A. Asher & Co. B.V.

Operations in Waziristan 1919-1920. Confidential. Compiled by the General Staff, Army Headquarters, India, 1921. Calcutta, Superintendent of Government Printing, 1921. 8vo. With frontispiece, 31 plates, 7 maps (3 in pocket on inside of back board), and 8 panoramas, mostly folding.Contemporary half calf, green cloth sides, gold-stamped red spine labels.

[INDIA – ARMY, GENERAL STAFF BRANCH]. · 1919

€2,800.00 ($3,086.11 | £2,335.94 | ¥492,812)

X, 187, [1] pp.First edition of the British-Indian army’s official account of the 1919-20 Waziristan campaign, marked "Confidential" on the title-page. The operations followed unrest that arose in the aftermath of the Third Anglo-Afghan War; they were conducted in the mountain...

Recueil des Arrêtés et Décisions de la Z. O. (24 Octobre 1918 - 31 Août 1920). Interessant toutes les branches de l’Administration: Administration Civils, Justice, Finances, Hygiène Publique, Agriculture, Douanes. Beirut, Impimerie des Lettres J. G., 1924. 8vo. Original printed wrappers.

[FRENCH MANDATE FOR SYRIA AND THE LEBANON]. · 1918

€1,500.00 ($1,653.27 | £1,251.40 | ¥264,006)

188 pp., 2 final blank leaves.First edition of ac ollection of laws and regulations for Lebanon (Zone Ouest) passed by the French under their mandate for Syria and the Lebanon from October 1918 until the end of August 1920, two days prior to the declaration of independence of ...

[Promissory note for Venetian customs taxes on goods from Damascus].Venice, 22 Feb. / 5 March 1488. Italian notarial document on vellum (44.5 x 16 cm; text block ca. 27 x 14 cm). Written in two fine cursive hands.

[DAMASCUS – VENETIAN TAXES].

€7,500.00 ($8,266.36 | £6,257.00 | ¥1,320,032)

A promissory note drawn up by a notary public of the Venetian Republic: Francesco Marcello, a Venetian gentleman owed the main commissioner of Venice 3300 ducats, for customs taxes in Damascus. The creditor renounces all other claims, and Marcello is to pay the debt in 11 annu...

A series of lithographic drawings from sketches by Robert Clive, comprising the undermentioned subjects, lying principally between the Persian Gulf & the Black Sea ...London, Dickinson & Co., (1852). Large folio (45.5 x 590 mm). With 9 tinted lithographs on 8 plates (2 on 1 leaf) after Robert Clive. 3 leaves of letterpress text (plus 1 repeat ), printed on rectos only. Modern half morocco , marbled sides, spine title and decorations in gold. With the original publisher’s printed front wrapper bound in.

CLIVE, Robert. · 1827

€18,000.00 ($19,839.28 | £15,016.79 | ¥3,168,076)

First edition of a rare lithographic plates book of Mesopotamian antiquities and views. The first instalment of a total of three, containing nine lithographs: 1. Sculptures at Nimroud-Lions; 2. Moosul; 3. Hît; 4. Distant view of Mount Ararat; 5. Arab encampment near the Birs N...

Grosser Atlas über die gantze Welt.Nuremberg, Homann heirs (printed by Johann Heinrich Gottfried Bieling), 1737[-1762]. Folio (34 x 53.5 cm). Letterpress title-page printed in red and black with an engraved map of the northern hemisphere in a polar projection, engraved frontispiece with a globe and a dozen allegorical figures (with a decorated cartouche at the foot giving the title in Latin), engraved portrait of Homann by Johann Wilhelm Winter after Johannes Kenckel, and 98 engraved maps (93 double-page, 1 larger folding in 2 sheets and 4 half-page together on a double-page plate) many with further inset maps and/or views, all with decorated cartouches, often with pictorial decoration or coats of arms; and 3 double-page engraved tables of topographic data. With the engraved title-page and all maps and tables (except for the small north polar projection on the letterpress title-page) coloured by an 18th-century hand, the maps in part or in outline. Gold-tooled red morocco (ca. 1800?) in a neo-classical style, from the workshop of or in the style of Georg Friedrich Krauss (Vienna).

HOMANN, Johann Baptist. · 1737

€85,000.00 ($93,685.47 | £70,912.61 | ¥14,960,359)

[3], [1 blank], 40 pp. plus frontispiece, portrait and 99 double-page plates.The Lord Wardington copy of the last edition (1737 with later substitutions by the publisher, probably issued ca. 1762) of Germany’s most famous 18th-century world atlas in an exceptionally fine bindi...

