A. Asher & Co. B.V.

Scheeps-togt van Martin Pringe, gedaan in 't jaar 1603. Van Bristol na 't noorder-gedeelte van Virginien.Including: Een tweede reys in 't selfde jaar 1603. Na Virginien, gedaan van Kap. Bartholomeus Gilbert.Leyden, Pieter van der Aa, 1706. 8vo. With engraved publisher's device and 2 folding engraved plates. Modern marbled boards.

CANNER, Thomas. · 1603

€675.00 ($743.97 | £563.13 | ¥118,803)

[2], 16, [4] pp.First Dutch translation of the accounts of two travels to Virginia in 1603 from Samuel Purchas' Purchas his pilgrims, here published as part of Van der Aa's Nauwkeurige versameling. Written by Thomas Canner. Another Dutch edition from the same year was publishe...

Voyage en Sicile et a Malthe.Amsterdam, D.J. Changuion, 1776. 2 volumes. 12mo. With folding engraved map by A.v. Krevelt, and an engraved plate. Contemporary half calf, sprinkled paper sides.

BRYDONE, Patrick. · 1773

€450.00 ($495.98 | £375.42 | ¥79,202)

[4], 16, 300, [4]; [4], 260, [4] pp.Rare issue of the second or third Dutch edition in French of Patrick Brydone's letters to William Beckford giving an account of his travels through Sicily and Malta, translated into French by Jean-Nicolas Démeunier. After the publication of ...

Le guide ou nouvelle description d'Amsterdam, enseignant aux voyageurs, et aux negoçians sa splendeur, son commerce, & la description de ses edifices, ruës, ports, canaux, ponts, ecluses, &c. Nouvelle edition augmentée considerablement.Amsterdam, Paul de la Feuille, 1720.With: (2) Tarif general des Provinces Unies pour les droits d'entrée & de sortie que payent les marchandises, tant en ce païs qu'à la Mer Baltique, au passage du Sont.Amsterdam, Paul de la Feuille, 1718. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 1 with 28 engraved illustrations on 24 folding leaves. Further with a small woodcut vignette on the title page, one woodcut decorated initial, and one woodcut headpiece. Ad 2 with a woodcut floral vignette on the title page, and typographical tables in the text. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf, with a red morocco title label lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges, and red sprinkled edges.

[AMSTERDAM - CITY GUIDE]. · 1652

€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)

[1], [1 blank], [4], "216" [= 198], [2 blank]; 123; [2]; pp.Enlarged third and best edition - the first with running text instead of dialogues - of an interesting description of the city of Amsterdam together with a work containing the tariff rates for import and export of al...

Icones & vitae principum ac regum Poloniae omnium.Frankfurt am Main, Jacob de Zetter, Hartman Palthenius, 1620. With:(2) SICCAMA, Sybrand (editor). Lex Frisionum, sive antiquae Frisiorum leges, a reliquis veterum Germanorum legibus separatim aeditiae & notis illustratae.Franeker, Johannes Lamrinck, 1617.(3) [VENICE]. Risposta in difesa delle ragioni del. ser.mo Arciduca Ferdinando contra il manifesto publicato per la Republica di Venetia, per occasione della presente guerra. Con l'oratione di Lodovico Eliano oratore di Lodovico XII. re di Francia, havvta da lui contro la medesima Republica, in augusta, nel convento de' Prencipi di Germania, alla presenza dell' imperatore Massimiliano I, l'anno 1510. [Italy?], Con Licenza de' superiori, 1617.3 works in 1 volume. Small 4to (20 x 14.5 cm). With engraved title-page and engraved portraits in text. 18th-century gold-tooled calf, red sprinkled edges.

NEUGEBAUER, Salomon. · 1611

€5,500.00 ($6,062.00 | £4,588.46 | ¥968,023)

[8], 144, [12]; [16], 151 [=152], [8]; [2], 34 pp.Three works from the early 17th century bound together. The first work is a popular illustrated history of Poland with portraits of monarchs, theologians and emperors, each with a short biography added, by Salomon Neugebauer (...

