A. Asher & Co. B.V.

Le négociant du Pays-Bas, ou le tarif général de tous les comptes du commerce; tant pour calculer les monnoyes, les intérêts, répartitions, &c. Que toutes sortes de marchandises, denrées & négoces tant en gros qu'en détail. Onzième édition. Augmenté avec la réduction de l'argent de change de Brabant, en celui courant en Brabant, & celui de l'argent courant de Brabant en celui de change de Brabant. Et un tarif pour connoitre le prix d'une livre de marchandise par le prix du cent.Antwerp, Johannes Judocus Gerardus de Marcour, [ca. 1780?]. 12mo. Contemporary mottled, tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spine.

[COMMERCE]. · 1780

€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)

XXIII, [1], 543, [1] pp.Corrected and augmented “eleventh” edition of a handbook for merchants and traders in the Southern Netherlands, here in a French edition, but also available in Dutch (Den Nederlandschen negociant …). All editions appear to be very rare. It consists of n...

Nathan, de squatter-regulator, of de eerste Amerikaan in Texas.The Hague, K. Fuhri, 1852. 2 volumes bound as 1. 8vo. With a lithograph title page in each volume, printed in sepia and lithographed by C.W. Mieling. Original half blue cloth with the title in gold on the spine, marbled paper sides.

SEALSFIELD, Charles (pseudonym of Karl POSTL). · 1793

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

[4], 254; [6], 192 pp.Rare first and probably only Dutch edition fo the original work in German written by the Swiss author Karl Postl (1793-1864), whose pseudonym was Charles Sealsfield. It is unclear who translated the work into Dutch.Postl studied Philosophy in Prague and b...

Epitome de gramatica Castellana. ... Para escuelas primarias.Valparaiso, Imprenta de la Bandera, 1837. 12mo. With the title in woodcut borders, a woodcut printer's vignette and some woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary blue paper wrappers, with protective paper cover.

NOÉ, Juan Nicolas. · 1822

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

[2], 155 pp.Rare Spanish grammar intended for use at primary schools, printed in Valparaiso, Chile. Deschamps mentions 3 other works printed in this city (1822, 1828, 1836).Library stamp on title-page: ''Wilson collection'', owner's inscription on back of title-page: "A.L. Lan...

The roadsters album.London, George Thomas Fores & Arthur Blücher Fores, 1845. Large folio (38 x 28.5 cm). With an extensively illustrated aquatint title-page, unsigned, but drawn by Henry Thomas Alken (1785-1851), and 16 aquatint plates drawn by Newhouse. Title-page and plates coloured in great detail by a contemporary hand in opaque gouaches and watercolours, and highlighted with shellac. Gold-tooled, red morocco for Henry Arthur Johnstone (ca. 1900), leather endleaves with Johnstone's 1899 blind-stamped ex-libris, top edge gilt.

NEWHOUSE, Charles B. · 1805

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

First and only edition of a subtly humorous album on travel by horse-drawn carriage through the English countryside at the time of publication, beautifully illustrated with finely coloured aquatints after drawings by Charles B. Newhouse (ca. 1805-1877). Each of the 16 plates h...

In elegantiarum sex libros Laurentii Vallae disertissimi epithomata nuper recognita.Venice, Giovanni Antonio Nicolini da Sabbio, for Melchiorre Sessa, 1539. Small 8vo. With Sessa’s charming woodcut device showing a cat with a mouse in its mouth, with motto “Dissimilium infida societas” below, repeated on the last page. Later half vellum, gold-tooled spine, boards covered with decorated paper.

BIENATO, Aurelio. · 1450

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

63, [1] ll.Rare Venetian post-incunable edition of a pedagogical humanist treatise by Aurelio Bienato (ca. 1450-1496), dedicated to an adolescent nobleman, Sebastiano de Agustinis. Born in Milan, Bienato studied at the University of Naples and was appointed bishop of Martirano...

[Album with 32 photographs of Tasmania].Hobart, [ca. 1895]. Oblong folio (30 x 41cm). With 32 original photographs (ca. 17 x 23 cm), pasted on paperboard. Later gold-tooled red morocco.

