A. Asher & Co. B.V.

Palestra pharmaceutica, chymico-galenica, en la qual se trata de la eleccion de los simples, sus preparaciones chymicas, y galenicas, y de las mas selectas composiciones antiguas, y modernas, usuales, tanto en Madrid, como en toda Europa, descritas por los antiguos, y modernos, con las anotaciones necesarias, y mas nuevas, que hasta lo presente se han escrito, tocantes à su perfecta elaboracion, virtudes, y mejor aplicacion en los enfermos. Obra muy util, y necesaria para todos los profesores de la medicina, medicos, cirujanos, y en particular boticarios; muy anadida en esta tercera impression.Madrid, heirs of Juan Garcia Infanzon, 1737. Folio. With the title page in a border built up from cast fleurons, and 5 engraved plates.Contemporary sheepskin parchment; recased, with later endpapers.

PALACIOS, Felix. · 1677

€4,500.00 ($4,959.93 | £3,753.65 | ¥792,132)

[12], 708, [28] pp.Rare fifth(?) edition, published in the year of the author’s death, of a work on pharmaceutical chemistry written by the Spanish apothecary Félix Palacios (1677-1737). When the Palestra pharmaceutica appeared in 1706, it was the first work on the subject wri...

Tables of latitudes, and longitudes by chronometer, of places in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans; principally of the west and east coast of Africa, the coasts of Arabia, Madagascar. &c. resulting from the observations of H.M.S. Leven and Barracouta, in the years 1820 to 1826 inclusive, ... To which is prefixed an essay on the management and use of chronometers ...London, George Duckworth and William Ireland, 1827. 4to. Contemporary blue boards for the Danish Navy Library, later backed with cloth.

OWEN, William Fitzwilliam (ed.) & Richard OWEN. · 1896

€2,500.00 ($2,755.52 | £2,085.36 | ¥440,073)

[2], 33, [3], 16, [36], 8 ppFirst edition of an important work in the history of navigation and probably the first manual for the use of the marine chronometer. Richard Owen (1896-1863), an Irish Lieutenant in the royal navy, wrote the account of the chronometer, while the tab...

The Turkish empire in Europe, Asia and Africa, divided into all its governments, together with the other territories that are tributary to it, as also the dominions of the Emperor of Marocco.London, Herman Moll, John Bowles, Thomas Bowles & John King, ca. 1730. A large engraved map in two sheets (61 x 101 cm as assembled) at a scale of about 1:7,100,000, with 3 insets containing 6 topographic and architectural views. Coloured.

MOLL, Herman. · 1714

€8,500.00 ($9,368.76 | £7,090.23 | ¥1,496,249)

Moll’s large-format map of the Ottoman Empire based on De l’Isle’s 1714 Carte de l'Empire Othoman, both covering the whole of the Mediterranean Sea. The caravan route from Basra to Mecca is also given. Includes inset prospects of Constantinople, Smyrna and Jerusalem, and three...

Al rey nuestro señor. Memorial … Contiene el hecho; en la causa de la preparacion de la colocynthida.[Zaragoza, 1613]. Small 4to (20 x 15 cm). With the woodcut arms of Philip III of Spain on title-page. Loosely inserted in contemporary limp sheepskin parchment.

NOVELLA, Cosme. · 1601

€4,500.00 ($4,959.93 | £3,753.65 | ¥792,132)

[25] ll.Very rare first and only edition of a “memorial” addressed to the king, Philip III of Spain. Cosme Novella was initially denied permission to practice the profession of pharmacist in the apothecary of his father-in-law who had recently passed away. During the inspectio...

Pillularium omnibus medicis quam necessarium … Summa lacticiniorum completa omnibus idonea.Including: ZERBI, Gabriele. Cautele medicorum no[n] inutiles.(Colophon: Lyon, Antoine Blanchard [and Laurent Hyllaire], 7 January 1525 [= 1526]). Small 4to (20 x 14 cm). Title page with a 4-piece woodcut border (using material from Laurent Hylaire). Modern limp sheepskin parchment.

