A. Asher & Co. B.V.

Hebreeuwsch spel- en lees-boekje voor eerstbeginnenden.Amsterdam, Belinfante & Comp., J. van Embden & son, S.A. Proops, 5570 [=] 1810. 2 parts in 1 volume. Small 8vo (15.5 x 9.5 cm). With the authenticating oval stamp at the foot of the last page of the main text in part 2. Set in roman and italic type with 3 sizes of (sephardic) meruba Hebrew plus alphabets of rabbinical (semi-cursive), Yiddisch and script Hebrew types, and printed on Dutch wove paper. Publisher's original yellow, printed paper wrappers over thin boards.

SOMMERHAUSSEN, Hartog. · 1781

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

24, [1], [1 blank]; 28, [1], [1 blank] pp.Rare first edition of an introduction to the Hebrew language for young school children, oriented toward the advancement of religious study, by Hartog Sommerhaussen (1781-1853). Although he and the publisher Moses Cohen Belinfante were ...

Neues Weberbild- und Musterbuch, ... zur Beförderung der edlen Leinen- und Bildweberkunst, und zum Nutzen und Vergnügen angehender Meister und Gesellen, auch anderer Liebhaber der Weberkunst, auf 74 Kupfertafeln ... Fünfte Original-Ausgabe.Heilbronn, Classische Buchhandlung, 1836. Oblong folio (21 x 32 cm). With 74 numbered engraved plates showing about 300 patterns for weaving. Contemporary half tanned sheepskin, tiger marbled sides.

KIRSCHBAUM, Johann Michael. · 1771

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

6 pp. plus plates.Fifth edition, printed from the plates of the 1771 first edition, of an extremely rare and richly decorative weaver's sample book containing about 300 models for weaving cloth in all sorts of patterns (some wholly abstract, some with acorns, flowers, trees, e...

Historiae Gelricae libri XIV. ...Harderwijk and Amsterdam, Nicolaes van Wieringen and Johannes Janssonius, 1639. Folio. With a richly engraved title, a full-page engraved portrait of the author by J. van Velde, 5 double-page engraved maps of Gelderland, 4 double-page engraved plans of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Zutphen and Harderwijk, all with a view in profile at the top, and 3 full-page engraved portraits. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum.

PONTANUS, Johannes Isaac. · 1581

€3,250.00 ($3,582.09 | £2,711.36 | ¥572,014)

[26], 72, 956, [72] pp.First edition of the first extensive history of the duchy of Gelre (present day Gelderland) in the Netherlands, beautifully illustrated with large maps and plans. The work consists of fourteen books. The first contains a historical-topographical descript...

Les liaisons dangereuses, ou lettres recueilles dans une société, & publiées pour l'instruction de quelques autres. Par M. C..... De L.Amsterdam; Paris, Durand Neveu, 1782. 4 volumes bound as 2. 12mo. Contemporary sprinkled calf, blind-tooled double fillet frame on boards, sewn on 5 supports, gold-tooled spine with gold-tooled brown leather labels and red sprinkled edges.

[LACLOS, Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de]. · 1741

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

248; 240; 230; 256 pp.Rare second edition, a variant of what has been called version C, published in the same year as the first, of one of the most famous works of French literature, a novel in letters about free and almost amoral schemes of courting and seducing women, writte...

Gnomonica, oder gründlicher Unterricht und Beschreibung, Wie man allerhand Sonnen-Uhren auf ebenen Orten künstlich aufreissen und leichlich verfertigen soll &c. Zum andermal aufgeleget und mit nutzlichen Anmerkungen, wie auch dem andern Theil, vermehret, durch einen Liebhaber der Mathematischen Wissenschaften [= Johann Christoph Sturm].Nuremberg, Paulus Fürstens, printed by Christoph Gerhard, 1672. 2 volumes bound as 1. 4to. With a finely engraved frontispiece (an architectural gate with a wide variety of sundials and other astronomical instruments), 16 engraved plates (1 folding) in the first part (that for p. 48 repeated - at the end of vol. 2 - in accordance with the instructions to the binder), and numerous mathematical illustrations and figures on 13 folding engraved plates lettered A-N in the second part. Contemporary parchment.

WELPER, Eberhard the elder. · 1590

€4,250.00 ($4,684.27 | £3,545.63 | ¥748,018)

[12], 88; 74, [2] pp.Rare second edition (1st issue, in 2 volumes), extensively revised and enlarged, of a mathematical study of the construction of sundials, by Eberhard Welper the elder (1590-1664), first published in 1625 and here with useful additional observations and enl...

