A. Asher & Co. B.V.

Alcorani textus universus ex correctioribus Arabum exemplaribus summa fide, ... Eadem fide, ... in Latinum translatus; appositis unicuique capiti notis, atque refutatione: ...[vol. 2 title:] Refutatio Alcorani, in qua ad Mahumetanicae superstitionis radicem securis apponitur; ...Padova, Typographia Seminaria, 1698. 2 volumes bound as 1. Folio (35.5 x 25 cm). Blind-tooled vellum (ca. 1800?), reusing and retooling vellum from a slightly earlier blind-tooled binding.

[QURAN - ARABIC & LATIN]. MARRACCI, Ludovico (editor). · 1834

€18,000.00 ($19,839.28 | £15,016.79 | ¥3,168,076)

[5], [1 blank], 45, [2], [1 blank], 46, [2], 81, [3], 94, [10], 126, [3] [1 blank] [13], [1 blank]; [8], 17, [3], “838” [= 836], [11], [1 blank] pp.The first scholarly printed Quran, prepared by the anti-Islamic Catholic Ludovico Marracci, with a much more accurate Arabic text...

Égypte et Nubie. [ca. 1880]. 60 photographs on albumen paper, measuring 28 x 22 cm each, signed and captioned in the plate, numbered 1 through 68. Contemporary green half calf with gilt spine and title "Égypte & Nubie", initialed "B.C.D." on first plate.

BÉCHARD, Henri · 1869

€45,000.00 ($49,598.19 | £37,541.97 | ¥7,920,190)

Large and beautiful photographs by Bechard: excellent vintage prints, mostly in superior condition. They represent the popular Egyptian and Nubian types, frequently in close-ups. Nissan N. Perez states that this part of the work of a photographer specializing in views of sites...

[Official contemporary copies of incoming diplomatic correspondence to the Dutch government in The Hague from Dutch ambassadors, envoys, diplomatic residents and others in Vienna, Graz, Schaffhausen, Turin, Madrid, Paris, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Moscow, Cologne, Frankfurt, Dresden, Regensburg, Warsaw, Grodno, Maastricht, The Hague, Brussels and Ostend].[The Hague], letters dated 26 January-17 December 1715 and 7 November 1725-22 November 1729. Folio (32.5 x 20.5 cm). 96 letters clearly written in dark brown ink on paper, 84 in Dutch and 12 in French, mostly in a Latin hand (the Dutch ones from 1715 in a semi-gothic hand). Loose leaves in a modern portfolio.

[LETTERS - DIPLOMATIC]. · 1715

€8,500.00 ($9,368.55 | £7,091.26 | ¥1,496,036)

[96] letters ([138] written pp. on [97] ll.).A set of 96 letters from 20 Dutch diplomats throughout Europe, 52 in the year 1715 and 44 in the years 1725 to 1729, in copies made by the Dutch government as the letters came in. They give a remarkably detailed view of day to day a...

Histoire ancienne des Egyptiens, des Carthaginois, des Assyriens, des Babyloniens, des Medes et des Perses, de Macedoniens, des Grecs. … Nouvelle edition.Paris, printed for the widow of Estienne & her children and the Estienne brothers; by (the widow of) F.A. Quillau and the widow of Simon, 1748-1769. 13 volumes bound as 14. 12mo. With 3 engraved maps, 2 engraved folding plates and 1 engraved folding plan. Contemporary mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spines and binding edges; only volume 11 (bound as 2 volumes) in a different but closely matching binding.

ROLLIN, Charles. · 1730

€1,500.00 ($1,653.27 | £1,251.40 | ¥264,006)

ca. 600 pp. per volumeLovely set, in the original French, of Rollin's very popular Histoire ancienne, which, contrary to its full title, primarily describes ancient Greece (the other ancient peoples are only treated in the first two volumes). It's a mixed set from three editio...

Manuale bombardicum oder: Hand-Büchlein, über die Bixenmeisterey. Augsburg, Jakob Koppmayer, 1693. 12mo. With an engraved frontispiece, 8 engraved plates (including 5 folding) and a letterpress folding table. Contemporary half sheepskin parchment, marbled sides.

