A. Asher & Co. B.V.

Astley's projects, in his management of the horse; rendering it calm on the road, in harness, &c.London, printed by T. Burton, 1804. 8vo. With 1 folding engraved frontispiece. Contemporary half beige paper and blueish-grey paper sides over stiff paper boards.

[ASTLEY, Philip]. · 1742

A treatise of the five orders in architecture. to which is annex'd, a discourse concerning pilasters: and of several abuses introduc'd into architecture ...London, Printed for J. Senex and R. Gosling; W. Taylor, W. and J. Innys, and J. Osborn, 1722. Folio. With 6 full-page engravings of columns, 6 half-page engravings, 23 engraved initials, 23 engraved headpieces, 18 engraved tailpieces, as well as an engraved title page and an engraved dedication. Contemporary half sprinkled calf, marbled paper sides, red sprinkled edges.

PERRAULT, Claude. · 1613

La Belgique pittoresque. Les chateaux.Mons, J. Dacquin; Paris, Aug. Ghio, 1872 [-1878]. 7 volumes. Oblong (ca. 21 x 30 cm). With 168 full-page lithographs. Original publisher's gold- and blind-stamped purple cloth.

DAMSEAUX, Émile de. · 1830

Emblemata of zinne-werck: voorgestelt, in beelden, ghedichten, en breeder uijt-legginghen, tot uijt-druckinghe, en verbeteringhe van verscheijden feijlen onser eeuwe.Amsterdam, Jan Evertsen Kloppenburch, 1624 (colophon: Middelburg, printed by Hans vander Hellen, 1624). 4to. With an engraved emblematic title page, and 51 emblems in text, engraved by W. Passe, Cr. le Blon, J. Gelle, A. Poel, and J. Swelinck after designs by Adriaen van de Venne, some woodcut initials and headpieces. Contemporary vellum.

BRUNE, Johannes de. · 1588

[The official graduation diploma awarded to Lucas Walkier on the occasion of obtaining the doctorate in medicine at the University of Padua on 22 February 1662]Padua, 22 February 1662. Ad 1: ca. 24.5 x 19 cm.; ad 2: 12.6 x 20 cm.; ad 3: 47 x 45.5 cm.; ad 4: 46 x 29.3 cm. Ad 1: with the beautifully hand-coloured painted oval portrait of Lucas Walkier in a laurel wreath, facing his coat of arms, both within a hand-coloured and heightened with gold floral border. This is followed by the neatly calligraphed text in dark brown ink and highlighted in gold, written within frames of double gold lines. All written and drawn on vellum. Ad 2: a hand-coloured and hand-drawn coat of arms, captioned below in manuscript: Walkier. Ad 3: a broadsheet (folded, printed text within ornamental woodcut border: 30 x 45.5 cm) with the blind-stamped seal of the "Natio Germanica" in Padua, and 4 engraved coats of arms (ca. 7 x 6.5 cm) printed in the four corners. Ad 4: printed on blue silk, within a floral border of 4 blocks, and crowned. With:(2) [Leaf with the hand-coloured and -drawn coat of arms of Walkier].(3) [Application form for the "Natio Germanica" at the University of Padua, and admission to the doctoral degree, under the auspices of the Collegium Venetum, (drop-title:) Ex voluntate, et decreto Serenissimi Principis excelsique Senatus Veneti …].(4) BÉRIGARDUS, Nicolaus. Augurium Apollinis in auspicatissimam Phil. & Med. Laur. Nobilissimi, & Excellentissimi Domini Lucae Walckier Nob. Lugdunensis Batavi.Padua, Giovanni Battista Pasquati, 1662.In a magnificent contemporary gold-tooled vellum over boards, in a so-called Italian fan design, remnants of ties (the silk ties are kept loose in behind the final leaf of ad 1).

