A. Asher & Co. B.V.

[Ausschneidebilder].[The Netherlands?], 28 January 1777 (some of the prints themselves: Augsburg, Martin Engelbrecht, [ca. 1750?]). 4to. A scrap album containing about 330 cut-out images from engraved prints, most neatly and uniformly coloured by a contemporary hand (probably for the publisher or publishers). Contemporary half roan sheepskin, sewn on 2 vellum tapes, red-sprinkled paper sides, red-sprinkled edges, with a heart-shaped paper label on the front board with the manuscript inscription, “J. Visscher” above the date (1 above 28, flanked by “17 ... 77”).

[SCRAP ALBUM]. VISSCHER, J. (compiler or recipient). · 1777

€7,500.00 ($8,266.55 | £6,256.09 | ¥1,320,219)

[1], 170, [1] ll. including integral paste-downs.A carefully and neatly assembled scrap album containing about 330 coloured, engraved images, each carefully cut out of a print (close to the people, animals, plants and objects depicted, so that the background in most images is ...

Materia medica contracta, exhibens simplicia & composita medicamenta officinalia.Amsterdam, Henricus Wetstein, 1682. 4to. With Wetstein's woodcut publisher's device. 18th-century sheepskin parchment.

MARGGRAF, Christiaan (Christianus MARGGRAVIUS). · 1626

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

[16], 280, [22] pp.Second and best edition (2nd issue) of a detailed Latin handbook of pharmacology, written by the Leiden physician and lecturer in medicine and chemistry Christiaan Marggraf (1626-1687), first published in 1674 but greatly expanded by the author for the prese...

Libellus de methodo concinnandi formulas medicamentorum. Editio altera revisa & aucta.Leiden, Coenraad Wishoff & Georgius Jac. Wishoff, Conr. Fil., 1752. 8vo. With woodcut vignette on title-page and 3 interesting historiated woodcut initials. Full calf over boards.

GAUBIUS, Hieronymus David. · 1705

€450.00 ($495.99 | £375.37 | ¥79,213)

(16), 437 (pp. 422-432 numb. 522-532), (19) pp.Second corrected and enlarged edition of this important manual on pharmacology by the German physician, chemist, vitalist and Leiden professor Hieronymus David Gaubius (Jerome Gaub, 1705-1780). The first edition was published in 1...

Le manuel des dames de charité, ou, formules de médicamens faciles a préparer, dressées en faveur des personnes charitables, qui distribuent des remèdes aux pauvres dans les villes & dans les campagnes: avec des remarques pour faciliter la juste application des remèdes qui y sont contenus, ensemble un traité abregé de la saignée, et un extrait de plusieurs remèdes choisis. Tirés des éphemérides d'Allemagne.Paris, Debure l'aîné, 1758. 12mo. Contemporary cat's paw calf, gold-tooled spine.

[ARNAULT DE NOBLEVILLE, Louis Daniel]. · 1701

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

LVI, "473" [= 471] pp.True fifth edition (or fourth edition of the revised edition) of a highly popular outline of medicine for laymen administering charitable medical assistance. Although designed so that anyone could quickly acquire the necessary medical knowledge, the autho...

Curationum empyricarum & historicarum, in certis locis & notis personis optimè expertarum, & ritè probatum, centuriae decem. Quibus adiuncta de novo eiusdem authoris medicina practica; cum indice rerum omnium uberrimo.Including:Medicina practica recens et nova, continens omnes totius humani corporis morbos, per alphabeticum ordinem collectos: ...Appendix de dosibus, seu justa quantitate, ac proportione medicamentorum compositorum omnium quae hodie officini parata extant: ...Rouen, Johannis Berthelin, 1650. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With a woodcut device on the title page and 2 divisional title pages, each with the same woodcut device. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment.

RULAND, Martin. · 1532

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

[8], 794, [13], [1 blank]; 175, [1 blank] pp.Late edition of a medical work including 1000 medical case studies, compiled by the Paracelsian physician and alchemist Martin Ruland the elder (1532-1602) in Lauingen. The work was originally published in 10 instalments in the year...

