A. Asher & Co. B.V.

Translaet van eenen brieff geschreven in gout ende bij den Coninck van Syam gesonden aen Sijn Excellentie Mauritio de Nassau.[The Hague?, ca. 1608]. Folio (34 x 21 cm). Dutch manuscript translation, written in brown ink on paper in a slightly sloped Dutch gothic cursive hand (35 lines with text area 21 x 17.5 cm, plus 2-line drop-title), very neatly written, of a 1607 letter from Ekathatsarot, King of Ayutthaya (Siam/Thailand) to Maurits of Nassau, Prince of Orange (received in 1608), distributed as a manuscript tidings.

EKATHOTSAROT, King of Ayutthaya (Siam/Thailand). · 1607

Practical falconry; to which is added, how I became a falconer.London, Horace Cox, 1869. 8vo. Decorated vellum (1908), with a painted illustration of a falcon on the front board and two unidentified cipher monogram below ("CEUD" and "CMF"), gilt edges.

FREEMAN, Gage Earle. · 1820

Southwest Asia, India, Pakistan, and Northeast Africa.Washington, DC, National Geographic Society, 1952. Colour printed map, 68.5 x 95 cm. Scale 1:7,5000,000. With an inset map of "the Moslem World; percentage of Moslems in total population".

[MAP – ASIA – MIDDLE EAST]. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY. · 1952

Log of H.M.S. Cumberland [commanded by] Captain J.B. Dickson bearing the flag of Rear Admiral Provo W.P. Wallis, … commencing 5th April 1857, ending 30th April 1858.With:(2) SNEYD-KYNNERSLEY, Thomas Alfred. Log of H.M.S. Siren . 16 guns, commanded from May 1st to May 8th 1858 by Captain J.H. Selwyn, from May 9th 1858 to [27th July 1858] by Com[ande]r G.M. Balfour.(3) SNEYD-KYNNERSLEY, Thomas Alfred. Journal of T.A. Sneyd Kynnersley acting mate H.M.S. Siren, 16 [guns], commencing July 28 1858, ending [11 April 1860].[In the Atlantic, along the European, African and especially the South American coasts, 1857-1860]. Small folio (32 x 20.5 cm). Three English manuscript ships' logs written in a single album in black ink on laid paper with a blue cast, with 3 hand-lettered title-pages, 2 sea charts showing the routes and 8 colour views (in watercolour, coloured pencil and sepia and black ink, mostly ships on the South American coast, but also camps) are drawn on 9 separate leaves, and 6 sea charts showing the routes and about 15 views drawn directly on the album leaves, mostly in black ink, but including a colour plan of one of the ships. Contemporary black half sheepskin.

SNEYD-KYNNERSLEY, Thomas Alfred. · 1839

World aeronautical chart (446) Wadi Sirhan.Washington, DC, USAF aeronautical chart and information service, 1958. Colour printed map, 56 x 73.5 cm, with a legend printed on the back. Scale 1:1,000,000.

[MAP - SAUDI ARABIA - JORDAN]. USAF aeronautical chart and information service. · 1965

The Saint Helena almanac and annual register for the year of our lord 1850, … Containing a detailed account of the public departments and local institutions.Saint Helena, George Gibb, Government office, [1849]. 8vo. With title-page printed in orange, with the woodcut royal arms of the United Kingdom. Later black half morocco, gold-tooled spine.

[SAINT HELENA - ALMANAC]. · 1850

Esprit de Francklin ... Le B[on].homme Richard.Chalonnes sur Loire, Fremy frères, Bottrel et Cie., [ca. 1830]. Blown glass bottle made in the form of a book (15 x 10 x 3 cm plus 1.5 cm neck and lip). The "spine" is covered with gold-tooled red morocco, with 7 horizontal rolls dividing it into 5 fields plus a smaller 6th at the foot, the title and the French form of Franklin's pen-name in fields 3 and 4 and a decoration in fields 1, 3 and 5, the "boards" covered with paper, each with an lithographed rectangular decorative border enclosing an oval laurel wreath around an oval paper overlay with a lithographed view, that on the front board showing Benjamin Franklin and that on the back board showing a man in the distillery, each with accompanying texts above and below the wreath. The paper sides (but not their overlays) have a slight reddish cast.

[BOTTLE IN BOOK FORM]. · 1828

Skizzen aus dem Orient, gesammelt in den Jahren 1840 und 1841. | Esquisses de l'Orient, recueillies dans les années 1840 et 1841.Darmstadt, Ernst Kern; Paris, H. Gache, 1843. Oblong 1mo (48 x 63.5 cm). With 6 tinted lithographed plates by Frisch, with captions in German and French below. The first three in the deluxe issue printed by B. Dondorf, Frankfurt am Main, the last three in the regular issue printed by G. Küstner. Original publisher's letterpress printed wrappers, with a list of subscribers and advertisements on the back of the front wrapper.

FRISCH, Friedrich. · 1813

Arabia and near bordering countries.Including:- Palestine- Iran (Persia) and surrounding territoryChicago, Geographical publishing company, [ca. 1936-1941]. Colour printed map, 54 x 40 cm.