[MANUSCRIPT - Lucas WALKIER (subject)]. · 1662

Inleyding tot de hooge schoole der schilderkonst: anders de zichtbaere werelt. verdeelt in negen leerwinkels, yder bestiert door eene der zanggodinnen. ten hoogsten noodzakelijk, tot onderwijs, voor alle die deeze edele, vrye, en hooge Konst oeffenen, of met yver zoeken te leeren, of anders eenigzins beminnen.Rotterdam, François van Hoogstraeten, 1678. 4to. With an engraved allegorical title page (as frontispiece), 9 full-page engravings as divisional title pages for the 9 parts, 4 full-page engraved anatomical plates (including 2 folding) and 1 full-page engraving of putti in the second part, and 4 engravings on the play of light and shadows in the text of part 7, all plates designed and engraved by the author, title printed in red and black, title page with a woodcut vignette, and woodcut decorated initials throughout. Contemporary vellum.

HOOGSTRATEN, Samuel van. · 1626

Leviathan: of van de stoffe, gedaente, ende magt van de kerkelycke ende wereltlycke regeeringe.Amsterdam, Jacobus Wagenaar, "1667" [= 1672 (engraved title page)]. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece, a woodcut vignette on the title page, an engraved portrait of Thomas Hobbes, and a folding table on the classification of sciences. 18th-century sprinkled paper over contemporary gold-tooled calf.

HOBBES, Thomas and Abraham van BERKEL (translator). · 1588

Orationes novem elegantissimae. Gregorii Nuysseni liber de homine, quae omnia nunc primum, emendatissima, in lucem prodeunt.[Venice, heirs of Aldus Manuzius and heirs of Andrea Torresano], 1536. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With the Aldine woodcut device on the title page and repeated on the verso of the otherwise blank final leaf. 19th-century elaborately gold-tooled black morocco, with the author, title, publisher, and year lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, gold-tooled tan morocco doublures, pink silk ribbon marker. Bound by François Bozerian (known as Bozerian le Jeune (the Younger), 1765-1826, fl. 1801-1818) and signed in gold lettering by the binder at the foot of the spine: “Rel. P. Bozerian Jeune”.

NAZIANZENUS, Gregorius and Gregorius NYSSENUS. · 1449

Art et moyen parfaict de tirer huyle et eaux, de tous medicaments simples & oleogineux.Paris, pour Galiot du Pré, 1573. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, 16 woodcut illustrations in the text, and several decorated woodcut initials and woodcut headpieces. Early to mid-19th-century half marbled calf.

BESSON, Jacques. · 1540

Des faictz et gestes des douze Caesars, nouvellement imprime.Paris, Arnoul l'Angelier, 1540. 8vo. With a half-page woodcut illustration on the title page, and 11 half-page woodcuts in the text (repeats with different names in the cartouche), a smaller woodcut illustration at the start of the work by Denis Janot, numerous woodcut decorated initials throughout, and l'Angelier's woodcut device on the final page. Mid- to late-19th-century red morocco (not before 1861), signed by Chambolle-Duru.

SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS, Gaius [and Guillaume Michel de TOURS (translator)]. · 1520

Quadrins Historiques de la bible. Reveus, & augmentés d’un grand nombre de figures.Lyon, Jean de Tournes, 1583.With: (2) [FONTAINE, Charles & Bernard SALOMON]. Figures du nouveau testament.Lyon, Jean de Tournes, 1579. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 1: with the title in an ornamental woodcut border with the printer’s device including two vipers, 233 half-page woodcut illustrations, and 2 woodcut vignettes. Ad 2: with the title in a historiated woodcut border (Cartier "Nains") with the same woodcut printer’s device (Cartier, ‘Vipères I,1’) and 96 half-page woodcut illustrations, including one repetition, arabesque headpieces, and a large woodcut on the last page (Cartier, "Lac d’amour). 18th- or 19th-century elaborately gold-tooled pebble-grained dark greenish-blue sheepskin, with the titles and place and year of publication for both titles lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn ins, gilt edges, marbled endpapers.

[PARADIN, Claude & Bernard SALOMON]. · 1506

Memoires ... ecrits par lui-meme.Paris, Paulin, 1833-1837. 10 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary gold-tooled quarter calf. The set is housed in two blue marbled paper slipcases.

