A. Asher & Co. B.V.

Atlas van zeevaert en koophandel door de geheele weereldt. Vertoonende in bizondere op elkander volgende kaerten, alle desselfs zeekusten en haevens; met beschryvingen van de natuur, voortbrengsels, handwerksels, godsdiensten, bestier en koophandel van alle gewesten, &c. Voorheen in de Fransche taele uytgegeven door den heer Louis Renard, agent van zyne Majesteit van Groot-Brittannien. En nu alle de kaerten op 't naeukeurigste met hulpe van voornaeme kundigen naer de laetste ontdekkingen vernieuwt; en een groot getal plaetsen neevens verscheide nieuwe kaerten daer ingebragt. Door Reinier en Iosua Ottens. De beschryvingen met veele vereischte zaeken vermeedert, en naer den tegenwoordigen tydt geschikt. By de nieuwe kaerten, beschryvingen gevoegt; en met natuurkundige aenmerkingen over de sterre- en aerdtrykskunde, zeën en winden &c. verrykt. Door Ian van den Bosch Melchiorsz.Amsterdam, Reinier & Josua Ottens, 1745. Large folio (55 x 36.5 cm). With an engraved title page, a letterpress title page printed in red and black, an engraved dedication, 4 large folding maps (ca. 52 x 90-150 cm) and 28 double page maps, the majority with striking allegorical cartouches and all beautifully contemporary hand coloured in outline and with additional gouache washes. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine in nine compartments with a stamp of an armillary sphere in gold and a red sheepskin title label, lettered in gold, decorated ("marbled") edges.

RENARD, Louis. · 1715

Nieuwe keuren tot vordernisse van de getimmerten ende tbouwen van huyzen binnen dezer stadt Leyden. Ten bevele van die vande Gerechte der voorschreven stede.Leiden, gedruct opt raedhuys aldaer [= Jan van Hout], 1586. With: (2) [RAADHUISPERS - JAN VAN HOUT (publisher)]. Keuren opt ampt vande craemverzorchsters, inne-nemen vande craemvrouwen, tampt vande aelmoeseniers, generale verdeelinge, ende misbruyc der aelmissen.Leiden, Raadhuispers [Jan van Hout], 1586.(3) [RAADHUISPERS - JAN VAN HOUT (publisher)]. Provisionele ordonnantie gemaect by Schout ende schepenen dezer stade, op tbrouwen vande zware bieren (including the Aenhang vande burgelicke keuren).Leiden, Raadhuispers [Jan van Hout], 1587.(4) [RAADHUISPERS - JAN VAN HOUT (publisher)]. Ordonnantie gemaect by die van de Gerechte deze stadt Leyden ten dagen hier naer genomt, opt wijden vande wateren ende grachten, daer naer hem elc eenen van nu voorts-aen zal hebben te gedragen int maken, versteken, ende vernieuwen van haer platingen. Leiden, Raadhuispers [Jan van Hout], 1588. 4 works in 1 volume. 4to. The title of ad 1 is set within an ornamental border built up from typographical ornaments, with a woodcut printer's device, a large woodcut with the coat of arms of Leiden on the final leaf of ad 1, and 24 decorative woodcut initials. 18th-century vellum over boards, sewn on 4 supports laced through the joints.

[RAADHUISPERS - JAN VAN HOUT (publisher)]. · 1578

[Opera. Tr: Marsilius Ficinus].(Colophon:) Florence, Laurentium Venetum [i.e. the Sisters of the Convent of San Jacopo di Ripoli for Laurentius (Francisci) de Alopa], 1484-1485. Folio (ca. 27.7 x 20.8 cm). Modern blind-tooled vellum in period style.

PLATO and Marsilio FICINO (translator). · 1484

The Queen of Sheba.London, Melbourne and New York, Quartet Books, 1981. 4to. With 8 coloured plates and numerous photographs (some in colour) in the text. Contemporary black cloth with title in gold on the spine and a colourful dust jacket.

