A. Asher & Co. B.V.

La miniature.Paris, A. Marcilly, [1843]. 128mo (ca. 2.5 x 1.8 cm). With 6 full-page engravings. Original publisher's gold-tooled red morocco, a fleuron in the centre of the front and back, surrounded by an ornamental border, gilt edges.

[MINIATURE ALMANAC]. · 1844

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

64 pp.Charming miniature almanac for the year 1844, published by Marcilly, one of the most well-known producers of miniature books of the early 19th century. The work is a so-called "almanach chantant", a miniature almanac of less than 3 centimetres in size, with 64 pages, and...

't Groot Hoorns, Enkhuyzer, Alkmaarder en Purmerender liede-boek, verciert met veel mooye bruylofts-liedekens en gezangen.Amsterdam, Joannes Kannewet, [3rd quarter of the 18th century]. With (bound before ad 1): [SONGBOOK]. 't Groot Hoorns, Enkhuyzer, Alkmaarder, Edammer en Purmerender liede-boek, zijnde een vervolg op 't voorgaande, verciert met verscheyde nieuwe en aangenaame bruylofts-liedekens en snaakze gezangen.Amsterdam, Joannes Kannewet, [3rd quarter of the 18th century]. 2 works in 1 volume. 32mo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page of both parts, a full-page woodcut illustration in ad 1, and a decorated woodcut initial in each part. Contemporary green wrappers with brown ties.

[SONGBOOK].

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

312, [8]; 312, [8] pp.Largest edition of one of the most popular Dutch songbooks of the 18th century, containing songs for weddings, funerals, and other events where people traditionally sang together. Songbooks such as these are also known as mopsjes. This name is probably re...

[Business cards].The Hague, Leonardus Schweickhardt, 1850. 2 cards. Both ca. 4.8 x 7.8 cm. The cards are housed in the original pink paper case.

SCHWEICKHARDT, Leonardus. · 1783

€175.00 ($192.88 | £146.00 | ¥30,801)

Set of two business cards by Dutch etcher and engraver Leonardus Schweickhardt (1783-1862), in the original case. The first card shows his name and address, surrounding the paternoster engraved in a microscopic type within a circle the size of a Dutch stuiver. The second card ...

Caramuru. Poema epico do descubrimento da Bahia.Lisbon, Na Regia Officina Typographica, 1781. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, a woodcut decorated initial at the start of canto 1, and headpieces built up from typographic ornaments at the start of each canto. Contemporary brown sprinkled calf, gold-tooled spine with a red morocco title label lettered in gold, red sprinkled edges.

SANTA RITA DURÃO, José de. · 1722

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

307, [1 blank] pp.First edition of this landmark of Brazilian literature; one of the most famous Indianist works of Brazilian Neoclassicism. The poem recounts the story of Diogo Álvares Correia, a Portuguese sailor shipwrecked on the Brazilian coast who becomes known as Caramu...

[Almanac chocolat Foucher].Paris, (colophon:) Duffit, 1922 Ca. 5.8 x 4 cm. The calendar has been printed in red and black. Contemporary wrappers stapled to the bookblock, with a blue floral design on the front.

CHOCOLAT FOUCHER. · 1922

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,600)

[20] ll.Advertorial almanac for 1922 by Chocolate Foucher, one of the oldest chocolate and sweets houses of Paris. In the 19th century, it was fairly common for chocolate confectioners in Paris to gift their most valued clients an almanac as a new year's gift. The present work...

't Groot Hoorns, Enkhuyser en Alkmaerder liede-boeck, versiert met veel mooye bruylofts-liedekens en gesangen.Amsterdam, Pieter van Ryschooten, 1702. 32mo. With a woodcut illustration on the title page, a full-page woodcut illustration on the verso of the title page, and musical annotation. Contemporary gold-tooled calf with a clasp.

[SONGBOOK]. · 1696

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

310, [10] pp.Enlarged edition of one of the most popular Dutch songbooks of the 18th century, containing songs for weddings, funerals, and other events where people traditionally sang together. Songbooks such as these are also known as mopsjes. This name is probably reminiscen...

Middelburgsche naamwijzer voor het jaar 1831.Including: (2) [ALMANAC]. Middelburgsche almanak, naar den nieuwen stijl, op het jaar onzes heeren Jezus Christus 1831.Middelburg, De erven J. C. Altorffer, [1830]. With: (3) [YEARBOOK]. Middelburgsche naamwijzer voor het jaar 1832.Including: (4) [ALMANAC]. Middelburgsche almanak, naar den nieuwen stijl, op het schrikkel-jaar onzes heeren Jezus Christus 1832.(5) [CONVERSION TABLES]. De specie-tafelen van rijksdaalders, dukatons, acht-en-twintigen, kwart guldens, vijf-franken en Fransche kroonen.Middelburg, De erven J. C. Altorffer, [1831]. 2 works in 2 volumes, the first in 2 parts and the second in 3 parts. 12mo. Contemporary marbled board, with the manuscript year of publication on the spine.

