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Atlas van zeevaert en koophandel door de geheele weereldt. Vertoonende in bizondere op elkander volgende kaerten, alle desselfs zeekusten en haevens; met beschryvingen van de natuur, voortbrengsels, handwerksels, godsdiensten, bestier en koophandel van alle gewesten, &c. Voorheen in de Fransche taele uytgegeven door den heer Louis Renard, agent van zyne Majesteit van Groot-Brittannien. En nu alle de kaerten op 't naeukeurigste met hulpe van voornaeme kundigen naer de laetste ontdekkingen vernieuwt; en een groot getal plaetsen neevens verscheide nieuwe kaerten daer ingebragt. Door Reinier en Iosua Ottens. De beschryvingen met veele vereischte zaeken vermeedert, en naer den tegenwoordigen tydt geschikt. By de nieuwe kaerten, beschryvingen gevoegt; en met natuurkundige aenmerkingen over de sterre- en aerdtrykskunde, zeën en winden &c. verrykt. Door Ian van den Bosch Melchiorsz.Amsterdam, Reinier & Josua Ottens, 1745. Large folio (55 x 36.5 cm). With an engraved title page, a letterpress title page printed in red and black, an engraved dedication, 4 large folding maps (ca. 52 x 90-150 cm) and 28 double page maps, the majority with striking allegorical cartouches and all beautifully contemporary hand coloured in outline and with additional gouache washes. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine in nine compartments with a stamp of an armillary sphere in gold and a red sheepskin title label, lettered in gold, decorated ("marbled") edges.
Atlas van zeevaert en koophandel door de geheele weereldt. Vertoonende in bizondere op elkander volgende kaerten, alle desselfs zeekusten en haevens; met beschryvingen van de natuur, voortbrengsels, handwerksels, godsdiensten, bestier en koophandel van alle gewesten, &c. Voorheen in de Fransche taele uytgegeven door den heer Louis Renard, agent van zyne Majesteit van Groot-Brittannien. En nu alle de kaerten op 't naeukeurigste met hulpe van voornaeme kundigen naer de laetste ontdekkingen vernieuwt; en een groot getal plaetsen neevens verscheide nieuwe kaerten daer ingebragt. Door Reinier en Iosua Ottens. De beschryvingen met veele vereischte zaeken vermeedert, en naer den tegenwoordigen tydt geschikt. By de nieuwe kaerten, beschryvingen gevoegt; en met natuurkundige aenmerkingen over de sterre- en aerdtrykskunde, zeën en winden &c. verrykt. Door Ian van den Bosch Melchiorsz.Amsterdam, Reinier & Josua Ottens, 1745. Large folio (55 x 36.5 cm). With an engraved title page, a letterpress title page printed in red and black, an engraved dedication, 4 large folding maps (ca. 52 x 90-150 cm) and 28 double page maps, the majority with striking allegorical cartouches and all beautifully contemporary hand coloured in outline and with additional gouache washes. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine in nine compartments with a stamp of an armillary sphere in gold and a red sheepskin title label, lettered in gold, decorated ("marbled") edges.
RENARD, Louis. · 1715 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€50,000.00 ($55,106.60 | £41,713.90 | ¥8,799,834)
[1], [1 blank], [4], 152 pp.First Dutch and only enlarged and corrected edition of this beautiful and authoritative maritime atlas that set the standards of 18th-century Dutch map making. The present first Dutch edition of this sea atlas was published by Reinier and Josua Ottens…
The Queen of Sheba.London, Melbourne and New York, Quartet Books, 1981. 4to. With 8 coloured plates and numerous photographs (some in colour) in the text. Contemporary black cloth with title in gold on the spine and a colourful dust jacket.
The Queen of Sheba.London, Melbourne and New York, Quartet Books, 1981. 4to. With 8 coloured plates and numerous photographs (some in colour) in the text. Contemporary black cloth with title in gold on the spine and a colourful dust jacket.