Aesopi Phrygis, et aliorum fabulae. Quorum nomina sequens pagella indicabit. Elegantissimis iconibus in gratiam studiosae iuventutis illustratae … Cum indice locupletissimo.Venice, Niccolò Polo, 1592. 12mo. With a printer’s device with an ornamental frame on the title-page, and 187 small woodcut illustrations. Contemporary limp vellum with overlapping fore edge.

AESOP. · 1563

€2,250.00 ($2,479.91 | £1,877.10 | ¥396,009)

282, [6] pp.Rare Latin edition of Aesop’s fables with 187 woodcut illustrations, based on the first illustrated edition of the "Aesopus Dorpii" to be published in Italy, by Dominicus Nicolinus at Venice in 1563 (Bodemann 31.3; Thoen 135). This Latin prose collection of fables ...

Naukeurige beschrijvinge der Afrikaensche gewesten van Egypten, Barbaryen, Lybien, Biledulgerid, Negroslant, Guinea, Ethiopiën, Abyssinie: vertoont in de benamingen, grenspalen, revieren, steden, gewassen, dieren, zeeden, drachten, talen, rijkdommen, godsdiensten en heerschappyen. ...Including: Naukeurige beschrijvinge der Afrikaensche eylanden ...Amsterdam, Jacob van Meurs, 1676. 3 works in 1 volume. Folio (33 x 22 cm). With a richly engraved allegorical frontispiece, a large folding engraved map of Africa (44.5 x 56 cm), 14 double-page engraved maps of parts of Africa and the adjacent islands, 27 double-page and 1 larger folding engraved plates and views, and 55 half-page engraved views, plans, illustrations of costumes, animals, plants, etc. in the text. All illustrations coloured by a contemporary hand. Contemporary vellum at a later date with elaborate blind-tooled decorations, including oriental portraits. With 2 decorated brass clasps, signed B-I.

DAPPER, Olfert. · 1636

€45,000.00 ($49,598.19 | £37,541.97 | ¥7,920,190)

[6], 428, 349, [16]; [1], 121, [4] pp.First impression of the second revised Dutch edition of Dapper's famous description of Africa. The Amsterdam author Olfert Dapper (1636-1689) was celebrated by his contemporaries for his descriptions of far away lands. He started his writi...

Fabularum libri quinque, cum notis Danielis Hartnacci, Pomerani, historicis, ritualibus, moralibus, & philologicis.Lübeck, Johann Wiedemeyer (printed by Heinrich Urban in Rudolfstadt), 1697.With: (2) PHAEDRUS. Fünff Bücher seiner Fabeln, oder Gedichte und Geschichte... Frankfurt & Leipzig, for Johann Wiedermayer in Lübeck, 1696.2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With an engraved plate and an engraved frontispiece, title-page in red and black. Marbled paper over boards with vellum spine label.

PHAEDRUS. · 1642

€1,200.00 ($1,322.62 | £1,001.12 | ¥211,205)

[12], 752, [48]; [4], 356 pp.Ad 1: Phaedrus’s Fables in the original Latin verse (adapted from Aesop’s Greek prose), here in the first edition to include the incredibly extensive annotations, with abundant historical, moral and philological notes and explanations by Daniel Har...

Fables de Phèdre Affranchi d’Auguste, en Latin et en François, Avec les Fables de La Fontaine qui y sont relatives; L’interlinaire des deux premiers livres suivi ds Regles de Syntaxe … Le dictionnaire des termes dont l’Auteur a fait usage, &c.Amsterdam, Marc Michel Rey, 1769. 8vo. With an ornamental vignette on title. Mottled calf over boards, ribbed spine with red title label lettered in gold, marbled endpapers, blue painted edges

PHAEDRUS - LA FONTAINE. · 1738

€450.00 ($495.98 | £375.42 | ¥79,202)

[8], 84, 308 pp.Amsterdam reprint of an edition published in Rouen of this interesting School edition of the Phaedrus fables (pp. 1-205) in Latin verses with notes underneath and a French translation in prose on facing pages, together with a choice collection of 49 fables of D...

Ezopische fabelen van Fedrus, gevryden slaef des Keizers Augustus. In Nederduitsch dicht vertaelt en met aenmerkingen verrykt door D. van Hoogstraten. Met nieuwe konst-platen.Amsterdam, Steven van Esveldt, 1769. 8vo. Title-page in red and black, with an engraved frontispiece by Simon Fokke and a vignette on title-page, and 16 engraved plates with 6 fable illustrations each, also by Fokke, mostly after the illustrations for the first Latin Hoogstraten edition (1701) by Jan van Vianen. Contemporary boards covered with sprinkled paper, manuscript spine label.

