A. Asher & Co. B.V.

L‘innocence reconnue, ou mon oncle retrouvé.[France, after 1783]. A hand coloured engraving (ca. 32 x 20.8 cm). Loosely inserted in a white passe-partout.

[PRINT - BALLOONOMANIA]. · 1783

Historia naturalis.Venice, Reynaldus de Noviomago, 1483. Small folio. With the initials and book numbers alternatingly painted in red and blue. 17th-century blind-tooled sheepskin.

PLINIUS SECUNDUS, Gaius (PLINY the elder) [and Philippus BEROALDUS (editor)]. · 1483

Relacion del sucesso que tuuo nuestra santa fe en los reynos del Iapon, desde el año de seyscientos y doze hasta el de seyscientos u quinze, Imperando Cubosama. Madrid, widow of Alonso M. de Balboa, 1617. Folio. With woodcut coat of arms on title-page, repeated at the end of books 1, 2 and 3. Contemporary parchment.

PIÑEYRO, Luys. · 1560

Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabrica figura. Iam tandem ad finem perductus, quamplurimis aeneis tabulis Hispaniae, Africae, Asiae & Americae auctus ac illustratus à Judoco Hondio. Quibus etiam additae (praeter Mercatoris) dilucidae & accuratae omnium tabularum descriptiones novae, studio et opera Pet. Montani.Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, 1606. Folio. With an engraved title page and 144 mostly double-page maps, each with a signature (E-7T) and with explanatory texts on the recto of the first and on the verso of the second fol. (the text pages on the rectos and versos of the maps are paginated 33-354). Original gold- and blind-tooled calf, re-cased, the original leather pasted to the new boards. With a large blind-tooled centrepiece in a blind-tooled lozenge frame, within a blind-tooled rectangle frame, gold-tooled smaller and larger corner pieces and a gold-tooled floral frame along the edges of the boards, both boards show the same design. Further with the title lettered in gold on the spine, and red edges.

MERCATOR, Gerardus and Jodocus HONDIUS (publisher). · 1595

Opus quibuslibet aromatariis: necessariu[m]. Mesue in vulgare rescripto. Primo che se rechercha allarte della aromataria como se conosseno le medicine simplice & composte li quattro canone p[er] arte in vulgare declarate alla antidotario: li dubie al configere qlle resolute.[Napels or Venice, ca. 1500?]. 4to (14.5 x 19.8 cm). Half calf over marbled boards [ca. 1900], gold-tooled spine, gold-tooled red spine label, red sprinkled edges.

MASAWAIH AL-MARDINI (MESUE the younger).

La journée du chrétien, sanctifiée par la prière et la méditation.Lyon and Paris, Librairie Catolique de Perisse frères, 1844. 16mo. Binding: ca. 11 x 7 x 2.5 cm. With a small printer's device on the title page. 17th-century elaborately jewelled and decorated gilt silver binding with a gilt silver imperial double-headed eagle and two hands holding a heart centre piece, below Jesus on the cross (with an added skull and bones at the foot of the cross) and ornamental gilt silver corner pieces connected to the gilt silver board edge fittings on both boards. The whole is set with numerous jewels (amethysts, garnets, turquoise, and (simulated) sapphires). With two jewelled clasps closing on pegs in the fore edge of the front board, gilt edges, red velvet paste-downs and blue silk flyleaves backed with paper.

[JEWELLED BINDING - FRENCH PRAYER BOOK]. L'abbé de la HOGUE. · 1928

Ellende/ Misère.Amsterdam, Felix Pinchas Abrahamson, 1912. Ca. 42 x 32 cm.

JENDRASSIK, Jenö. · 1860

De weke vanden edelen gheest-rijcken Willem van Saluste, Heere van Bartas, inhoudende de scheppinghe des werelts.Zwolle, Zacharias Heyns, 1616. 8vo. With 7 full-page engraved plates, an engraved printer's device on the title page, and a woodcut headpiece at the start of the work, and a decorated woodcut initial. Contemporary vellum with overlapping fore-eges.