Eerste deel van het groot recht-ghevoelende Christen martelaers-boeck ...Dordrecht & Amsterdam, Isaack Jansz. Canin & Jan Evertsz. Cloppenburgh, 1619. Folio. With an engraved title-page and 106 very vivid woodcut illustrations of tortured and/or executed martyrs (several repeats), the text alternately set in roman and gothic type. 17th- or 18th-century gold-tooled calf, sewn on 6 supports with corresponding raised bands on the spine, with a red morocco title label lettered in gold in the second compartment, with remnants of ties.

MELLINUS, Abraham. · 1580

€5,500.00 ($6,062.00 | £4,588.46 | ¥968,023)

[14], 632, [46] ll.First edition of the first official Dutch Reformed Protestant martyrologium, composed by Abraham Mellinus (ca. 1580-1622). Born at Vlissingen, Mellinus studied at Leyden and became Minister at St. Anthonispolder and Cellartshoek. The present "first" volume o...

Dye cronijcke van Zeelandt.Antwerp, Widow of Heyndrick Peetersen, 1551. 4to. With an allegorical woodcut title with the coat of arms of the province of Zeeland, Charles V and Maximilian, a folding woodcut map of Zeeland, a small woodcut portrait of Charles V, a full-page woodcut coat of arms of Zeeland on the verso of the last leaf, and 6 mostly full-page woodcut coats of arms of Maximilian, the province of Zeeland, and of the cities Middelburg, Veere, Zierikzee and Cortgene in the text, further with numerous decorated woodcut initials. 17th-century gold-tooled sprinkled calf.

[REYGERSBERCH, Jan Janse]. · 1560

€4,000.00 ($4,408.73 | £3,337.06 | ¥704,017)

[194] ll.First edition of the first Chronicle of the Dutch Province of Zeeland, which is still a very important source for its early history. It is the first work to discuss non-political aspects of Zeeland, such as floods, trade, the growing importance of towns and cities, dy...

Historie van den Amsterdamschen schouwburg.With: (2) Historie van den nieuwen Amsterdamschen schouwburg.Amsterdam, Gerrit Warnars and Petrus den Hengst, 1772-1775. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece, a small engraved illustration by Noach van der Meer II on both title-pages, 4 folding engraved plates of the old theatre; 5 folding engraved plates of the new theatre, all engraved by the publishers after designs by Van der Meer and 1 by Simon Fokke. Contemporary marbled calf, gold-tooled spine.

[FOKKE, Jan or Myndert DE BOER (attributed)]. · 1772

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

[10], 80, [12]; [6], 56 pp.Large-paper copies of the first editions of two works on the schouwburg (theatre) of Amsterdam, the first on the old theatre, which burned down in 1772, and the second on the new theatre, which was built on the Leidseplein and finished in 1775. The l...

Heel-konste, ofte derde deel van de genees-konste, om de uytwendige gebreken te heelen.Dordrecht, Hendrick van Esch for Pieter Looymans and Maerten de Bot, 1645. With:(2) BEVERWIJCK, Johan van. Lof der medicine, ofte genees-konste.Dordrecht, [Hendrick van Esch for Jasper Gorrisz., 1644]. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 1: finely engraved architectural frontispiece with the Dordrecht coat of arms, supported by griffins, and a view of Dordrecht at the foot, a woodcut decoration on title page, 8 half-page and 11 full-page engravings on integral leaves, 1 with an emblematic image of Fortuna in the preface, 5 illustrating herbs and other plants with botanical details (2 appear in views of Marseille and the city of Orange in Provence, and another includes a view of Cairo at the head) and 13 human anatomical views, including the vascular system and the musculature, woodcut initials. Ad 2: With Van Esch’s woodcut device (the Maid of Dordrecht with “virgo Dordracena” and “libros non liberos pariens”) on the title page. Contemporary vellum, sewn on 3 vellum tapes laced through the joints, with a hollow back, early manuscript title on spine, red edges.

BEVERWIJCK, Johan van. · 1594

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

[44], 487, [7]; 152 pp.Ad 1: First edition of one of the famous medical works in the vernacular by Jan or Johan van Beverwijck, in Latin Beverovicus, (1594-1647): a most practical manual on surgery, starting with a discourse on the history, value, and necessity of surgery: “Lo...