PHILBY, Harry St John Bridger. · 1897

Pharmaca simplicia, Orthone Brunfelsio interprete.Including: De ratione victus Gukielmo Copo Basiliensi interprete.(Colophon:) Strasbourg, Georg Ulricher, September 1531.With:(2) VALLA, Giorgio. De simplicium natura liber unus.Strasbourg, Heinrich Sybold, (colophon:) August 1528.(3) ODO OF MEUNG (misattributed to Aemilius MACER). De herbarum virtutibus, cum Joannis Atrociani co[m]mentariis, ...Including: STRABO, Walafrid. Ad haec. Strabi Galli Poetae et theologi clarissimi, hortulus vernantissimus.Freiburg im Breisgau, (colophon:) Johann Faber, 1530. (4) MARBOD OF ANJOU (with notes and additions by Georg PICTORIUS). De lapidibus pretiosis encheridion, cum scholiis Pictorii Villingensis. Eiusdem Pictorii De lapide molari carmen.[Freiburg im Breisgau, Johan Faber], 1531. 4 editions containing 6 works, in 1 volume. 8vo (16.5 x 11 cm). Ad 1: with a finely executed woodcut on the title page repeated on the verso of the otherwise blank last leaf, about 20 woodcut initials with pictorial decoration plus about 20 repeats and a vine-leaf ornament. Set in an Aldine-style italic with preliminaries in Venetian-style roman and a few words of Greek. Ad 2: with the title in a woodcut architectural frame, and a vine-leaf ornament. Set in a Venetian-style roman type with frequent Greek printed in the fore edge margins. Ad 3: with a space left for a manuscript initial at the opening of the main text, with a printed guide letter (not filled in). Set in an Aldine-style italic type with incidental Venetian-style roman and a few words of Greek. Ad 4: with a woodcut initial with pictorial decoration. Set in an Aldine-style italic. Blind-tooled pigskin (Freiburg or vicinity? ca. 1570?) over tapered wooden boards. With 2 engraved brass fastenings and a 19th-century paper spine label.

PAULUS OF AEGINA (edited by Otto BRUNFELS and Wilhelm KOPP). · 1528

Log of the proceedings. HMS "Cyclops". W. J. S. Pullen Esq. Captain. Commencing Monday 7th February 1859, ending Wednesday 22nd of May, 1861. Kept by Thos. McKinnell, Mast. Asst.HMS Cyclops: Oman, Khuriya Muriya Islands, Yemen, Egypt, Red Sea, Arabian Sea, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and other places, 1857-1861. Folio (20 x 31.5 cm). Over 360 pp. of manuscript entries, written with brown ink in a legible hand on watermarked laid paper with a blue cast. With 8 pen and ink nautical charts and 5 sketches of coastal sites, including the city of Muscat (8 on the logbook pages and 5 on separate thick album leaves). Contemporary brown cloth over boards, rebacked in period-style black calf with the spine lettered in gold: "Log H.M.S. Cyclops".

[OMAN NAVIGATION LOGBOOK]. MCKINNELL, Thomas, assistant master. · 1859

Het nieuwe testament ons salighmaeckers Jesu Christi, mitsgaders: d'epistelen uit het oude testament, soo die door 't jaer in den dienst der H. Kercke gelesen worden.Antwerp, Hieronymus Verdussen (for Niclaes Braau in Haarlem), 1696. 8vo. With 39 detailed woodcut illustrations in the text, and woodcut decorated initials and small printed manicules. The text is set in a Gothic letter, with incidental use of Roman type. Exquisite 18th-century gold-tooled multi-colour morocco mosaic binding. Gilt edges and green silk covered end papers.

[MOSAIC BINDING - BIBLE]. LEEMPUTTE, Henricus van den (editor). · 1588

Sultan in Oman.London, Faber and Faber, 1957. 8vo. With a photo in colour of the fort of Nizwa in Oman as a frontispiece, 2 half-page maps of the Middle East and Muscat and Oman, and 16 pages (outside of collation) with 23 photos of the Sultan's journey through his Sultanate, showing desert scenes, Sheikhs, forts, and other views of Nizwa, Ibri, and Muscat. Bright orange-red cloth.

