Cerca libri

Leçons élémentaires d'histoire naturelle comprenant un aperçu sur toute la zoologie et un traité de Conchyliologie à l’usage des gens du monde.Paris, Lacrampe fils for Dauvin et Fontaines & J.J. Dubochet, le Chevalier et Cie, 1847. 4to. With 863 small engraved figures in the text and 12 numbered plates of shells by Jean Gabriel Prêtre and N. Rémond, all expertly colored by hand. Publisher’s buckram.

CHENU, Jean-Charles. · 1808 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€475.00 ($523.54 | £396.28 | ¥83,602)

[4], lxxxvii, 284 pp.Original edition of this finely illustrated handbook on conchology and mollusks, preceded by a dedication to Madame François Delessert by Chenu and a general introduction on zoology, including mammals, fishes, birds and various insects. A slightly different …

Beschreibung der Steine sowohl Edel als Gemeine. Darinnen derer Gestalt, Kräffte, Tugenden, Medicin, Eigenschafften, Preiss und Werth auf das Deutliches gezeiget wird. Samt beygesetzten Warnungen sich fuer derer Verfaelschung wohl zu hueten wegen seiner Fuertrefflichkeit.Culmbach, for Nathanael Lumscher, by Friedrich Elias Dietzel, 1734. 8vo. Modern beige sheepskin.

NICOLS, Thomas. · 1652 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€900.00 ($991.96 | £750.84 | ¥158,404)

16, 274, [14] pp.Enlarged second edition of the German translation of A lapidary, first published in English in 1652, compiled by Thomas Nicols, and in German in 1675: ''the first independent gemological book by a British author ... based firmly upon Boetius de Boodt'' (Sinkanka…

Copia de una carta que ha escrito desde la ciudad de Argel el padre procurador Fray Antonio de Espinosa, religioso calzado del Orden de la Santissima Trinidad, redencion de cautivos, y administrador de los cinco reales hospitales, que su sagrada religion tiene en aquella ciudad.(Colophon: Madrid, Sebastian de Armendariz), 12 October [1688]. Small 4to (19 x 14 cm). With a large woodcut initial with a parrot. Disbound.

ESPINOSA, Antonio de. · 1688 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

6 ll.Very rare first and only early edition of a letter written by the Spanish friar Antonio de Espinosa at Algiers, after the city had been bombed by the French navy in 1688. Espinosa worked as an administrator at the hospitals of the Trinitarian Order in the city. He describes…

[Incipit:] … de ymagine mundi.[Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 1472(?)]. Folio (31 x 22 cm).Rubricated throughout and about half of the spaces left for initials filled in by hand in red ink. 19th-century red sheepskin.

HONORIUS AUGUSTODUNENSIS (HONORIUS OF AUTUN). · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[46], [1 blank] ll.First edition of Honorius Augustodunensis's (1080-1154) popular Imago mundi, an encyclopaedia of popular cosmology and geography combined with a chronicle of world history. He takes the river Nile as the boundary between Africa and Asia and calls the whole lat…

Péking histoire et description.Peking, Imprimerie des Lazaristes au Pe-Tang, 1897. 35.5 x 25.5 cm. 2 volumes bound as 1 (continuous page numbers). With a frontispiece to each part, 51 plates with photolithographs and collotypes, 1 tinted map, and 660 wood engraved illustrations in text. Modern half cloth, with the original wrappers bound in.

FAVIER, Alphonse. · 1837 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

XII [4], 336, [4], 337-“562” [= 552], [2] pp.First edition of an important source on Beijing in the late 19th century, written by the Lazarite Vicar Apostolic Alphonse Favier (1837-1905). Favier arrived in China in 1862 and became the Vicar Apostolic of Northern Chihli in 1899. …

Segrare i Derby & Oaks [Winners at the Derby & Oaks].[England and/or Sweden], ca. 1835?-ca. 1855. 4to (24.5 x 18 cm). 36 pencil drawings of English thoroughbred race horses (7.5 x 11.5 to 11 x 16 cm), 1 finished in ink washes and a few touched up with white or light brown. Each drawing mounted on (or occasionally drawn on) a card, loose in a Swedish blind-blocked, textured red cloth portfolio (ca. 1860?).

HALL, Harry (by and/or after), and others. · 1822 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[36] loose ll.A collection of 36 pencil drawings of famous English thoroughbred race horses by at least three artists, including one signed "Harry Hall" and several others clearly based directly or indirectly on his paintings. Some horses appear in their stables or grounds, some…

A grammar of the Malayan language, with an introduction and praxis. London, printed for the author by Cox and Baylis, sold by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, and by Black, Parry and Co., booksellers to the British East India Company, 1812. 4to. Set in roman and Arabic types with incidental italic. Modern dark green cloth.

