A. Asher & Co. B.V.

Beschryvinge van den archipel, tot nut van den krygsman, zeevaarenden en handeldryvenden.Amsterdam, 1792. 8vo. With a large folding engraved sea chart (57.5 x 68.5 cm). Publisher's original flexible boards covered with blue paper, with the title and decoration printed letterpress on the spine.

[KINSBERGEN, Jan Hendrik van]. · 1770

€1,850.00 ($2,039.04 | £1,543.39 | ¥325,608)

[8], 190, [2 blank] pp.Rare first Dutch edition of a detailed account of the Greek islands (the first edition to include the sea chart), by the great Dutch-German Admiral and naval strategist Kinsbergen, known as the Hero of the Black Sea for his successes in battles against t...

Außführliche Geschicht der in den äussersten Welt-Theil gelegenen japonesischen Kirch, ...Augsburg, Franz Anton Ilger (printed by Anton Maximilian Heiss), 1738. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With title-page printed in red and black, and 9 etched plates by Joseph Anton Zimmermann; woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards.

CRASSET, Jean. · 1689

€3,950.00 ($4,353.62 | £3,295.35 | ¥695,217)

[24], 534; “559” [= 555], [1 blank].First German translation of Crasset's Histoire de l'eglise du Japon, first published in 1689. Crasset, a French Jesuit, based the earlier part of his account on François Solier's Histoire ecclesiastique des isles et royaumes du Japon (1627) ...

Japan. Eene reisbeschrijving. Leiden, De Breuk & Smits, 1865. 8vo. With lithographed title-page including a tinted lithographic view of a Japanese house and 6 people, after a photograph (protected by a tissue guard, tipped in). Original publisher's letterpress-printed boards.

LINDAU, Rudolf. · 1829

€4,950.00 ($5,455.80 | £4,129.62 | ¥871,221)

VII, [1 blank], 264 pp. plus lithographed title-page.Rare first and only Dutch edition of Lindau's description of Japan. Rudolf Lindau (1829-1910) discusses Nagasaki (including Dejima), Manchuria, Edo and Yokohama, with extensive remarks on Japanese politics and culture, inclu...

Taschenbuch für das Carneval. Erstes Jahr. - Le carnaval ou representation d'une collection d'habits de masques. L'an premier. Leipzig, Friedrich August Leo, 1804. 16mo? (14 x 10.5 cm). With 12 numbered engraved plates by Friedrich Wilhelm Nettling, all coloured by a contemporary hand. Original publisher's paperboards, printed from an engraved plate and hand-coloured.

[COSTUMES - CARNIVAL]. · 1750

€4,500.00 ($4,959.82 | £3,754.20 | ¥792,019)

31, [1 blank] pp.Very rare, first and only published part of a series of hand-coloured carnival costume plates, each of the 12 with a letterpress description in German and French. Only plates 9 and 10 bear the name of the German draughtsman and engraver Friedrich Wilhelm Nettl...

Biblia, dat is De gantsche H. Schrifture vervattende alle de canonijcke boecken des Ouden en des Nieuwen Testaments.Dordrecht, Jacob and Pieter Keur; Amsterdam, Pieter Rotterdam and Pieter Rotterdam the younger (colophon: printed by Jacob and Pieter Keur, Dordrecht), 1714 (New Testament without Pieter Rotterdam the younger, 1713). 3 parts in 1 volume. Large folio (42.5 x 27.5 cm). With engraved general title-page, letterpress title-pages for the New Testament and Apocrypha (and half-title for the Prophets), a series of 6 engraved double-page folding maps by Daniël Stoopendaal (his larger set) and a series of 24 (of 25) engrave plates, with 6 engraved Biblical scenes each, by Dirk Jonkman. Contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, with brass clasps, anchor and catch plates, and corner pieces.

[BIBLE - DUTCH - KEUR]. · 1702

€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)

Beautifully illustrated large folio Dutch States Bible (Statenbijbel) with 6 six maps, including a world map. They belong to the larger of two series by Daniël Stoopendaal, first published in 1702 and revised in the plates for the present Bible. They were explicitly made for t...

