A. Asher & Co. B.V.

Zinne-poppen; alle verciert met rijmen, en sommighe met proze: door zijn dochter Anne Roemers.Amsterdam, Sander Wybrantz. and Andries Vink, 1678. With engraved title-page, an engraved emblem on the back of A5, and 193 engraved emblems by Claes Jansz. Visscher.With: (2) VISSCHER, Roemer. Brabbelingh... By hem selven oversien, en meer als de helft vermeerdert.Amsterdam, Johannes van Ravesteyn, 1669. 2 works in 1 volume. 12mo. Contemporary vellum.

VISSCHER, Roemer. · 1547

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

[10], 196, [4] ll.; 212, [4 blank] pp.Ad 1: Fourth edition of a popular and witty Dutch emblem book written by Roemer Visscher (1547-1620). The work consists of 3 series of 60 emblems, each with a motto in Latin of Dutch, a two-line verse below, and a short explanation on the ...

Coloquios o dialogos compuestos por el magnifico cavallero Pero Mexia, vezino de Sevilla, en los quales se disputan y tratan varias y diversas cosas de mucha erudicion y doctrina. Al illustrissimo senor don Perasan de Ribera Marques de Tarisa &c.Antwerp, widow of Martinus Nutius, 1561. Small agenda 12mo (14 x 6.5 cm). With Nutius's woodcut device on the title-page. 17th-century(?) blind-tooled overlapping vellum, each board with the coat of arms of the Landgrave of Hesse, gilt edges.

MEXIA, Pedro. · 1496

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

165, [3 blank] ll.Very rare first Antwerp edition of six dialogues in Spanish by Pedro Mexia (1496-1552), a humanist who lived in Seville. The first edition appeared in Seville in 1547. The work is dedicated to Perafan de Ribera, Marques de Tarisa, and includes a verse note to...

Magazijn van belangrijke en leerzame kunststukjes, voor jonge lieden.Zaltbommel, Johannes Noman, 1828. 12mo. With a hand-coloured lithographed frontispiece, 6 lithographed plates, and many smaller wood engraved illustrations in text. Original publisher's printed paper boards.

ROCKSTROH, Heinrich. · 1811

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

[2], XXII, 300 pp.First edition of the Dutch translation of work containing a wide variety of activities for children, including magic tricks, games, crafting with paper, glue, cord etc., scientific experiments, exercises, and many more. The text was translated from the German...

Le livre des peintres. Vie des peintres flamands, hollandais et allemands (1604). Traduction, notes et commentaires par Henri Hymans.Paris, J. Rouam, 1884-1885. 2 volumes. Folio. With 77 portraits of painters in the text. Contemporary half red morocco.

MANDER, Karel van and Henri HYMANS (translator). · 1603

€750.00 ($826.64 | £625.70 | ¥132,003)

415, [2], [3 blank]; 491, [3] pp.First French translation of Karel van Mander's famous Schilder-boeck, one of the foundational works of Northern European art history, comprising a history of painting and biographies of artists who lived before 1603. The present edition was lim...

Tre navigationi fatte dagli Olandesi, e Zelandesi al settentrione nella Norvegia, Moscovia, e Tartaria verso il Catai, e regno de' Sini, doue scopersero il Mare di Veygatz, la Nuova Zembla.Venice, Giovanni Battista Ciotti, 1599. 4to. With engraved plate on the title page, a full-page engraving of a compass and 31 half-page engraved maps and plates in text. Many woodcut head- and tailpieces. Later vellum with ties, red edges.

VEER, Gerrit de and Giovanni Giunio PARISIO (translator). · 1594

€8,500.00 ($9,368.55 | £7,091.26 | ¥1,496,036)

[4], 79 ll.Rare first edition of the Italian translation by Giovanni Giunio Parisio of this classic account of the three earliest Dutch exploration voyages (1594, 1595, 1596) in search of a northeast passage to China, by Willem Barentsz. Two of the voyages were in company with...

