A. Asher & Co. B.V.

Tractatio juridica de eo quod justum est circa nuptas, vom Recht der Ehe-Weiber; in celeberrima Marburgensium universitate anno 1693. edita.Halle, Hendel, 1734. 4to. Strip of marbled paper on spine.

STIRNN, Johannes. · 1693

€500.00 ($551.10 | £417.07 | ¥88,015)

56 pp.First and only edition of a treatise on law, concerning the rights of married and divorced women, written by the German lawyer Johannes Stirnn and based on his 1693thesis, Disputatio inauguralis iuridica de eo quod iustum est circa nuptas. The text is divided into three ...

Dialogi. Fortuna. Febris prima. Febris secunda. Trias Romana. Inspicientes.Colophon: Mainz, Johann Schöffer, April 1520. Small 4to (19.5 x 14 cm). With a lovely woodcut of the blindfolded Fortuna on title-page (by Hans Weiditz?), a large woodcut initial Q (repeated twice) and several vine leaf ornaments. Printed in roman type. 19th-century half vellum, marbled paper sides.

HUTTEN, Ulrich von. · 1488

€3,750.00 ($4,133.28 | £3,128.04 | ¥660,110)

[72] ll.First edition of a collection of five famous satirical dialogues by the German humanist Ulrich von Hutten (1488-1523), a friend of Erasmus, and one of the most ardent supporters of the Lutheran cause. Von Hutten was also the first prominent victim of syphilis, which ad...

La ilustre junta provincial de sanidad de la isla de Menorca.[Menorca], 15 March 1861. Folio (42.5 x 30.5 cm). Broadside with a wood-engraved border, the wood-engraved royal coat of arms of Spain at the head and a woodcut map of Mahon in the centre of the certificate. With on the verso three manuscript statements (in French, English and Portuguese), signed and stamped.

[MENORCA]. · 1860

€1,750.00 ($1,928.86 | £1,459.75 | ¥308,051)

Certificate for the Dutch steam frigate Evertsen to leave the harbour of Port Mahon, Menorca. In 1860 the majority of the crew of the Evertsen suffered from an epidemic eye disease and sailed from the waters near Toulon to Menorca in order to recover. The certificate mentions ...

Korte beschryvinghe van de ongeluckige weer-om-reys van het schip Aernhem, nevens noch zes andere schepen, onder't gebiedt van den heer Arnout de Vlaming van Outshoorn, van Batavia na het vaderlandt afgevaren, op den 23. december 1661. van welcke gemelte schepen noch drie vermist worden. Amsterdam, Jacob Venckel, 1663. Small 4to (19.5 x 16 cm). Modern marbled wrappers.

STOKRAM, Andries.

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

16 pp.One of four editions, all published in the same year and all very rare, of a popular eye-witness account of a ship wrecked in the Indian Ocean, in the vicinity of Mauritius. Andries Stokram tells the colourful story of how a fleet of seven East Indiamen on their way back...

De juris arte libri tres. Eiusdem, juris civilis, sive ad pandectas libri sex priores.Louvain, Petrus Colinaeus, 1555. 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page (repeated on the last page), and many woodcut initials. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment.

HOPPERS, Joachim. · 1523

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

[12], 505, [2], [1 blank] pp.Second edition of a work on jurisprudence and civil law by the distinguished Frisian lawyer Joachim Hoppers (1523-1576), also advisor on the Netherlands to the Spanish King Philips II (1527-1598). The book is divided into two sections. The first, s...

Peregrinazione del mondo.Naples, Giuseppe Criscolo, 1683. 4to (15.5 x 20 cm). With an additional engraved title and 2 portraits. Contemporary paper-covered boards with handwritten lettering on the spine.

CUBERO SEBASTIAN, Pedro. · 1671

€18,000.00 ($19,839.73 | £15,014.61 | ¥3,168,526)

[8], 339, [5] pp.First Italian edition of an interesting and detailed account of the first overland journey from Spain to the East Indies (1671-80) made by the Spanish missionary Sebastian Pedro Cubero. Interestingly, Cubero covered most of his route by land, as Careri would l...

Voyage en Orient. Traduit de l’Allemand. Illustrations d’après les dessins originaux de Franz von Pausinger.Vienna, Imprimerie Imperiale et Royale de la Cour et de l’État, 1885. Folio. With 37 etched plates.Contemporary calf, richly gold-tooled front board, spine label, gilt edges.