BEATTIE, John Watt. · 1859

€13,500.00 ($14,879.46 | £11,262.59 | ¥2,376,057)

Beautifully bound album with a magnificent collection of 32 original photographs of Tasmania, made by John Watt Beattie (1859-1930) at the end of the 19th century. Beattie arrived in Tasmania in 1879 as an amateur dry-plate photographer of scenic views. He began to work with t...

De vita et moribus sacerdotum, opusculum: singularem eoru[m] dignitatem oste[n]dens, & quibus ornati esse debea[n]t virtutibus: explanans.Paris, Henri Estienne I, 1519 (colophon: 4 August). With woodcut title-page with the letterpress title and imprint in the central opening; further with about 21 woodcut initials (4 series, mostly criblé) plus about 4 repeats. With: (2) MARRE, Jean. Enchiridio[n] sacerdotale concinnatu[m] ad salutarem eruditionem Christifideliu[m] ab lo[n]ge revere[n]do in Christo patre d[omi]no Ioanne Mare Co[n]domien[sis]. episcopo. In quo haec sunt capita. ...[Paris], (colophon: Jodocus Badius Ascensius, 25 November 1519). With numerous woodcut decorated initials (4 series, the largest 45-47 mm. criblé initials). 2 works in 1 volume. 4to (20 x 14 cm). 16th-century blind- and gold-tooled calf, each board in a panel design, with the owner's name "D. Ioa[n]mes[!] Lassere" on the front and motto "memento mortis" on the back, the motto and fleurs-de-lis on the back in gold.

CLICHTOVE, Josse (Judocus CLICHTOVEUS). · 1519

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

75, [1 blank]; “LXI” [= LXXI], [1 blank] ll.Two Paris first editions from 1519 on the priesthood and the education of priests, both complete with their final blank leaves (often lacking), finely produced by two of the most important printer-publishers of the 16th century, Henr...

The origin and history of the first or Grenadier guards. From documents in the state paper office, war office, horse guards, contemporary history, regimental records, etc.London, John Murray, 1874. 3 volumes. 8vo. With 17 portraits (3 serving as frontispieces), 60 maps and plans (3 folding), 7 chromolithographed plates and 1 view in total. Original publisher's red cloth. Each volume with a ticket of "Metchim & son...".

HAMILTON, Frederick William. · 1815

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

XXXIV, [6], 458; XXXIV, 548; XVIII, 496 pp.Very interesting and extensive history of the Grenadier guards in three volumes, by Sir Frederick William Hamilton (1815-1890), lavishly illustrated with chromolithographed plates, numerous maps of battles, campaigns and expeditions a...

Hishu Nagasaki (no) zu [= plan of Nagasaki, Hizen province].[Nagasaki, Bunkindo, 1821]. 61.5 x 87 cm. Large folding woodcut map of the port and city of Nagasaki, printed in three colours (ochre, blue and green) on four sheets. In Japanese ochre paper etui decorated with blue and white flowers and title label with Japanese characters pasted on, preserved in later dark blue cloth slipcase in Japanese style closing with two ivory clasps.

BUNKINDO HAN. · 1802

€2,950.00 ($3,251.44 | £2,461.08 | ¥519,212)

Fine and rare large woodcut map, printed in three colours, of the harbour of Nagasaki, with mountainous landscape in the background and Chinese junks and two Dutch vessels standing out in the harbour, one of the Dutch ships being towed by Japanese oared craft to the Dutch trad...

Introductio generalis in notitiam rerumpublicarum orbis universi. ...Jena, Johann Bielcke for Samuel Krebs, 1676. 4to. With an engraved full-page portrait of the author in the text, the title printed in red and black, and further with woodcut decorated initials and woodcut endpieces. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment, manuscript title and shelf mark on spine.

BOSE, Johann Andreas. · 1626

€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)

[16], 370, [22] pp.First edition of an important work on social science, politics and statistics, the main work of the German philosopher and historian Johann Andreas Bose (1626-1674), edited by Georg Schubart (1650-1701). Bose was professor of history at the University of Jen...

Versuch einer Monographie der China. Hamburg, Hartwig &Muller, 1826. 2 volumes. Text volume 4to & atlas volume in royal folio. With 8 hand coloured engraved plates by Gustav Andreas Forsmann, and 5 leaves with 10 folding tables in the atlas volume. Uniform original blue boards, the atlas volume is a portfolio with the plates loosely inserted and remnants of blue closing ties.