Reisen nach dem nördlichem[!] Theile der Südsee während der Jahre 1790 bis 1795. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt und mit Anmerkungen begleitet von Joh. Friedr. Wilh. Herbst.Berlin, (colophon: printed by Johann Wilhelm Schmidt) for the Vossische Buchhandlung, 1799-1800. 2 volumes. 8vo. With a large folding engraved map (52 x 42 cm) by Ferdinand Sprögel (Berlin, 1800) of the northwest coast of America, and 2 folding aquatints. Contemporary half calf.

VANCOUVER, George. · 1757

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

[2], 386; VIII, 406 pp.First edition of the German translation by Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst of George Vancouver's famous account of his exploration of the northwest coast of America and east coast of Asia. "This voyage became one of the most important made in the interes...

Serie dell'edizioni Aldine per ordine cronologico ed alphabetico. Seconda edizione con emendazioni e giunte.Padua, Pietro Brandolese, 1790. 12mo. Contemporary wrappers.

[BURGASSI, Antonio Cesare and Jacopo MORELLI]. · 1494

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

[8], 182, [1], [1 blank] pp.Second, expanded edition of an early chronological survey of the editions published by the Aldine Press (1494-1595). It is one of the very few early bibliographies on the output of a publishing house, the more interesting as it regards the famous Al...

Fabellae Graece et Latine, cum aliis opusculis, quorum index proxima refertur pagella. Venice, (colophon: Giovanni Farri and brothers), 1542. Small 8vo (16 x 11 cm). With 1 woodcut decorated initial but further with spaces left for manuscript Greek and Latin initials (with printed guide letters). Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment, with fragments of a vellum manuscript used to reinforce the spine.

AESOP.

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

364, [4] pp.Venice school edition of Aesop's fables with parallel text in Greek and Latin. The book is neatly printed and the clear Greek type has relatively few ligatures. Besides the life of Aesop and Aesop's fables, the book contains several collections of fables and single...

De re vestiaria libellus, ex Bayfio excerptus: addita vulgaris linguae interpretatione, in adolescentulorum gratiam atque utilitatem.Paris, Roberti Stephani [Robert Estienne], (colophon: 13 April) 1541. Small 8vo (ca. 16.5 x 10.5 cm). With a woodcut printer's device on the title-page. Modern blueish-grey paper over boards with the title printed in black on the spine, red sprinkled edges.

BAÏF, Lazare de and [Charles ESTIENNE (editor)]. · 1496

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

68, [11], [1 blank] pp.Early edition of one of the very first children's books ever printed. The work contains a description of textiles and ancient Roman dress, and was specifically meant for the entertainment and edification of children. Although the title page states that i...

Il pastor fido, tragicommedia pastorale ... Editione nuova, arricchita di curiose, ed utili annotazioni, e riveduta, e corretta da A.P.D.A.Amsterdam, Franco Soudaan, 1732. 4to. Contemporary richly gold-tooled red morocco, with an elaborate arabesque central ornament in a triple panel design, crowned ornaments, flowers, acorns and stars, richly gold-tooled turn-ins, dark green title label, marbled endpapers, gilt edges (so-called "Bird's Head Bindery", Amsterdam).

GUARINI, Giovanni Battista. · 1538

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

[24], 319 [= 316] pp.Rare and finely produced edition of Giovanni Battista Guarini's (1538-1612) famous pastoral drama Il Pastor Fido, here of special interest for its fine binding by the so-called "Bird's Head Bindery", Amsterdam. The design is exceptionally rich but light fo...

Het gezantschap der Neêrlandtsche Oost-Indische Compagnie, aan den grooten Tartarischen Cham, den tegenwoordigen keizer van China...Amsterdam, Jacob van Meurs, 1670. Folio. With engraved title-page, letterpress title-page printed in red and black, full-page engraved portrait of the author, 1 large folding engraved map of China, 34 double-page engraved plates and views, 110 half-page engraved illustrations in text. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum.

NIEUHOF, Johan. · 1655

€12,500.00 ($13,777.28 | £10,428.32 | ¥2,200,053)

[8], 208, 258, [10] pp.Third edition, in the original Dutch, of "the definitive account" (Howgego) of the embassy that the VOC (Dutch East India Company) sent to the Emperor of China, the entire trip occupying the years 1655 to 1657. Nieuhof's eyewitness account, first publish...

