A. Asher & Co. B.V.

[Drop-title:] Vorstellung der Pferde ... = Description du cheval ...[Augsburg, Martin Elias Ridinger and Johann Jakob Ridinger, 1770 or ca. 1768]. 4to. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece or title-print showing the corner of a garden with an equine statue and an asymmetric decorated shield with text, 50 plates with captions in German and French, conceived, drawn and engraved by Ridinger, each giving a lively and personal portrait of a horse. All plates, including frontispiece, beautifully coloured by a contemporary hand as published, some highlighted with white chalk. Further with decorations built up from cast fleurons. Set in 2 columns, mostly with the German in fraktur type on the left and the French in roman and italic on the right (some lists with the German and French on facing pages). Mottled, tanned half sheepskin (ca. 1840), sewn on 3 tapes, with a hollow back, shell-marbled sides (brown shell with blue veins, similar to Wolfe 128), red edges. Recased, with new headbands.With:(2) [DRAWING - EQUINE]. RIDINGER, Johann Elias. [Die guthe Gestalt eines Pferdes. = La beauté et les parties exterieures du Cheval.][Augsburg, ca. 1765].Drawing in pen and brown ink, ink washes and white chalk on grey-blue paper (24 x 17 cm, frame of pen-drawn rules 18.5 x 13.5 cm, with an empty panel at the foot for the title), for the second plate of Vorstellung der Pferde. With the small ink stamp of an eagle (9.5 x 7 mm) from the collection of Aldalbert Freiherr von Lanna (1836-1909). In a passe partout.

RIDINGER, Johann Elias. · 1698

[Four young ladies in fancy gowns].[Augsburg, ca. 1725?]. Four drawings in brown ink, watercolour and coloured gouaches on vellum, highlighted with gold (each 5.9 x 9.0 cm). Each mounted in a later passe-partout with a gold border, in an ebonized wooden frame (23.5 x 20.5 cm).

[COSTUMES]. HECKEL, Catharina SPERLING. · 1699

De Medusa in de wateren van Japan, in 1863 en 1864.The Hague, Gebroeders Van Cleef, 1865. 8vo. With hand coloured, lithographed wrappers, and 5 folding tinted lithographed maps by S. Lankhout. Early 20th-century gold- and blind-tooled calf by Pieter Adam Happel, sewn on 5 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, a green morocco title label lettered in gold on the spine, a central ornament on both boards, green head edge, decorative endpapers.

CASEMBROOT, François de. · 1817

Voyage aux Indes Orientales et à la Chine, fait par ordre de Louis XVI, depuis 1774 jusqu'en 1781; dans lequel on traite des moers, de la religion, des sciences et des arts des Indiens, des Chinois, des Pégouins et des Madégasses; suivi d'observations sur le Cap de Bonne-Espérance, les îles de France et de Bourbon, les Maldives, Ceylan, Malacca, les Philippines et les Moluques, et de rechereches sur l'histoire naturelle de ces pays, etc, etc. … Nouvelle édition.Paris, Dentu, 1806. 4 text volumes (8vo) and 1 atlas (4to). With 140 numbered engraved plates: a double-page plan of the city of Pondichéry, India, 19 double- and 120 single-page views and plates. Contemporary red half sheepskin (text) and modern red half cloth (atlas).

SONNERAT, Pierre. · 1748

Raguagli d'alcune missioni fatte dalli padri della Compagnia di Giesu nell'Indie Orientali, cioè nelle provincie di Goa, e Coccinno, e nell'Africa in Capo Verde.Rome, Bartolomeo Zannetti, 1615. Small 8vo (14 x 9 cm).18th-century(?) sheepskin parchment.

[XAVIER, Jerome, and others]. · 1615

Litterae iaponicae annorum M.DC.IX et X. ad R. admodum piae mem. P. Claudium Aquavivam generalem praepositum Societatis Iesu A.R.P. Provinciali eiusdem in Iapone Societ. missae.Antwerp, P. & J. Bellerus, 1615. 8vo. Woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut initials. Contemp. limp vellum, title in ink on spine with traces of colouring, remnants of ties.

RODRIGUEZ GIRÃO, João [RODRIGUEZ GIRAM, Joao]. · 1609

Africa [-] Greci - Italo Greci [-] Armeni di Venezia [-] varie.[Rome and perhaps elsewhere, ca. 1758-1764 (transcribing original documents going back to at least 1664)]. 4to. Collection of manuscript transcriptions of about 30 letters and other documents. Contemporary Italian sheepskin parchment over flexible boards.

[PROPAGANDA FIDE]. · 1750

Lettere del Giapone, et della Cina de gl'anni M.D.LXXXIX & M.D.XC. Scritte al R.P. Generale della Compagnia di Giesu.Rome, [Giacomo Tornieri for?] Luigi Zannetti, 1591. 8vo. 17th-century limp vellum.

[COELHO, Gaspar? and others]. · 1588

Lettera annua della Provincia delle Filippine dell' anno M.DC.VIII.Rome, Bartolomeo Zanetti, 1611. Small 8vo (16 x 11.5 cm). 18th-century limp sheepskin parchment.

LOPEZ, Gregorio. · 1608

Lettere annue del Giappone dell'anno MDCXXII e della Cina del 1621 & 1622 al molto Reu. in Christo P. Mutio Vitelleschi preposito generale della Compagnia di Giesu.Roma, Francesco Corbelletti, [1627?]. 8vo. With a woodcut “IHS” Jesuit device on title-page, woodcut headpiece, tailpiece and decorated initials. 18th-century flexible boards.