BERGEN, Heinrich von. · 1792

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

XI, [1], 348 pp.First and only edition of this botanical work on cinchona bark, very rare with all ten tables present. Heinrich von Bergen (1792-1836), who was a "Droguerie-Makler" (drug-broker) at Hamburg, gives a state of the art description of the botanical, economic and ph...

[View of Vianen across the river Lek with fishermen and their boats and houses in the foreground].[North bank of the Lek River, near Vianen], [Ca. 1760/70]. Oblong Elephant 4to or possibly cut down oblong whole sheet (1mo) (19.5 x 31 cm). Original watercolour view on laid paper, looking southwest across the river, with Vianen in the background on the opposite bank, and a tree, houses, 11 people (mostly fishermen) and 3 fishing boats in the foreground. Mounted with 2 paper hinges on green laid paper in a passe partout (35 x 50 cm).

[BURG, Dirk van der (formerly attributed to Nicolaas WICART)]. · 1748

€4,500.00 ($4,959.82 | £3,754.20 | ¥792,019)

Fine watercolour in subtly shaded green and brown tones, showing a charming view looking across the Lek River (a branch of the Rhine) to Vianen on the far bank. The foreground shows thatched houses and other buildings on the near shore and fishermen with their nets and other g...

[Various flowers. (On verso): a sketch of a grape branch with grapes and leaves].[Netherlands, 17th century]. Drawings (48.8 x 28.9-29.2 cm). Black chalk drawings, occasionally heightened with white chalk, including some light brown watercolours, on grey 17th-century handmade paper without watermark. In manuscript 'Martagon' in brown ink. In lower right corner in manuscript the number "3" in ink. Framed.

[BOTANY - DRAWING]. · 1615

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

We have not succeeded in identifying the artist of these beautiful drawings. We know no other drawing that is clearly from the same hand. Two artists are mentioned as possible candidates, Govert Flinck (Cleves 1615-1660 Amsterdam) and Gerbrand van den Eeckhout (1621 - Amsterda...

[View of Woudenberg].[Netherlands, ca. 1780]. Drawing (24.5 x 36 cm) in black ink with grey watercolour washes on laid paper (37.5 x 49 cm), signed at the foot left: ''N. Wicart, ad vivum'', with on the back in a 19th-century hand: "'t dorp Woudenberg''.

[WOUDENBERG]. WICART, Nicolaas. · 1748

€6,000.00 ($6,613.09 | £5,005.60 | ¥1,056,025)

Attractive rural view in black ink with grey washes, showing a group of four people talking in front of a farm and a man walking on the road with a donkey, with the Dutch village Woudenberg in the background.The drawing is signed by Nicolaas Wicart (1748-1815), painter of land...

View of Heukelom.Heukelom, 8 August, 1750. 13 x 21.5 cm. Original watercolour highlighted with white.Detached from a 19th-century paperboard support with hand drawn decorative frame and cartouche with the title "Heukelom J. de Beijer 1703-1768" (24 x 32 cm).

[HEUKELOM]. [BEIJER, Jan de]. · 1703

€9,500.00 ($10,470.73 | £7,925.53 | ¥1,672,040)

Highly detailed watercolour view of the village Heukelom (Netherlands), likely by the famous draughtsman and engraver Jan de Beijer (1703-1768), dated on the back in and 18th-century hand: "Het steedeke Heukelom van de oude veerpoort te zien: 8 Augustus 1750". The drawing is u...

Naufrage et aventures de M. Pierre Viaud; natif de Rochefort, capitaine de navire.Bordeaux, the Labottiere brothers; Paris, Lejay, 1780. With: (2) [POIVRE, Pierre]. Voyage d'un philosophe, ou observations sur les moers & les arts des peuples de l'Afrique, de l'Asie et de l'Amerique.Yverdon, 1768. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary gold-tooled tree calf, richly gold-tooled spine; very subtly rebacked, preserving original backstrip.