Konstighe refereynen vol schoone schrifture ende leeringen, begrepen in drye verscheyde boecken ...Antwerp, Hieronymus Verdussen the Younger, 1646. 3 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With the same woodcut printer's device on 3 individual title pages. Contemporary vellum with manuscript title on spine, traces of ties.

BIJNS, Anna. · 1493

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

[24], 76; 91; 226, [10] pp.First edition of the complete collection of religious and moralizing poems by Anna Bijns (1493-1575), a nun and schoolmistress in Antwerp. Since she was a faithful orthodox Catholic, many of her poems harshly criticize Martin Luther and Protestantism...

Voorlooper. Over Adriani Smoutii schriftuerlyck jae, dienende tot openinge ende recht verstandt van synen toe-eyghen-brief aen de E.M. Heeren Staten, aengaende de questie: of de vyf verschillighe poincten de salicheyt raecken of niet. Ghestelt door eenen lief-hebber der waerheyt, tot dienste van alle ghetrouwe ondersaten ende vreed-lievende menschen hier te lande.Rotterdam, Matijs Bastiaensz., [1613]. 4to. Disbound.

[SMOUT, Adriaan Joriszoon (reply to)]. · 1580

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥44,001)

[32] pp.First and only edition of an anonymous pamphlet criticizing religious matters as advocated by the Remonstrants, published in answer to a pamphlet by the ultra-orthodox minister Adriaan Joriszoon Smout (1580-1646). Smout had published his pamphlet, entitled Schriftverli...

Culture pratique du rosier dans l'Afrique du Nord. ... augmenté d'une notice: les ennemis du rosier par Théophile Pagliano.Tunis, G. Finzi, [1926]. 8vo. With numerous illustrations in text, including botanical drawings and reproductions of photographs, some full-page, and 2 folding plates. Original publisher's printed paper wrappers, with advertisements printed on the paste-down.

PILE, Alfred.

€475.00 ($523.54 | £396.28 | ¥83,602)

[4], 132 pp.Extremely rare manual on the cultivation of roses in North Africa by Alfred Pile, a teacher of horticulture at the Colonial School of Agriculture in Tunis, Tunesia. The book deals with the history of the rose in northern Africa, different species of roses, how to c...

Liber de morbo Gallico: noviter editus: in quo omnes modi possibiles sanandi ipsum: mira quadam & artificiosa doctrina continentur: ... Addita est epistola ad eximium Thomam Cademustum in qua quamplurima ad perfectionem operis totius, & multarum aliarum egritudinum curam leguntur.(Colophon: Venice, Francesco Bindoni, Maffeo Pasini, May) 1536. 4to. With the title set in a woodcut architectural border showing 4 charming monsters (Maurice Sendak would have loved them) 6 sentries and a winged putto who seems to be playing with 2 of the mosters; woodcut decorated initials. 19th-century panel-stamped and blind-tooled parchment.

MASSA, Niccolò. · 1489

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

50, [1], 1 blank] ll.Third(?) edition, by the printers and publishers of the first, of a famous treatise on syphilis by the Italian physician Niccolò Massa (1489-1569), professor of anatomy in Venice. It stresses the important role sexual intercourse plays in the contraction o...

Neerlands interest, tot vrede der kercke, en wegh-neminge van alle opkomende misverstanden in de selve.Middelburg, Yemant Hendrickss., 1664. With:(2) [SALDENUS, Guilielmus]. Den God-vrughtigen boer ... tot verdedigingh van Jan Bakhuys den ghenaamden Boer van Ebbink-hoven, en Desiderius Pacius over sijn zedigh versoek aan Juffrouw Schurman. Utrecht, Jacob van Doeyenborgh, 1670. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary vellum.

MULLENS, Gelasius [= Guilielmus SALDENUS]. · 1627

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

100 pp.Two very rare pamphlets on the unity and controversies within the Dutch Protestant Church during the seventeenth century by the orthodox-Calvinist minister Guilielmus Saldenus (1627-1694). In the first pamphlet Saldenus tries to restore the peace between the Remonstrant...

Historia do Capuchinho Escoces.Lisboa, Bernardo da Costa Carvalmo for Joseph da Cruz Cardozo, 1708. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With a general title-page with a woodcut portrait of a monk (in the centre of a large rosette) and a divisional title-page for the second part of the tex. Contemporary richly gold-tooled calf, gold-tooled board edges, gilt and gauffered edges.

