A. Asher & Co. B.V.

The lady’s assistant for regulating and supplying the table; being a complete system of cookery. Containing the most select bills of fare, properly disposed, for family dinners of five dishes to two courses of eleven and fifteen ... likewise directions for brewing, making English wines ... the ninth edition, enlarged, corrected, and improved to the present time.London, printed by T. Gillet for Vernor and Hood [and many others], 1805. 8vo. Contemporary calf, rebacked.

MASON, Charlotte. · 1773

€950.00 ($1,047.10 | £792.44 | ¥167,228)

IV, [16], 422, 26, [19], [1 blank] pp.Tenth edition of Charlotte Mason's famous housekeeping book on cookery, supplying the table and managing the gardens around the house, first published in 1773. Although called the ninth edition on the title-page, Cagle calls it the tenth (...

The Italian confectioner; or complete economy of desserts, according to the most modern and approved practice. … New edition, revised and enlarged.London, John Ebers & Co. (back of title-page: printed by William Clowes), 1829. 12mo. With lithographed frontispiece and 2 folding engraved plates. Contemporary half calf.

JARRIN, Guillermo A. · 1820

€550.00 ($606.21 | £458.78 | ¥96,816)

[2], VIII, [2], IX-XXX, 240 pp.Fourth edition of a cookery book especially devoted to desserts and confectionery, first published in 1820 (2nd edition: 1823, 3rd: 1827, followed by many editions after 1829). The work stands within the English tradition of publishing recipes fo...

Bahrije. Das türkische Segelhandbuch für das Mittelländische Meer vom Jahre 1521.Berlin and Leipzig, Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1926-1927. 3 volumes. Large 8vo (26 x 18 cm). Volume 1 with 137 reproductions of manuscript pages of Ottoman Turkish text and maps and volume 2 with 4 plates. Publisher's original printed wrappers.

PIRI REIS (Paul KAHLE, ed.). · 1465

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

[1], [1 blank], [2] pp. + 64 ll. + [4], [1 blank], [1] pp.; ll. 65-137; [1], [1 blank], XLVIII, 88 pp.Only published edition of the original version of the Kitâb-I Bahriyye (Book of the sea) by the great Ottoman navigator and cartographer Piri Reis (1465/79-1553). In 1513 he m...

Hendrick Danielsz Slatius, gewesene predicant tot Bleijswyck, naert 'tleven afgebeelt den 12 maert 1623.[Amsterdam, Claes Jansz. Visscher, 1623]. Engraved illustration (22 x 12.5 cm), with an engraved title in Dutch at the head and Visscher's name at the foot, and with two letterpress poems in French on the left signed "A. Lancel."(measuring 24.5 x 25 in tital). Mounted on a larger blank leaf (36 x 41 cm).

VISSCHER, Claes Jansz. · 1585

€750.00 ($826.66 | £625.61 | ¥132,022)

Engraved portrait of the Arminian preacher Hendrick Danielsz. Slatius (1585-1623), wearing handcuffs and the clothes of a farmer. Slatius was arrested (and later executed) as one of the conspirators in the failed attempt to assassinate Maurits of Nassau, Prince of Orange, in 1...

Cort verhael ende afbeeldinghe der justitie, geschiet den 5. mey 1623. in ‘sGravenhaghe.Amsterdam, Claes Jansz. Visscher, 1623. Oblong 1mo. Engraved illustration (26.5 x 14.5 cm), giving four circular portraits and 10 separate scenes, flanked by a letterpress description in Dutch.

VISSCHER, Claes Jansz. · 1623

€750.00 ($826.66 | £625.61 | ¥132,022)

First state of a rare print showing the portraits and execution and burial scenes of Hendrick Danielsz. Slatius, Willem Perty, Jan Blansaert and Abraham Blansaert. They were executed as conspirators in the failed attempt to assassinate Maurits of Nassau, Prince of Orange, in 1...

Het nieuw geopend Italiaans tóneel, vertonende de wonderlijke ziekte bezwangerheid en baring van Arlequin: benevens de opvoeding van des zelfs jongen zoon.With: (2) XAVERY, Gerard Joseph. Het Italjaansch tooneel voortreffelijk in 16 verbeeldingen uytgevoert ..., verrijkt met Nederduytsche en Fransche vaarzen door Florentius H. J. van Halen.Amsterdam, Petrus Schenk II, [1728?] & [1735?]. Royal 4to (30.5 x 26 cm). With 2 engraved title prints, each followed by 16 numbered prints (pictorial images ca. 15 x 19 cm; plate size ca. 23.5 x 21 cm), with verses engraved in the feet of the plates. With all 34 engravings coloured by a contemporary hand and varnished, probably for the publisher. Contemporary vellum.

XAVERY, Gerard Joseph. · 1760

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

[1], 16; [1], 16 engraved ll.Rare complete set of the first and only editions (excepting an abridged English edition of part 1, ca. 1760) of the only two Arelquin (Harlequin) print series by the Antwerp painter in The Hague, Gerard Joseph Xavery (1700-1747), one of the earlies...