[EUGENIUS, Johann] and Joannes EDELIUM. · 1685

€3,850.00 ($4,243.40 | £3,211.92 | ¥677,616)

78, [5], [1 blank] pp.Second copy located, of the expanded second edition of a concise artillery manual. The present edition notes only that it was " … beschrieben und vermehrt durch Joannem Edelium", but it is almost certainly an expanded edition of the same publisher's 1685 ...

Werelt-boeck, spieghel ende beeltenisse des gheheelen aerdtbodems, ...The Hague, Albrecht Heyndricxz., 1595. Folio. 17th-century parchment, new endpapers.

FRANCK, Sebastian. · 1499

€8,500.00 ($9,368.55 | £7,091.26 | ¥1,496,036)

CXXXIIII, [4] ll.Fourth Dutch edition of a description of all lands and peoples of the world and particularly their customs and religious beliefs, with chapter 4 devoted to America and chapter 3 on Asia giving extensive coverage to Syria, Arabia and the Middle East, including ...

A library on Arabian horse breeding, including Stud Books and General Reference. From the Le Vivier and Marcia Parkinson Collections, with Additions from the Library of Duke Maximilian in Bavaria. The largest collection of its kind in private hands. 330 works in more than 1100 volumes. Mostly original or first editions. Published in Austin, Cairo, Chicago, Hildesheim, London, Marburg, Moscow, New York, Philadelphia, Riga, Tehran, Warsaw and other places in the years 1788 to 2011..

[HORSE BREEDING]. · 1808

€350,000.00 ($385,763.70 | £291,993.10 | ¥61,601,477)

Amassed over the last fifty years and covering four centuries of relevant material, the present collection spans all aspects of the history and development of the breeding of Arabian horses. It comprises within itself many books from the Le Vivier collection: fine press books ...

Mélanges d'ornements de tous les styles Persan - Mauresque - Arabe - Grec - Gothique [-] Renaissance principalement des XVIe et XVIIe siècles ...Paris, Ducher & Cie (colophon: printed by Eugène Heutte & Cie), [ca. 1880 (engraved 1837-1838)]. Royal folio (45 x 31 cm). With 2 elaborately ornamented part-titles, 70 numbered ornament plates (all 72 plates "engraved" on litho stones, image area mostly 26.5 x 17 cm) and a letterpress list of the plates. With each plate printed in blue, green, violet, ochre, red, black or brown (several shades) and 9 printed in 2 colours. Contemporary half red cloth, rebacked and with new corners in red goatskin morocco.

CLERGET, Charles Ernest. · 1812

€6,500.00 ($7,164.18 | £5,422.73 | ¥1,144,027)

[2] ll. plus [1], 37, [1], 38-70 plates.A splendid display of ornament in a wide variety of mostly Islamic-influenced styles, described as Persian, Moorish, arabesque, Greek, gothic and renaissance. Although many "arabesque" styles had been used in Europe under various names, ...

A narrative of the shipwreck of the Oswego, on the coast of South Barbary, ... London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown (printed by Andrew Strahan), 1818. 4to. 20th-century tan goatskin morocco.

PADDOCK, Judah. · 1800

€1,500.00 ($1,653.27 | £1,251.40 | ¥264,006)

XVI, 372 pp.First British edition, published in the same year as the first American edition, of a detailed narrative of the wreck of the 260 ton American ship Oswego off the coast of Africa near the Canary Islands on 28 March 1800 and the capture of the captain and crew by a p...

Das Land zwischen den Katarakten des Nil. Mit einer Karte, ...Vienna, Carl Gerold, 1831. 12mo (the book) and 17.5 x 25 cm (the folder with the folded map). With a separate large folding lithographed map (98 x 69 cm; image area 93 x 64 cm) assembled from 2 sheets, with the cultivated areas along the river hand-coloured in green as published, also showing 17 floor plans of temples and a plan of a Roman wall. The book in the publisher’s original light green paper wrappers and the map in a matching green paper folder.