[Autograph letter, signed, from Philipp Melanchthon to Sebastian Boetius].[Wittenberg], Easter [14 April 1555]. Folio (19.5 x 32 cm). In Latin.

[AUTOGRAPH]. MELANCHTHON, Philipp. · 1515

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

[2] pp.Autograph letter in Latin, signed by Melanchthon to the Protestant theologian Sebastian Boetius in Halle, to recommend the young priest Christian Hertwig junior. Boetius (1515-1573), who had studied under Luther and Melanchthon at Wittenberg, succeeded Justus Jonas as s...

De coloribus oculorum.Florence, Lorenzo Torrentino, 1550. 4to. With 2 large historiated engraved initials. Half vellum (ca. 1900).

PORZIO, Simone. · 1546

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

57, [3 blank] pp.First edition of "one of the earliest monographs on ophthalmology in which the author attempts to explain the cause of the variety of colors of eyes. The positions of the eyes and the opinions of Aristotle and Galen on the structure of the eye are also discuss...

Atlas historique. - Souvenirs historiques. - Tableaux et cartes.[Montpellier?], [date on spine of vol. 1:] 1851. 3 volumes. Folio (vol. 1) and large 4to (vols. 2-3). Neatly written manuscripts on paper with 23 graphically vibrant maps, coloured in outline with subtly shaded washes in grey (for the coasts) and numerous bright colours (for political boundaries), and with calligraphic headings. Contemporary bindings: vol. 1 red half goatskin; vol. 2 black half goatskin; vol. 3 black sheepskin.

[ATLAS - HISTORICAL]. · 1850

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

[1], [26 double]; [1], [22 double]; [1], 30 double, [1] ll.A 3-volume historical manuscript atlas with beautiful manuscript maps, the volumes titled: Atlas historique, Souvenirs historiques and Tableaux et cartes. The Atlas historique contains finely calligraphed chronological...

Collection de vues des prinéipaux [recté principaux] palais, eglises, bâtimens publies, campagnes & jardins tant de Vienne que de ses environs. | Ansichten Sam[m]lung der berühmtesten Palläste, Gebäude, und der schönsten Gegenden von und um Wien.Vienna, Maria Geissler, [1812]. Large oblong 16m? (11 x 13.5 cm). With an engraved title-page and 64 (of a possible 100) engraved plates numbered 1-56, 58-61, and odd numbers 63-73 (including 2 folding plates with 2 numbers each, 21/22 and 23/24). Hand-coloured in watercolour by a contemporary hand. Contemporary half sheepskin, gold-tooled spine.

EISNER, Josef, [and others?]. · 1788

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

[1], "73" [= 64] engraved ll.A series of charming views of Vienna and its environs in the middle of Beethoven's thirty-five years there, around the time Wagner was born there, and about eight years after it became the capital of the new Austrian Empire, including views of Bade...

Heute werden die Unterzeichneten die Ehre haben, ein großes Wasser-Feuerwerk nach Wiener Art, unter dem Namen: Die Jagd der Riesenschlange, auf der Elbe, der Brühlschen Terrasse gegenüber, abzubrennen.[Dresden, 1829]. 1mo broadside (46.7 x 39.1 cm).

[FIREWORKS - GERMANY]. · 1829

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

A rare (unique?) broadside announcing a fireworks display at the river Elbe (Dresden), organized by Franz Kölbel, a famed pyrotechnician from Graz (Austria). The show was held on 5 September 1829, and reviewed in the Wiener Zeitschrift für Kunst, Literatur, Theater und Mode. T...

Mit hoher Bewilligung wird heute die hier angekommene Gymnastische- und Athleten-Gesellschaft unter der Direction des Hrn. Bartholomäus Ramini die Ehre haben sich zu produciren......[Austria, ca. 1827]. Oblong folio (ca. 40 x 46 cm). With a large woodcut illustration (ca. 27 x 38 cm). The text is set in a Gothic type.

