogram gold--blocked on the front board and spine. The Atlante in the original publisher's blue cloth, with the author's crowned monogram and the title gold-blocked on the front board. Both volumes with gilt edges, orange endpapers and with tissue guard leaves tipped in, protecting the albumen prints and engraved plates.

VISCONTI, Giammartino Arconati. · 1865

Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen exhibens characteres plantarum, quas annis 1802-1805 ...Nuremberg, Leonard Schrag, 1827. With: (2) BROWN, Robert. Supplementum primum prodromi florae Novae Hollandiae: exhibens Proteaceas novas quas in Australasia legerunt DD. Baxter, Caley, Cunningham, Fraser et Sieber; ...London, Richard Taylor, 1830. 2 works in 1 volume. Large 8vo. 20th-century half brown morocco, marbled sides, title in gold on spine, red sprinkled edges.

BROWN, Robert. · 1802

Information for new engagements on joining the Kuwait Oil Company, Limited, Kuwait.Al Ahmadi, Kuwait Oil Company, 18 June 1952. Small folio (33 x 20.5 cm). Duplicated typescript, printed on the rectos only in purple ink, probably with a spirit duplicator. Loose sheets, stapled together at the left top corner with holes punched in the left margin.

KUWAIT OIL COMPANY. · 1934

Relation du voyage à la recherche de La Pérouse, fait par ordre de l'Assemblée constituante, pendant les années 1791, 1792, et pendant la 1ere. et la 2e. année de la république Françoise.Paris, Hendrik J. Jansen, An VIII [= 1799/1800]. 2 volumes. 8vo. With extensive tables at the end giving daily data from the ship's log and vocabulary lists for various indigenous languages. Contemporary half calf, marbled endpapers, red edges.With: (2) Atlas pour server à la Relation du voyage à la recherche de La Pérouse …Paris, F. Schoell, 1811. Large folio (51 x 34.5 cm). With an engraved title-page, a large folding map (50 x 73 cm) showing the route taken by the expedition. Also with 43 further plates (ca. 45 x 30 cm), Contemporary half tan sheepskin, "maroquin" chemical-marbled sides.

LA BILLARDIERE, Jacques Julien Houtoe de. · 1811

Icones Zootomicae. Mit Originalbeiträgen der Heerren G.J. Allman, C. Gegenbaur, Th. H. Huxley, Alb. Kölliker, H. Müller, M.S. Schultze, C.Th.E. von Siebold und F. Stein. Herausgegeben von Julius Victor Carus. Erste Hälfte oder Tafel I-XXIII: Die Wirbellosen Thiere.Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann, 1857. Large folio (45.5 x 34.5 cm). With 23 engraved plates with many figures (many contemporary hand-coloured) by C. Haas, J.C. Loedel and Wagenschieber with 23 leaves of explanatory text. Half green morocco, brown paper sides.

CARUS, Julius Victor. · 1812

La civilisation monastique irlandaise aux Ve et VIe siècles.Lyon, [unpublished typescript], 1944-1945. Folio (27 x 20.5 cm). With 1 duplicated manuscript map. Stiff brown paper wrappers, black cloth spine.

LORCIN, Aimée. · 1922

[RAF aircraft, pilots, etc. during the Afridi Redshirt Rebellion on India’s North-West Frontier].[India and Pakistan, especially their border region], 1929-1930. A collection of photographic silver-gelatin prints of aircraft, the squadron, aerial reconnaissance etc., made and compiled by Thomas William George Eady, flying officer of the no. 28 Squadron of the RAF. It comprises 3 photo albums (contemporary with the photos), 53 loose photos (20 x 15 cm, some with manuscript comments on the back), 5 related documents (dated 1928-1932) and a separate photographic portrait of Eady, in total nearly 2000 prints. The first and largest album, covers 1929, oblong folio (30 x 39.5 cm) in blue cloth with brown cord ties, contains 183 prints in various sizes, mounted on 16 brown paper leaves with India ink captions by Eady in English. The second album, oblong 4to (33.5 x 24 cm) in green cloth with brown cord ties, contains 72 prints made during the Afridi Redshirt Rebellion, in various sizes and mounted on 20 brown paper leaves with neat India ink captions in English by Eady. The small third album, oblong small 4to (19 x 27 cm), consisting of 4 brown paper leaves tied together with black cord ties, contains 33 prints in various sizes mounted on the leaves, some duplicating prints in the largest album, with larger captions in black ink, probably not by Eady.

EADY, Thomas William George. · 1929