RINUCCINI, Giovanni Battista. · 1637

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

[14], 54, [1], [1 blank], 55-237, [3 blank] pp.Very rare early (3rd?) Portuguese edition of a romanticized life of the Scottish Capucin friar George Leslie (d. 1637), known as “Father Archangel'', written by the Italian Archbishop of Fermo, Giovanno Battista Rinuccini, origina...

Heel-konste, ofte derde deel van de genees-konste, om de uytwendige gebreken te heelen.Dordrecht, Hendrick van Esch for Pieter Looymans and Maerten de Bot, 1645.With: PLEMPIUS (PLEMP), Fortunatus. Verhandeling der spieren. ...Dordrecht, Hendrick van Esch for Pieter Loymans and Maerten de Bot, 1645.Small 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece, an emblematic engraving in the preliminaries, 5 engravings of herbs and plants, including 3 with views of Granada, Orange and Cairo, 2 anatomical engravings in the text and 11 full-page engraved anatomical plates. Original overlapping vellum, manuscript title on spine, red edges.

BEVERWIJCK, Johannes van. · 1594

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

[44], 487, [7]; [6], 176 pp.Two interesting and complementary medical works, probably designed to match, bound together in contemporary vellum.Ad 1: First edition of a practical manual of surgery by Jan van Beverwijck, in Latin Beverovicus, (1594-1647). He and Andreas Vesalius...

Veues de Gunterstein. Dediees A Madame de Gunterstein et de Thienhoven.Amsterdam, Nicolas Visscher, [ca. 1690]. Oblong 4to (20.5 x 28 cm). With richely engraved allegorical title by J. Mulder, and 15 fine engraved views of the House and Gardens of Gunterstein, on the Vecht near Breukelen, engraved by De Lespine. Old boards.

[MULDER, Joseph and DE LESPINE]. · 1632

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

[16] ll.Rare print-series, the first to depict the newly rebuilt Gunterstein estate, a "William and Mary House and Gardens" along the river Vecht, between Amsterdam and Utrecht. Gunterstein (still existing) greatly influenced the development of country estates on the Vecht. Th...

Kleine Schriften. Ein Beytrag zur Völker- und Länderkunde, Naturgeschichte und Philosophie des Lebens.Leipzig, Paul Gotthelf Kummer [volume 1]; Berlin, Vossische Buchhandlung [volumes 2-6], 1789-1797. 6 volumes. 8vo. With 2 folding engraved maps and 20 engraved plates (2 folding). Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spines.

FORSTER, Georg. · 1754

€5,000.00 ($5,510.91 | £4,171.33 | ¥880,021)

[12], 464; [8], 380; [6], “362” [=378]; [8], 407; [8], 435, [3]; [8], 418 pp.First edition of the collected miscellaneous writings of Georg Forster (1754-1794), parts previously published elsewhere, parts published here for the first time. Forster's fame was instantly establis...

Der gantze Psalter dess heiligen unnd königklichen Propheten Davids, mit beygesetzter kurtzer Catholicher Erklärung ...St. Gallen, Im Fürstlichen Gottszhaus [= Johann Landorth], 1644. 4to. Title page in red and black, a headpiece built up from typographic ornaments, and woodcut gothic decorated initials. Contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, 2 brass clasps (on calf straps) and catchplates.

SNOY, Reinier & Nicolaus Hug LANDENBURGER (transl.). · 1644

€1,900.00 ($2,094.15 | £1,585.11 | ¥334,408)

[16], 574 pp.The 1644 St. Gallen edition of Nicolaus Hug Landenburger’s German translation (first edition 1566) of a very popular devotional work: one of the best-known works by Reinier Snoy (1477-1537), from Gouda, namely his famous paraphrase of the Psalms, Psalterium Davidi...

Het voorhof der ziele, behangen met leerzaeme prenten en zinnebeelden.Rotterdam, F. van Hoogstraten (colophon: Hendrik van Puer), 1668. 4to. With a fine engraved allegorical frontispiece and 60 fine engraved emblems in the text, all by Romeyn de Hooghe. Contemporary tree-marbled boards.

[HOOGSTRATEN, Frans van]. · 1645

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

[16], 199, [9] pp.Rare first edition of a beautiful emblem book on vanitas; the first work illustrated by Romeyn de Hooghe. The emblems, in first and fresh impression, show vivid scenes of daily life, including fishing and hunting, a fire brigade in action, a surgeon performin...