PHILBY, Harry St John Bridger. · 1897 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€85.00 ($93.68 | £70.91 | ¥14,960)
141, [1 blank] pp.First edition of the lavishly illustrated posthumous edition of an unpublished manuscript "by the great Arabian traveller, scholar and writer, H. St Philby [...] charting his explorations into the bewildering thickets of the story [of the Queen of Sheba]". With…
Pharmaca simplicia, Orthone Brunfelsio interprete.Including: De ratione victus Gukielmo Copo Basiliensi interprete.(Colophon:) Strasbourg, Georg Ulricher, September 1531.With:(2) VALLA, Giorgio. De simplicium natura liber unus.Strasbourg, Heinrich Sybold, (colophon:) August 1528.(3) ODO OF MEUNG (misattributed to Aemilius MACER). De herbarum virtutibus, cum Joannis Atrociani co[m]mentariis, ...Including: STRABO, Walafrid. Ad haec. Strabi Galli Poetae et theologi clarissimi, hortulus vernantissimus.Freiburg im Breisgau, (colophon:) Johann Faber, 1530. (4) MARBOD OF ANJOU (with notes and additions by Georg PICTORIUS). De lapidibus pretiosis encheridion, cum scholiis Pictorii Villingensis. Eiusdem Pictorii De lapide molari carmen.[Freiburg im Breisgau, Johan Faber], 1531. 4 editions containing 6 works, in 1 volume. 8vo (16.5 x 11 cm). Ad 1: with a finely executed woodcut on the title page repeated on the verso of the otherwise blank last leaf, about 20 woodcut initials with pictorial decoration plus about 20 repeats and a vine-leaf ornament. Set in an Aldine-style italic with preliminaries in Venetian-style roman and a few words of Greek. Ad 2: with the title in a woodcut architectural frame, and a vine-leaf ornament. Set in a Venetian-style roman type with frequent Greek printed in the fore edge margins. Ad 3: with a space left for a manuscript initial at the opening of the main text, with a printed guide letter (not filled in). Set in an Aldine-style italic type with incidental Venetian-style roman and a few words of Greek. Ad 4: with a woodcut initial with pictorial decoration. Set in an Aldine-style italic. Blind-tooled pigskin (Freiburg or vicinity? ca. 1570?) over tapered wooden boards. With 2 engraved brass fastenings and a 19th-century paper spine label.
Pharmaca simplicia, Orthone Brunfelsio interprete.Including: De ratione victus Gukielmo Copo Basiliensi interprete.(Colophon:) Strasbourg, Georg Ulricher, September 1531.With:(2) VALLA, Giorgio. De simplicium natura liber unus.Strasbourg, Heinrich Sybold, (colophon:) August 1528.(3) ODO OF MEUNG (misattributed to Aemilius MACER). De herbarum virtutibus, cum Joannis Atrociani co[m]mentariis, ...Including: STRABO, Walafrid. Ad haec. Strabi Galli Poetae et theologi clarissimi, hortulus vernantissimus.Freiburg im Breisgau, (colophon:) Johann Faber, 1530. (4) MARBOD OF ANJOU (with notes and additions by Georg PICTORIUS). De lapidibus pretiosis encheridion, cum scholiis Pictorii Villingensis. Eiusdem Pictorii De lapide molari carmen.[Freiburg im Breisgau, Johan Faber], 1531. 4 editions containing 6 works, in 1 volume. 8vo (16.5 x 11 cm). Ad 1: with a finely executed woodcut on the title page repeated on the verso of the otherwise blank last leaf, about 20 woodcut initials with pictorial decoration plus about 20 repeats and a vine-leaf ornament. Set in an Aldine-style italic with preliminaries in Venetian-style roman and a few words of Greek. Ad 2: with the title in a woodcut architectural frame, and a vine-leaf ornament. Set in a Venetian-style roman type with frequent Greek printed in the fore edge margins. Ad 3: with a space left for a manuscript initial at the opening of the main text, with a printed guide letter (not filled in). Set in an Aldine-style italic type with incidental Venetian-style roman and a few words of Greek. Ad 4: with a woodcut initial with pictorial decoration. Set in an Aldine-style italic. Blind-tooled pigskin (Freiburg or vicinity? ca. 1570?) over tapered wooden boards. With 2 engraved brass fastenings and a 19th-century paper spine label.
PAULUS OF AEGINA (edited by Otto BRUNFELS and Wilhelm KOPP). · 1528 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€45,000.00 ($49,595.94 | £37,542.51 | ¥7,919,850)
[12], 86, [1 blank], [1]; [104]; [4], 108; 55, [1] ll.Four editions printed and published in Freiburg and nearby Strasbourg from 1528 to 1531, containing six works of medical and pharmacological interest, all in the original Latin: the first edition of two Byzantine pharmacologi…
Sultan in Oman.London, Faber and Faber, 1957. 8vo. With a photo in colour of the fort of Nizwa in Oman as a frontispiece, 2 half-page maps of the Middle East and Muscat and Oman, and 16 pages (outside of collation) with 23 photos of the Sultan's journey through his Sultanate, showing desert scenes, Sheikhs, forts, and other views of Nizwa, Ibri, and Muscat. Bright orange-red cloth.