PANTALEONE DI CONFIENZA (CONFLUENTIA). · 1508

€8,500.00 ($9,368.76 | £7,090.23 | ¥1,496,249)

XXXVIII, [2] ll.Third edition of a collection of three medical and gastronomical texts by two 15th-century Italian physicians. All were published separately for the first time at the end of the 15th century, the first collected edition appeared in 1508.The first, Pillarium by ...

2 lithographic WWII maps: Rutba and Wadi Al Ubaiyidh.[UK Government], Geographical Section, General Staff, War Office, 1940-1942. 2 topographic maps, colour-printed. Scale 1:500,000. 820 x 640 mm and 770 x 648 mm. Previously folded. Marked "Iraq Desert Sheet 1" and "Sheet 2". Generally well preserved.

[IRAQ DESERT] · 1930

€1,250.00 ($1,377.76 | £1,042.68 | ¥220,037)

Compiled from 1930s surveys and produced by the British 512 (Army Field Survey) Company, Royal Engineers, for use in the Persian war theatre. These consecutive maps cover the south-western area of Iraq, including Rutba and Fallujah, with parts of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Syri...

[Reconnaissance maps of Iraq].[UK Government], Survey Directorate HQ Tenth Army / Indian Field Survey Co., 1942 42 chromolithographed topographic maps of parts of Iraq, made from aerial photographs during World War II, on a scale of 1:100,000 and 1:253,440 (a quarter-inch to a mile). 68 x 50.5 cm & 60 x 47 cm.

[MAPS - IRAQ].

€6,500.00 ($7,164.35 | £5,421.94 | ¥1,144,190)

An impressive collection of Iraq maps compiled from the most current aerial photography and produced by the British Army for use in the Persian theatre of war during World War II. The cities and regions covered include ‘Ain Sifni, Aqra, Tel Afar, Salman Pak, Ba’Quba, Sumaika, ...

In Nicander Theriaca scholia auctoris incerti, et vetusta et utilia.Including: In eiusdem Alexipharmaca diversorum auctorum scholia.Paris, Morelius, 1557. 3 parts in 1 volume. 4to. Each part with its own title page, with a woodcut caduceus device on all three. Set in roman and Greek types. Late 17th- or early 18th-century richly gold-tooled red morocco, with the author lettered in gold on the spine, a panel design on both boards with elaborate borders, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, marbled end papers, gilt edges.

NICANDER of Colophon. · 1505

€5,000.00 ($5,511.04 | £4,170.72 | ¥880,146)

[8], “225” [= 215], [1 blank]; “80” [= 72] pp.Bilingual edition (Greek & Latin) of two medical hexametric poems by the Hellenistic poet and physician Nicander of Colophon (fl. second century BCE), followed by a part with ancient scholia in Greek. The two poems are followed by ...

A directory for the navigation of the Indian archipelago and the coast of China, from the Straits of Malacca and Sunda, and the passages east of Java, to Canton, Shanghai, the Yellow Sea, and Korea. With the descriptions of the winds, monsoons, and currents, and general instructions for the various channels, harbours, etc. Third edition.London, Richard Holmes Laurie, 1889. Royal 8vo. With 11 folding maps and charts. Original publisher’s blindstamped cloth, lettered in gold.

FINDLAY, Alexander George. · 1478

€2,500.00 ($2,755.52 | £2,085.36 | ¥440,073)

XLVIII, IV, 1478; [2], 8 pp.Third edition of Findlay’s monumental navigational directory of East Asia, including the Straits of Malacca, Sunda and Singapore, the east coast of Sumatra, the Gulf of Siam (now Thailand), the coasts of Cochin China, Tonkin, Borneo, the Philippines...

Dubai camel market.No place, [ca. 1930]. 2 photos (ca. 8.5 x 11 cm). Mounted on backing cardboard. In black picture frame (22 x 27 cm).

[DUBAI CAMEL MARKET].

€5,000.00 ($5,511.04 | £4,170.72 | ¥880,146)

Two pictures, both showing scenes from the camel market in Dubai, depicting resting camels on the ground as well as several customers and cameleers on foot or riding mules.Rare photographs in good condition.