PROKESCH, Anton, Ritter von Osten. · 2005

€3,750.00 ($4,133.18 | £3,128.50 | ¥660,016)

[8], 181, [3 blank] pp. plus folding table and separate map.A fine copy of a detailed and important archaeological survey of sites along the Nile and on its islands, between the first and second cataracts (now at the bottom of Lake Nassar). It covers many important ancient Egy...

Malby's terrestrial globe.[London], Malby & Co. (engraved by Chas. Malby), 1 January 1848. Diameter: 45.5 cm (18 inch), height in stand: 64.5 cm. An engraved terrestrial globe with 12 gores and 2 polar caps over a plaster-covered core, and the engraved horizon ring on the wooden stand, all coloured by a contemporary hand. In a contemporary wooden stand with 3 turned legs supporting the horizon ring, and 3 turned stretchers with a cylindrical centrepiece with a knob on the underside. Further with a contemporary brass hour circle and a slightly later iron meridian ring (and probably the axis pivots).

[GLOBE - TERRESTRIAL]. MALBY & CO. · 1848

€35,000.00 ($38,576.37 | £29,199.31 | ¥6,160,148)

Only recorded copy of the 1848 edition (preceded only by one recorded copy of 1846 edition) of Malby's 18 inch (45.5 cm) terrestrial globe, the largest he engraved and much rarer than his 12 inch globe. It shows small pieces of the Antarctic coast, noting sightings and explora...

Reis door den Indischen Archipel, in het belang der evangelische zending.Rotterdam, M. Wijt & zonen, 1851. 8vo. With 1 chromolithographed and 4 lithographed folding maps and 8 tinted lithographed illustrations. Rebacked in modern half cloth and the original gold-tooled green sheepskin backstrip laid down.

RHIJN, Leonard Johannes van. · 1846

€1,500.00 ($1,653.27 | £1,251.40 | ¥264,006)

XX, IV, “655” [= 651], 28 pp.First and only edition of an account of Van Rhijn's travels in the Dutch East Indies, originally published in 12 instalments. It describes the journey Van Rhijn made from 1846 to 1848, ordered by the Netherlands Missionary Society, to investigate t...

De valkenvangst.The Hague, W.P. van Stockum, 1841. 8vo. With a wood-engraved frontispiece by "I.B." (=Johannes Bosboom). Contemporary boards (rebacked in modern dark brown half morocco).

ZEGGELEN, Willem Josephus. · 1838

€1,500.00 ($1,653.27 | £1,251.40 | ¥264,006)

[8], 83, [1 blank] pp.Very rare first edition of a poem satirising Dutch practitioners of falconry in the early 19th century, particularly the members of the famous Royal Loo Hawking Club. De valkenvangst (the capture of falcons) contrasts the majesty of the falcons, whose man...

Décret sur la translation des cendres de Voltaire à Sainte-Geneviève, précédé du Rapport fait par M. Gossin, au nom du Comité de Constitution, le 30 Mars 1791.[Paris], by order of the Assemblée Nationale, [1791]. 8vo. Modern red half morocco.

GOSSIN, Pierre-François. · 1944

€1,750.00 ($1,928.82 | £1,459.97 | ¥308,007)

3, [1 blank] pp.Rare first edition of an official decree of the French Revolutionary government declaring that Voltaire "est digne de recevoir les honneurs décernés aux grands-hommes" (is worthy to receive the honours awarded to great men) and that his remains are therefore to...

Discours by forme van remonstrantie: vervatende de noodsaeckelickheyd vande Oos-Indische[!] navigatie.[Amsterdam?], 1608. Small 4to. 20th-century half brown sheepskin, marbled sides.

[USSELINCX, Willem?]. · 1608

€2,250.00 ($2,479.91 | £1,877.10 | ¥396,009)

[14] pp.First(?) edition (one of two dated 1608) of a polemical discourse in Dutch strongly advocating freedom of trade for the Dutch East India Company, sometimes attributed to Willem Usselincx (1567-1647). After 1600 the Dutch met growing successes in their war of independen...