[Model of a Japanese teahouse(?)].[Japan, Meiji period (1868-1912)]. Ca. 30 x 61 x 39.5 cm. Large model of a Japanese teahouse made from wooden panels, painted in black and gold.

[MODEL - JAPAN - TEAHOUSE]. · 1890

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

Large handmade model of a Japanese teahouse, probably dating to the late 1890s. It has been beautifully painted in black and gold. The teahouse is open on the front to show the interior walls, which have been decorated with painted folding screens, and a decorative wall hangin...

Biblia, dat is De gantsche H. Schrifture vervattende alle de canonijcke boecken des Ouden en des Nieuwen Testaments.Dordrecht, Jacob and Pieter Keur; Amsterdam, Pieter Rotterdam and Pieter Rotterdam the younger (colophon: printed by Jacob and Pieter Keur, Dordrecht), 1714 (New Testament without Pieter Rotterdam the younger, 1713). 3 parts in 2 volumes. Large folio (42.5×27.5 cm). With engraved general title-page, series of 6 engraved double-page folding maps by Daniël Stoopendaal (his larger set), a complete set of 184 full-page and 28 double-page engraved illustration plates by various artists, including A. de Blois, J. van Vianen and J. Mulder, after G. Hoet, B. Picart, A. Houbraken and others. Gold-tooled sprinkled calf (1738?).

[BIBLE - DUTCH - KEUR]. · 1711

€7,500.00 ($8,266.36 | £6,257.00 | ¥1,320,032)

[20], 302; [2], 134, [12], 164, [2], 66 ll.Beautifully illustrated large folio Dutch States Bible (Statenbijbel) with 6 six maps, including a world map, and a complete set of the striking illustrations drawn and engraved by Bernard Picart and others. The maps belong to the lar...

O Muata Cazembe e os povos Maraves, Cheva, Muiza, Muembas, Lundas e outros da Africa austral.Lisbon, Imprensa Nacional, 1854. 8vo. With 22 hand-coloured lithographed plates, and a folding lithographed map (45 x 28 cm), hand-coloured in outline. Contemporary straight-grained, gold-tooled black sheepskin, gilt edges.

GAMITTO, Antonio Candido Pedroso. · 1798

€9,000.00 ($9,919.64 | £7,508.39 | ¥1,584,038)

XXV, [1 blank], 501, [1 blank], [2] pp.First edition of this valuable narrative recording a trade mission to Kazembe IV. It was the last of three major Portuguese expeditions to connect the Portuguese territories of Angola in the west with Mozambique in the east. The expeditio...

Twee-rampspoedige zee-reyzen, den enen ... met een Fransch Oost Indiesch Compagnie-schip, genaamt Le Prince, ... Den anderen, met het Hollandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie schip, genaamt Rustenwerk, ...Amsterdam, Bernardus Mourik, [1752 or soon after]. 4to. With 2 etched plates. Disbound.

[VOC - SHIPWRECK & PIRACY]. · 1752

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

[2], 37, [1] pp.The first edition of a compelling account of two fatal voyages, of the French East Indiaman Le Prince, and the VOC ship Rustenwerk. Le Prince, commanded by Captain Morin, left the port of Lorient on 19 February 1752, sailing for Pondicherry. The voyage passed q...

A plain and literal translation of the Arabian Nights' entertainments, now entituled the book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. Including: Supplemental nights.[London?], Richard Burton Club, [ca. 1910]. 17 volumes. Royal 8vo (24 x 16 cm). With numerous illustrations (including the series by Albert Letchford), each repeated on laid paper (the 17 frontispieces repeated in colour). Contemporary half green morocco, gold-tooled spine.