Journael van de wonderlijcke vooyagie door de Straet Magalanes...Amsterdam, Gillis Joosten Saeghman, [1663]. 4to. With a woodcut of two ships on title page; full-page woodcut, 2 engraved and 4 woodcut illustrations in the text. Further with 1 woodcut decorated initial and decorative bands built up from cast fleurons. Set in textura types with incidental roman. 19th-century brown cloth, sewn on 3 recessed cords, grey endpapers.

NOORT, Olivier van. · 1559

€3,950.00 ($4,353.62 | £3,295.35 | ¥695,217)

48 pp.Rare edition of the famous account of the circumnavigation by Olivier van Noort (1559-1627) in the years 1598 to 1601. Van Noort was the fourth to circumnavigate the globe and the first Dutchman to do so. His predecessors were Magellan, Drake and Cavendish. He left Holla...

Nieuw en volkomen woordenboek van konsten en weetenschappen: bevattende alle de takken der nuttige kennis, met naaukeurige beschryvingen, zo van de onderscheidenen machines, werktuigen, gereedschappen, figuuren, en ontwerpen dienende om dezelve op te helderen; als mede van de klassen, soorten, toebereidselen, en het gebruik van de voortbrengzels der natuur, het zy dieren, planten, mineraalen, aardgewassen, of vochten; mitsgaders de koningkryken, provintien, steden, dorpen, en andere merkwaardige plaatzen dor de geheele waereld.Amsterdam, Steven Jacobus Baalde, 1769 -1778. 10 volumes. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece in the first volume, 282 engraved plates (1 folding, 281 full-page), a folding letterpress table in the first volume, and several tables in the text. Contemporary half calf.

BUYS, Egbert. · 1741

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

Ca. 8000p.First and only edition of this rare and lavishly illustrated encyclopaedia covering all aspects of scientific history. This work encompasses a wide range of Dutch terms relating to mechanics, geography, navigation, ethnography, art, music, zoology, botany, crafts, to...

Placcaet ende ordonnantie vanden Staten van Zeelandt, teghens den opcoop ende uuytvoer vande inlandtsche granen. Middelburg, Richard Schilders, 1595. 4to. With the woodcut coat of arms of Zeeland on title-page. Disbound.

[PROCLAMATION - NETHERLANDS - ZEELAND]. · 1538

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

[7], [1 blank] pp.First and only edition of a proclamation by the province of Zeeland noting that certain people were buying up grain in large quantities to artificially inflate the price, so that they could sell it back at a large profit or export it, to the detriment of the ...

Placcaet ende ordonnantie opte wapeninge ende manninge vande schepen, soo ter coopvaerdye als visscherije, uytte Vereenighde Nederlanden over zee varende.Including: [drop-title:] Instructie voor de Co[m]missarisen in 't Vlije ende inde Sont, omme opsicht te hebben op de uyt-varende ende inkommende oostersche schepen, en[de] Noordt-Drunt ende Noordt-Caep-vaerders.The Hague, widow and heirs of Hillebrant Jacobsz. van Wouw, 1627. 4to. With woodcut arms of the States General on title-page. Sewn without supports and not bound.

[NETHERLANDS - STATES GENERAL - PROCLAMATION]. · 1627

€750.00 ($826.64 | £625.70 | ¥132,003)

[22], [2 blank] pp.Second copy located of the only known edition of the third(?) revised version, promulgated on 17 March 1627, of a proclamation specifying the numbers, types and weights of cannons and other arms as well as the number of men and boys required for ships in var...

Journal of a visit to South Africa in 1815, and 1816. With some account of the missionary settlements of the United Brethren, near the Cape of Good Hope.London, W. M'Dowall for L.B. Seeley and R. Ackermann, 1818. 4to. With folding map (53 x 27 cm), partly hand-coloured, showing the tracks of the expedition, 12 full-page hand-coloured aquatints, and 4 full-page engravings of coastal views. Later half calf.

LATROBE, Charles Ignatius.

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

VII, [1], 406, [2] pp.First edition of a voyage to South Africa by Latrobe on behalf of the Moravian Church to visit the missionaries at Genadendal and Groenekloof and to search for locations to establish new missionaries. There is a full description of the district of Groenek...