RUDOLF, Archduke of Austria and Hungary. · 1881

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

[8], 168, [2] pp.First (and only) edition in French. Archduke Rudolf set out on his tour of the Middle East in 1881, travelling first from Vienna to Miramar, Corfu, Alexandria and Cairo. From there the group sailed up the Nile to Aswan and Memphis, then journeyed on to Port Sa...

Chevaux. Observations sur les chevaux Arabes du désert. ... Cheveux.[France, ca. 1794-ca. 1813]. Folio. Disbound.

[MANUSCRIPT - HORSES - HAIR]. · 1799

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

[10], [2 blank], [3], [1 blank], [4], [2 blank] pp.Manuscript compilation of texts concerning horses (chevaux) and hair (cheveux), compiled over several years and probably extracted from a manuscript encyclopaedia (“cheveux” included because it followed “chevaux” alphabeticall...

Select fables from Gulistan, or the bed of roses. Translated from the original Persian of Sadi.London, J. Ridley, 1774. 8vo. Modern half calf (period style), gold-tooled spine.

SA'DI SHIRAZI and Stephen SULIVAN (translator).

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

V, [1 blank], 139, [1 blank] pp.First edition of the first English translation of the Gulistan (or Golestan), written by the Persian poet Sa'di (1210-1291/1292), "probably the single most influential work of prose in the Persian tradition" (Encyclopædia Iranica). It opens with...

No. 2531 annual series. Diplomatic and consular reports. Abyssinia. Reports for the year 1899-1900 on the trade of Adis Abbaba and Harrar.London, Harrison and sons, 1900. Folio. With a folding lithographed map with some coloured details. Bound as sewn.

[HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT - ETHIOPIA].

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

25, [1] pp.Diplomatic document, presented to the Houses of Parliament, on the trade of the Ethiopian cities Addis Ababa and Harar. It includes many letterpress tables, showing imported and exported tradeware, its quantities, prices, and origin, occasionally with some other rem...

Egypt. No. 15 (1882). Correspondence respecting Assab Bay.London, Harrison and sons, 1882. Folio. Modern blue paper wrappers.

[HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT - ASSAB - ERITREA].

€1,950.00 ($2,149.30 | £1,626.58 | ¥343,257)

X, 195, [1 blank] pp.Official document, presented to the British Houses of Parliament, regarding Assab (Eritrea) and its politics. It includes a wide variety of letters and reports written by British naval officers, generals, the India Office, tradesmen, etc., concerning the p...

Supplementum chronicarum.Brescia, Boninus de Boninis, 1. XII. 1485. Small folio (21 x 31 cm). Double rules along inner margins of text and between table columns, rubricated throughout. Contemporary richly blind-tooled vellum over wooden boards, bound in the monastic shop of the Würzburg Benedictines, two clasps.

FORESTI DE BERGAMO, Jacobus Philippus. · 2016

€65,000.00 ($71,643.46 | £54,219.42 | ¥11,441,901)

[1 blank], [18], [1 blank], [3], 358, [1] ll.Early edition of a popular world chronicle by an Augustinian cleric, a fine copy in a monastic binding. In his chronicle Foresti proposed to bring together the most important historical facts from each year, starting with Genesis. A...

Grammatica linguae Persicae. Auctore Patre Fratre Ignatio à Jesu Carmelita Discalceato missionario, & vicario residentiae Tripolis, & Montis Libani.Rome, Propaganda Fide, 1661. 4to. With a device on the title-page, 1 woodcut decorated initial, decorations built up from arabesque typographic ornaments and a 4-page letterpress table showing the Persian alphabet with the initial, medial, final and stand-alone forms of the letters. Modern ivory vellum in the style of the time, manuscript title on spine.

IGNATIUS a Jesus (Carlo LEONELLI). · 1639

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

[2], 60 pp.Rare first edition of a valuable Persian grammar (written in Latin), printed in Rome by the printing office of the Propaganda Fide. The third printed Persian grammar: only those of Louis de Dieu (Leiden 1639) and Greaves (London 1649) preceded it. Smitskamp, who ref...

Missive van bewinthebberen van de Oost-Indische Compagnie, in dato den 21. april 1742., vervattende de poincten die zullen konnen dienen tot redres in de administratie en beheeringe van de zaecken van de Oost-Indische Compagnie, &c; relatyf tot de Staeten Notulen van den 2. Augustus 1742.[The Hague, 1742]. Folio (30.5 x 19.5 cm). Disbound.

[VOC - MISSIVE]. · 1741

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

128; 10, [2 blank], 2, [2 blank] pp.Extremely rare missive from the directors of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), written in what would be the first years of the decline of the company. In 1741 the charter of the VOC was extended in a secret resolution of the States General...