[BROADSIDE - CIRCUS]. · 1827

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

[1] l.Very attractive early 19th-century broadside with a beautiful, large woodcut of a spectacular medieval show, enlivened with fireworks. The text below announces the show of a gymnastics (circus) company under the direction of Bartholomäus Ramini (dates unknown). According...

Geschichte der Kaiser-Garde.Leipzig, J.J. Weber, 1848. 4to. With 43 full-page plates (of which 39 hand-coloured, mostly woodengraved, after H. Bellangé, E. Lami, Ch. Vernier), many smaller woodengravings in text. Contemporary blue morocco, title lettered in gold on spine, covers gold-tooled, marbled endpapers, gilt edges.

SAINT-HILAIRE, Emil Marco de.

€750.00 ($826.64 | £625.70 | ¥132,003)

XII, 536 pp.Interesting history of the Imperial Guard of Napoleon, richly illustrated with many hand-coloured military costume plates.Very good copy. Binding slighly rubbed. A colourful work on the Imperial Guard of Napoleon.l Colas 2621; Lipperheide 48.

Russland. Beschreibung aller Nationen des russischen Reiches, ihrer Lebensart, Religion, Gebräuche, Wohnungen, Kleidungen und übrigen Merkwürdigkeiten.Leipzig, Dyk, 1783. 2 volumes. 4to. With 2 etched hand-coloured frontispieces by Schoenberg (coloured by Capieux), and several delicate engraved head- and tailpieces in the text by C.M. Roth. Contemporary half calf, sprinkled boards.

GEORGI, Johann Gottlieb. · 1776

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

[4], XII, [5], [1 blank], 271, [1 blank]; [2], 273-530, [10] pp.Second German edition of "the first ethnographic survey of the Russian Empire" (Wortman). Georgi was part of an ambitious scientific expedition prompted by Catherine the Great to study the economic, cultural and g...

Aigendtliche Bildnuß deß Ehrnvösten und weitberühmbten Herren Johannis Faulhabern, bestelten Mathematici inn Ulm seines Alters fünff und dreyssig Jar. Augsburg, printed by David Francken for Steffan Müchelspacher, 1615. Folio (28.5 x 15 cm). Engraved portrait (plate size 12.5 x 10 cm), drawn from life and engraved by Lucas Kilian in Augsburg, with letterpress drop-title and a list of Faulhaber's printed works, within a frame built up of arabesque fleurons. Set in fraktur types with incidental schwabacher.

[FAULHABER, Johann]. · 1580

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

[1] leaf.Rare portrait of the mathematician and Rosicrucian Johann Faulhaber (1580-1635), engraved by Lucas Kilian (1579-1637) in Augsburg. With a numbered list of six published works, with the names of their printers and publishers and the years of publication, 1604-1615. Fau...

[Trachten aus Alt-Hamburg].[Hamburg, B.S. Berendsohn, Wilhelm Jowien, and others], [ca. 1850]. 8vo. With 50 hand-coloured full-page plates (ca. 20 x 12.5 cm) highlighted with egg-white, (44 lithographs, 3 engravings, 3 wood-engravings), including 33 after drawings by Heinrich Jessen. Contemporary blind-stamped decorated red cloth, front board with title lettered in gold.

[JESSEN, Heinrich]. · 1843

€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)

[50] plates.Charming colour plate book with mainly military costumes. The plates depict messenger boys, maidservants, a police officer, several military men on horseback, etc. Some were published earlier in F.G. Buek's Album hambürgische Costüme, 1843-1847.Hinges weak, head an...

Schetsboek. Nederlandsche stads- en havengezigten.Amsterdam, F. Buffa & son; Delft, H. Koster; Leiden, P.H. van den Heuvel, 1858. Folio. With letterpress title-page, lithographed portrait of Koster and 24 tinted lithographed views of Dutch cities and harbours by Johannes Hilverdink after Everhardus Koster, printed by Steuerwald. Contemporary half calf.

KOSTER, Everhardus. · 1813

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

[26] ll.First and only edition of an album with twenty four beautifully drawn lithographed Dutch city and harbour views. Lithographed by Johannes Hilverdink (1813-1902) after sketches of Everhardus Koster (1817-1892). Both artists are best known for their marine paintings.The ...