PHAEDRUS. (David van HOOGSTRATEN, trans.). · 1658

€850.00 ($936.85 | £709.13 | ¥149,604)

[50], 259, [1 blank], [28] pp.Third(?) edition of David van Hoogstraten Dutch verse translation of Phaedrus’s fables. Van Hoogstraten (1658-1724), prorector of the Amsterdam Latin School and prolific Dutch and Neo-Latin poet, was an esteemed linguist and philologist who edited...

Fabulae Aesopiae, curis posterioribus, omnes fere, emandatae, accesserunt plus quam CLXX nova; tum etiam observations, grammaticae praesertim, complures, et Index copiosus, nec desunt … Hominum et pecudum figurae elegantes.Mannheim, Typis Academicis, 1768 [colophon: 1767]. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With a frontispiece and 15 engraved plates by Egid Verhelst (1733-1804). Contemporary vellum with spine label, red edges.

AESOP. (Francois Joseph DESBILLONS, comp.). · 1711

€950.00 ($1,047.07 | £792.55 | ¥167,204)

[2], 58, 290, [2], 291-615 pp.First illustrated edition of the vast complete collection of Aesop fables, arranged in 15 books to give a total of 532 fables in Latin verse, with extensive footnotes, brought together by Francois Joseph Terrasse Desbillons (1711-1789), a Jesuit a...

Phaedri Augusti liberti fabularum Aesopiarum libri V. Et novarum fabularum appendix. Cura et studio Petri Burmanni. Editio septima.Berlin, Gottlieb August Langius, 1767. 12mo. With woodcut vignette on title-page and some woodcut head- and tailpieces.Contemporary vellum, manuscript title on spine.

AESOP. · 1668

€395.00 ($435.36 | £329.54 | ¥69,522)

XVI, 98, [112] pp."Seventh" edition of Phaedrus’s Latin verse translation and adaptation of 94 Aesop fables, without the commentaries by Gude, Rittershausen and others, in the redaction by Pieter Burman (1668-1741), professor of eloquence and history at the Utrecht University,...

Aesopi Phrygis fabulae elegantissimis eiconibus veras animalium species ad vivum adumbrantes. Gabriae Graeci fabellae lxiv [recté lxiii]. Haec omnia cum Latina interpretatione. Nunc postremùm excusa & accuratè recognita.Paris, Jean Libert, 1623. 16mo. Contemporary French gold-tooled calf, each board with the coat-of-arms of Henri de La Tour (1555-1623), Duc de Bouillon and Prince of Sedan, who married the daughter of William the Silent, founding father of the Dutch Republic (with a French Ducal crown, the whole in a wreath of 2 laurel branches with berries).

AESOP & BABRIUS. · 1555

€2,750.00 ($3,031.00 | £2,294.23 | ¥484,012)

[2], 236, [1] pp.Very rare 24º edition of 150 prose fables by Aesop and 43 verse fables by Babrius (here called Gabrius) in Greek and Latin on facing pages, remotely based on the text of the illustrated humanistic editions published by Jean de Tournes in Lyons. While the exist...

De heldhaftige bevrediging van Palembang, het aldaar sints 1810 vooraf gebeurde, wederlegging van Raffles en Court, en voorlopige korte beschrijving van Palembang, Banca, enz.The Hague & Rotterdam, Arbon & Krap (back of half-title: printed by Gebroeders Giunta d'Albani, The Hague), 1822. 8vo. With 2 folding engraved maps: (1) Nieuwe kaart der rivier van Palembang, tusschen het punt, waar zij den 27 Junij 1821 door tien kanoneerbooten enz. afgesloten was ... (26 x 33.5 cm including the engraved text above and below the map); and (2) Nieuwe kaart der rivier van Palembang, tusschen haren uitloop in zee en het eilant Salanama (22 x 30 cm including text).Half calf, black spine label, marbled sides.

[BRUINING, Gerbrand]. · 1810

€1,850.00 ($2,039.04 | £1,543.39 | ¥325,608)

VIII, 188 pp.A lively report, including an overview of the historical circumstances (1810-1821) of events that took place only a year earlier around Palembang, a town in the southeast part of the island of Sumatra (North of the Lampongs (Lampung)). It includes an extensive des...