[YEARBOOK]. · 1750

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥44,001)

120, [4], [24]; 119, [5], [24], 24 pp.Two consecutive volumes of the yearbook of the city of Middelburg, which contain the names of the most important people in the city at the time, including council members, city officials, physicians, judges, headmasters, and firefighters, ...

Schrijf almanack, offte calender na[er] de[n] olden stijl, op dat nije schalt iaer [...] MDXCVI.(Colophon:) Deventer, Simon Steenbergen, [1595]. 16mo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, 12 woodcut illustrations in the calendar (1 for each month), and 2 woodcut illustrations in the text, the work is printed in red and black. Later vellum wrappers, with the manuscript year of publication on the back.

GRAPHEUS, Rodolphus. · 1596

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

[32] ll.Extremely rare, very early Deventer almanac, with only one other copy recorded. Beautifully printed in red and black, the almanac includes a calendar and predictions for the upcoming year (1596). Due to its small size, the work uses symbols to mark important recurring ...

Zeelands chronyk-almanach, voor 't jaar 1782. Bevattende eene beschryving der provincie Zeeland … ten dienste der jeugd, gesteld in vragen en antwoorden.Middelburg, Jan Dane, 1782. 16mo. With an engraved title by R. Vinkeles, and 5 folding plates. Original publisher's printed boards, with the title and the arms of Zeeland in black on the front, and the arms of Middelburg with the imprint on the back, both within an ornamental border, red sprinkled edges.

[ALMANAC]. · 1777

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥44,001)

[70], 475-568 [=22] pp.Separate volume of the famous Zeeland almanac teaching children the history of their province in a playful way, by means of questions and answers. Zeelands chronyk-almanach was published from 1777 to 1792, with each volume focussing on a separate aspect ...

Cyclus von schiffen aller seefahrenden nationen.Hamburg, Charles Fuchs, 1839. 1 text volume and 56 loose lithographs in passepartouts. 4to oblong. With 56 lithographic plates (including 50 in colour), plates 47-50 contain several smaller illustrations. The numbering alternates between Roman and Arabic numerals, plates 1-46 are captioned above and below the illustrations in 6 languages. The 6 black-and-white terminal plates (numbered I-VI in Roman numerals) depict rigging and technical drawings. The work includes a lithographic title page and 3 illustrated title designs, one for the cover of the text volume, one serving as the title for the plates issued under passe-partout, and one mounted as the cover title for the accompanying original contemporary folder for the plates. Contemporary half beige cloth with the illustrated title on the front board, the text volume kept in a matching gold-stamped linen folder with the lithographed title mounted on the front board, lithographs in passepartouts.

ROELOFFS, Roeloff and Christian Ferdinand MÖLLER. · 1803

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

[2] ll., 112 cols.First and complete edition of this extensive and finely produced work on ship typology, illustrated with highly decorative tinted and hand-coloured lithographic plates.Christian Ferdinand Möller, shipbuilder and marine painter, designed and lithographed the m...

Hand-boek der genees- en heel-kunde. Voor arme en ryke. Waar in veelerley beproefde, zo wel gemeene enkelde als meer tezamengestelde, genees-middelen, tegen genoegzaam de meeste bekende in- en uitwendige ziektens … zeer dienstig kunnende zyn voor allerley lieden, inzonderheid die op ‘t land wonen. Als mede voor de land-, veld- en zee-chirurgyns … Door een liefhebber der nuttige wetenschappen.Leeuwarden, Abraham Ferwerda and Gerrit Tresling, 1767. 8vo. 19th-century marbled boards.

[EEN LIEFHEBBER DER NUTTIGE WETENSCHAPPEN]. · 1769

€950.00 ($1,047.07 | £792.55 | ¥167,204)

[4], 494, [2] pp.Rare first edition of this popular practical handbook on medicine and surgery for everybody, poor or rich, that offers treatments and prescriptions for approximately 400 internal and external diseases. It served as a practical guide for both the general public...

[Four fine gouache paintings on board of Chinese junks].[China, ca. 1840]. With 4 watercolours (2 ca. 20 x 23 cm and the other 2 ca. 15 x 22 cm). Framed behind glass in 19th-century dark brown wooden frame, with a gilt inner frame, and a top-mounted hanging eye on the back.

[WATERCOLOURS - CHINESE - MARITIME]. · 2021

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

Four gouache paintings depicting Chinese junks, among the most recognisable and technically advanced vessels developed in traditional Chinese shipbuilding. Each of the four paintings presents a carefully rendered broadside view of a vessel set against an open sky. The two larg...

Liber de sarcienda ecclesiae concordia deque sedandis opinionum dissidiis, cum aliis non nullis lectu dignis. Omnia recens nata, et nunc primum typis excusa.Antwerp, Michiel Hillen van Hoochstraten, 1523. 8vo. With a full-page woodcut illustration incorporating Hillen van Hoochstraten’s device on the last page, and 3 woodcut decorated initials. Modern boards covered with a leaf from a Latin incunable, probably part of a commentary on the Song of Solomon, red sprinkled edges.

