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Phaedri, Aug. liberti, fabularum Aesopiarum, libri V. cum integris commentariis Marq. Gudii, Conr. Ritterhusii, Nic. Rigaltii, Is. Neveleti, Nic. Heinsii, Joan. Schefferi, Jo. Lud. Praschii, & excerptis aliorum. Curante Petro Burmanno. Editio quarta emendatior.Leiden, Samuel and Johannes Luchtmans, 1778. Large 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece, a woodcut printer's device on the title-page and some woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials. Later half black morocco, blue marbled sides, title in gold on spine, marbled endpapers, marbled edges.

PHAEDRUS. · 1698 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€495.00 ($545.58 | £412.96 | ¥87,122)

[60], 398, 258, [40] pp.Enlarged fourth edition of the original edition of the Burman redaction of the Phaedrus fables in Latin (Amsterdam, 1698). Petrus Burman the Elder (1668-1741) became famous as a scholar throughout Europe due to his numerous editorial and critical works, w…

Fabularum Aesopiarum libri quinque; notis perpetuis illustrati, & cum integris aliorum observationibus. In lucem editi à Johanne Laurentio JCto.Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge, & the widow of Elizeus Weyerstraet, 1667. 8vo. With a frontispiece and 103 half-page engravings (ca. 7 x 9 cm), illustrating the prologues and the 92 fables. Full calf, ribbed spine gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, red painted edges.

PHAEDRUS. · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[64], 462, [206] pp. (last two blanks missing).Johannes Laurentius’s first edition of Phaedrus’s fables in Latin verse, loosely based on the Greek prose fables attributed to Aesop, with Laurentius’s extensive commentary and notes, prologues, biographies, etc., printed in two col…

A brief record of the advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force under the command of General Sir Edmund H.H. Allenby. July 1917 to October 1918. Compiled from official sources and published by the Palestine News. Cairo, Government Press and Survey of Egypt, 1919. Small folio (22.5 x 29.5 cm). With a frontispiece portrait of Allenby, mounted on cloth, and 56 coloured maps with explanatory texts on the facing pages. Contemporary half linen.

[LAWRENCE, Thomas Edward]. Harry PIRIE-GORDON (editor). · 1917 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€3,000.00 ($3,306.55 | £2,502.80 | ¥528,013)

[6], 113, [1] pp.First edition, edited by Harry Pirie-Gordon as a souvenir album, of an account of the 1917-1919 campaign in the Middle East. It contains two anonymous reports, in fact written by T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), "Sherifian co-operation in September" and "Sto…

[Album with 32 photographs of Tasmania].Hobart, [ca. 1895]. Oblong folio (30 x 41cm). With 32 original photographs (ca. 17 x 23 cm), pasted on paperboard. Later gold-tooled red morocco.

BEATTIE, John Watt. · 1859 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€13,500.00 ($14,879.46 | £11,262.59 | ¥2,376,057)

Beautifully bound album with a magnificent collection of 32 original photographs of Tasmania, made by John Watt Beattie (1859-1930) at the end of the 19th century. Beattie arrived in Tasmania in 1879 as an amateur dry-plate photographer of scenic views. He began to work with the…

Tratado completo do jogo de florete, em o qual se estabelecem os principios certos dos exercicios offensivos, e defensivos desta arte; obra necessaria a's pessoas, que se destinão a's armas, e util a'quellas, que se querem aperfeiçoar.Lisbon, Na impressão Regia, 1804. 4to. 8 folding engraved plates with 17 numbered figures. Later (ca. 1875/95?) gold-tooled green morocco,.

RODRIGUES DE CARVALHO, Theotonio. · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

105, [1 blank], [1], [1 blank] pp.First and only edition of a complete course in Portuguese on the use of the foil, by Theotonio Rodrigues de Carvalho, including the principles of both offence and defence. With 8 plates containing 17 figures, each showing a pair of fencers demon…

Natuurlijke historie van den St. Pieters Berg bij Maastricht. ... Uit het Fransch door J.D. Pasteur.Amsterdam, Johannes Allart, 1802. 8vo. With an engraved title-page with a small illustration by D. Vrijdag, a folding engraved map and folding engraved plan of the St. Pietersberg, and numerous illustrations of minerals and fossils on 52 folding engraved plates. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine.