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

€10,000.00 ($11,021.82 | £8,342.66 | ¥1,760,042)

A handsome edition of Burton's Arabian Nights, finely illustrated and printed in a limited edition of 100 hand-numbered copies. Bold to a fault, Richard Burton travelled to Mecca, explored the African Great Lakes, shocked his readers with his candid travel accounts, and gained...

Tooneel decoratief, voorgesteld in op steen geteekende platen door F.J. Pfeiffer Jr. Amsterdam, Coenraad Weddepohl, 1845. Folio. With a lithographed portrait of the artist (mounted), 8 lithographed plates of stage designs, and 9 poems in red decorated letterpress frames, the lithographs by Desguerrois & Co. With the 8 plates of stage designs hand-coloured as published. Original publisher's cloth, with a gold-blocked lyre in the centre of each board.

PFEIFFER, François Joseph junior, Jacob van LENNEP and Gerrit van ENST KONING. · 1778

€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)

[2 blank], [1], [1 blank], 10 pp., [9] ll. + plates.First and only edition of a memorial to the costume and stage designer François Joseph Pfeiffer Jr. (1778-1835), with a biographical sketch by Gerrit van Enst Koning (1794-1853), lithographic portrait, lists of his work and c...

Theatrum machinarum universale; of nieuwe algemeene bouwkunde, waar in … werd voorgestelt en geleerdt het maaken van veelerley soorten van trappen.Amsterdam, Petrus Schenk, 1739. With engraved half-title, engraved title-page (with engraved device), engraved dedication and 30 double-page engraved plates by Jan Schenk. With: (2) HORST, Tieleman van der. Theatrum machinarum universale; of nieuwe algemeene bouw-kunde; ...Amsterdam, Petrus Schenk, 1739. With woodcut vignette on title-page. 2 volumes: Folio (plates) and 4to (text). Contemporary red half roan.

HORST, Tieleman van der. · 1724

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

[3], [60] ll.; [8], 72 pp.First edition of a classic set of architectural construction drawings in 30 large double-page plates primarily showing staircases and their decoration, but with the last five plates covering skylights intended for stairwells, some in the form of elabo...

't Boeck vande vroet-wijfs.Amsterdam, Broer Jansz., 1633. 4to. With woodcut illustration on title-page and 35 woodcut illustrations in text, several full-page. Contemporary vellum.

RÜFF (RUEFF), Jacob. · 1554

€1,850.00 ($2,039.04 | £1,543.39 | ¥325,608)

8 pp. 9-"74" [=70], [4] ll.Rare sixth(?) edition of the Dutch translation of Jacob Rüff's classic and well-illustrated book on the conception, generation and birth of the child, the duties of the midwife, the attendant diseases of child-bearing, etc. Translated into Dutch by M...

Yochi shiryaku [Compendium of world geography]. [Tokyo], Meiji 4 [= 1871]. (25.5 x 17 cm). With the title and all text in Japanese, printed from woodblocks on rice paper, with 1 double-page, 2 full-page and 2 half-page maps and 12 full-page and 23 half-page illustrations of architecture, people and costumes, topography, plants and animals. Original publisher's heavy paper wrapper.

UCHIDA Masao. · 1838

€4,500.00 ($4,959.82 | £3,754.20 | ¥792,019)

[1 blank], 59, [1] ll.The third volume in a geographic-topographic series by Uchida Masao, this volume covering the Near and Middle East, Indonesia and surrounding regions. The five maps cover the regions around Persia, West Turkistan, Turkey & the Caucasus (including the east...

Japanische Meeres-Conchylien. Kassel, for Theodor Fischer (colophon: Elberfeld, by R.L. Friderichs & Comp.), 1869-1874. 3 volumes. 4to. With 37 chromo-lithographed plates. Contemporary blind- and gold-blocked cloth.

LISCHKE, Carl Emil. · 1813

€4,500.00 ($4,959.82 | £3,754.20 | ¥792,019)

[4], 192; [4], 184; 123, [1 blank] pp.First and only edition of the first comprehensive work on Japanese marine shells, by the German malacologist and Mayor of Elberfeld, Carl Emil Lischke (1813-1886). Published as the fourth supplement to Novitates Conchologica.Dedicated to W...