Papers relating to the modern history and recent progress of Levantine plague; prepared from time to time by direction of the president to the local government board, with other papers. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty, 1879. C.-2262.London, George Edward Eyre & William Spottiswoode, 1879. Folio. With two folding lithographed maps, one centered on the Middle East and the other detailing the seats of the plague in Mesopotamia and south-west Persia.Original publisher’s blue printed paper wrappers.

[PLAGUE]. · 1853

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

[2], 76 pp.Compilation of observational governmental reports on various outbreaks of the bubonic plague in the Middle East, Persia and Egypt between 1853 and 1877. As stated in the introduction, this publication was compiled to study the epidemic in detail, in the hope that su...

Kort en grondig onderwijs, in het kweeken der meest gezochte bolgewassen. Gevolgd naar het Hoogduitsch van C.H. Kleeman, systematisch gerangschikt, met de geslachts- en soortkenmerken en eenige bolgewassen vermeerderd door J.A.B. Kuijper van Wäschpenning, voorafgegaan van het geslachtsstelsel van Linnaeus.Breda, F.P. Sterk, 1829. 8vo. Original publisher’s printed stiff paper wrappers.

KLEEMANN, C.H, Johannes Augustinus Bernardus KUYPER VAN WASCHPENNING, transl. · 1828

€950.00 ($1,047.10 | £792.44 | ¥167,228)

[2 blank], [4], III, [1 blank], V, [1 blank], 127, [1] pp.Rare first edition of the Dutch translation of a practical handbook flower lovers to enable them to grow their own flowers from bulbs. Dutch translation of Kurze und gründliche Anweisung zur Kultur der beliebtesten Zwie...

The practice of perspective: or, an easy method of representing natural objects according to the rules of art. ... The third edition.London, Thomas and John Bowles, 1749. 4to. With 2 folding engraved plates and 150 numbered full-page engravings on integral leaves. Half calf (ca. 1985), gold-tooled spine.

[DUBREUIL, Jean]. · 1642

€3,950.00 ($4,353.72 | £3,294.87 | ¥695,316)

XIII, [5], 16, [1] pp., 18, [1], 19-41, [1], 42-121, [1], 122-128, [1], 129-150 double-page spreads, [1 blank] pp."Third" [recté fourth] edition of the second English translation (by the encyclopaedist Ephraim Chambers) of one of the most influential handbooks of perspective e...

Physiologie du gout, ou méditations de gastronomie transcendante, ouvrage théorique, historique et à l'ordre du jour, dédié aux gastronomes Parisiens.Paris, Auguste Sautelet et Cie. (back of title-page: printed by David), 1826 [1825]. 2 volumes. 8vo. With a woodcut device on both title-pages. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spines, marbled edges and endpapers.

[BRILLAT-SAVARIN, Jean Anthelme]. · 1755

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

[2], XIV, [1], 6-390; 442 pp.Very rare first issue of the first edition of the most influential work on cultured eating ever published; only 500 copies were printed. In this first issue the “e” of printer’s address is printed horizontally. This is the only edition that was pub...

Nieuwe Nederduitsche apotheek. Op eene klaare en verstaanbaare wyze onderwys gevende omtrent de beste dagelyks gebruikt wordende geneeskundige bereidingen; waar in inzonderheid de scheikundige bewerkingen, volgens de gronden der vermaarde heeren Boerhave, Geoffroy en andere beroemde mannen, zoo duidelyk beschreeven worden, als tot nog toe in geene andere apotheeken geschied is.Leiden, Pieter van der Eyk, 1753. 8vo. Modern orange paper wrappers.

[PHARMACY - RECIPES]. · 1668

€650.00 ($716.43 | £542.19 | ¥114,419)

[10], 440, [38] pp.Rare first edition of a collection of pharmacological recipes in Dutch that had no official authorization, published to meet the needs of apprentices and pharmacists with little or no knowledge of Latin (the language of the pharmacompoeia, which were officia...

Lexicon novum medicum Graeco-Latinum, caeteris editioibus longè perfectissimum.Inhoc enim totius artis medicae termini, in anatomia, chirurgia, pharmacia, chumia, re botanica, &c. … Leiden, Cornelis Boutesteyn & Jordaan Luchtmans, 1701. 8vo. With the engraved portrait of the author, 4 engraved full-page tables of medical symbols, title-page printed in red and black, some woodcut initials and tail-pieces. Vellum over boards, title written in ink on spine, sprinkled edges.

BLANCARDUS, Stephanus. · 1659

€400.00 ($440.88 | £333.66 | ¥70,412)

[16], 662, [194] pp.Much enlarged edition of Steven Blankaart’s Lexicon medicum, that was first published in 1659. One of the many continually enlarged re-editions was published by the Leiden publishers Boutersteyn and Luchtmans in 1690; our copy is from this edition with a ne...