FAUJAS DE SAINT-FOND, Barthélemy. · 1741 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,600.00 ($1,763.49 | £1,334.83 | ¥281,607)

VIII, [4], 340, [4] pp.First edition of the Dutch translation of a geological study of the St. Pietersberg near Maastricht, the Netherlands by Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond (1741-1819), a French geologist and assistant of Buffon at the Museum of Natural History in Paris. When …

Fables. Esope - La Fontaine.Lyon, Impr. Fonville-Brunet et Bonnaviat, (1848-1855). 4 vols. Large 8vo. With 4 nicely illustrated lithographed titles by Genod, 20 wood-engraved half-titles, lithographed portrait of the author, numerous wood-engraved vignettes in text, and 152 full-page lithographed, wood-engraved and etched plates, illustrating the fables, by A. Chaine, Fonville, Bonirote, C. Farine, Louis Guy, Regnier, R. Laurasse, M. d'Auvigny, A. Thieriat, Pinet, etc. Contemporary half brown morocco, spines ribbed and gilt, red mottled edges.

ROUSSET, A. · 1798 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

288; 288; 288; 288, XXI, (3 blank) pp.First and only edition of an extremely rare collection of fables, published at Lyon and beautifully illustrated by contemporary Lyon artists. Alexis Rousset, born in 1798 at Oulins, Rhône, had settled at Lyon where he worked as a secretary t…

Lyst der plant-dieren, bevattende de algemeene schetzen der geslachten en korte beschryvingen der bekende zoorten. ... Vertaald, en met aanmerkingen en afbeeldingen voorzien door P. Boddaert.Utrecht, Abraham van Paddenburg and Johannes van Schoonhoven, 1768. 8vo. With 14 folding engraved plates by J. van Hiltrop. Contemporary tanned half sheepskin, gold-tooled spine.

PALLAS, Peter Simon. · 1741 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

XXXVI, 37-50, 654 pp.First edition of the Dutch translation of a detailed work on corals and sponges by the German zoologist and botanist Peter Simon Pallas (1741-1811). In this work, originally entitled Elenchus zoophytorum sistensbgenerum adumbrationes generaliores, first publ…

Art de la guerre, par principes et par règles. Mis au jour par M. le Marquis De Puységur son fils.Paris, Ch.A. Jombert, 1749. 2 volumes. 4to. With 2 title-pages, each with a large engraved vignette, engraved headpiece to the dedication, 2 fine engraved headpieces at the beginning of each volume, and illustrations of war camps, battle arrays, formations of marches, plans etc. on 51 folding engraved plates. Contemporary calf, red and black spine label.

PUYSEGUR, Jean-François DE CHASTENET, MARQUIS DE. · 1656 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,950.00 ($2,149.25 | £1,626.82 | ¥343,208)

[12], 411, [5]; [12], 547, [5] pp.First edition in quarto, also published in folio, of a classic on warfare by the most experienced marshal general of Louis XIV, posthumously published by his son, who like his father became a marshal of France. Puységur the elder (1656-1743), wa…

[Set of 11 works by Jan Luyken].Amsterdam, widow of P. Arentz, and Kornelis vander Sys, 1708 - 1718 (10 vols.); Haarlem, C.H. Bohn, 1767 (1 vol.). 11 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary uniform half calf, richly gold-tooled spines (10 vols.), the 1767 in slightly different half calf, apparently made to match the earlier ones.

LUYKEN, Jan (and Caspar). · 1649 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€12,000.00 ($13,226.18 | £10,011.19 | ¥2,112,051)

Attractive set of 11 works of the famous Dutch poet, artist and engraver Jan Luyken (1649-1712). Luyken, like Saint Augustine, had led a rather frivolous life when young, which he said helped him to vividly depict the dangers and temptations of a worldly life. Most of the works …

Memoires secrets pour servir a l'histoire de Perse.Amsterdam, La Compagnie, 1745. Small 8vo. With a very fine allegorical woodcut vignette on the title page: "Vis Unita Major", the title is printed in red and black. Further with a woodcut headpiece and two woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary gold-tooled red morocco.

[PECQUET, Antoine]. · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

(12), 265, (39) pp.Satirical work on the French demi-monde and on the events that took place in France shortly after the death of Louis XIV, during the period which is called "La Régence" and during the first years of the reign of Louis XV, with all involved personalities figuri…

Van 't geestelijck triumpherende ryck onses heeren Jesu Christi ...Amsterdam, Frans Kuyper, 1666. 4to (22.5 x 18.5 cm). Early 18th-century parchment.

BREEN, Daniel van. · 1594 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[8], 166, [26] pp.Second enlarged Dutch edition of a chiliastic work on the coming realm of Christ by Daniel van Breen (1594-1664), pupil of the Remonstrant leader Simon Episcopius and later one of the leading “Collegianten” (members of the College of the Prophets, founded in 16…

[Passiflora caerula or blue passion flower].[Lekzigt, near Dordrecht?, ca. 1780?]. Folio. (43 x 27.5 cm). Watercolour drawing on laid paper, signed on the back by the artist, "J. van der Vinne Jzn.". Attached by the top corners to a (19th-century?) wove millboard mount kept in a modern passe-partout.

