A. Asher & Co. B.V.

Voyage a Méroé, au fleuve blanc, au-delà de fâzoql dans le midi du royaume de Sennâr, a Syouah et dans cinq autres oasis; fait dans les années 1819, 1820, 1821 et 1822, ... Dédié au roi.Paris, Debure, Tillard and Treuttel & Wurtz, 1826-1827. 4 text volumes (8vo) and 1 atlas volume in 2 parts (folio). With a woodcut vignette on the title pages, 12 full-page hand-coloured costume plates, and 150 full-page lithographs in the atlas volume. Contemporary half calf, gold- and blind-tooled spine, marbled edges.

CAILLIAUD, Frédéric. · 1821

Viajes científicos en todo el mundo, desde 1822 hasta 1842; durante los cuales fueron visitadas ... Dedicados a la nacion Venezolana.Madrid, I. Boix, 1843. 4to. With full-page author's portrait by Leopoldo Lopez, woodcut coat of arms on dedication, 12 full-page lithographed illustrations by J. Aragon after J. Abrial, and 2 large lithographed folding maps (showing Sydney and the route of the voyage). Contemporary gold-tooled half sheepskin.

MICHELENA Y ROJAS, Francisco. · 1840

Lettres familieres sur la Carinthie et la Stirie, adressées a madame Bianchi, de Bologne. Par un officier général Français, prisonnier de guerre en Autriche. 1799.Leoben (Austria) and Paris, Louis-François Prault, an IX [= 1800/01]. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title-page. Contemporary green half calf, gold-tooled spine.

[MEYER von SCHAUENSEE, Maurus]. · 1765

Nieuwe verklaring over de proportionaal passer, waar in aangewesen word, hoe dezelve is te tekenen, en hoe tafeltjes daar toe dienende konnen werden berekent, vervolgens der zelver veelvuldig en nuttig gebruyk, zoo in de tel- als meetkonst; ...Amsterdam, Joannes Loots, 1708. 4to. With a large folding engraved plate illustrating the scales on the sector and 12 smaller folding engraved plates showcasing several of the calculations. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine.

WARIUS, Pieter. · 1661

Grondlegginge der teeken-konst, zynde een korte en zeekere weg om door middel van de geometrie of meetkunde, de teeken-konst volkomen te leeren. ... Tweede druk.Including: SEGNER, Johann Andreas. Beschryving van twee verscheide zeer bekwame en zuinige als mede het gezicht bewarende lampen, ...Amsterdam, Gerrit Tielenburg, 1766. 4to. With a engraved illustration on title-page, 8 engraved plates (including one mezzotint) and 6 engravings in text, mostly after designs by the author, and ad 2 with 3 folding engraved plates. Contemporary richly gold-tooled calf, gilt edges.

LAIRESSE, Gerard de. · 1640

Mahmoud le Gasnevide, histoire orientale. Fragment traduit de l'Arabe, avec des notes.Rotterdam, Jean Hofhoudt, 1730. 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, gold-tooled spine, boards, board edges and turn-ins, both boards with the gold-tooled coat of arms of Louis Marie Alexandre, Duc d'Aumont, gilt edges.

MELON, Jean-François. · 1675

Questions diverses, et responces d'icelles. Divisees en trois livres assçavoir, questions d'amour, questions naturelles, questions morales & politiques. Nouvellement traduites de Tuscan en Françoys.Paris, Nicolas Bonsons, 1576. 16mo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title, several decorated woodcut initials, and woodcut head- and tailpieces. Mid-19th-century gold-tooled morocco by Trautz-Bauzonnet.

[LANDO, Ortensio]. · 1808

Traduction d'un exemplaire en langue Turque contenant le detail & la description des processions des jeunes, & des penitences que le grand seigneur dit Mahomet Soliman, Empereur Turk du soleil levant, & du couchant, souverain seigneur des seigneurs, & veritable successeur de la race du grand prophete Mahomet, a commandé de faire en tout son empire.Bordeaux, Pierre Abegou, 1687. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I and (extra added) a portrait of the Polish King Jan III Sobieski, by F. Jollain, inserted as a second frontispiece. Marbled wrappers.

[THE GREAT TURKISH WAR]. · 1640

Traité historique de la gravure en bois. Ouvrage enrichie des plus jolis morceaux de sa composition & de sa gravure. Volume I. Contenant toute la partie Historique. Volume II. Contenant tous les principes de cet art. Volume III. Supplément. Contenant plusieurs faits historiques, de nouvelles manieres, servant à perfectionner cet art, les arrêts rendus en faveur de la gravure, & une table des matieres des trois volumes. Paris, Pierre-Guillaume Simon, 1766. 3 parts in 2 volumes. Large 8vo. With a woodcut portrait of the author, a large woodcut vignette on the title page of each part, a full-page armorial woodcut to the dedication to Marquis de Boyer de Bandol, a full-page woodcut portrait of Saint Andrew printed in chiaroscuro in the first part; 16 full-page woodcut plates illustrating the tools and technique of the art of woodcutting and 5 full-page plates illustrating the various stages of woodcut colour-printing in chiaroscuro in the second part; 2 full-page plates with 12 small woodcut illustrations each and 2 woodcut plates showing the tools and technique of erasing and of making shadows in woodcuts in the supplement; and numerous woodcut head- and tailpieces, monograms, vignettes, and illustrations in the text (several full-page), throughout the whole work. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf, with a red morocco title and volume label on the spine, red edges, marbled endpapers.

