A. Asher & Co. B.V.

Plain astronomy. Manuscript volume of notes on practical astronomy and mathematics.[England?, ca. 1777/1781?]. 4to. Manuscript volume of notes on practical astronomy and mathematics in English, written in ink on Dutch paper with a Maid of Dordrecht watermark without countermark. The leaves are numbered from the front, 101 and 26 leaves of text and diagrams, 39 blank leaves in the middle, last 26 leaves in reverse order, illustrated with several astronomical and mathematical diagrams, including one of a solar system. Late 18th-century half calf, marbled sides.

[MANUSCRIPT - ASTRONOMY]. · 1780

Kabinet der natuurlyke historien, wetenschappen, konsten en handwerken, geopent met de maanden January en February 1719. Verciert en opgeheldert met kopere plaaten.Including: MEERSCH, Pieter van der. Register tot alle de deelen van het kabinet ... van W. v. Ranouw.Amsterdam, Hendrik Strik; Zacharia Moelé and Johannes de Ruiter; Balthasar Lakeman, 1730; 1719-1727; 1732. 21 parts in 9 volumes. 8vo. With an identical engraved allegorical frontispiece in volumes 1-8, different woodcut vignettes on the title pages and 49 numbered engraved maps and plates, all but one folding. Contemporary vellum, manuscript title on the spines.

RANOUW, Willem van. · 1670

Thesaurus pauperum Petri Hispani pontificis Romani, philosophi ac medici dictissimi, de medendis morbis humani corporis liber: experimenta particularia per simplicia medicamenta ex probatissimis autoribus, & propiis observationibus collecta, continens.Frankfurt, heirs of Christian Egenolff, 1578 8vo. With title-page in red and black, Egenolff’s woodcut burning heart device below the colophon, 3 woodcut arabesque tailpieces, and 3 woodcut decorated initials (3 different series). With the main text in italic type but the preface in roman. Modern half sheepskin.

JOHN XXI, Pope. · 1537

Den vervaerlijcken Oost-Indischen eclipsis vertoont aende Vereenichde Provincien door de participanten van d' Oost-Indische Compagnie. Met een oodtmoedich beklach aen de hoogh moghende heeren Staten: over de groote abuysen ende disordren deser Compagnie, mits de groote swaricheden die uyt dese te verwachten staen.[1625]. Small 4to. With a small woodcut on the title-page. Modern half red faux snake-skin, new endpapers and paste-downs.

[VOC - MIDDELGEEST, Simon van]. · 1622

Ooghen-salve tot verlichtinghe, van alle participanten, so vande Oost, ende West-Indische Compaignien, mitsgaders verscheyden notabele consideratien, aengaande de Vereeninghe van de Oost- ende-[!] West-Indische Compaignien, met malkanderen. The Hague, “Lieven de Lange” [Ludolph Breeckevelt?], April 1644. Small 4to. With a woodcut factotum opening the text and a square decoration built up from typographic acorns and ornaments on the title-page. Modern half red faux snakeskin.

[VOC & WIC]. · 1602

Het algemeen historisch, geographisch en genealogisch woordenboek, vervattende de gehele wereldlyke geschiedenis...The Hague, Pieter Husson, Thomas Johnson, Johannes van Duren, Charles le Vier; Delft, Reinier Boitett, 1724-1737. 8 volumes. Large folio (41.5 x 27.5 cm). Vol. 1 with an impressive engraved frontispiece by Bernard Picart and an engraved armorial dedication to Isack van Hoornbeek. Each volume except the first has an engraving at the head of the first page depicting a library with visitors in it. Contemporary and uniform mottled half calf, marbled sides, gold-tooled spine with red label.

LUISCIUS, A.G.

Il Mappamondo di Fra Mauro Camaldolese descritto ed illustrato. [Mappa mundi].Venice, [Picotti], 1806. Folio. With a full-page engraving and a folding engraved fascimile of Fra Mauro's famous Mappa mundi. Contemporary tree calf, brown morroco spine label with title in gold, marbled endpapers.

FRA MAURO and Placido ZURLA. · 1450

[Collection of watercolour drawings with manuscript captions].[Augsburg], 1849-1853. 13 loose wove paper folio leaves and 1 loose wove paper bifolium. Large folio (55 x 35 cm). With 64 watercolours and manuscript captions on 15 leaves (each leaf drawn on one side only).

SOYTER, Magnus. · 1806

[Album with hand-drawn jewelry models].[Paris?, in or soon after 1872]. Oblong (17.5 x 28 cm). With 101 very neat drawings in ink, some hand-coloured (blue and yellow). Half purple morocco and purpleish-brown weave-grained cloth sides, with "album" lettered in gold on the front board.

[JEWELRY MODELS]. · 1868

Nova e curiosa relaçam da embaixada, que mandou o Graõ Mogor, ao Rey de Inglaterra. Tirada de varias cartas fidedignas, que fizeraõ varios aleado aos correspondentes, que tem nesta cidade.Lisbon, 1757. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on title-page and a woodcut tailpiece. Modern morocco with gold-tooled title on front cover.