Der Orientteppich[:] seine Geschichte und seine Kultur.Berlin, Scarabaeus (colophon: Dr. Selle & Co.), 1922. 3 volumes (26 x 26 cm). The text volume with colour-printed frontispiece, 28 plates numbered I-XXII (13 colour-printed), 139 numbered and 14 unnumbered illustrations in text, and a folding map; the two plate volumes with a total of 120 colour-printed plates mounted on grey-black paper.Original publisher’s cloth.

GROTE-HASENBALG, Werner.

€950.00 ($1,047.07 | £792.55 | ¥167,204)

XVI, [2 blank], 228, [8] pp. plus plates(text).First edition of an extensively illustrated work on carpets and rugs primarily from Turkey and Persia, in three volumes. The first volume contains the general text, giving a description of the 120 colour-printed plates of carpets ...

Idées d’un militaire pour la disposition des troupes confiées aux jeunes officiers dans la defense et l’attaque des petits postes. Dédié à M. Le Duc du Chatelet.Paris, François Ambroise Didot l'ainé, 1783. 2 parts in 1 volume. Large 4to. With 11 colour-printed crayon-manner plates (10 folding) by Louis-Marie Bonnet, 1 similar armorial headpiece for the dedication to the army general and diplomat Louis Marie Florent, Duc du Châtelet (1727-1793), Didot’s woodcut device on title-page (“FAD” in clouds with putti and garlands, “[Pierre Charles] Jombert inv. Milliere sculp. 1782”). Contemporary boards covered with blue paper, untrimmed and with some bolts unopened.

FOSSÉ, Charles-Louis François. · 1734

€6,500.00 ($7,164.18 | £5,422.73 | ¥1,144,027)

[14], 116, 60, [24] pp.Rare first edition of a manual of military strategy and cartography with elegant illustrations colour-printed in crayon-manner by the inventor of this technique, Louis Marin Bonnet. Charles Louis François Fossé (1734-1812) was a military engineer who dis...

Fabulae Aesopicae plures quingentis et aliae quaedam narrationes, cum historia vitae fortunaeque Aesopi, compositae studio & diligentia Joachimi Camerarii Pabe[bergensis]. Quibus additae sunt et Livianae & Gellianae ac aliorum quaedam …Leipzig, [colophon: Ernest Vögelin, 1570]. 8vo. With Vögelin’s woodcut device on title page and 4 woodcut initials with pictorial decoration. Blind-tooled red vellum, sewn on 3 supports, with a hollow back, each board with a double frame of double fillets, the inner and outer connected with diagonal double fillets, the front board with the owner’s initials and the date in the central field: “M E B S | 1598”.

AESOP. · 1570

€1,500.00 ($1,653.27 | £1,251.40 | ¥264,006)

[25], [1 blank], 342, 349-513, [32], [1 blank] pp.Vögelin’s 1570 Aesop edition, a nearly page for page (often line for line) reprint of his own important 1564 edition, including one of the most extensive collections of Aesop fables to that date, following but augmenting Camera...

WANTED. SHAH of IRAN by the Iranian people for the murders committed below (only after 1953).New York, Iranian Student Association, [ca. 1974]. Folio. With 4 illustrations of the Shah.Pamphlet.

[IRANIAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION NEW YORK]. · 1919

€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)

Very rare pamphlet by the Iranian Student Association in New York against the last Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919-1980), who reigned from 1941 to 1979, incriminating him for 58 “murders” between 1953 and 1974. The Iranian Student Association was one of the main anti...

Mines de l'Orient, exploitées par une société d'amateurs.Vienna, Antoine Schmid, 1809. Folio. Folded, strengthened with a decorated paper strip.

[JOURNAL FOR ORIENTAL STUDIES - PROSPECTUS]. · 1784

€2,250.00 ($2,479.91 | £1,877.10 | ¥396,009)

10 pp.Rare prospectus for a series of volumes to be issued periodically, with contributions on a variety of subjects concerning Islamic studies and the Middle East in the broadest sense under the title Mines d’Orient (Fundgruben des Orients; Fontes rerum Orientalium; Sources f...

Stories from the Arabian nights.London, Hodder and Stoughton, November 1907. 4to. With 50 full-page coloured illustrations after drawings by Edmund Dulac, with descriptions on the flyleaves. Original publisher’s orange cloth with gilt title in gold on decorated spine and front cover.

HOUSMAN, Laurence; Edmund DULAC (ills.). · 1865

€300.00 ($330.65 | £250.28 | ¥52,801)

xvi, 133 pp.Second edition of an illustrated selection from the original Arabic, Persian and other fairy folk tales, such as “The fisherman and the genie”, “Ali Baba and the forty thieves” “The story of the magic horse” and “The story of the princess of Deryabar”, retold by th...