Pharmacopoea universa medicamenta in officinis pharmaceuticis usitata complectens, & explicans.Cádiz, Juan de Borja, 1622. 4to. With a helmed, crested and mantled woodcut Contreras coat of arms of the dedicatee on the title-page (dexter argent paly of 3 azure, sinister an inverted tower, the whole with a bordure containing 12 X’s) repeated at the end of liber I, woodcut device at the end of the text.Tree-pattern tanned sheepskin (ca. 1830), and the owner’s initials J.S. (for José Saranderes) in the 5th.

CASTILLO, Juan del. · 1581

€15,000.00 ($16,533.10 | £12,512.18 | ¥2,640,439)

[7], “335” [= 332], [6] ll.Rare first and only early edition, with the text in Spanish but the lists of ingredients in Latin, of by far the most extensive and most detailed early medicinal recipe book in Spanish, with recipes for about 300 medicines arranged in 9 sections for ...

Welsh botanology. A systematic catalogue of the native plants of the Isle of Anglesey, in Latin, English, and Welsh; with the habitats of the rarer species, and a few observations. Including: An alphabetical catalogue of the Welsh names of vegetables rendered into Latin and English; with some account of the qualities, economical or medicinal, of the most remarkable.London, for the author by W. Marchant, 1813. 2 works (the 1st in 2 parts) in 1 volume. 8vo. With 1 engraved plate, often lacking. With: (2) PAGE, William Bridgewater. Page’s prodromus; as a general nomenclature of all the plants, indigenous and exotic, cultivated in the Southampton Botanic Gardens: arranged, alphabetically … trees, shrubs herbaceous … an appendix, containing selected lists of annuals; all the choicest kinds of fruit … London, John Murray, 1818.19th-century black half sheepskin with marbled sides, new endpapers.

DAVIES, Hugh. · 2076

€1,250.00 ($1,377.76 | £1,042.68 | ¥220,037)

[2], XIV, [2], 152; XVI, 256; 8, [2], 270, [1 blank] pp.First and only edition of a very rare pioneering work of botany in Wales, cataloguing the plants of the Isle of Anglesey (off the coast of northwest Wales), bound together with a rare list of plants in the Southampton Bot...

General collection of nautical publications.London, George Bigg, 1783. Small folio (31.5 x 24.5 cm). Contemporary, vellum backed, stiff marbled wrappers.

DALRYMPLE, Alexander. · 1737

€8,500.00 ($9,368.76 | £7,090.23 | ¥1,496,249)

[4], 16 pp.First edition of one the introductions to the newly planned work of the eccentric Scottish geographer Alexander Dalrymple (1737-1808), hydrographer for the East India Company and Captain Cook's leading rival. In 1783 he started to re-arrange his earlier plans, char...

[Drop-title:] Capt. Taylor's remarks, in ship Ceres.[London, George Bigg, 1787]. Small folio (31.5 x 24.5 cm). Contemporary half vellum, marbled sides.

[DALRYMPLE, Alexander]. TAYLOR, Robert. · 1737

€9,500.00 ($10,470.97 | £7,924.38 | ¥1,672,278)

12 pp.Rare second edition, second issue, of a journal of a voyage from Sumatra to Bengal, kept by Captain Robert Taylor on the ship Ceres, followed by additional comments from "a manuscript, which may be depended upon". Locations sighted include: Hog Island, the Cocos islands,...

Laberinto d’amore ... con una epistola à Messer Pino de Rossi confortatoria del medesimo autore.[Florence, heirs of Filippo Giunta the elder], 1525. 8vo. Contemporary sheepskin parchment with remains of a gold-tooled spine label, dark blue edges.

BOCCACCIO, Giovanni. · 1487

€3,500.00 ($3,857.72 | £2,919.51 | ¥616,102)

72 ll.Second Giunta edition of the "Corbaccio", which first appeared in 1487 and was first (and similarly anonymously) printed by Filippo Giunta in 1516: "una materiale ristampa di questa edizione, fatta pagina a pagina e riga a riga" (Gamba); "ces deux editions sont assez rar...

