A. Asher & Co. B.V.

[Map of Kyoto].Koto (Tokyo), Tori Ikeda, Meiji 11 [1878]. Woodcut map on paper (37 x 50 cm), printed in six colours.

IKEDA Tori.

€875.00 ($964.43 | £729.88 | ¥154,026)

Colour-printed woodcut map of Kyoto, traditionally with the east at the head. Different colours show the different types of area in the city, with the temples printed in red and often named with text. Red stamp in the upper right corner, some marginal spots along the extremiti...

Verzeichniss der Arabischen Handschriften der Königlichen Bibliothek zu Berlin.Berlin, A. W. Schade (I) and A. Asher & Co. (II-X), 1887-1899. 10+1 volumes. 4to. With 12 photographic halftone plates of 62 manuscript specimens in vol. X. Added: separate atlas issue of the 12 plates. Altogether 11 vols. in publisher's light blue printed boards.

AHLWARDT, Wilhelm. · 1828

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

A complete set of the scarce original edition, published as volumes 7-9 and 16-22 of the giant general catalogue of the Berlin manuscript collections ("Die Handschriften-Verzeichnisse der Königlichen Bibliothek zu Berlin"). Ahlwardt (1828-1909) was engaged in 1863 as catalogue...

Historische print- en dicht-tafereelen, van Jan Baptist Girard, en juffrou Maria Catharina Cadiere. [The Netherlands?], 1735. Small 4to (24 x 18.5 cm). With 32 "scenes", each consisting of an engraved plate with a letterpress poem on the facing page. Gold-tooled red half goatskin morocco (2nd half of the 19th century), richly gold-tooled spine.

[CADIÈRE, Catherine and Jean-Baptiste GIRARD (subject)]. · 1748

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

24, [128] pp.Attractive copy of a very rare erotic print series concerning the notorious case of the Jesuit Jean-Baptiste Girard and Catherine Cadière, which inspired the 1748 French novel Thérèse philosophe: an icon of 18th-century libertinism. The series was issued (simultan...

Antverpia.Including: [SCHONDONCK, Gilles]. Hê prôtogeneia kai epistrephomonê tychê tês Anbersês.Antwerp, Jan Moretus I, 1610. With an engraved printer's device on title-page and a woodcut printer's device on the otherwise blank page following the main part.With: (2) SCRIBANI, Charles. Origines Antverpiensium.Antwerp, Jan Moretus I, 1610. With an engraved printer's device on title-page, woodcut printer's device on the otherwise blank last page, folding engraved map of Antwerp and 6 double-page engraved plates. 2 works in 1 volume; 1st work in 2 parts. 4to. Contemporary vellum.

SCRIBANI, Charles. · 1561

€3,000.00 ($3,306.62 | £2,502.44 | ¥528,088)

[8], 146, [1], [1 blank]; 1-24; 1-172, [3], [1 blank] pp.First editions of two works on Antwerp, written by Carolus Scribani (1561-1629). The first is devoted to Antwerp's cultural history, dealing with the city's architecture, painters, schools, etc., and includes a short cha...

Die naturliche Brucke in Virginien: Vereinte Staate.[Austria?, ca. 1840s-1850s]. Pen, black ink and watercolour on paper (59 x 44 cm), framed in a passe-partout (75.5 x 58 cm).

[VIRGINIA]. [GOODACRE, William (after)]. · 1830

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

Large, high quality watercolour of the Natural Bridge in Rockbridge County, Virginia. This natural arch spanning 27 meters was, along with Niagara Falls, one of the most popular tourist attractions in the United States in the late-18th and early-19th century. As an old natural...

A voyage to South America. Describing at large, the Spanish cities, towns, provinces, &c. on that extensive continent.London, L. Davis and C. Reymers, 1760. 2 volumes. 8vo. With 7 folding engraved plates, including some maps and ground plans. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine; rebacked, with the original backstrip laid down.

JUAN, Jorge and Antonio de ULLOA. · 1713

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

XX, [4], 498 [=488]; [4], 410, 18 pp.Revised second edition of the English translation of an account of a voyage to South America by two Spanish Captains, Jorge Juan y Santacilia (1713-1773) and Antonio de Ulloa (1716-1795). Both Captains were skilled in mathematics, astronomy...