Spelen va[n] sinne byde[n] .xix. gheconfirmeerden cameren van rhetorijcken binnen der stede van Ghendt comparerende, verthoont, volghende den octroye vander K. Maiesteyt, Grave va[n] Vlaendren, onsen gheduchte[n] Heere, schepenen der selver stede, en[de] camere van rhetorijcke vander heylige drievuldicheyt, gheseyt de fonteynisten, verleent, en[de] der charte uutghesonde[n] op de questie, welck den mensche stervende, meesten troost is: die selve spele[n] beghinnende by ordre, so hier na volcht, de[n] .xii. junij, int jaer m.ccccc.xxxix. En[de] werde[n] volspeelt en[de] gheeyndt, den .xxiii. vanden jare en[de] maent voorsz. (Colophon: Antwerp, [Matthias Crom], 25 October 1539). 8vo. 18th-century half vellum.

[RHETORICIANS]. · 1539

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

[220] ll.Possibly unrecorded variant of one of the three scarce Antwerp editions published in the same year as the first edition by Joos Lambrecht at Ghent in 1539, of an account of a so-called "Landjuweel", a rhetoricians' festival organized in Ghent in June 1539. They were o...

Commentaries, being diverse pieces of service, wherein he had command. Published by William Dillingham.London, Peter Parker, 1672 (first title-page: Cambridge, John Field, 1657). Folio. With two title-pages, the first dated 1657 with the woodcut device of Cambridge University, the second dated 1672 with a London imprint, 3 full-page engraved portraits, of Sir Francis, Sir Horace Vere and John Ogle, double-page engraved plate of Francis Vere's monumental tomb by R. Gaywood, and 6 double-page engraved maps and plans by Robert Vaugham, of the sea-coasts of Europe, the Netherlands, Cadiz and the Azores, the armies arranged for battle at Turnhout and Newport, and the siege of Ostende. Later gold- and blind-tooled dark red calf.

VERE, Francis. · 1672

€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)

[18], 209, [2], [1 blank] pp.The 1672 reissue of the first (1657) edition of the famous military Commentaries by Sir Francis Vere (1560-1609), one of the greatest military commanders of his time, in active service in the Netherlands from 1585.The present copy preserves both th...

Mars Moravicus. Sive bella horrida et cruenta, seditiones, tumultus, praelia, turbae: & ex ijs enatae crebrae et funestae rerum mutationes, dirae calamitates, incendia, clades, agrorum depopulationes, urbium vastitates, aedium sacrarum et prophanarum ruinae, arcium et oppidorum eversiones, pagorum cineres, populorum excidia, & alia id genus mala, quae Moravia hactenus passa fuit.Prague, Joannis Arnolti de Dobroslawina, 1677. Folio. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece by Wenceslaus Wagner after A. Lublinsky, a full-page engraved portrait of the author, and large folding engraved map of Moravia (50 x 38 cm) by Samuel Dworzak, dated Prague 1677. Further with numerous woodcut decorated initials and woodcut ornamental head- and tail-pieces. Contemporary overlapping vellum, red edges, remnants of green closing ties.

PEŠINA Z CECHORODU, Tomáš Jan. · 1526

€6,600.00 ($7,274.40 | £5,506.16 | ¥1,161,628)

[24], "958" [= 956], [16] pp.Rare first and only edition of the extensive description of the tumultous and ruinous wars in Moravia (present-day Czechia). The work, describing the history of Moravia and Bohemia until the year 1526 in great detail, is written by Tomáš Jan (or Ja...

Petit catechisme ou sommaire des trois premieres parties de la doctrine chrestienne. Traduit du françois, en la langue des Caraibes Insulaires.Auxerre, Gilles Bouquet, 1664. 8vo. With a small woodcut on the title page showing the Virgin and a woodcut of the Crucifixion on p. 16. Modern half maroon morocco, gold-tooled spine.

BRETON, Raymond. · 1609

€12,500.00 ($13,777.28 | £10,428.32 | ¥2,200,053)

70 pp.The first edition of an abridged French catechism with a Carib translation printed in a parallel column, written to prepare priests for missions to the Caribbean. The author, father Raymond Breton (Baune 1609-Caen 1679), was a French Dominican missionary and a noted ling...