Spadacrene hoc est Fons Spadanus, ... ut et Observationes medicae ...Including HEER, Henri de. Observationes medicae, oppido rarae in Spa et Leodii; animadversa, cum medicamentis ...Leiden, Pieter van der Aa, 1685. 2 works published together. 12mo. 18th-century boards.

HEER, Henri de. · 1685

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

[24], 159, [17]; [6], 254, [20] pp.The 1685 edition, in the original Latin, of two works on the medicinal qualities of mineral springs by Henri de Heer, published together. Henri de Heer (1570-ca. 1636), court physician in Cologne. It discusses the qualities of mineral waters ...

Mizaldus redivivus. Sive centuriae XII memorabilium, utilium ac iucundorum in aphorismos arcanorum omnis generis locupletes, perpulchre digestae.Nürnberg, Andreas Knorzius for Johann Zieger, 1681. Small 8vo. With allegorical frontispiece and some woodcut headpieces. Half vellum with black 19th-century paper sides.

MIZAULD, Antoine. · 1566

€500.00 ($551.10 | £417.07 | ¥88,015)

[6], 486, [22] pp.First and only expanded edition, with 1200 rather than the original 900 entries, of a very popular compilation of aphorisms first published in Paris by Fédéric Morel in 1566 under the title Memorabilium ... centuriae novem, containing 900 entries. About a doz...

Divers traitez sur les panacées, ou remedes universels, et sur les abus de la medecine ordinaire. ... Seconde edition augmentée par l’auteur.Amsterdam, Johannes & Gillis Janssonius van Waesberge, 1686. 16mo. Contemporary boards.

MASSARD, Jacques. · 1681

€500.00 ($551.10 | £417.07 | ¥88,015)

[44], 215, [5] pp.Rare second edition, in the original French, of a series of treatises on pharmacology and related subjects. The present edition has several appendices, including letters in response to the first edition and replies by the author, the latest dated 24 September...

Zak-boek voor practiserende artzen, ter vermyding van scheikundige en pharmaceutische misslagen in het voorschryven van geneesmiddelen. … Volgens den laatsten druk uit het Hoogduitsch vertaald.Including: DURING, Josephus Philippus. Over zommige dwalingen, welke men in het voorschryven der geneesmiddelen moet vermyden.FOCKEMA, Sybrandus. Over de voornaamste mercurial geneesmiddelen.Groningen, J. Oomkens, 1804. 8vo. Page numbering switches to 173 after page 272. Modern half cloth.

TROMMSDORFF (TROMSDORFF), Johann Bartholomäus. · 1797

€550.00 ($606.21 | £458.78 | ¥96,816)

[8], “193” [=293], [blank] pp.Very rare Dutch translation of the practical pharmaceutical handbook Chemische Receptirkunst, oder, taschenbuch für practische Aerzte (1797) by the German chemist and pharmacist Johann Bartholomäus Trommsdorff (1770-1837), translated by the Dutch ...

Leerboek der artsenij-gewassen. Nieuwe uitgave, in verband met de Nederlandsche apotheek.Utrecht, Amsterdam, C. van der Post, 1859. 8vo. Original publisher’s boards covered with grey paper with printed title in ornamental border and shortened title on spine.

MIQUEL, Friedrich Anton Wilhelm. · 1871

€400.00 ($440.88 | £333.66 | ¥70,412)

XVI, LX, 406 pp.Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel (l811-1871), born in Germany, was a famous Dutch botanist, who focussed his study primarily on the flora of the Dutch East Indies. Next to his scientific works like the Flora Indiae Batavae (Amsterdam, 4 vols., 1855-1859), Miquel ...

Catechismus der apothecars-kunst, of, de eerste grondbeginselen der artsenijmengkunde, voor eerstbeginnenden opgesteld. Aanhangsel van den catechismus der apothecars-kunst.Amsteldam, J.B. Elwe, 1813. 8vo. With a folding engraved plate (160 x 125 mm.) of a ‘Toestel om luchtvormige vloeistoffen op te vangen’ (a device to catch vaporized liquids), facing p. 302. Blue paper over thin boards as published, with rests of a printed title label on spine. Uncut copy (partly unopened).