Sultan in Oman.London, Faber and Faber, 1957. 8vo. With a photo in colour of the fort of Nizwa in Oman as a frontispiece, 2 half-page maps of the Middle East and Muscat and Oman, and 16 pages (outside of collation) with 23 photos of the Sultan's journey through his Sultanate, showing desert scenes, Sheikhs, forts, and other views of Nizwa, Ibri, and Muscat. Bright orange-red cloth.
MORRIS, James [later known as (Catherine) Jan MORRIS]. · 1910 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€250.00 ($275.53 | £208.57 | ¥43,999)
165, [1 blank] pp.First edition, second impression of Morris's highly educational travel book, recounting an extensive journey undertaken by the Sultan of Muscat and Oman Said bin Taimur (1910-1972) across the length and breadth of Muscat and Oman in the south-east corner of the…
Oeuvres ... [with a note above the title: "Dico opera mea Regi."].Including: Traité des influences divisé en deux parties. Premiere ... Des influences des cieux, & des astres ... Deuxie'me ... Des influences, & vertus occultes des estres terrestres.Paris, R.J.B. de la Caille (printed [by Nicolas Motays] in Avranches), 1678. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With engraved device on the title page, a full-page engraved astrological sundial, 14 woodcuts in the text, depicting apparatus set up for laboratory experiments, astrological diagrams, etc., woodcut headpieces, tailpieces and decorated initials, and decorations built up from cast fleurons. Contemporary tanned sheepskin over boards, designed by the author, the front board of double thickness with a hole bored in its fore-edge to hold a metal rod or gnomon (lacking) that could be inserted in any of several holes on the front and back boards to make the book into a sundial (one hole in the back board also allowed it to be inserted for use with the sundial pasted over the back paste-down when the book is open), gilt edges. The front board, back board and spine have been embossed with three different engraved plates sundials, emblems and extensive lettering. In a modern red morocco box.
Oeuvres ... [with a note above the title: "Dico opera mea Regi."].Including: Traité des influences divisé en deux parties. Premiere ... Des influences des cieux, & des astres ... Deuxie'me ... Des influences, & vertus occultes des estres terrestres.Paris, R.J.B. de la Caille (printed [by Nicolas Motays] in Avranches), 1678. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With engraved device on the title page, a full-page engraved astrological sundial, 14 woodcuts in the text, depicting apparatus set up for laboratory experiments, astrological diagrams, etc., woodcut headpieces, tailpieces and decorated initials, and decorations built up from cast fleurons. Contemporary tanned sheepskin over boards, designed by the author, the front board of double thickness with a hole bored in its fore-edge to hold a metal rod or gnomon (lacking) that could be inserted in any of several holes on the front and back boards to make the book into a sundial (one hole in the back board also allowed it to be inserted for use with the sundial pasted over the back paste-down when the book is open), gilt edges. The front board, back board and spine have been embossed with three different engraved plates sundials, emblems and extensive lettering. In a modern red morocco box.
LE ROYER, Jacques. · 1625 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€20,000.00 ($22,042.64 | £16,685.56 | ¥3,519,934)
14, 111, [1 blank]; [6], 109-364 pp.Rare first edition of the collected works of the eccentric Jacques Le Royer, sieur de la Blinière (1625-post 1678). He was a lawyer at the Parlement of Rouen, judge and self-styled counselor and adviser to King Louis XIV. For the present book,…
Haarlemmermeer-boek. Of beschryving, hoe men de Haarlemmer en Leytse-Meer bedyken en droog maken zal … Mitsgaders: van meest alle de meeren die in Noort-Holant tegen den Huigen-dyk en Saardam bedykt, en tot land gemaakt zyn, zedert het jaar 1608 tot het jaar 1641.Amsterdam, Pieter Visser, 1724. 5 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With an engraved map of the Haarlemmermeer on the title page of ad 1, and a woodcut vignette on the title pages of the other works, a full-page portrait of the author engraved by Jan Lamsvelt after J. de Keyser, 3 folding engraved maps, 3 half-page engraved plates, 2 half-page woodcut diagrams, several decorated woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces. With: (2) LEEGHWATER, Jan Adriansz., Een kleyn chronykje ende voorbereidinge van de afkomste ende ‘t vergoten van de dorpen van Graft en de Ryp … Amsterdam, Pieter Visser, 1724.(3) COLEVELDT, Claes Arentsen. Bedenckingen over het droogh maken van de Haerlemmer ende Leydse Meer … tegen t’Haarlemmer Meer-boek van Jan Adriaansen Leeghwater.Leiden, Johannes van Abkoude, 1727.(4) VELSEN, Cornelis. Aanmerkingen over de tegenwoordige staat van de Haerlemmer Meer.Leiden, Daniel Goetval, 1727.(5) VELSEN, Cornelis. Aanmerkingen over de tegenwoordige staat, van de Haerlemmer Meer. Waar in wert aangetoont hoe noodszaakelyk die moet werden droog-gemaakt, en op wat wyze dit kan geschieden … Tweeden druk, … verbetert en verrykt. Leiden, Daniel Goetval, 1727. Original quarter red roan, marbled paper sides.