Germaniae ex variis scriptoribus perbrevis explicatio.Augsburg, Heinrich Steiner, 1530. Small 8vo (15.5 x 10.5 cm). Title in a wide woodcut ornamented border, 2 woodcut historiated initials. Set in an Aldine-style italic with a word of Greek. Modern brown shell-marbled boards.

PIRCKHEIMER, Willibald. · 1494

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

[69], [3 blank] pp.Rare second(?) edition (published in the same year as the first) of a Latin treatise on the geography of "Germany", interpreted very broadly to include the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland and some regions in eastern Europe, where "Germans" lived or had liv...

Biblia dat is de gantsche H. Schrift vervattende alle canonyke boeken des ouden en Nieuwen Testaments.Including: Het nieuwe Testament. And: De CL. Psalmen des propheten Davids.Amsterdam, Otto van Grafhorst and Dirk onder de Linden, 1752. 3 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With engraved title-page (pasted on the "Acte van Consent en Authorisatie"), 42 engraved plates and diamond-head music for the psalms. With only the undated engraved general title-page and no separate title-page for the Old Testament, but with separate title-pages for the New Testament and the psalms. Contemporary red morocco, with richly gold-tooled sides and spine, and gilt edges.

[BIBLE - DUTCH]. · 1741

€4,250.00 ($4,684.27 | £3,545.63 | ¥748,018)

[3] ll., 852; [234] pp.Very rare re-issue of the scarce States Translation of the Old and New Testament and also the psalmbook published at Utrecht by 'de Compagnie' booksellers in 1741. Unlike the first issue, the Bible is here enlarged with a series of 42 unsigned engraved p...

[Ladimistri nel' archipelago].[The Netherlands(?), ca. 1720?]. Oblong folio (19.5 x 31.5 cm). Pen and blue-black ink-wash drawing on laid paper, showing the city of Edremit, its harbour and fortifications, with an Ottoman and a Dutch(?) ship, and a lighthouse, in a brown thick-thin-thin border, signed in the border below right, but difficult to read (I. P. Sto...?, I. P. Ste...?). Framed (37 x 49 cm).

[OTTOMAN PORT]. [PEETERS, Johannes (Jan) (after)]. · 1664

€2,750.00 ($3,031.00 | £2,294.23 | ¥484,012)

A detailed ink drawing of the harbour of and fortifications of Edremit, an Ottoman port city on the west coast of Turkey. The drawing is made after Johannes Peeter's print Ladimistri nel' archipelago, originally engraved by Lucas Vorsterman the younger and first appearing 1664...

[Public Bath House].[Japan, ca. 1900]. (70 x 98.5 cm). Watercolour on silk, highlighted with white, gold, and perhaps mica.

[JAPAN].

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

Large Japanese watercolour with a charming scene in a Japanese bath house. The interior of the bath house shows seven women and four children washing themselves and dressing. One of the women is already fully dressed in a blue and green kimono. In good condition.

Observations chronométriques faites pendant la campagne de circumnavigation de la corvette La Capricieuse, commandée par M. Roquemaurel, capitaine de vaisseau.Paris, Firmin Didot frères, 1855. With:(2) MOUCHEZ, Amédée Ernest Barthélemy. Longitudes chronométriques des principaux points de la cote du Brésil, rapportées au premier méridien de Rio-Janeiro. Paris, Paul Dupont, 1863.(3) MOUCHEZ, Amédée Ernest Barthélemy. Positions géographiques des principaux points de la cote orientale de l'Amérique du Sud comprise entre la Guyane Française et le Paraguay. Paris, Paul Dupont, 1868. 3 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With 4 folding plates. Contemporary grained red half sheepskin.

MOUCHEZ, Amédée Ernest Barthélemy. · 1863

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

VIII, 139, [1]; 32; [4], 35, [1] pp.First edition of an important treatise on chronometry by Ernest Barthélémy Mouchez, who sailed as French astronomer, geographer and naval officer in the Capricieuse commanded by Roquemaurel. In his work he tried to improve surveying techniq...