HERMBSTÄDT, Sigismund Frederik. · 1792

€350.00 ($385.77 | £291.95 | ¥61,610)

[1], [blank], [2], 320 pp. = 324 pp.The second edition of the Dutch translation of the German manual on pharmacology for beginners by Hermbstädt, the Katechismus der Apothekerkunst, oder die ersten Gründtze der Pharmacie (Berlin 1792), enlarged with an Appendix, including a pl...

Huishoudkundig handboek voor den stedeling en landman; of Chomel, huishoudelijk woordenboek verkort. In vier deelen.Amsterdam, Johannes Allart, 1800-1803. 4 volumes. Large 8vo. With 24 hand-coloured engraved plates of different plants, herbs, mushrooms, flowers, trees and animals. All volumes bound in contemporary half goatskin with marbled sides, gold-tooled spine with an orange and blue morocco label.

CHOMEL, Noël. · 1849

€1,000.00 ($1,102.21 | £834.14 | ¥176,029)

XII, 560; [4], 584; [4], 568; [4], 598 pp.Set of four volumes that can serve as a practical handbook for matters pertaining to home economics. It contains information about various flowers, trees, herbs and other plants, such as anise, catnip, tulips and even cannabis, but als...

Etymologia Graeco-Latina oder lexicon manuale philologicum, darin die der Latinitaet oft vorkom[m]ende griechische Wörter mit ihren Grund-Nahmen in Benennung der Kräuter, Thiere &c.Including: Etymologia Graeco-Latina, das ist Gründliche erklährung derer Griechschen und Lateinischen Wörter.Frankfurt an der Oder, Johann Gottfried Conradi (part 1); Tobias Schwartzen (part 2), (1721). 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With the title-page printed in red and black. Contemporary vellum.

REINHARD, Johann Christoph.

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

[248]; [40] ll.Very rare first and only(?) edition of a Greek/Latin-German lexicon, compiled by Johann Christoph Reinhard and intended for the use at schools in Frankfurt an der Oder, Brandenburg. It alphabetically list numerous Latin and Greek words, followed by a German tran...

Dictionnaire historique de la médecine ancienne et moderne. Ou mémoires disposés en ordre alphabétique pour server à l’histoire de cette science, et à celle des medecins, anatomistes, botanistes, chirurgiens, et chymistes de toutes nations.Mons, H. Hoyois, 1778. 4 volumes. Large 4to. With engraved allegorical frontispiece; woodcut printer’s devices, engraved and typographical head- and tailpieces. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine, red morocco spine label with title in gold, red edges, marbled endpapers

ELOY, N.F.J. · 1755

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

[6], VIII, XII, 745, [2]; [4], 650; [4], 648; [4]; 626, [2] pp.The most important edition of this historical and biographical dictionary on the history of medicine, including many biographies of important physicians, such as Boerhaave and Hippocrates, chemists, pharmacists and...

Narrative of thirty-four years slavery and travels in Africa.London, printed for Richard Philips and co. (back of title page: printed by G. Sidney), 1819. 8vo. With a engraved frontispiece with a portrait of Dumont. Later green paper wrappers.

DUMONT, Pierre Joseph and Jacques Salbigoton QUESNÉ. · 1778

€600.00 ($661.32 | £500.49 | ¥105,618)

IV, [5]-46 pp.First edition of the English translation of an eye-witness account of slavery in Africa. The French writer Jacques Salbigoton Quesné (1778-1859) mentions in the introduction that one day he heard of a man returning to Paris after being enslaved for 34 years in Af...