Haarlemmermeer-boek. Of beschryving, hoe men de Haarlemmer en Leytse-Meer bedyken en droog maken zal … Mitsgaders: van meest alle de meeren die in Noort-Holant tegen den Huigen-dyk en Saardam bedykt, en tot land gemaakt zyn, zedert het jaar 1608 tot het jaar 1641.Amsterdam, Pieter Visser, 1724. 5 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With an engraved map of the Haarlemmermeer on the title page of ad 1, and a woodcut vignette on the title pages of the other works, a full-page portrait of the author engraved by Jan Lamsvelt after J. de Keyser, 3 folding engraved maps, 3 half-page engraved plates, 2 half-page woodcut diagrams, several decorated woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces. With: (2) LEEGHWATER, Jan Adriansz., Een kleyn chronykje ende voorbereidinge van de afkomste ende ‘t vergoten van de dorpen van Graft en de Ryp … Amsterdam, Pieter Visser, 1724.(3) COLEVELDT, Claes Arentsen. Bedenckingen over het droogh maken van de Haerlemmer ende Leydse Meer … tegen t’Haarlemmer Meer-boek van Jan Adriaansen Leeghwater.Leiden, Johannes van Abkoude, 1727.(4) VELSEN, Cornelis. Aanmerkingen over de tegenwoordige staat van de Haerlemmer Meer.Leiden, Daniel Goetval, 1727.(5) VELSEN, Cornelis. Aanmerkingen over de tegenwoordige staat, van de Haerlemmer Meer. Waar in wert aangetoont hoe noodszaakelyk die moet werden droog-gemaakt, en op wat wyze dit kan geschieden … Tweeden druk, … verbetert en verrykt. Leiden, Daniel Goetval, 1727. Original quarter red roan, marbled paper sides.
LEEGHWATER, Jan Adriaensz. · 1575 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€2,500.00 ($2,755.33 | £2,085.69 | ¥439,992)
48, 47, [1], [4], 27, [1 blank], 40, 40 pp.Enlarged edition of a famous plan to drain the Haarlemmermeer, the 170 km2 lake between Leiden, Amsterdam, and Haarlem. The work states the advantages of the plan, finds solutions for potential difficulties, and gives and an estimate of…
Dissertatio de analogia et differentia inter animalia et plantas.Lund, Litteris Berlingianis, 1798. 4to. Disbound.
Dissertatio de analogia et differentia inter animalia et plantas.Lund, Litteris Berlingianis, 1798. 4to. Disbound.
LAGERLÖF, Wermelandus Magnus and Ulrik Johan ÅBERG. · 1773 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€325.00 ($358.19 | £271.14 | ¥57,199)
24 pp.First edition of a thesis mainly on the differences between animals and plants, based on their reaction upon light, by Wermelandus Magnus Lagerlöf, with Ulrik Johan Åberg (1773-1845) as praeses. Differences in chemical structure and physical properties are also enumerated.…
Ars magna sciendi, in XII libros digesta, qua nova & universali methodo ... [vol. 2 half-title:] Artis magnae seu combinatoriae sciendi, ... [titles on the frontispieces:] Ars magna sciendi sive combinatoria [vol. 1] Artis magnae combinatoriae [vol. 2].Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge and the widow of Elizaeus Weyerstraten, 1669. 2 volumes bound as 1. Royal folio (46 x 30 x 5.5 cm). With 2 richly engraved allegorical frontispieces, an engraved plate with a full-page portrait of the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I, an engraved plate showing all knowledge of the universe organised as a tree, 2 engraved volvelles (with 4 rotating dials), 20 further engravings on integral leaves and a couple dozen woodcut figures in the text. Contemporary richly gold-tooled red goatskin morocco decorated a petit fers, gold-tooled turn-ins, board edges and raised bands, giving a total of more than 1500 impressions of about 14 stamps and 3 rolls, edges gilt over red and blue squiggles. Janssonius van Waesberge, who published Kircher's books in Amsterdam from 1664/65 to 1682, arranged to have copies of several luxuriously bound for Kircher to present to leading figures and this is almost certainly one of them, presented to Giovanni Paolo Oliva, Superior General of the Jesuit Society.