Cosmographia, das ist: Beschreibung der gantzen Welt, …Basel, heirs of Sebastian Henricpetri, 1628. Folio (38 x 24.5 cm). With an engraved title page, letterpress title page printed in red and black with woodcut portrait of Münster on the back, 26 numbered double-page woodcut maps on inserted bifolia (each with a woodcut headpiece, the letterpress title, some text and the map number, i-xxvi, on the first recto, a letterpress heading above the map and in one case a woodcut diagram with letterpress text on the second verso), 72 double-page woodcut maps, plans and views on integral leaves, and about 1500 woodcut illustrations in the text (including repeats) showing maps, plans, views, plants, animals, monsters, etc. Contemporary vellum, manuscript title and year on spine, red edges.

MÜNSTER, Sebastian. · 1752

€48,000.00 ($52,904.74 | £40,044.77 | ¥8,448,203)

[24], “1752” [= 1748] , [12] pp.Most extensive edition of Münster's monumental, extensively illustrated description of the world, which set a new standard in the field, following both a regional and encyclopaedic approach. The first edition appeared in 1544, but it was greatly...

Korte beschrijving van de ontdekking en der verdere lotgevallen van Nieuw-Nederland, weleer eene volkplanting van het gemeenebest der Vereenigde Nederlanden in America.Middelburg, S. van Benthem, 1818. 8vo. With a large folding map (plate size 54.5 x 42 cm). Contemporary paper wrappers, with parts of the publisher's original printed-paper spine.

LAMBRECHTSEN, Nicolaas Cornelis. · 1674

€1,500.00 ($1,653.27 | £1,251.40 | ¥264,006)

[6], 102, [2 blank] pp.First edition of Lambrecht's account of the Dutch colony in America up to its cession to England in 1674, as well as an account of the fate of the Dutch settlers after the British takeover. It covers the discovery and exploration of the regions around pr...

He kupu wakatupato, ...[Paiha (New Zealand), Mission Press], 1842. 8vo. Never sewn, stitched or bound.

[COLENSO, William]. · 1840

€850.00 ($936.85 | £709.13 | ¥149,604)

7, [1] pp.First edition, printed in New Zealand in the Maori language, of the anti-Catholic missionary William Colenso's account of the order of service followed by the Anglican Bishop of London for the reception of three Roman Catholic priests. Although the pamphlet was print...

Notitia orbis antiqui, sive geographia plenior, ab ortu rerumpublicarum ad constantinorum tempora orbis terrarium faciem declarans. … et novis tabulis geographicis … illustravit.(Volume 1:) Cambridge, John Owen, 1703; (volume 2:) Amsterdam, Caspar Fritsch, 1706. 2 volumes. 4to. With engraved author's portrait, 33 engraved double-page maps and 1 engraved double-page plate. Contemporary calf, richly gold tooled spines and binding edges, double gilt fillets on sides.

CELLARIUS, Christoph. · 1731

€5,000.00 ($5,510.91 | £4,171.33 | ¥880,021)

[16], 862, [38]; [12], 544; 166, [38] pp.Second edition of a geographical description/atlas of Europe, Asia, the Middle East and North Africa on the basis of classical and other sources (such as medieval Hebrew), with 33 detailed maps. Volume two opens with a part on Asia, inc...

Libro ... del modo di conoscere i buoni falconi, astori, e sparavieri, di farli, di governarli, et di medicarli, come nella tavola si puo vedere.Venice, Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1547. 8vo. With Giorgi's woodcut phoenix printer's device on title-page and a stunning larger one at the end. Blue stiff paper wrappers (ca. 1800).

GIORGI, Federico. · 1708

€15,000.00 ($16,532.73 | £12,513.99 | ¥2,640,063)

53, [2], [1 blank] ll.First edition of an early and "esteemed" (Harting) work on falconry, containing detailed information on the breeding and training of falcons, hawks, and sparrow hawks, with notes on their feeding and care. It was an important source for Turberville's The ...