VIAUD, Pierre (and Jean Garpard DUBOIS-FONTANELLE). · 1780

€1,950.00 ($2,149.25 | £1,626.82 | ¥343,208)

XXIV, 307, [4], [1 blank]; 140, [2] pp.Ad 1: 1780 edition of the adventures of the French sailor and merchant Pierre Viaud (1725), who sailed along the Gulf Coast of Florida and shipwrecked on a reef near Dog Island. As full of drama as an Indiana Jones adventure, Viaud's stor...

View of the river Vecht near Maarssen between the manor houses Huis Ter Meer and Huis Ten Bosch. [Maarssen?], [ca. 1770/80]. 19.5 x 28.5 cm. Beautiful watercolour drawing showing a view of the river Vecht near Maarssen.

[MAARSSEN]. GELKES, J.J. van der.

€4,950.00 ($5,455.80 | £4,129.62 | ¥871,221)

Nicely executed original watercolour drawing showing a sunny view of the river Vecht near Maarssen (in the Dutch province of Utrecht between Utrecht and the IJsselmeer), between the manor houses “Huis ter Meer” and “Huis Ten Bosch” with two small leisure boats and on the right...

Historia naturalis dentium humanorum: in qua eorum structura, usus, formatio, incrementum, ac morbi explicantur ... Anglice consscripta; a Johanne Huntero ... In linguam Latinam et Batavam versa a Petro Boddaert / Natuurlyke historie der tanden van den mensch, in welke hun zamenstel, gebruik, vorming, groey, en ziekten uitgeleyd worden. Uit het Engelsch in het Latyn en Nederduitsch vertaald; door Pieter Boddaert.Dordrecht, A. Blussé & Zoon, 1773. 4to. With 16 full-page engraved plates with the original English caption ("Published according to Act of Parliament May 15 1771 by I. Johnson"). Contemporary tree-marbled boards.

HUNTER, John. · 1728

€4,500.00 ($4,959.82 | £3,754.20 | ¥792,019)

XXII, 213, [1] pp.First edition of the bilingual translation, in Latin and Dutch, of the famous study on the mouth, jaws and (sets of) teeth by John Hunter (1728-1793), one of the greatest surgeons of his time. John, even more remarkable than his brother, the London physician ...

Navigation dans l'air. Le point d'appui aérien applicable a l'aérostation, précédé d'un projet de société aéronautique ... suivi d'une lettre sur l'aérostation et de la liste des principeaux aéronautes, de M. Dupuis-Delcourt. Paris, De Boulé et Comp., for Ledoyen March 1841. 8vo. With a large folding lithographed plate (40 x 23,5 cm) of the dirigible, and a smaller woodcut of the same dirigible on p. 5. Original green wrappers in a protective plastic wrapper, with a large lithographed plate on the front, showing a dirigible flying over the globe underneath a floating angel, who is blowing a trumpet with the motto "Conquête de l'aire".

SANSON, Alexandre-Jacques and Jean-François DUPUIS-DELCOURT. · 1852

€1,750.00 ($1,928.82 | £1,459.97 | ¥308,007)

31, [1 blank] pp.First edition of this very rare, early, and remarkable brochure on navigation in the air and the dirigible (manoeuvrable balloon). The brochure introduces a new project to build a dirigible in the shape of a fish. The cost was estimated at 30.000 francs and wa...

Den onderganck des Roomschen Arents, door den Noordschen Leeuw ...Amsterdam, Crispijn vande Passe, 1642. 4to. Engraved allegorical title page with engraved title in a central panel below Fame sitting on a swan. Beautifully bound in 19th-century light brown gold-tooled calf (1850s or 1860s?), each board with triple along the edges, decorated spine with red and green labels lettered in gold, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, signed "PETIT SUCCr DE SIMIER": Charles Petit operated a Paris bindery from 1848 to 1873 as successor to René Simier (1772-1843), relieur du roi from 1815, and his son.

HULSIUS, Bartholomaeus. · 1601

€15,000.00 ($16,532.73 | £12,513.99 | ¥2,640,063)

[12], 91, [1 blank] pp. plus engraved title page.Rare first and only edition of a political and emblematic/allegorical work with texts by Bartholomaeus Hulsius (1601-ca. 1636?), a Reformed minister in Cillaarshoek until his retirement in 1635 (NNBW VIII, col. 889). The book wa...