ALAMGIR II, Muhammad 'Aziz al-Daulah (Emperor of Hindustan). · 1757

[Photograph album showing hunting society in Britsh India].[Cambridge, Mumbai, New Delhi], Scott & Wilkinson, Clifton & Co, Hamilton Studios and Kinsey Bros., [ca. 1933-1935]. With 105 photographs mounted in the album (ranging from 16 x 28 cm to 4 x 6 cm), 2 photographs loosely inserted and a watercolour mounted at the back (11.5 x 21 cm). Oblong half morocco photograph album by W. Johnson & sons, London.

[PHOTOGRAPHY - INDIA - HUNTING]. · 1930

The geographical journal. Vol. LXXXIV. No. 3.Beccles, William Clowes & sons, 1934. 4to. With several full-page black and white photographs and maps. Original publisher's blue printed paper wrappers.

CADMAN, John.

Exchange of notes concerning an interest-free development loan by the government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the government of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.London, Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1970. 4to. With the UK coat-of-arms on title-page. Text in English and Arabic in naskh type. Stapled.

MU'AMMAR, Sayid Ya'coub; B.L. STRACHAN. · 1969

Exemplaar-boek inhoudende verscheyde nodige geschriften, tot dienst van de leergierige ieught.Amsterdam, Wilhem de Broen, [1721 or later]. Oblong folio (20 x 30 cm). With 51 plates drawn and engraved by the author. With a loose transparent paper sheet with a calligraphic drawing in ink. Contemporary red roan (sheepskin), marbled sides.

PERLING, Ambrosius. · 1657

Die Familie el-Zubeir. Der Tod des Muc'ab ben el-Zubeir aus den Muwaffakîjat des Abu Abdallah el-Dimaschkí. Arabisch und Deutsch.Göttingen, Dieterich'sche Verlags-Buchhandlung, 1878. Large 4to. With 1 folding genealogical table of the Zubayr family bound at the end of the book. Contemporary half blue cloth, decorated paper sides, grey spine label with title in gold.

WÜSTENFELD, Ferdinand (transl.); Abu Abdallah AL-DIMASCHKÍ (ed.); Zubair ibn BAKKAR. · 1878

Schat-kamer of kunst der stuurlieden, inhoudende: een duidelyke onderwysinge in de navigatie, aangaande het gene de stuurlieden noodwendig behooren te weten.Amsterdam, widow of Gerard Hulst van Keulen, 1812.With: (2) FLORYN, Evert. Tafelen, bevattende de sinussen, tangenten en secanten, van minuut tot minuut voor ieder boog van het quadrant, in hunne natuurlyke getallen, op een' radius van 10.000.000, ... als mede de logarithmen der gewoone getallen, in hunne natuurlyke orde van opvolging, van 1 tot 10.000.Amsterdam, widow of Gerard Hulst van Keulen, 1815.With: (3) Geographische tafel behelzende de graden der breedte op poolshoogte en lengte of middag-cirkel van de meest bekende steden, rivieren, kapen, baayen. ...Amsterdam, widow of Gerard Hulst van Keulen, 1812.3 works in 1 volume, the first in 2 parts. Large 8vo. Ad 1: with 4 folding plates (1 of a compass and the other 3 on drawing "flat" maps and maps with an enlarged latitude), many mathematical and geographical woodcuts in the text, some tables in the text. Ad 2: the whole work consisting of tables and with some woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary goatskin parchment over stiff boards, blue sprinkled edges.

VRIES, Klaas de; Evert FLORYN (editor); S. HOLLANDER (compiler). · 1716

Chirurgicorum omniu[m] primarii, lib. tres.I. De cauterio cum igne & medicinis acutis persingula corporis humani membra ...II. De sectione & perforatione, phlebotomia, & ventosis ...III. De restauratione & curatione dislocationis me[m]brorum ...Preceded by: [THEODORUS PRISCIANUS] (mis-attributed to “Octavius HORATIANUS”). Rerum medicarum lib. quatuor ... Per Herma[n]num Comitem a Neüenar, nuper restitutus autor.Strasbourg, Johannes Schott, 1532 (colophon: 26 February). 2 works in 1 edition. Folio in 6s (32.5 x 21 cm). With a 5-piece woodcut frame on the title page (each side piece with 2 roundels containing a portrait and coat of arms), 8 full-page woodcuts by Hans Wechtlin (ca. 1480-post 1526) and numerous woodcuts in the text. Set in Venetian-style roman types, with 14 mm typographic Roman capitals (probably by Peter Schoeffer the younger) used as initials. Later half sheepskin, with the title in ink on the foot edge.

ABULCASIS (Abu al-Quasim Khalaf Ibn Al-Abbas). · 1497

Hasa: an Arabian oasis.[London, W. Clowes, March 1924]. 4to. With 9 black and white photograph illustrations. Modern blue wrappers.

MACKIE, J.B.

Notes on the present state of the Karun river, between Shushter and the Shat-el-Arab.[London, Wiley, October 1891]. 4to. With a lithograph illustration in the text. Modern blue wrappers.

LYNCH, Henry Blosse. · 1888

Musil’s explorations in Northern Arabia, 1908-9.[London, W. Clowes, May 1910]. With a full-page black and white lithographed map (19x12.5 cm). 4to. With a full-page lithographed black and white map. Modern blue wrappers.

PEUCKER, Karl. · 1859