CASANOVA, Giacomo. · 1725

Esposizione ragionata della contestazione, che sussiste tra le due Repubbliche di Venezia, e di Olanda.[Vienna or Venice?], 1785. With:(2) [CASANOVA, Giacomo]. Supplimento alla esposizione ragionata della controversia, che suffifte tra la repubblica di Venezia, e quella d’Olanda.1785.(3) [CASANOVA, Giacomo], Signed at end: L.A.S.D.V. Lettera ai signori Giovanni e Stefano Luzac contenente alcune offervazioni sopra la Narrazione dell’affare che ha prodotto la differenza vertente fra la repubblica di Venezia e quella di Olanda, pubblicata nei numeri xxi. C xxii. della loro gazetta.1785. 3 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. Ads 1 and 2: with a woodcut decoration on the title page, rococo-decorated titling capitals used for one word in the title and one initial, thick-and-thin rules, ad 3: with the same decorated initials as ad 1 and 2, and with woodcut headpieces throughout. Contemporary half vellum with marbled boards, gold-tooled spine, and a black leather spine label lettered in gold: “Miscellanea”.

[CASANOVA, Giacomo]. · 1725

Naamwijzer, aantoonende alle de naamen en woonplaatsen van de edele achtbare magistraat der stad Middelburg in Zeeland ... Dienende van Novemb[er] 1792 tot Novemb[er] 1793.Middelburg, Hermanus Snel, [1792]. With: (2) DAM, Dirk Jansz van. Middelburgsche wagt-almanach, na de nieuwe stijl. Op het jaar ... MDCCXCIII.Middelburg, Hermanus Snel, [1792]. 2 works in 1 volume. 12mo. With the woodcut coat of arms of Middelburg on the title page of each work. Contemporary green vellum wrappers in envelope style, with the manuscript year 1793 on the front.

[YEARBOOK]. · 1793

De hum. Physiognomonia … De humana physiognomonia libri IIII …Vico Equense, Giuseppe Cacchi, 1586. Folio (32.5 x 23 cm). With a full-page engraved portrait of the author on the title page, set within an architectural frame incorporating animal and human heads, a full-page engraved portrait of the dedicatee, 85 engraved illustrations throughout, including four full-page plates, a woodcut diagram of a syllogism, and numerous woodcut historiated initials, headpieces, and tailpieces throughout. Contemporary vellum.

PORTA, Giovanni Battista della. · 1535

Du Khorassan au pays des Backhtiaris. Trois mois de voyage en Perse.Paris, Hachette et compagnie, 1911. 4 volumes. 4to (ca. 32.5 x 25.7 cm). With approximately 960 photographic illustrations in the text and 255 full-page plates, including 47 in colour. Contemporary paper covers decorated with coloured symmetrical designs, featuring a central medallion and ornate borders, and utilising detailed geometric and arabesque floral motifs. The decorated spines bear the author, title, volume number, and printer, lettered in yellow on blue. All volumes are in their original brown sheer paper printer’s wrappers and are housed in brown paper publisher’s boxes with paper spine labels with the author, title, and volume number lettered.

D'ALLEMAGNE, Henri-René. · 1863

Annaes historicos do Estado do Maranhao, em que se da noticia do seu descobrimento, e tudo o mais que nelle tem sucedido desde o anno em que foy descuberto até o de 1718.Lisbon, 1749, Francisco Luiz Ameno. Folio (283 x 194 mm). Later half vellum.

PEREIRA DE BERREDO, Bernardo. · 1718

't Nieuw groot Hoorns lied-boekje, bestaande in veel stigtige en vermakelyke bruylofts liedekens.Hoorn, Reinier Beukelman, [between 1713 and 1735]. 24mo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, a decorated woodcut initial, and several leaves with musical annotation. Later marbled paper pasted over brown cloth.

[SONGBOOK]. · 1403

Characteres ethici, sive Morum descriptiones. Graecè et Latinè. Cum notis & monitis Ioannis à Werdenhagen.Leiden, Joannes Maire, 1653. 24mo. With a vignette on the title page built up from typographical ornaments, the work is partly printed in Greek type. Contemporary vellum.

THEOPHRASTUS. · 1581

Le petit volage. Pour l'an 1819.Paris, [chez Louis Janet, 1818]. 128mo (ca. 2.7 x 1.7 cm). With 8 full-page engravings. Original publisher's gold-tooled red morocco, with an upside down fleuron in the centre of both boards, surrounded by a vegetal border, gilt edges.

[MINIATURE ALMANAC]. · 1819