ERASMUS, Desiderius. · 1499

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

[56] ll.First Antwerp edition, published in the same year as the first Froben edition in Basel of Erasmus’ De sarcienda ecclesiae concordia. Dedicated to Julius Pflug of Eytra (1499-1564), later the last Catholic Bishop of Naumburg, the work sets out Erasmus’ most urgent appea...

Ziekten aan boord der uitvarende schepen naar Indië 1774-1783.1774-1783. Folio. Loosely inserted in contemporary wrappers with the manuscript title on the front. The work is kept in a brown cloth folder, with a red morocco title label on the front, lettered in gold.

[MANUSCRIPT - DUTCH - VOC - HEALTH]. · 1783

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

[5] ll.Three manuscript reports concerning sickness, scurvy, hospital conditions and mortality aboard ships of the VOC (Dutch East India Company), specifically on voyages between the Cape of Good Hope and Batavia, and in connection with the Bengal trade.The first document is f...

Algemeene atlas van Nederlandsch Indië. Uit officieele bronnen en met goedkeuring van het gouvernement zamengesteld.Batavia (Jakarta, Indonesia), Van Haren Noman & Kolff, 1853-1862. Oblong folio (39.3 x 50.5 cm). With 60 lithographed maps, coloured in outline, and 3 lithographed index maps. Contemporary blind-tooled half black morocco.

MELVILL VAN CARNBEE, Pieter and Willem Frederik VERSTEEG. · 1600

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

[68] ll.First edition of an early, extensive atlas of the Dutch East Indies, printed in Batavia (present-day Jakarta). The work includes detailed maps of Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi, the Maluku Islands, Ambon, the Banda Islands, Bali, Timor, Sumba, and parts of New Guinea....

[Official documents from the Vietnamese government on the eve of French colonisation.].[Vietnam, ca. 1860]. 21 documents. Various sizes, most ca. 33 x 20 cm. Written in Classical Chinese on single and double leaves of rice paper. The collection is housed in a light blue paper folder.

[VIETNAMESE OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS]. · 1860

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

[41] ll.Remarkable collection of 21 official Vietnamese documents, written on rice paper in Classical Chinese, and with red government stamps. The collection includes memorials and communications from higher government offices to lower ones, and discusses, among other things, ...

[A bird's-eye view of Macao].[Macao, ca. 1849-1865]. Painting 350 x 150 cm. Watercolour on paper on contemporary wooden roll.

[GUANGZHOU SCHOOL]. · 1835

€85,000.00 ($93,685.47 | £70,912.61 | ¥14,960,359)

A massive view of Macao from above, painted in watercolours sometime in the second half of the nineteenth century, during the era in which much of the trade in the area was beginning to shift from the old Portuguese colony to Hong Kong. The peninsula, clearly labelled with the...

Relacion de las presas, que los vageles, y fragatas de la real armada de Dunquerque, y navios de particulares hizieron en las costas de Francia, Inglaterra, y otras partes, desde primero de Mayo hasta ultimo de Diziembre del año de 1638.Madrid, Diego Diaz, 1639. Folio (c. 29 x 20.1 cm). Unbound, housed in a plastic folder.

[PAMPHLET- SPANISH - MARITIME]. · 1638

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

[2] ll.Rare 17th-century Spanish pamphlet documenting the maritime activities of the Royal Armada of Dunkirk and privateers along the coasts of France, England, and other territories from 1 May to 31 December 1638. This detailed account lists 118 captured vessels, including wa...

Relacion verdadera de la insigne, y milagrosa vitoria, que Don Jorge de Mendoça Passaña, Capitán General, y Governador de la ciudad de Ceuta, del Consejo de su Magestad, y come[n]dador de Villas Buenas, en el Orde[n] Militar de Christo, co[n] setecientos y cinque[n]ta Porugueses ... co[n]tra el Cacis Cid Mahamet Laex, el qual traia mil de acauallo, y seis mil de apie.Madrid, Bernardo de Guzman, [1629]. Folio (ca. 20.3 x 29 cm). With an ornament of a Greek cross as a headpiece. Housed in a clear plastic file folder.

[PAMPHLET - MILITARY - CEUTA]. · 1636

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

[2] ll.Rare pamphlet on the victory of Don Jorge de Mendoça Passaña (died 1636), governor of Ceuta, over the forces of Cacis Cid Mahamet Laex on June 7, 1629. At this time, the border region between Morocco and the Iberian Union was a heavily contested zone, with constant fric...

Relacion de la interpressa, y saquea miento de la villa del carte en Africa, por el excelentissimo senor D. Aluaro Bacan Marqnes del Viso, general de la escuadra de las galeras de Sicilia, governador, y capitan general de Oran, y macalquibir, aveinte de febrero, deste ano de 1642.Madrid, Juan Sanchez, 1642. Folio (28 x 20.6 cm). With a decorated woodcut initial. Unbound.

[ALGERIA - BAZÁN, Alvaro de]. · 1579

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

[2] ll.Very rare publication on the capture and looting of Carte, a fortified town near Oran, Algeria, by the Spanish forces in 1579. The Spanish had already taken Oran in 1509, but the Turks settled nearby in the 1550s, namely in the strategic military town of Carte, and fort...