Saudi Arabian road map.Dammam, Al-Mutawa press company, 1973. Large folding map (60 × 90.5 cm), printed in light orange with darker purple, depicting the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and its main roads. With on the right the title in both Arabic and English and a table with the distances from one city to another.

[ARAMCO].

€1,800.00 ($1,983.97 | £1,501.46 | ¥316,853)

Large folding map, published by the Arabian American Oil Company, depicting the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It depicts the country’s roads, trails, railroads, roads that are still under construction and proposed roads, as well as cities, villages, airports and deserts. The table ...

Philodicus, sive Dialogus de ptisana, ...Venice, “ad signum Leonis” [= heirs of Curzio Troiano Navò], 1591 [all but the prelims printed by Francesco Osanna, Mantua, 1584]. With: (2) PARMA, Ippolito. Introductionis ad chirurgiam libri duo. ...Padova, Pietro Paolo Tozzi (printed by Lorenzo Pasquato), 1612. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. Ad 1: with the title page printed in red and black in an illustrated woodcut border, a woodcut headpiece, 4 woodcut initials with pictorial decoration, decorations built up from arabesque typographic ornaments, and a small acorn. Ad 2: with Tozzi’s(?) woodcut Minerva device in a scrollwork cartouche on the title page, numerous woodcut headpieces, tailpieces and other decorations, 6 woodcut decorated initials and arabesque typographic ornaments. Half calf (French, ca. 1750), gold-tooled spine with a label (with both titles), plain paper sides, green headbands.

MINADOI, Giovanni Tommaso. · 1549

€12,500.00 ($13,777.59 | £10,426.81 | ¥2,200,366)

[8], 124, [2 blank]; [8], 196 pp.First edition, second issue, of a dialogue set in Aleppo on the use of barley infusions (often together with other medicines) for the treatment of various illnesses and ailments, written by the personal physician of the Venetian counsul to Syri...

[12 photographs of race horses].[Russia, ca. 1900]. Each photo ca. 27 x 37 cm. Pasted on cardboard.

[RACE HORSES - RUSSIA].

€5,000.00 ($5,511.04 | £4,170.72 | ¥880,146)

Series of 12 fine, large and sharp photographs of Russian race horses. Pasted below each photo, a slip with text written in cyrillic script names the horse, owner, pedigree and breed of horse in the photograph. Each horse is accompanied by a man holding the reins, dressed in p...

De re medica libri tres, Jacobo Sylvio interprete.Lyon, Guillaume Rouillé (colophon: printed by Philibert Rollet), 1550. 8vo. With Rouillé’s woodcut device on the title page (eagle on a globe, flanked by 2 snakes), numerous woodcut decorated initials, and an arabesque decoration below the colophon. 19th-century marbled boards, manuscript spine label.

MASAWAIH AL-MARDINI (MESUE the younger). · 1478

€3,500.00 ($3,857.72 | £2,919.51 | ¥616,102)

[16], 421, [1], [2 blank] pp.Well-made but popularly priced Lyon 8vo edition of Mesue’s three seminal pharmacological works, including his great pharmacological handbook, the principal model for the European pharmacopoeias, translated into Latin by Jacques Dubois/Jacobus Sylvi...

De proprietatibus, ac virtutibus medicis animalium, plantarum, ac gemmarum, tractatus triplex.Paris, Sébastien et Gabriel Cramoisy, 1647. 8vo. With 2 woodcut headpieces, a woodcut tailpiece and woodcut decorate initials, plus decorations built up from arabesque typographic ornaments. Set in roman and italic type with a few words in Greek, Hebrew, Arabic and Syriac. Contemporary vellum with manuscript spine label (faded).

AL-SUYUTI, Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Bakr. · 1640

€25,000.00 ($27,555.18 | £20,853.62 | ¥4,400,731)

[24], 179, [17] pp.First Latin translation of a three-part pharmacological treatise on the nature and effect of medicines gained from animals, vegetables, and minerals (including some quite superstitious material), published under the name of the mediaeval Egyptian polymath Ab...