Libro de los inventores del arte de marear, y de muchos trabajos que se passan enlas galeras. ... Tocanse enel muy excellentes antiguedades, y avisos muy notables para los que navegan en galeras.Antwerp, Martin Nutius, [ca. 1545/46]. Small 8vo (13.5 x 10 cm). With Nutius's woodcut device on the title-page. Set in rotunda gothic type with a few words in a large roman. Blind-tooled brown goatskin (1920s?) in 16th-century style by Victor Arias (1856-1935) in Madrid, gold-tooled turn-ins.

GUEVARA, Antonio de. · 1912

€12,000.00 ($13,226.48 | £10,009.74 | ¥2,112,351)

XXIX, [1], [2 blank] ll.Rare (first?) separately published edition of an early discourse on the art of sailing and navigation, in the original Spanish, first published as part of Libro llamado Menosprecio de Corte. The book discusses the invention and use of the galley, marine...

Nieuwe ontdekkingsreize rondom de wereld, in de jaren 1823, 24, 25 en 26 ondernomen door den ridder Otto von Kotzebue, scheepsbevelhebber in Russisch-Keizerlijke dienst.Haarlem, widow of Adriaan Loosjes, 1830. 2 volumes. 8vo. With a lithographed frontispiece in each volume, and 3 folding engraved maps. Contemporary half cloth.

KOTZEBUE, Otto von. · 1823

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

VII, [1], 254; [6], 274 pp.First edition of the Dutch translation of the account of Otto von Kotzebue's second expedition around the world in the years 1823-1826. Kotzebue (1787-1846), an Estonian captain in service of the Russian Czar Alexander I, led an expedition to take r...

Chronicon Samaritanum, Arabice conscriptum cui titulus est liber Josuae. Ex unico codice Scaligeri nunc primum edidit, Latine vertit, annotatione instruxit, et dissertationem de codice, de chronico, et de quaestionibus, ...Leiden, Samuel and Johannes Luchtmans, 1848. 4to. With a folding lithographed plate. Set in roman and italic types with the 55-page transcription in Arabic type and shorter passages in Hebrew, Samaritan and Syriac type. Modern half cloth, gold-tooled spine, marbled sides and decorated endpapers.

JUYNBOLL, Theodorus Willem Johannes. · 1802

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

XII, 369; [1], [1 blank], 55 pp.First Arabic edition of the so-called Samaritan book of Joshua, edited by the Dutch linguist and orientalist Theodorus Willem Johannes Juynboll (1802-1861). It is a chronicle mainly devoted to the life and history of the Hebrew prophet Joshua, t...

Mémoire sur le calendrier arabe avant l'Islamisme, et sur naissance et l'age du prophète Mohammad.[Brussels, 1861?]. 4to. Modern paper wrappers.

EFFENDI, Mahmoud. · 1815

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

45, [1 blank] pp.Offprint, with new title-page, page numbers and quire signatures, of an article on the Arabic calendar before Islam, by the Egyptian astronomer Mahmoud Effendi or Mahòmûd Ahòmad Hòamdî al- Falakî (1815-1885). Trying to reconstruct the calendar and chronology i...

Dissertatio inauguralis medica de Lamio Plinii.Strasbourg, Melchior Pauschinger, 1742. 4to. With a folding engraved plate. Disbound.

KOENIG, Samuel Fridericus.

€300.00 ($330.66 | £250.24 | ¥52,809)

[4], 20 pp.Botanical, chemical and pharmaceutical description of the Lamium Plinii, a dead-nettle from the family Lamiaceae. Dissertation by Samuel Fridericus Koenig. In very good condition, with traces of paper wrappers.l Pritzel 4802.

Dissertatio philosophica, de praestantia studii historici naturae.Stockholm, Laurentius Salvius, 1752. 4to. Disbound.

HOLM, Jonas and Olof Adamsson HERWECH.

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.83 | ¥35,206)

48, [4] pp.Dissertation by Jonas Holm on the philosophical importance of the scientific study of natural history, with Olof Herwech as praeses. Some damp stains, title-page creased.l Cat. Linnean Soc., p. 356; Krok, Herwich 1; WorldCat (1 copy).

Specimen botanico oeconomicum sistens trifolium hybridum.Lund, Berling, 1780. 4to. With a woodcut tailpiece. Disbound.

HARDTMAN, Christian Fr. and Engelbert JÖRLIN.