Historische, statistische, geographische und topographische Beiträge zur kenntniss des herzogthums Altenburg. Altenburg, 1818. Folio. With 38 hand-coloured engraved portraits (a few with signatures of the subjects), 1 uncoloured engraved portrait, engraved map of the area by L. Michaelis after A. Krehan, small engraved map in text showing the districts Paditz and Kotteritz, and 1 engraved text. Contemporary boards.

THÜMMEL, Hans Wilhelm von. · 1744

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

3-112, 8, [4] pp.First and only edition of a description of the Duchy of Sachsen-Altenburg, Germany, by Hans Wilhelm von Thümmel (1744-1824), a minister in the court of Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. With 38 beautifully hand-coloured plates, with portraits of dukes of...

Attestatie, hoe sich den vice-admirael Isaac Sweers gequeten heeft in de Zee-slag op den 14. Juny, 1673. Amsterdam, Hieronymus Sweerts, 1673. 4to. 19th-century wrappers.

[MELON, Steven]. · 1673

€400.00 ($440.87 | £333.71 | ¥70,402)

[8] pp.First and only edition of the report of the actions of vice admiral Isaac Sweers in the second Battle of Schooneveld (June 14, 1673) during the Third Anglo-Dutch War. Isaac Sweerts (1622-1673), commander of the ship De Witte Olifant and part of the fleet of Michiel de R...

[Signed letter to Ferdinand II, king of Two Sicilies].Innsbruck, 13th August 1838. 25 x 20 cm. Signed manuscript letter in brown ink on paper in Italian, with signature 'Maria Luigios'.

LUIGIOS, Maria [= MARIA KAROLINE LUISE CHRISTINE OF AUSTRIA?]. · 1810

€500.00 ($551.09 | £417.13 | ¥88,002)

[1], [3 blank] pp.Letter addressed to Ferdinand II, King of Two Sicilies (1810-1859) signed by Maria Luigios, with congratulations on the birth of his eldest son with Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria (1816-1867), Luigi Maria of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1838-1886) who was born...

[Signed letter to Louis-Auguste de Bourbon, duc du Maine].Versailles, 27 April 1710. Half sheet (32 x 21 cm). French letter in dark brown ink on laid paper in a legible hand, written on both sides, with a small part of the letter ending on the back, followed by the address and the Voysin's signature; the latter in black ink.

[LETTER]. VOYSIN, Daniel. · 1655

€500.00 ($551.09 | £417.13 | ¥88,002)

[2] pp.Manuscript letter by the French minister of War Daniel Voysin de La Noiraye (1655-1717), addressed to "Monseigneur de V.A.S.". V.A.S. stands for "Votre Altesse Sérénissime" (Your Serene Highness ), which in this case is Louis-Auguste de Bourbon, duc du Maine (1670-1736)...

Provinciale seu constitutiones Anglie: cum summarijs, atque justis annotationibus, politissimis caracteribus, summaque accuratione rursum reuise, atque impresse.Including: BADIUS, Jodocus (Josse BADE). Tabula indices.London, Franciscus Bryckman (colophon: Antwerp, printed by Christoffel van Ruremund, 20 December 1525). 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With two title-pages, each in a woodcut border. The first shows above heaven with the holy trinity surrounded by the heavenly population, and below the world with the pope and the king kneeling before the church, surrounded by the clergy; on the second title-page the coat of arms of England, a Tudor rose with the “IHS” and Saint George and the dragon. Printed in black and red throughout. Contemporary calf in modern slipcase.

LYNDWOOD, William. · 1446

€7,000.00 ($7,715.27 | £5,839.86 | ¥1,232,030)

CCLV [= CCLVJ], [28] ll.A finely printed edition of this great compendium of canon law. The author, citizen, canon and bishop of St Davies died in 1446. His reputation rests on his present Provinciale, a digest in five books "of the most important ecclesiastical legislation en...