MORRIS, James [later known as (Catherine) Jan MORRIS]. · 1910

Cavalarice, or the English horseman: ... Newly imprinted, corrected & augmented, with many worthy secrects not before knowne.(Title page second part: London, Edward Allde for Adward White, 1616-)1617. 8 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With the title of each part printed within the same decorative woodcut border, numerous woodcut illustrations in text. Contemporary calf, rebacked, preserving original spine label.

MARKHAM, Gervase. · 1568

Oeuvres ... [with a note above the title: "Dico opera mea Regi."].Including: Traité des influences divisé en deux parties. Premiere ... Des influences des cieux, & des astres ... Deuxie'me ... Des influences, & vertus occultes des estres terrestres.Paris, R.J.B. de la Caille (printed [by Nicolas Motays] in Avranches), 1678. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With engraved device on the title page, a full-page engraved astrological sundial, 14 woodcuts in the text, depicting apparatus set up for laboratory experiments, astrological diagrams, etc., woodcut headpieces, tailpieces and decorated initials, and decorations built up from cast fleurons. Contemporary tanned sheepskin over boards, designed by the author, the front board of double thickness with a hole bored in its fore-edge to hold a metal rod or gnomon (lacking) that could be inserted in any of several holes on the front and back boards to make the book into a sundial (one hole in the back board also allowed it to be inserted for use with the sundial pasted over the back paste-down when the book is open), gilt edges. The front board, back board and spine have been embossed with three different engraved plates sundials, emblems and extensive lettering. In a modern red morocco box.

LE ROYER, Jacques. · 1625

Haarlemmermeer-boek. Of beschryving, hoe men de Haarlemmer en Leytse-Meer bedyken en droog maken zal … Mitsgaders: van meest alle de meeren die in Noort-Holant tegen den Huigen-dyk en Saardam bedykt, en tot land gemaakt zyn, zedert het jaar 1608 tot het jaar 1641.Amsterdam, Pieter Visser, 1724. 5 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With an engraved map of the Haarlemmermeer on the title page of ad 1, and a woodcut vignette on the title pages of the other works, a full-page portrait of the author engraved by Jan Lamsvelt after J. de Keyser, 3 folding engraved maps, 3 half-page engraved plates, 2 half-page woodcut diagrams, several decorated woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces. With: (2) LEEGHWATER, Jan Adriansz., Een kleyn chronykje ende voorbereidinge van de afkomste ende ‘t vergoten van de dorpen van Graft en de Ryp … Amsterdam, Pieter Visser, 1724.(3) COLEVELDT, Claes Arentsen. Bedenckingen over het droogh maken van de Haerlemmer ende Leydse Meer … tegen t’Haarlemmer Meer-boek van Jan Adriaansen Leeghwater.Leiden, Johannes van Abkoude, 1727.(4) VELSEN, Cornelis. Aanmerkingen over de tegenwoordige staat van de Haerlemmer Meer.Leiden, Daniel Goetval, 1727.(5) VELSEN, Cornelis. Aanmerkingen over de tegenwoordige staat, van de Haerlemmer Meer. Waar in wert aangetoont hoe noodszaakelyk die moet werden droog-gemaakt, en op wat wyze dit kan geschieden … Tweeden druk, … verbetert en verrykt. Leiden, Daniel Goetval, 1727. Original quarter red roan, marbled paper sides.

LEEGHWATER, Jan Adriaensz. · 1575

Dissertatio de analogia et differentia inter animalia et plantas.Lund, Litteris Berlingianis, 1798. 4to. Disbound.