[MAP - MIDDLE EAST]. Geographical Publishing Company.

East India views islands headlands &c.[London, ca. 1790?- ca. 1805]. Ten watercolour coastal profiles in grey and blue, of widely varying sizes (30 to 119 cm long), with contemporary captions and other notes in pencil or black ink. 20th-century brown cloth with the artist's original laid-paper wrappers bound at the end.

POCOCK, Nicholas. · 1740

[Watercolour views of sea-coasts in New Caledonia and Peru].[New Caledonia & Peru], [1855/60?]. Album: full-sheet leaves (oblong 1mo) (39.5 × 52.5); drawings: oblong folio and oblong 4to. An album with 21 watercolour drawings on paper with views of sea coasts from the shore (24 × 31 cm to 29.5 × 46.5 cm), one with a 22nd watercolour drawing on the back with a similar view, and one with about 15 human figure drawings in graphite pencil on the back. All bear the artist’s stamp on the front (Lugt 3703) and 4 are signed or initialled by the artist. Richly gold- and blind-tooled green goatskin morocco, white watered silk endleaves.

ROMIEUX, Osmond. · 1850

Persian Gulf | ONC-H-6/7. Operational navigation chart.St Louis, Aeronautical chart and information center, United States Air Force, 1967. Two maps colour printed on both sides of a sheet of silk (103 x 78.5 cm) on a scale of ca. 1:1,000,000. The two maps (ONC-H-6 & ONC-H-7) show one continuous area.

[MAP - ARABIAN GULF]. Aeronautical chart and information center.

Iran (Persia) and Iraq.London, George Philip & sons, [1930s]. Colour printed map, 54 x 68 cm, with yellow covers (19.5 x 11 cm).

[MAP - IRAN - IRAQ]. PHILIP & SON. · 1930

Nomenclator ex Historia plantarum indigenarum Helvetiae excerptus auctore. Bern, Societatis Typographicæ [colophon: [D.] Brunner & [Albrecht von] Haller], 1769. 8vo. With title-vignette. 19th-century boards, covered with sprinkled paper.

HALLER, Albrecht von · 1768

Pentateuchos cheirurgicum.Frankfurt am Main, [Zacharias Palthenius for] Peter Fischer, 1592. 8vo. With Palthenius's woodcut device on title-page. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment.

FABRICI, Girolamo (Hieronymus FABRICIUS). · 1537

De waare wegwyzer voor de stuurlieden en lootzen in de Middelandsche zee.Leiden, Johan Arnold Langerak (colophon at the end of the main text: printed by Jacques Gueryn, Paris; colophon at the end of the work: printed by Hendrik van Damme, [Leiden]), 1745. 4to. With a large engraved armorial headpiece above the dedication, a folding engraved plate, a letterpress folding table and an engraved volvelle. Contemporary boards, rebacked with calf.

MICHELOT, Henri. · 1703

Viagem de Sua Magestade El Rei o Senhor Dom Fernando a Marrocos, seguido da descripção da entrega da Grão Cruz da Torre e Espada ao Sultão Sid Mohammed.Tangiers, Abrines, 1882. 8vo. Modern maroon half morocco, preserving the original publisher's printed wrappers.

COLAÇO, José Daniel. · 1831

[Collection of architectural and decoration prints including fortification plans, garden plans and architectural decoration].Antwerp, Venice, Rome, various publishers, [engraved] 1561-1585, [printed 1580-ca. 1600]. Large folio & small 1mo (38.5 x 27 cm). Collection of 4 separately published prints (3 large full-sheet & 1 small full-sheet), plus 67 prints from 9 series (including 3 double-page prints and a 1½-sheet plan of classical Roman ports printed from 2 copperplates). Contemporary or near contemporary limp sheepskin parchment (ca. 1600?).

VREDEMAN DE VRIES, Jan (Hans), Antonio LABACCO, Giacomo Barozzio da VIGNOLA and others. · 1561

Kengyu-ka shasei [= Morning glory sketches].Japan, Meiji 31?, 34-36 [=1898?, 1901-1903]. Very large 8vo? (28 x 20.5 cm). With 85 double-page (mostly botanical) drawings in black ink on Japanese paper, each showing 1, 2 or 3 figures, sometimes with additional detail drawings, nearly all coloured in watercolour and/or gouache and most with captions identifying the subject and/or giving the date. Front wrapper with the title in Japanese in black ink.

KEIEN. · 1901

The housekeeper’s instructor; or, universal family cook. Being an ample and clear display of the art of cookery in all its various branches ... Likewise the making and keeping to perfection British wines, and proper rules for brewing malt liquor. … To which is added the complete art of carving.London, W. & J. Stratford, [ca 1790?]. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece and 11 engraved plates (2 folding), mostly showing carving techniques or how to arrange the dishes on the table during suppers. Contemporary half calf, marbled paper sides, red morocco spine label.

HENDERSON, William Augustus. · 1823