HEYNS, Zacharias. · 1578

[The Divan of Hafez].[Persia], 983 AH [= 1575-76 CE]. 21.3 x 16 cm. Illuminated manuscript on paper, written in a fine nasta'liq script in black ink in 2 columns of 15 lines per page. The two columns of text are written in a panel measuring 14 x ca. 7.4 cm, most of the text is written in a simple frame built up from lines in black, turquoise, gold, and blue. The text begins with a beautiful blue and gold headpiece with small white, red, gold, and light blue flowers. Leaves 1v and 2r are beautifully highlighted in gold and decorated with intricate flower designs, vertically in between the text columns one finds small flowers in gold, white, red, brown, and light blue on a background of gold, horizontally between the text one finds gold highlights and banners of samll white, red, brown, and light blue flowers on a kobalt blue (and 1 one instance black) background, the two columns together are surrounded by frame with incredibly intricate gold and blue flowers and blue dots on a clear background, the larger margins on these leaves are beautifully decorated with an intricate flower-and-vine design in gold, outlined in black and the centers of the flowers are either red or blue. The text on leaves 2v and 3r is surrounded by the same frame of incredibly intricate gold and blue flowers and blue dots, with some additional colourful lines surrounding this frame. Leaf 8 is sprinkled with gold paint, the margins of leaf 18 are decorated with gold dots. All text (and decorations) is surrounded by a thin black double-line frame spanning 2 facing pages (ca. 21.8 x 30 cm). Later half black leather and multicolour painted and lacquered paper over paper boards. The painted sides show (from the outside in) a 0.4 cm blue frame around a 1.2 cm border of orange and green flowers with red details on a yellow background, this is followed by another 0.4 blue frame which surrounds the main decoration: large flowers in red, yellow, green, and blue on a vibrant orange background.

HAFEZ (HAFIZ) [Khwaaja Shams-ud-Din Muhammad Hafez-e Shirazi]. · 1897

Voyage dans l'Amerique du Sud. Pérou et Bolivie.Paris, J. Claye for Michel Lévy Frères, 1861. 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title. Contemporary blue morocco by Capé, with the title and author lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, marbled end papers.

GRANDIDIER, Ernest. · 1806

D. Aurelii Augustini commentariorum, ex omnibus eiusdem Lucubrationibus collectorum tomus secundus, in novum Testamentum.Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1543. 4to. With Valgrisi's woodcut device on the title page, and on the otherwise final blank page. Contemporary blind-tooled calf executed in Louvain, with the "Spes" panel signed with the initials "I P" on both boards, sewn on 5 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine.

GAST, Johann and Saint AUGUSTINE. · 1490

Della fabrica et uso di diversi stromenti di astronomia, et cosmografia, ove si vede la somma della teorica, et pratica di queste due nobilissime scienze.Venice, Roberto Meietti, 1598. 4to (22 x 16.5 cm). With an engraved title page, a folding woodcut plate, 3 woodcut volvelles with moving parts, and numerous woodcut illustrations in text. Including a world map in two hemispheres (incl. America and a scattering of islands at the location of Australia) on two facing pages, they reappear with volvelle attachments on both sides of leaf 149 and leaf 153. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment.

GALLUCCI, Giovanni Paolo. · 1538

Primo saignare, deinde purgare, postea clysterium donare.[Paris], Aubert, [1833]. Ca. 36 x 56.2 cm. Under a white and gold passe-partout, framed in a dark reddish brown wooden frame (ca. 54 x 66.5 cm).

DAUMIER, Honoré. · 1808

Atlas.[Amsterdam, Theodorus and Cornelis III Danckerts?, ca. 1706 (dated maps 1694-1706)]. Imperial folio (53.5 x 33.5 cm). Composite atlas, with an engraved title-page, 43 double-page engraved maps and 4 double-page engraved tables, all beautifully coloured in a consistent and balanced manner by a contemporary hand, probably in the workshop of the publisher. With maps by Johannes, Justus, Theodorus and Cornelis III Danckerts, Carel and Abraham Allard, Nicolaas Visscher I & II, Frederik de Wit, Pieter Mortier, Caspar Specht and even Alexis-Hubert Jaillot in Paris. Modern maroon sheepskin.

[DANCKERTS, ALLARD, VISSCHER, DE WIT, MORTIER and others]. · 1703

A plain and literal translation of the Arabian nights’ entertainments, now entituled the book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. [Boston?], The Burton Club, [ca. 1904]. 14 (instead of 17) volumes. Royal 8vo (24 x 16 cm). With frontispieces and numerous illustrations (vol. 8 lacking one image). With: Supplemental nights to the book of the thousand nights and a night with notes anthropological and explanatory.[Boston?], The Burton Club, [ca. 1940]. Contemporary richly gilt and sometimes also silver full cloth, some top edges gilt, some red.