The expediency maintained of continuing the system by which the trade and government of India are now regulated.London, printed for Black, Parry and J. Hatchard (back of title-page: printed by Cox and Baylis), 1813. 8vo. With 2 letterpress folding tables (1 printed in red and black). Contemporary calf, gold-tooled.

GRANT, Robert. · 1779

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

[1], [1 blank], XIX, [1 blank], 404 pp.First and only edition of a history of the relation between Great Britain and their possessions in the East Indies, written by the British lawyer and politician Robert Grant (1779-1838), son of Charles Grant, chairman of the board of dire...

De hippische sport en het korps rijdende artillerie 1793-1908 … 1e gedeelte [valkerij]. 2e gedeelte [hippische sport].Arnhem, Coers & Roest and G.J. Thieme, [1913]. 2 volumes. Large 4to (37.5 x 31 cm). With ca. 80 lithographed plates and numerous illustrations and decorations in text, many beautifully coloured by hand and some highlighted with silver and/or gold. Original publisher's gold-blocked blue cloth, with a coloured hooded hawk on front boards, upper edges gilt, other edges untrimmed.

ES, N.J.A.P.H. van. · 1844

€18,000.00 ($19,839.73 | £15,014.61 | ¥3,168,526)

[16], 172, [18], [2 blank]; [14], 221, [1 blank], [17], [1 blank] pp.Very rare, limited first and only edition of an exquisitely produced work on falconry and equestrian sports, a showpiece of Dutch art nouveau book illustration. The first volume, on falconry, contains reprodu...

Les voyages et observations du sieur de la Boullaye-le-Gouz gentil-homme Angevin...Paris, Francois Clousier, 1653. 4to. With a woodcut and an engraved author's portrait, 34 woodcut illustrations in text, including several full-page, and some woodcut initals, head- and tailpieces. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine.

LA BOULLAYE LE GOUZ, Francois de. · 1610

€18,000.00 ($19,839.73 | £15,014.61 | ¥3,168,526)

[16], 540, [10], [2 blank] pp.Rare first edition of a travelogue by the French explorer, merchant and diplomat François de la Boullaye-Le Gouz (ca.1610-1669). The largest part of the book deals with his travels through the Midde East and India, while a smaller parts treats Le ...

Mémoires relatifs a l'expédition Anglaise partie du Bengale en 1800 pour aller combattre en Égypte l'armée d'orient.Paris, Imprimerie Royale (back of half-title: [Auguste] Nepveu), 1826. 8vo. With 2 folding lithographed maps, partly coloured by hand, and 19 hand-coloured lithographed plates. Contemporary red half morocco, gold-tooled spine, marbled sides.

NOÉ, Louis Pantaléon Jude Amédée, Comte de. · 1728

€1,750.00 ($1,928.86 | £1,459.75 | ¥308,051)

[3], [1 blank], III, [1 bank], 288 pp.First edition of an illustrated account of a British campaign in Egypt, with all the plates coloured by hand, posthumously published from the memoirs of the French count Louis-Pantaléon de Noé (1728-1816). De Noè had sailed for India when ...

Mehmed-Ali Vize-König von Aegypten. Aus meinem Tagebuche 1826-1841.Vienna, Wilhelm Braummüller (colophon: Adolf Holzhausen), 1877. 8vo. Contemporary blind-blocked cloth.

PROKESCH, Anton, Ritter von Osten. · 1769

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

[4], 173, [1 blank] pp.First and only edition of a work on Muhammad Ali (1769-1849), Pasha of Egypt, written by the Austrian diplomat Anton Prokesch (1795-1876). From 1824 onwards Prokesch was active in the Middle East, surveying the region and negotiating in various conflicts...

Red Sea and Gulf of Aden pilot comprising the Suez canal, the gulfs of Suez and 'Aqaba, the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden, ...Including: Supplement no. 1-1957 relating to the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden pilot, tenth edition ...London, published by the Hydrographic Department, Admiralty, 1955-1957. 8vo. With a folding map (printed on both sides), 2 coloured plates with diagrams (printed on both sides), 28 plates showing coastlines and occasionally a map (many printed on both sides), and many some illustrations in text. Original blue cloth; supplement with original printed paper wrappers.

[NAVIGATION - RED SEA].

€1,750.00 ($1,928.86 | £1,459.75 | ¥308,051)

LI, [1 blank], 518, [1], [1 blank] pp.Tenth edition of a work "comprising sailing directions for the Suez canal, the Gulf of Suez, and the central track for power vessels through the Red sea, Straits of Bab-al-Mandab, and Gulf of Aden ..." (p. III) and more areas. Besides navi...