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.83 | ¥35,206)

14 pp.Hardtman's dissertation of the alsike clover (Trifolium hybridum), with Engelbert Jörlin as praeses.In good condition.l WorldCat (5 copies).

Specimen botanico-oeconomicum, de usu quarundam plantarum indigenarum prae exoticis.Lund, Berling, 1769. 4to. Disbound, red sprinkled edges.

UTTERBOM, Joannes and Engelber JÖRLIN. · 1733

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.54 | ¥44,007)

[2], 12 pp.Utterbom's dissertation on plants native to Sweden, before the introduction of "exotic" plants, focusing especially on the economic uses of Swedish plants. With Engelbert Jörlin (1733-1810) as praeses. Title-page restored on the back, some stains and dog-eared leave...

Monographia pompilorum Sveciae.Lund, Berling, 1829. 4to. Disbound.

DAHLBOM, Anders Gustaf and Carl Fredrik FALLÉN. · 1806

€175.00 ($192.89 | £145.98 | ¥30,805)

[4], 15, [1 blank].Dissertation by the Swedish entomologist Anders Gustav Dahlbom (1806-1859) on the classification of wasps in Sweden. With Carl Fredrik Fallén (1764-1830) as praeses. Some staining, otherwise in good condition.l BMC NH, p. 413; Horn & Schenkling 4304; WorldCa...

Öfver Vexternes Namn.Uppsala, Leffler and Sebell, 1842. 4 parts. 8vo. Disbound.

FRIES, Elias Magnus and others. · 1794

€350.00 ($385.77 | £291.95 | ¥61,610)

[2], 16; [2], 17-32; [2], 33-48; [2], 49-64 pp.Dissertations on botanical nomenclature. The four dissertations are respectively by Carl Johan Bohman, Jonas Gustaf Sjöstrand, Johan Oscar Carlberg and Nocanor Hammaren, all with the Swedish botanist Elias Magnus Fries (1794-1878)...

Dispositio methodica specierum Scandinavicarum pertinentium ad familias insectorum hymenopterorum naturales ... Part. I [- IV].Lund, Carl Gustav Berling, 1842. 4 parts. 8vo. A individual title-page to each part, a preface, and 8 folding letterpress pages with text. Disbound.

DAHLBOM, Anders Gustav and others. · 1806

€375.00 ($413.33 | £312.80 | ¥66,011)

5 ll. + 8 ll.Four rare dissertations on entomology, all with the Swedish entomologist Anders Gustav Dahlbom (1806-1859) as praeses. The dissertations were by Julius Eduardus Wallerius, Johannes Elaus Lundquist, Georg Erlan Psilander, and Laurent Arvid Bergh. The dissertations ...

De vegetabilibus Svecanis observationes et experimenta.Uppsala, Johan Edman, 1785. 4to. Disbound.

AFZELIUS, Adamus and Andreas Magnus WADSBERG.

€275.00 ($303.11 | £229.39 | ¥48,408)

[4], 36 pp.Thesis containing 27 observations of various kinds of phanerogams, cryptograms, lichens etc., with Afzelius as praeses. With traces of paper wrappers and some dog-eared leaves.l BMC NH 14; Krok, Afzelius 2.

Novitae florae Sveciae ex Algarum familia, quas in itineribus ad oras occidentales Sveciae annis 1832-35 collegit et cum observationibus diagnosticis et geographicis, ...Lund, Berling, 1836. 4to. Disbound.

SCHARSTRÖM, Theodoro and Jacob Georg AGARDH.

€225.00 ($248.00 | £187.68 | ¥39,607)

[4], 16 pp.Dissertation on Swedish algae and seaweed, by Schagerström with Jacob Georg Agardh as praeses. In very good condition.l Darlow & Moule 50; Krok, Agardh 2; Pritzel 57.

Rapport betreffende de gevolgen der opening van het Panama-kanaal voor Nederland en koloniën.Amsterdam, 1912. Folio (33.5 x 21 cm). Original cloth backed portfolio with printed boards and with ties.

COMMISSIE VOOR DE HANDELSPOLITIEK.

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.54 | ¥44,007)

21, [3 blank]; [1], [3 blank]; 3, [1 blank]; 3, [1 blank], 88; 8; 23, [1 blank]; 18, [2 blank]; 5, [3 blank] pp.First edition of an investigation of the effects and consequences of the Panama canal on the Dutch overseas trade, compiled by a committee appointed by the Dutch min...