MARSDEN, William. · 1405 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[1], [1 blank], L, [2], 225, [1 blank] pp.First edition of Marsden's excellent Malay grammar, which quickly succeeded all earlier grammars and set the standard for those that followed. After the author's 50-page introduction, discussing the previous literature, the language and …

A descriptive dictionary of the Indian Islands & adjacent countries.London, Bradbury & Evans, 1856. 8vo. With a folding engraved map of parts of the East Indies and Southeast Asia, with title "Asiatic Archipelago". Original publisher's blind-blocked brown cloth, title in gold on spine.

CRAWFURD, John. · 1820 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[4], 459, [1 blank] pp.First edition of an authoritative work, in encyclopaedia form, on the Indonesian Archipelago. It is a sequel to Crawfurd's much-acclaimed History of the Indian Archipelago (1820). Initially the author planned to publish a second edition of his History, but…

A grammar of the Arabic language, translated from the German of Caspari, and edited, with numerous additions and corrections, ... vol. I[-II]. London, Edinburgh, Williams and Norgate (back of title-page: printed by Friedrich Nies (Karl Berend Lorck), Leipzig), 1859. 8vo. Set in roman, italic and Arabic type. Contemporary half mottled, tanned sheepskin.

WRIGHT, William. · 1955 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

XVI, 257, [1 blank]; VI, [1], [1 blank], XVI, 327, [1 blank] pp.First edition of what immediately became the standard English-language grammar of Arabic and one of the most important in any language, still frequently reprinted and remaining in general use. Although the title-pag…

[Autograph letter, signed, of recommendation for Louis Bresnier].Paris, 9 September 1836. Folio (36 x 23 cm). Letter in brown ink on wove paper.

MARCEL, Jean-Joseph. · 1803 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[2] pp.Signed autograph letter of recommendation by the Parisian nobleman, professor of oriental languages at the Collège Royale de France in Paris and director of Napolean's Imprimerie Imperiale from 1803 to 1815, Jean-Joseph Marcel (1776-1854), for his student Louis Bresnier (…

De vermaarde reizen van de heer Vincent Le Blanc van Marsilien, die hy sedert d'ouderdom van veertien jaren, tot aan die van zestig, in de vier delen des werrelts gedaan heeft ...Amsterdam, Jan Hendricksz. Boom, Jan Rieuwertsz., 1654. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With engraved title-page and 7 engraved plates. 19th-century boards.

LE BLANC, Vincent. · 1648 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[1], [1 blank], 152, 116 pp.First Dutch edition and first illustrated edition in any language of a colourful account of the author's travels through Persia (Iran), Arabia, Burma (Myanmar), the East Indies, and in the second part Morocco, Guinea, the African interior, the Cape, C…

Andachtsübungen eines Christen vor die Morgens- und Abendszeit, Heilige Mess, Beicht und Communion: mehrentheils aus denen Psalmen Davidis gezogen.[Vienna?, ca. 1800]. 8vo. Manuscript in German on laid paper. 19th-century elaborately gold-tooled green morocco, spine with raised bands and red morocco label lettered "A.M.C.Z." in gold, gold-tooled turn-ins, paste-paper endleaves, gilt edges.

[PEIKHART, Franz (original compiler)]. · 1730 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[62] ll.Beautifully bound manuscript, copied from a popular text by the Austrian Jesuit Franz Peikhart that first appeared in Vienna in 1730. The manuscript contains prayers and psalms for use at home and during Holy Mass. Several "reminders" between the prayers clarify several …

Novelle tartare tradotte dal francese nell'idioma italiano.Venice, Francesco Andreola for Gaetano Martini, 1882. 3 parts in 1 volume. 12mo. Contemporary gold-tooled half calf, decorated paper sides, with the title lettered in gold on the spine.

[GUEULLETTE, Thomas Simon]. · 1715 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€800.00 ($881.75 | £667.41 | ¥140,803)

156; 156; 150 pp.Charming Italian edition of the "Mille et un Quart-d'heure. Contes tartares", originally written in French (in 1715) by Thomas-Simon Gueullette (1683-1766). The collection of orientalist stories was ranked alongside the "Arabian Nights". Although the main purpos…

Compendium universae medicinae iuxta doctrinam Hippocratis, & Galeni.Vicenza, Pietro Bertelli, 1608. 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page, 6 decorated woodcut initials, 5 woodcut headpieces, and 2 tailpieces built up from typographical ornaments. 18th-century half vellum, marbled paper sides.