Ars magna sciendi, in XII libros digesta, qua nova & universali methodo ... [vol. 2 half-title:] Artis magnae seu combinatoriae sciendi, ... [titles on the frontispieces:] Ars magna sciendi sive combinatoria [vol. 1] Artis magnae combinatoriae [vol. 2].Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge and the widow of Elizaeus Weyerstraten, 1669. 2 volumes bound as 1. Royal folio (46 x 30 x 5.5 cm). With 2 richly engraved allegorical frontispieces, an engraved plate with a full-page portrait of the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I, an engraved plate showing all knowledge of the universe organised as a tree, 2 engraved volvelles (with 4 rotating dials), 20 further engravings on integral leaves and a couple dozen woodcut figures in the text. Contemporary richly gold-tooled red goatskin morocco decorated a petit fers, gold-tooled turn-ins, board edges and raised bands, giving a total of more than 1500 impressions of about 14 stamps and 3 rolls, edges gilt over red and blue squiggles. Janssonius van Waesberge, who published Kircher's books in Amsterdam from 1664/65 to 1682, arranged to have copies of several luxuriously bound for Kircher to present to leading figures and this is almost certainly one of them, presented to Giovanni Paolo Oliva, Superior General of the Jesuit Society.
KIRCHER, Athanasius. · 1602 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€50,000.00 ($55,106.60 | £41,713.90 | ¥8,799,834)
[18], 482, [10] pp. (including 2 integral frontispieces), plus 4 inserted tables & 2 plates.First edition of a 17th-century attempt to organise all knowledge of the universe into a classified system with nine primary categories (represented by icons made for the present edition)…
Marifetname.Bulaq, Bulaq Matbaasi, 1251 H [= 1835 CE]. Folio (23 x 35 cm). With a woodcut 'unwan, 17 full-page lithograph plates, and 6 lithograph illustrations in the text. Contemporary blind-stamped leather, with a fore-edge flap.
Marifetname.Bulaq, Bulaq Matbaasi, 1251 H [= 1835 CE]. Folio (23 x 35 cm). With a woodcut 'unwan, 17 full-page lithograph plates, and 6 lithograph illustrations in the text. Contemporary blind-stamped leather, with a fore-edge flap.
IBRAHIM HAKKI ERZURUMLU. · 1703 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€15,000.00 ($16,531.98 | £12,514.17 | ¥2,639,950)
23, [1], 563, [1] pp.First edition of the famous scientific encyclopedia, published more than half a century after the death of its author, the Turkish Sufi philosopher Ibrahim Hakki Erzurumlu (1703-1780 CE). Completed in 1756, the Marifetname (or "Book of Gnosis") is a compilat…
A concise and practical treatise on the growth and culture of the carnation, pink, auricula, polyanthus, ranunculus, tulip, and other flowers. Including a dissertation on soils and manures, and containing also a catalogue of the finest and most-esteemed carnations, &c. that are cultivated by the amateur florist, and exhibited at the different prize-shows round London, and other parts of England. To which are added rules and regulations of the Islington & Chelsea florists' societies.London, [1820]. 8vo. With a full page coloured lithographed plate of "a bizarre Carnation". Contemporary grey paper boards.
A concise and practical treatise on the growth and culture of the carnation, pink, auricula, polyanthus, ranunculus, tulip, and other flowers. Including a dissertation on soils and manures, and containing also a catalogue of the finest and most-esteemed carnations, &c. that are cultivated by the amateur florist, and exhibited at the different prize-shows round London, and other parts of England. To which are added rules and regulations of the Islington & Chelsea florists' societies.London, [1820]. 8vo. With a full page coloured lithographed plate of "a bizarre Carnation". Contemporary grey paper boards.