MAJORICA, Girolamo, Nicolas TRIGAULT and Alvaro SEMEDO. · 1589

Algemeene manier tot de practijck-oeffeningh der sonne-wysers; ...Middelburg, Willem Goeree, 1675 (colophon: Middelburg, printed by Thomas Berry for Zacharias Roman, 1666).With: (2) LANSBERGE, Johan Philip and Jacob MOGGE. Beschrijvingh der vlacke sonne-wysers ... Nieuwelijx oversien ende met noodige byvoeging verrijckt.Middelburg, Willem Goeree, 1675.2 works in 1 volume. Small folio (28.5 x 18.5 cm). With both title-pages printed in red and black, about 150 woodcut diagrams in the text, including a wide variety of sundials, a woodcut headpiece with the Zeeland coat of arms (plus 2 repeats), and woodcut decorated initials. Early sheepskin parchment over paperboards.

MOGGE, Jacob. · 1666

Atlas geografico del Peru.Paris, Firmin Didot brothers, children and comp., 1865. Large folio (51.5 x 37.5 cm). With 50 engraved maps, plans and views (including 20 coloured) and 24 tinted lithographs by F. Delamare. Contemporary black half sheepskin, rebacked.

PAZ SOLDAN, Mariano Felipe. · 1821

Waarachtige en aen-merkens-waardige historie van Lapland: ... Met noch een kort bericht van den toestand der Finnen. Amsterdam, Jan ten Hoorn, 1682. 4to. With engraved frontispiece and 16 engraved plates by Jan Luyken, and 1 folding engraved map. Contemporary vellum.

SCHEFFER, Johannes Gerhard. · 1621

A series of picturesque views of seats of the noblemen and gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland.London, William MacKenzie, [ca. 1880]. 6 volumes. 4to. With a chromolithographed title page in each volume, and 240 full-page chromolithographs, protected by a thin leaf. Original publisher's gold-and blind-stamped red morocco over thick, bevelled boards.

MORRIS, Francis Orpen. · 1864

Picturesque Palestine, Sinai and Egypt. Edited by Colonel Wilson, R.E, C.B., F.R.S. formerly engineer to the Palestine Exploration Society. Assisted by the most eminent Palestine explorers etc. With numerous engravings on steel and wood.London, Virtue and Co., [ca. 1870]. 4 volumes. Large 4to (33 x 25 cm). With 4 title-pages in red and black, each with a different large steel-engraved vignette, 38 steel-engraved plates (including 4 different frontispieces), 2 double-page engraved maps of Egypt and Sinai, printed in brown, and 576 wood-engravings on integral leaves, many full-page. Contemporary half sheepskin.

WILSON, Charles. · 1836

[Historiarum] libri novem. Quibus musarum indita sunt nomina.(Colophon: Venice), Aldus Manutius, (colophon: September 1502). Folio (29.5 x 20 cm). With Aldus's anchor and dolphin device on the title page and the verso of the last leaf. Late 19th-century blind-tooled, polished tan calf, the central panel with the arms of the Dukes of Arenberg.

HERODOTUS. · 1804

Operetta dell'ambascieria de Moschoviti, nella qual si narra il sito della provincia di Moschovia gli costumi ricchezze, il modo della religione, & l'arte militar di quegli. Nuovamente tradotta di latino in lingua volgare.Venice, (colophon: Bartholomeo detto l'Imperatore), 1545. 8vo. With a woodcut title vignette of a Christian warrior with banner and an eagle on an orb. Later paper boards.

GIOVIO, Paolo. · 1525

Drie voyagien gedaen na Groenlandt, om te ondersoecken of men door de Naeuwte Hudson soude konnen seylen; om alsoo een doorvaert na Oost-Indien te vinden...Amsterdam, Gillis Joosten Saeghman, [ca. 1665]. 4to. With woodcut vignette on title-page, 16 further woodcuts on integral leaves and a woodcut ship in a cartouche, woodcut decorated initials, and decorative bands built up from cast fleurons. Set in textura types with incidental roman and italic. Late 19th-century vellum, spine with title stamped in black.

[LA PEYRÈRE, Isaac de - VOYAGES OF MUNK, FROBISHER and LINDENAU]. · 1642

[Afbeeldinge der voornaemste gezichten van Duinrel].[Amsterdam, Pieter Schenk, 1702]. Oblong album (ca. 18.5 x 25.5 cm). With an engraved dedication, and 16 numbered engraved numbered views (ca. 170 x 205mm) of the manor house and gardens of Duinrel in Wassenaar, near The Hague. The 16 plates each show an engraved caption in Dutch and Latin beneath the view. The dedication leaf and the 16 views (each ca. 17 x 20.5 cm) are mounted (attached only at the top of each leaf) on blank leaves (ca. 18.5 x 25.5 cm). Later half vellum, marbled paper sides.

SCHENK, Pieter. · 1646

Tableau des principales vues des palais et edifices; representations et des coutumes et usages, dans les Provinces Septentrionales du Royaume des Pays-Bas.Amsterdam, Evert Maaskamp, [ca. 1825]. Oblong folio. With 68 hand-coloured engraved plates and aquatints by different artist, some of them in proof-state with manuscript captions, depicting Dutch city views and Dutch costumes. Contemporary boards covered with dark-brown paper with a gilt border along the edges and a gilt-stamped title on the front board; preserved in a grey modern cloth box.

MAASKAMP, Evert, and others. · 1769