Verhandeling van den Hollandschen scheepsbouw, raakende de verschillende chartres der oorlogsschepen, tot 's lands dienst, en ter betrachtinge van alle bespiegelende en werkdadige liefhebberen der Hollandsche scheepsbouwkunde, … Waarby, tot een aanhangsel, gevoegd is eene verhandeling van't bouwen der koopvaardyschepen door C. de Ruiter.The Hague, Pieter van Thol, 1759. 4to. With engraved frontispiece view of a shipyard, title-page printed in red and black with charming woodcut device, the dedication with an armorial headpiece giving the arms of the dedicatee (Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer) and 8 engraved folding plates, including one very large (83 x 30 cm), showing the most important parts of a Dutch galleon with 50 cannons. 20th-century half vellum.

ZWIJNDREGT (ZWYNDREGT), Leendert van.

€4,750.00 ($5,235.48 | £3,962.19 | ¥836,139)

[8], VIII, 126, [2 blank] pp.Second issue of the first edition of a rare manual on shipbuilding by Leendert van Zwijndregt, a member of a family of three generations of shipwrights working for the Rotterdam admiralty. It was written as a defence of the Dutch tradition of shipb...

? ???????? ???????????????? ????? [O russkom gosudarstvennom tsvietie].Saint Petersburg, Publishing house of H.I.M. Own Chancery, 1858. 8vo. With a chromolithographed frontispiece showing the old and new Russian flag plus ten flags of German states, with highlights in gold. Contemporary green paper wrappers.

JAZYKOV, Aleksandr Petrovich. · 1802

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

37, [1 blank] pp.Historical treatise on the colours of national and other flags, particularly in the Russian Empire, published on occasion of the introduction of the first Russian state flag. Starting at the earliest moments in history that people grouped around a specific col...

A history of the late Siege of Gibraltar. With a description and account of that garrison, from the earliest periods. … Third edition.London, T. Spilsbury, 1786. 4to. With an engraved device on title-page, 4 folding engraved maps and 6 folding engraved views. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine.

DRINKWATER BETHUNE, John. · 1779

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

XXIV, 356 pp.Third edition of a detailed account of the Great Siege of Gibraltar (1779-1783), one of the longest sieges in history, by the English army officer and military historian John Drinkwater Bethune (1762-1844). When he was 15, Drinkwater joined the 72nd Regiment of Fo...

A narrative of the Battle of St. Vincent; with anecdotes of Nelson, before and after that battle.London, Saunders & Otley (back of title-page: printed by William Wilcockson), 1840. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece with a portrait of Horatio Nelson, 3 wood-engraved vignettes and 8 lithographed full-page sea-battle plans. Publisher's original blind-blocked cloth, with title in gold on spine and front board, gilt edges.

DRINKWATER BETHUNE, John. · 1762

€850.00 ($936.88 | £709.02 | ¥149,625)

XII, 97, [3 blank] pp.Enlarged second edition of a work on the sea battle at Cape St Vincent, by the English army officer and military historian John Drinkwater Bethune (1762-1844), "one of the most important eye-witness accounts of the battle, by a spectator rather than a par...

The C.S.A. and the Battle of Bull Run.New York, D. Van Nostrand; London, Trübner & co. (back of title-page: C.A. Alvord), 1862. 8vo. With 5 folding maps. Publisher’s red cloth, with title in gold on front board.

BARNARD, John Gross. · 1816

€850.00 ($936.88 | £709.02 | ¥149,625)

124, [12] pp.First and only edition of an account of the Battle of Bull Run by the chief-engineer of the Union Army of the Potomac, who was present at the battle. Written in an epistolary form as a "letter to an English friend", it aims to "vindicate the battle of Bull Run fro...

Beschrijving van het eiland Curaçao en onderhoorige eilanden. Uit onderscheidene stukken, bijdragen en opmerkingen opgemaakt, door een bewoner van dat eiland.Haarlem, heirs François Bohn, 1819. 8vo. With folding letterpress table. Contemporary half calf.

[PADDENBURGH, Gerrit Gijsbert]. · 1814

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

[4], 90, [2 blank] pp.First and only edition of a description of the Dutch colony of Curaçao, by the first Dutch writer who permanently settled on the island. Although the book was written for an audience in The Netherlands, much of the information is of practical use and seem...

Vida de D. Paulo de Lima Pereira capitam mo'r de armadas do estado da India ... o Hercules Portuguez.Lisbon, Jozé Filippe, 1765. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine.

COUTO, Diogo do. · 1538

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

[16], 426, [5], [1 blank] pp.Rare first edition of the only account of the life of Paulo de Lima Pereira (1538-1589), leader of the Portuguese military campaign in India. It was originally written in 1611 by the captain's friend, the historian Diogo do Couto (ca. 1542-1616), b...

[Watercolour of an Inuit hunting seals in a kayak]. [ca. 1839?]. Watercolour on laid paper (18.5 x 19.3 cm), in a passe-partout (44 x 43.5 cm).

[INUIT - WATERCOLOUR]. · 1839

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

Beautiful watercolour of an Inuit seal hunter in a kayak. The drawing shows a hunter carrying a paddle and preparing to strike a seal with a harpoon connected to an inflated bladder. Once attached to the seal, the bladder tires the seal and obliges to it reappear at the surfac...