HOGG, Thomas. · 1771 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€1,250.00 ($1,377.66 | £1,042.85 | ¥219,996)
XII, 172 pp.First edition of a treatise on the cultivation of several flowers, including the Carnation, or Dianthus caryophyllus, that according to the author, Thomas Hogg (1771-1841), "may be justly said to hold the first rank among 'all the flowers that adorn the garden". In c…
[Epitome rerum Romanarum].Leiden, Adriaen Wijngaerden (colophon: printed by Philippe de Croy), 1648. 8vo (18 x 12 x 3 cm). With an engraved allegorical title page by Cornelius van Dalen. Contemporary or near-contemporary calf. The decoration on the binding is believed to have been executed in Bologna ca. 1880/1900 by a group of forgers: each board with the same scene, showing 2 women in Ottoman costume, one kneeling to play a qanun (Turkish zither) at left and the other perhaps dancing at right, framed by drapery as though on a stage, with a crescent moon and 5-pointed star in each corner and the name "IBRAHIM" at upper left, the whole in a frame of double fillets. The figures' skin is painted white and the clothes and drapery red and green. The crescent moon and star repeat in spine compartments 1 and 3-5.
[Epitome rerum Romanarum].Leiden, Adriaen Wijngaerden (colophon: printed by Philippe de Croy), 1648. 8vo (18 x 12 x 3 cm). With an engraved allegorical title page by Cornelius van Dalen. Contemporary or near-contemporary calf. The decoration on the binding is believed to have been executed in Bologna ca. 1880/1900 by a group of forgers: each board with the same scene, showing 2 women in Ottoman costume, one kneeling to play a qanun (Turkish zither) at left and the other perhaps dancing at right, framed by drapery as though on a stage, with a crescent moon and 5-pointed star in each corner and the name "IBRAHIM" at upper left, the whole in a frame of double fillets. The figures' skin is painted white and the clothes and drapery red and green. The crescent moon and star repeat in spine compartments 1 and 3-5.
FLORUS, Lucius Annaeus. · 1624 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€28,500.00 ($31,410.76 | £23,776.92 | ¥5,015,905)
[32], “595” [= 535], [69], [4 blank] pp. including the integral engraved title page.A second-century history, in the original Latin, celebrating the glory of the city, republic and empire of Rome and their people from the city's mythical foundation by Romulus to the early years …
Suma de Geographia que trata de todas las partidas y provincias del mundo: en especial de las Indias.Seville, Jacobo Cromberger, 1519. Folio (27.5 x 19.6 cm). 17th- or 18th-century vellum over boards, manuscript title on the spine.
Suma de Geographia que trata de todas las partidas y provincias del mundo: en especial de las Indias.Seville, Jacobo Cromberger, 1519. Folio (27.5 x 19.6 cm). 17th- or 18th-century vellum over boards, manuscript title on the spine.
FERNANDEZ DE ENCISO, Martin. · 1519 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€220,000.00 ($242,469.04 | £183,541.16 | ¥38,719,269)
75 ll.First edition, a cornerstone for the history of Pacific discovery and Americana: the Suma. It appeared in 1519, only six years after Vasco Núñez de Balboa reached the ocean from Darién and before Magellan’s voyage had crossed it and established the name by which it would b…
Voyage a Madagascar au couronnement de Radama II.Saint-Cloud & Paris, widow Belin for Roret, 1865 (changed with a printed slip to Eugène Belin/Belin frères, without date), [ca. 1865]. Large 8vo (28 x 18.5 cm). With 7 engraved plates of lemurs, spiders and butterflies by Annedonce and Debray after J. Huet and A. Vinson, all beautifully coloured by hand by Mme. Migneaux. Original yellow printed wrappers.
Voyage a Madagascar au couronnement de Radama II.Saint-Cloud & Paris, widow Belin for Roret, 1865 (changed with a printed slip to Eugène Belin/Belin frères, without date), [ca. 1865]. Large 8vo (28 x 18.5 cm). With 7 engraved plates of lemurs, spiders and butterflies by Annedonce and Debray after J. Huet and A. Vinson, all beautifully coloured by hand by Mme. Migneaux. Original yellow printed wrappers.
VINSON, Auguste. · 1820 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€2,950.00 ($3,251.29 | £2,461.12 | ¥519,190)
[8], 575, 7, 4, 6, 48 pp.Second issue of the first edition of this very rare account of a journey to Madagascar by Auguste Vinson (1820-1903), physician and native of Réunion. Vinson was a member of the French delegation sent to Madagascar for the coronation of Radama II (1829-1…
A restitution of decayed intelligence: in antiquities. Concerning the most noble and renowmed English nation. By the studie and travaile of Ri. V[erstegan].Antwerp, printed by Robert Bruney, sold at London by John Norton & John Bill, 1605. 4to. With the title printed in red and black, an engraved vignette of the Tower of Babel on the title page, 10 engraved illustrations in the text, and a full-page coat of arms of the author at the end. Contemporary or slightly later gold- and blind-tooled "Cambridge panel" binding in sprinkled brown calf.