PAPILLON, Jean Michel. · 1698

Histoire generale de Sicile, dans laquelle on verra toutes les différentes revolutions de cette isle depuis le tems òu elle a commencé à être habitée, jusq'à la derniéree paix entre la Maison de France, & la Maison d'Autriche.The Hague, Isaac Beauregard & Pierre Gosse, 1745. 2 volumes. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on both titles, the titles printed in red and black, 2 large folding engraved maps, an engraved headpiece by B. F. Immink (1743), and several decorated woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf.

BURIGNY, Jean Lévesque de. · 1692

Memoires secrets pour servir a l'histoire de Perse.Amsterdam, La Compagnie, 1745. Small 8vo. With a very fine allegorical woodcut vignette on the title page: "Vis Unita Major", the title is printed in red and black. Further with a woodcut headpiece and two woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary gold-tooled red morocco.

[PECQUET, Antoine].

Breviarium Romanum ex decreto sacrosancti concilii Tridentini restitutum, Pii V. Pont. Max. jussu editum, et Clementis VIII. primùm, nunc denuò Urbani PP. VIII. auctoritate recognitum. In quo omnia suis locis ad longum posita sunt, pro majori recitantium commoditate.Antwerp, Typographia Plantiniana [Balthasar Moretus IV], 1714. 4 volumes. 12mo (14 x 9 cm). With engraved vignette with the Papal insignia on title-pages and 17 engraved plates. Text printed in red and black throughout. Contemporary gold-tooled calf, gilt edges.

[BREVIARY]. · 1714

Les phénomènes et les curiosités de la nature. Texte par Munerelle. Dessins par Lemaitre.Strasbourg, Paris, Derivaux, Arthus-Bertrand, Martinon, 1856. Large 4to. With lithographed aquatint printed in sepia on title with a view of a burning vulcano, and 37 full-page colour-printed lithographed plates, beautifully finished by hand and glazed, all depicting natural phenomena, such as a sun-rise, a storm, a rainbow, the Niagara Falls, Geysers, The Andes, the Nile, the Vesuvius, a jungle, the steppe, cliffs, mines, the tide, the Poles, a cyclone, an undersea volcano, etc., also including natural disasters, like a flood, an earthquake, and an avalanche. Original gold-stamped half brown leather.

MUNERELLE & LEMAITRE. · 1848

Elementa practica. Oder Ausszug aller Problematum und Handarbeiten auss den 15. Büchern Euclidis. Allen und jeden, des uhralten geometrischen nutzlichen Gebrauch, dess Cirkels Liebhabern ...Nürnberg, Simon Halbmayer, [1625]. 4to. With the title set in an engraved border, and numerous woodcut mathematical figures in text. Contemporary limp vellum.

EUCLID and Lucas BRUNN (translator).

Nouveau mode de culture et d'echalassement de la vigne, applicable à tous les vignobles où l'on cultive les vignes basses. Metz, printed by Dembour and Gangel for Warion, [1847]. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, and 3 large folding plates, lithographed by Dembours and Gangel. Modern half morocco, preserving the original illustrated wrappers.

COLLIGNON D'ANCY, Théodore.

Voyage au golfe de Californie. Paris, Arthus Bertrand, [1864]. 8vo. With folding map of Sonora by Malte-Brun, hand-coloured in outline. Contemporary gold-tooled quarter calf, with a black morocco author and title label on the spine, lettered in gold, decorated ("pseudo-marbled") paper sides.

COMBIER, Cyprien. · 1863

Voyage de Lapérouse, rédigé d'après ses manuscrits originaux, suivi d'un appendice renfermant tout ce que l'on a découvert depuis le naufrage jusqu'a nos jours, et enrichi de notes par M. de Lesseps, consul général de France à Lisbonne, et seul débris vivant de l'expédition dont il était interprète; accompagné d'une carte générale du voyage, orné du portrait et d'un fac-simile de Lapérouse.Paris, Arthus Bertrand and Delaunay (colophon: printed by Casmir), 1831. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece with a portrait of Lapérouse, a facsimile of one of his letters, and a large engraved folding map. Modern half calf.

LESSEPS, Jean-Baptiste-Barthelemy, Baron de. · 1785

[Account book of the banking house and stockbrokers firm Vlaer & Kol at Utrecht, for the years 1818-1821].[Utrecht, 1818-1821]. Folio. Contemporary parchment over boards, sewn on 4 vellum tapes, formerly laced through the joints, spine lettered in ink: “FU” and later in pencil: “1819”.

[UTRECHT - BANKING]. · 1818

Esquisses de l'ile de Java et de ses divers habitants, recueillies pendant un séjour de huit années fait dans cette île; … traduit de l'Allemand par Girodz du Villard, revu et mis en ordre par G. Guénot Lecointe. Brussels, P.J. Voglet for Société Belge de Librairie, Hauman, Cattoir and company, 1837. 12mo. Modern grained brown half calf preserving the original lithographed wrappers, partly uncut.

PFYFFER ZU NEUECK, Joseph Jacob Xaver. · 1798

[Sermones de tempore et de sanctis]. (Colophon: Zwolle, [Johannes de Vollenhoe], 1479). Small (Chancery) folio (27.5 x 20.5 cm). With one 5-line and hundreds of 2- and 3-line spaces left for initials, filled in with manuscript "Lombardic" capitals in red; manuscript paragraph marks in red; and capitals rubricated throughout. Set entirely in a single textura gothic type (103 mm/20 lines) in 2 columns of 39 lines to the page. Early 18th-century tanned sheepskin.

[SERVASANCTUS DE FAENZA and others] (spuriously attributed to Saint BONAVENTURA). · 1478