Mosaïsch recht, of de ziel der wetten van Moses; ...Including: Byvoegsels en verbeteringen op het Mosaïsch recht, ... achter aan eenige byzonderheden over de oudste geschiedenisse der paarden en stoeteryen in Palaestine en de nabuurige landen, in zonderheid Aegypten en Arabien.Haarlem, Jan van Walré, 1781-1782 (parts 1-2); Jan Bosch, 1774-1776 (parts 3-6), 1778 (part 7). 7 parts in 3 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary, uniform half calf, gold-tooled spines.

MICHAELIS, Johann David. · 1717

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

[12] 346; [14], 464; [10], 259, [1 blank]; [8], 414, [2 blank]; [8], 342; [2], CXXXII, 322, [4]; [6], 210, [2] pp.Complete set of the Dutch translation of an extensive work on Hebrew law and legislation, by the German theologian Johann David Michaelis (1717-1791). "In its six ...

Oost-Indise voyagien van Johan Mildenhal en Johan Cartwright; onder veel avontuuren en opmerkelyke waarnemingen, (in de jaren 1599 en 1606) te water en te lande, gedaan na de landen van Persien en den Grooten Mogol.Leiden, Pieter van der Aa, 1706. Folio. With an engraving on the title-page by Jan Goeree, 2 engraved illustrations in text and a woodcut tailpiece. Modern decorated cloth, dark blue title-labels.

MILDENHALL, John, John CARTWRIGHT and [Samuel PURCHAS (editor)]. · 1560

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

10 ll.First edition of the Dutch translation of the accounts of two British travellers, John Mildenhall (1560-1614) and John Cartwright, who travelled to Persia and the Moghul Empire. The accounts were originally edited by the British cleric Samuel Purchas (1577-1626) and publ...

Portraits of celebrated racehorses of the past and present centuries in strictly chronological order, commencing in 1702 and ending in 1870[,] together with their respective pedigrees and performances recorded in full.London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1887-1888. 4 volumes. 4to. With a frontispiece in each volume, and a total of 459 (of 460) plates (mostly collotypes and engravings, a few line- and photo-engravings). Original publisher's red half sheepskin, cloth sides with a racehorse in gold on front boards.

TAUNTON, Thomas Henry.

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

VIII, [1], [1 blank], 52, [2], 53-259, [1 blank];First edition of an important and richly illustrated work on racehorses by Thomas Henry Taunton. It describes and depicts numerous racehorses from the 18th and 19th century, mentioning horse's breed, measurements, characteristic...

Épreuves de caractères Arabes, gravés et fondus par Molé Jeune, sous la direction de M. L. Langlès.Paris, (back of title-page: Imprimerie d'Éverat), 1823. 4to. Modern boards.

MOLÉ, Joseph. · 1775

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

14 ll.Type specimen of 2 Arabic types cut by the leading Paris punchcurtter Joseph Molé (1775-1841?), known as Molé jeune. Molé cut 2 sizes of Arabic (Saint-Augustin and Petit-Romain), including sorts for Turkish, Persian, Hindustani, Malay, Pashto (Afghani), also included in ...

Report of the commissioners appointed to inquire into and report upon all matters relating to the settlement of the Transvaal territory. Part 1[-2]. With:- Further correspondence respecting the affairs of the Transvaal and adjacent territories.- Further correspondence respecting the affairs of the Bechuanaland and adjacent territories.- Report of the commissioners appointed to determine land claims and to effect a land settlement in British Bechuanaland.- Correspondence respecting the affairs of Pondoland [3 parts].London, George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1882-1888. 2 volumes. Folio. With a total of 21 folding lithographed maps, many coloured in outline. Contemporary brown cloth, with a red title-label on the spine.

[TRANSVAAL ROYAL COMMISSION]. · 1882

€1,500.00 ($1,653.31 | £1,251.22 | ¥264,044)

249, [1]; 121, [1]; VI, 58; VI, 129, [1]; [2], 97, [1]; IV, 25, [1]; XI, [1 blank], 187, [1]; IV, 19, [1] pp.Collection of eight parliamentary papers, individually published between 1882 and 1888, dealing with disputes and affairs in Transvaal, Bechuanaland and Pondoland. The ...