VINNE, Jan Jansz. van der. · 1734 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€16,500.00 ($18,186.00 | £13,765.39 | ¥2,904,070)

A beautiful, large watercolour drawing of a blue passion flower (Passiflora caerula, image 42 x 27 cm), by the Haarlem painter Jan Jansz. van der Vinne (1734-1805), showing a vine with two flowers fully opened and another closed, as well as numerous leaves, buds and runners. The…

Goddelycke aandachten ofte vlammende begeerten eens boetvaerdige geheijligd en lief-rijcke ziele.Amsterdam, Salomon Savrij, [1653]. 16mo. With an engraved title page, 46 engraved emblems and a full-page woodcut tailpiece. Contemporary vellum.

[SERRARIUS, Petrus]. · 1600 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[16], 96 pp.Very rare first edition of a religious emblem book by the eccentric millenarian theologian Petrus Serrarius (1600-1669). It contains 45 emblems (measuring ca. 75 x 48 mm) with engraved texts underneath and an explanatory letterpress poem on the facing pages. The work…

Syntagmatis selectorum undiquaque et perspicue traditorum alchymiae arcanorum, tomus primus. [vol. 2:] Syntagmatis arcanorum chymicorum, …, tomus secundus. [vol. 3:] Appendix necessaria syntagmatis arcanorum chymicorum. Frankfurt, printed by Nikolaus Hoffmann for Peter Kopf, 1613-1615. 3 volumes. Folio. With the letterpress titles of volume 1 and 2 within the same engraved border (signed "G.Keller / 1605"), 1 woodcut plate, 3 double-page letterpress tables and numerous woodcut illustrations in text. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spines.

LIBAVIUS, Andreas. · 1597 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€16,000.00 ($17,634.91 | £13,348.26 | ¥2,816,068)

[12], 480, [8]; [12], "453" [= 450], [15]; [12], 279, [13] pp.First edition of a, mostly polemical, follow-up to the "unusually clear and highly systematic" (DSB) standard work on alchemy and early chemistry, Alchymia (1597), by the well-known German chemist Andreas Libavius (15…

A Revolution of the Mind. Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy

ISRAEL, JONATHAN I. · 2010 · Antiquariaat Spinoza

€38.15 ($42.05 | £31.83 | ¥6,715)

Princetun, University Press, 2010. 296 pp. minor damage to bottom backcover dustjacket, else fine.Hardcover with dustjacket. Democracy, free thought and expression, religious tolerance, individual liberty, political self-determination of people, sexual and racial equality - th…

Wisdom Literature and the Structure of Proverbs. ISBN 9780271009292

PERRY, THEODORE A. · 1993 · Antiquariaat Spinoza

€21.80 ($24.03 | £18.19 | ¥3,837)

University Park, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993. XVI, 134 pp. Very good copy. Hardcover with dustjacket, Dustj. partly discolored. Old Testament - Bible. Wisdom is one of the oldest and continuous genres of our literary tradition, dating back to the Heb…

Los Angeles Free Press May 28-June 3, 1971. In Two Parts, Complete

Various Authors · 1971 · Mare Booksellers

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,110)

Los Angeles, New Way Enterprises, 1971. Tabloid. Side folding tabloid format. 64 pp. A later issue of this pioneering underground newspaper, known as the Freep. Established in 1964, the paper was known for its coverage of the counterculture movement and radical politics, as well…

1934 COVELLITE - Year Book of the Butte High School (Butte, Montana High School annual/yearbook)

1934 · Robert W. Reiner

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

Butte, Montana Senior Class of 1934. [ ] Hardback quarto appx 7 3/4 x 10 3/4 inches, dark brown embossed covers, 112 pages, Near or About VG. Sound binding, no stains, no tears, pretty much minor rubbing wear corners-spine ends-edges. Pasted to the first interior page is origina…

A HISTORY OF THE DEVIL: Containing - His Original; A State of His Circumstances; His Conduct Public and Private; [etc., etc.] The Whole INTERSPERSED WITH MANY OF HIS ADVENTURES To Which is Added A DESCRIPTION OF THE DEVIL'S DWELLING-PLACE, CALLED HELL [Parts 1 & 2 together]

Defoe, Daniel · 1859 · Robert W. Reiner

$295.00 (€267.65 | £223.29 | ¥47,108)

Philadelphia, Leary & Getz, 1859, stated Sixth Edition. [ ] Hardback, 12mo, appx 5 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches (13.75 x 19.25 cm), decoratively blind-stamped brick red pebbled cloth, all 348 total pages present (simplified interpretation: [i-iv], [i-viii], 9-151, 152-296 + 48 pages of ad…