[ARABIAN NIGHTS]. BURTON, Richard Francis. · 1885

[Instruction chrétienne, ou catechisme familier; avec quelques prières a l’usage des petits enfans].[The Netherlands?, ca. 1780?]. 4to (ca. 19 x 15 cm). Manuscript in French, written in black ink on paper, in a neat cursive script by one hand. With chapter divisions (numbered 39-75) and headings. The text is written upside down in relation to the binding. Most leaves show an identical watermark, depicting a lion rampant on a pedestal with “Vryheyt” in a crowned ring with “Pro Patria Eiusque Libertate” and the letters “CR” below, which is very close to Heawood 3149 (date: 1753). Late 18th-century gold-tooled brown mottled calf, sewn on 5 supports, bound by the so-called Acorn-and-Foliage Tool Bindery in Amsterdam (Storm van Leeuwen). Both boards show the large gold-tooled monogram of the Amsterdam chamber of the VOC as a centre piece sandwiched between the gold-tooled date “Anno 1780”, all within a gold-tooled floral frame with floral corner pieces in the inside corners, spine gold-tooled in six compartments, red sprinkled edges.

[BINDING VOC - MANUSCRIPT - FRENCH - VERNET, Jacob]. · 1698

La pace tra la virtu', la gloria, ed amore. Componimento drammatico da cantarsi in occasione delle faustissime nozze del nobil uomo signor Silvestro Michele Arnolfini con la nobil donzella signora Beatrice Luisa Bernardini dedicato alla medesima.Lucca, Giuseppe Rocchi, 1767. Small 4to (17 x 14 cm). Contemporary red velvet, embroidered with silver and gold thread and white and yellow silk (each board with an emblematic image: a crowned mirror[?] showing a hand planting a flag, perhaps intended as the groom's hand on the front and the bride's hand on the back), sewn without supports through 3 holes, brocade paper endpapers (grape vines and large flowers, white on a copper background), green silk ribbon marker.

[BINDING - GHELARDI SCOLOPI, Orazio Antonio]. · 1767

Esercizio da premettersi dalle donne in stato di gravidanza per conseguire da dio per l'intercessione del glorioso San Torello protettore insigne l'essenzione da tutti i pericoli e felicità nel prossimo parto.Florence, Stamperià Arcivescovile alla Croce Rossa, 1822. 8vo. Beautifully embroidered contemporary pink silk over paperboards, with flowers and a border along the edges of both sides, and the initials “CM” in centre of front cover, preserved in a modern marbled slipcase.

[BINDING - EMBROIDERED].

Biblia, dat is de gantsche Heylige Schrifture, vervattende alle de canonijcke boecken des Ouden en des Nieuwen Testaments.Including: De boecken genaemt apocryphe ...Leiden, widow and heirs of Johannes Elzevier, 1663. 3 parts in 1 volume. Large folio (44.5 x 28 cm). With 3 letterpress title-pages (the first in red and black, and each with the same Elzevier woodcut tree device with “non solus”), a complete series of 6 double-page engraved maps (the Nicolaes Visscher maps, 5 published ca. 1657 and including the world map added ca. 1663), without the engraved title-page (as usual). Further with numerous woodcut initials and tailpieces. Contemporary elaborately gold-tooled red morocco over bevelled wooden boards, sewn on 8 supports with corresponding raised bands on the spine, with grand silver fittings (with the hallmarks of an unknown silversmith) dated on the inside of one of the clasps "1665", gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins. Further with gilt, painted, and elaborately gauffered and decorated edges; the fore edge shows the coat-of-arms of Jeremias de Bont with some floral decorations, these floral decorations can also be found on the top and bottom edges. The boards show a very intricate gold-tooled symmetric design of ribbons with small geometric stamps and with ornamental curling stamps - better known as "petit fers" - within the different parts of the bigger pattern. The binding contains 4 ornamental corner pieces on each board and two catch plates (front board) and two hinge plates (back board) connected by two decorated massive silver clasps, engraved on the inside "Ieremias de Bont (top) and "1665" (bottom).

[BIBLE - DUTCH]. · 1665

Epistolae Indicae et Iapanicae de multarum gentium ad Christi fidem, per Societatem Iesu conversione.Louvain, Rutger Velpius, 1570.With: (2) GARETIUS, Johannes. De sanctorum invocatione liber...Ghent, Gislenus Manilius, 1570.2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 1 with the title-page in a frame built up from fleurons, and a woodcut publisher's device on last blank, ad 2 with the title-page in a frame built up from fleurons, the woodcut coat-of-arms of Cunerus Petri (bishop of Leeuwarden) on the back of the title-page and on the last leaf a woodcut printer's device within a frame built up from fleurons. Contemporary limp vellum sewn on 3 leather supports laced through the joints, with the manuscript title on the spine, leather ties, red edges.

[BERSE, Gaspar, Francis XAVIER etc.]. · 1499