CNUTIUS (CNUZIO), Justus. · 1961 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€500.00 ($551.09 | £417.13 | ¥88,002)

152, [6], [2 blank] pp.Rare first edition of a medical compendium based on the doctrines of Hippocrates and Galen, written by a Dutch professor at the university of Padua. Hippocrates (ca. 460-370 BCE) is often called the "father of medicine", due to his numerous contributions t…

[A Eurasian hobby perched on a tree stump].[The Netherlands], 1986. Oil painting on board (ca. 29.5 x 19.5 cm). Signed “H.J. Slijper” and dated “1986” in white paint in the bottom right corner. In passepartout and framed (ca. 47.5 x 37 cm).

SLIJPER, Hendrik Johannes (artist). · 1922 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€5,000.00 ($5,510.91 | £4,171.33 | ¥880,021)

Attractive painting by the Dutch artist Hendrik Johannes Slijper (1922-2007) depicting a falcon, known as the Eurasian hobby, sitting on a tree stump in a countryside with meadows. This Eurasian hobby is a bird of prey in the genus “Falco” of the subfamily “Falconinae”. In 1758,…

S. Antonius cortinet si quaeris.[Italy, 17th century]. 11.3 x 7.7 cm. Brown ink, charcoal, and watercolour on vellum.

[MICROGRAPHY]. · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€4,800.00 ($5,290.47 | £4,004.48 | ¥844,820)

What at first glance appears to be a conventional devotional image of Saint Anthony of Padua is actually composed of hundreds of microscopic words, forming both the image of the saint and martyr and the prayer "Si quæris miracula" ("If, then thou seekest miracles") from the "Off…

Proclamatie aan het volk van Overyssel, over het stuk van de Nationale Conventie. Gearresteerd den 21 September 1795.Deventer, Jan Hendrik de Lange, [1795]. 4to. With a woodcut coat-of-arms of the Province of Overijssel on the title-page. Contemporary marbled wrappers.

DUMBAR jr., Gerhard. · 1743 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€475.00 ($523.54 | £396.28 | ¥83,602)

12 pp.Rare and important pamphlet written in the wake of the intervention of the French Revolutionary intervention in the Dutch, Batavian, affairs: a emotional appeal to all inhabitants of the Province of Overijssel for the establishment and meeting of a National Convention in T…

Achttien jaren aan de Goudkust. Uit het Engelsch vertaald en met ene inleiding vermeerderd door D.P.H.J. Weijtingh.Amsterdam, Weijtingh & Van der Haart, 1855. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With a large folding lithographed view of Fort Coenraadsburg at Elmina. Contemporary half red morocco, marbled sides, title-label.

CRUICKSHANK, Brodie. · 1853 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

XV, 251, [1 blank]; XIV, 208 pp.First edition of the enlarged Dutch translation of Brodie Cruickshank's Eighteen years on the Gold Coast of Africa, including an account of the native tribes and their intercourse with Europeans (London, 1853). This account of the missionary and t…

De venenis in genere, & in specie exercitatio, videlicet eorum natura, & in corpus agendi modo: … Juxta veterum quorundam & recentiorum dogmata, ad solidorum & fluidorum corporis organici leges mechanicas, deducta & explicata.Leiden, Andreas Dyckhuisen, 1707. 12mo. Contemporary half calf, boards covered with sprinkled paper, red spine label lettered in gold.

LINDER, Johannes. · 1678 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

268 pp. [pp. 1-16 with the index missing].Very rare first issue of the first edition of a medical treatise on natural poisons, their antidotes and their applicability in curing some diseases, by the Swedish physician and botanist Johannis Linder (1678-1724) from Wermlandia. Lind…

Phaedri Augusti Liberti Fabulorum Aesopiarum Libri V. Ex recensione Petri Burmanni. Cum selectis variorum notis et suis observationibus edidit Io. Gottl. Sam. Schwabe.Halle, for Joannes Jacobus Gebauer, 1779-1781. 3 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With some woodcut headpieces. Three-quarter calf over boards, ribbed spine tooled and lettered in gold, marbled endpapers, edge painted red.

PHAEDRUS. · 1718 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.85 | ¥35,201)

LXXX, 208; XXII, 312; XX, 254, [6] pp.Original edition of this learned but little known edition of the Phaedrus fables in Latin verses on the basis of the Burman edition of 1718, together with a very extended commentary. The editor Johann Gottlob Samuel Schwabe (1746-1835) was p…