A restitution of decayed intelligence: in antiquities. Concerning the most noble and renowmed English nation. By the studie and travaile of Ri. V[erstegan].Antwerp, printed by Robert Bruney, sold at London by John Norton & John Bill, 1605. 4to. With the title printed in red and black, an engraved vignette of the Tower of Babel on the title page, 10 engraved illustrations in the text, and a full-page coat of arms of the author at the end. Contemporary or slightly later gold- and blind-tooled "Cambridge panel" binding in sprinkled brown calf.
[VERSTEGAN, Richard (pseudonym of Richard ROWLANDS)]. · 1589 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€1,950.00 ($2,149.16 | £1,626.84 | ¥343,194)
[24], 338, [13], [1 blank] pp.First edition of an erudite and engaging study of early English history, containing the first printed account in English of "The Pied Piper of Hamelin", said to have been the source for Robert Browning's poem. The work was intended to correct the my…
Reisen oder Anmerkungen verschiedene Theile der Barbarey und der Levante betreffend. Leipzig, Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf und Sohn, 1765. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With 17 folding and 15 full-page engraved plates, one signed by J.D. Philippius, geb. Sysangin, several woodcut illustrations in the text, engraved head pieces and initials. Contemporary gold-tooled half calf.
SHAW, Thomas. · 1757 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€1,750.00 ($1,928.73 | £1,459.99 | ¥307,994)
[20], 424, [22] pp.First edition of the German translation of the considerably expanded second and best English edition of 1757 of a standard work on North Africa, first published by the Oxford University Press in 1738 as Travels, or Observations relating to several parts of Bar…
Verscheide stucken en cieraden van roermakers gereedschap nieuwelijks uitgevonden en uit de voornaamste meesters van Europa getrocken. - Plusieurs pieces et ornements d'arquebuzerie, le plus nouvellement inventées et tirees des premiers maistres d l'Europe.Amsterdam, Petrus Schenk, 1692. Oblong folio. With an engraved allegorical title page and 7 expertly engraved plates of ornamental designs on arquebuses. Modern half calf and green decorated paper sides.
Verscheide stucken en cieraden van roermakers gereedschap nieuwelijks uitgevonden en uit de voornaamste meesters van Europa getrocken. - Plusieurs pieces et ornements d'arquebuzerie, le plus nouvellement inventées et tirees des premiers maistres d l'Europe.Amsterdam, Petrus Schenk, 1692. Oblong folio. With an engraved allegorical title page and 7 expertly engraved plates of ornamental designs on arquebuses. Modern half calf and green decorated paper sides.
SCHENK, Pieter. · 1660 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€7,500.00 ($8,265.99 | £6,257.08 | ¥1,319,975)
[8] ll.Very rare complete and uncut copy of an expertly engraved pattern book for decorated firearms by the German engraver Petrus Schenk I (1660-1711), after the French designer of gun fittings and ornamental engraver Claude Simonin (ca. 1635-1721).During the seventeenth centur…
Antiquitates biblicae et ecclesiasticae, accedit ejusdem autoris tractatus de antiquis ritibus sepulchralibus Graecorum, Romanorum, Judaeorum & Christianorum ...Wittenberg, Christian Schrödter, 1688.With: (2) PFEIFFER, Johann Philipp. Libri IV, antiquitatum Graecarum gentilium sacrarum, politicarum, militarium & oeconomicarum.Königsberg; Leipzig, Heinrich Boye, 1689. With an engraved title-page, engraved author's portrait as frontispiece and title-page printed in red and black. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. Contemporary vellum.
QUENSTEDT, Johann Andreas. · 1617 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€875.00 ($964.37 | £729.99 | ¥153,997)
[16], “971” [=980], 183, [1], 48; [16], “773” [=771], [88], [1 blank] pp.Ad 1: First edition of an extensive work on ancient Biblical and ecclesiastical rituals by the German Lutheran theologian Johannes Andreas Quenstedt (1617-1688). The work is divided into 14 chapters coverin…
Relacion del sucesso que tuuo nuestra santa fe en los reynos del Iapon, desde el año de seyscientos y doze hasta el de seyscientos u quinze, Imperando Cubosama. Madrid, widow of Alonso M. de Balboa, 1617. Folio. With woodcut coat of arms on title-page, repeated at the end of books 1, 2 and 3. Contemporary parchment.