LAGERLÖF, Wermelandus Magnus and Ulrik Johan ÅBERG. · 1773

Ars magna sciendi, in XII libros digesta, qua nova & universali methodo ... [vol. 2 half-title:] Artis magnae seu combinatoriae sciendi, ... [titles on the frontispieces:] Ars magna sciendi sive combinatoria [vol. 1] Artis magnae combinatoriae [vol. 2].Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge and the widow of Elizaeus Weyerstraten, 1669. 2 volumes bound as 1. Royal folio (46 x 30 x 5.5 cm). With 2 richly engraved allegorical frontispieces, an engraved plate with a full-page portrait of the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I, an engraved plate showing all knowledge of the universe organised as a tree, 2 engraved volvelles (with 4 rotating dials), 20 further engravings on integral leaves and a couple dozen woodcut figures in the text. Contemporary richly gold-tooled red goatskin morocco decorated a petit fers, gold-tooled turn-ins, board edges and raised bands, giving a total of more than 1500 impressions of about 14 stamps and 3 rolls, edges gilt over red and blue squiggles. Janssonius van Waesberge, who published Kircher's books in Amsterdam from 1664/65 to 1682, arranged to have copies of several luxuriously bound for Kircher to present to leading figures and this is almost certainly one of them, presented to Giovanni Paolo Oliva, Superior General of the Jesuit Society.

KIRCHER, Athanasius. · 1602

Marifetname.Bulaq, Bulaq Matbaasi, 1251 H [= 1835 CE]. Folio (23 x 35 cm). With a woodcut 'unwan, 17 full-page lithograph plates, and 6 lithograph illustrations in the text. Contemporary blind-stamped leather, with a fore-edge flap.

IBRAHIM HAKKI ERZURUMLU. · 1703

A concise and practical treatise on the growth and culture of the carnation, pink, auricula, polyanthus, ranunculus, tulip, and other flowers. Including a dissertation on soils and manures, and containing also a catalogue of the finest and most-esteemed carnations, &c. that are cultivated by the amateur florist, and exhibited at the different prize-shows round London, and other parts of England. To which are added rules and regulations of the Islington & Chelsea florists' societies.London, [1820]. 8vo. With a full page coloured lithographed plate of "a bizarre Carnation". Contemporary grey paper boards.

HOGG, Thomas. · 1771

[Terrestrial globe].Antwerp, Joan Baptist Vrients [produced by Jodocus Hondius in Amsterdam], “1601” [= ca. 1603?]. Diameter (21 cm). The globe is assembled from 12 engraved gores, mounted over a hollow wooden sphere, the gores hand-coloured in outline, some areas with full colour infill.

[GLOBE - TERRESTRIAL]. HONDIUS, Jodocus. · 1563

Friesche lust-gaarde ofte boom-heester-bloem- en kruyd-waarande, bestaande uyt der gewaszen beschrijvinge, die in d'Europesche en d'aangrenszende landschappen bekent zijn ...Leeuwarden, Hendrik Rintjes, 1687 (frontispiece: 1686). 4to. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece, a woodcut vignette on the title page, 10 decorated woodcut initials, and 3 woodcut tailpieces. 18th-century gold-tooled half calf.

GABBEMA, Simon Abbes. · 1628

[Epitome rerum Romanarum].Leiden, Adriaen Wijngaerden (colophon: printed by Philippe de Croy), 1648. 8vo (18 x 12 x 3 cm). With an engraved allegorical title page by Cornelius van Dalen. Contemporary or near-contemporary calf. The decoration on the binding is believed to have been executed in Bologna ca. 1880/1900 by a group of forgers: each board with the same scene, showing 2 women in Ottoman costume, one kneeling to play a qanun (Turkish zither) at left and the other perhaps dancing at right, framed by drapery as though on a stage, with a crescent moon and 5-pointed star in each corner and the name "IBRAHIM" at upper left, the whole in a frame of double fillets. The figures' skin is painted white and the clothes and drapery red and green. The crescent moon and star repeat in spine compartments 1 and 3-5.

FLORUS, Lucius Annaeus. · 1624

Suma de Geographia que trata de todas las partidas y provincias del mundo: en especial de las Indias.Seville, Jacobo Cromberger, 1519. Folio (27.5 x 19.6 cm). 17th- or 18th-century vellum over boards, manuscript title on the spine.

FERNANDEZ DE ENCISO, Martin. · 1519

[Portrait of Johannes Commelin].[Amsterdam], [ca. 1670]. 63 x 48.5 cm (frame 86 x 71 cm). Oil painting on linen. Contemporary richly ornamented gilt wooden frame.

[PAINTING]. [EECKHOUDT, Gerbrand vanden, attributed to]. · 1629