Relacion del sucesso que tuuo nuestra santa fe en los reynos del Iapon, desde el año de seyscientos y doze hasta el de seyscientos u quinze, Imperando Cubosama. Madrid, widow of Alonso M. de Balboa, 1617. Folio. With woodcut coat of arms on title-page, repeated at the end of books 1, 2 and 3. Contemporary parchment.
PIÑEYRO, Luys. · 1560 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€18,000.00 ($19,838.38 | £15,017.00 | ¥3,167,940)
[16], 516, [8] pp.Rare first edition of a history of the persecution of Christian missionaries in Japan and Japanese converts to Christianity, written in Spanish by the Portuguese Jesuit Luys Piñeyro (1560-1620). The history is in five books followed by lists of martyrs, a table…
Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabrica figura. Iam tandem ad finem perductus, quamplurimis aeneis tabulis Hispaniae, Africae, Asiae & Americae auctus ac illustratus à Judoco Hondio. Quibus etiam additae (praeter Mercatoris) dilucidae & accuratae omnium tabularum descriptiones novae, studio et opera Pet. Montani.Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, 1606. Folio. With an engraved title page and 144 mostly double-page maps, each with a signature (E-7T) and with explanatory texts on the recto of the first and on the verso of the second fol. (the text pages on the rectos and versos of the maps are paginated 33-354). Original gold- and blind-tooled calf, re-cased, the original leather pasted to the new boards. With a large blind-tooled centrepiece in a blind-tooled lozenge frame, within a blind-tooled rectangle frame, gold-tooled smaller and larger corner pieces and a gold-tooled floral frame along the edges of the boards, both boards show the same design. Further with the title lettered in gold on the spine, and red edges.
Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabrica figura. Iam tandem ad finem perductus, quamplurimis aeneis tabulis Hispaniae, Africae, Asiae & Americae auctus ac illustratus à Judoco Hondio. Quibus etiam additae (praeter Mercatoris) dilucidae & accuratae omnium tabularum descriptiones novae, studio et opera Pet. Montani.Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, 1606. Folio. With an engraved title page and 144 mostly double-page maps, each with a signature (E-7T) and with explanatory texts on the recto of the first and on the verso of the second fol. (the text pages on the rectos and versos of the maps are paginated 33-354). Original gold- and blind-tooled calf, re-cased, the original leather pasted to the new boards. With a large blind-tooled centrepiece in a blind-tooled lozenge frame, within a blind-tooled rectangle frame, gold-tooled smaller and larger corner pieces and a gold-tooled floral frame along the edges of the boards, both boards show the same design. Further with the title lettered in gold on the spine, and red edges.
MERCATOR, Gerardus and Jodocus HONDIUS (publisher). · 1595 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€125,000.00 ($137,766.50 | £104,284.75 | ¥21,999,584)
[16], 354, [12] pp. [+ 8 + 4 + 4 + 8 = 24 pp. for the indexes].The first edition of the famous Mercator-Hondius Atlas, which follows the arrangement of the complete Mercator atlas published by Gerard Mercator’s son Rumold in 1595 as the Atlas sive cosmographicæ meditationes de f…
Opus quibuslibet aromatariis: necessariu[m]. Mesue in vulgare rescripto. Primo che se rechercha allarte della aromataria como se conosseno le medicine simplice & composte li quattro canone p[er] arte in vulgare declarate alla antidotario: li dubie al configere qlle resolute.[Napels or Venice, ca. 1500?]. 4to (14.5 x 19.8 cm). Half calf over marbled boards [ca. 1900], gold-tooled spine, gold-tooled red spine label, red sprinkled edges.
Opus quibuslibet aromatariis: necessariu[m]. Mesue in vulgare rescripto. Primo che se rechercha allarte della aromataria como se conosseno le medicine simplice & composte li quattro canone p[er] arte in vulgare declarate alla antidotario: li dubie al configere qlle resolute.[Napels or Venice, ca. 1500?]. 4to (14.5 x 19.8 cm). Half calf over marbled boards [ca. 1900], gold-tooled spine, gold-tooled red spine label, red sprinkled edges.
MASAWAIH AL-MARDINI (MESUE the younger). · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€45,000.00 ($49,595.94 | £37,542.51 | ¥7,919,850)
[34] ll.Rare and almost unobtainable first edition of a digest of medical prescriptions, taken from the works of the highly-regarded Arabic physician Mesue the younger (also known as Masawaih al-Mardini), including "a kind of general manual for apothecaries and perfumers" (Duvee…