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Fábulas literarias.Madrid, Imprenta Real, 1782. 4to. With rococo decorated capitals. Mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spine with red morocco label lettered in gold, double blind fillets on boards.

IRIARTE (YRIARTE) y Oropesa, Tomas de. · 1750 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,800.00 ($1,983.97 | £1,501.46 | ¥316,853)

[4], 157, [16] pp.First edition of the best-known work of the famous Spanish neo-classical poet Tomás de Iriarte (or Yriarte) y Oropesa (1750-1791). His name is most intimately associated with the present Fábulas literarias (1782), composed in a great variety of metres, and know…

’t Nieuwe examen der chirurgie, na de hedendaagse praktyk. t’ samen gestelt voor de gene, welke hare promotie moeten doen om vry messter te werden, en voor die te lande of te water in den oorlog dienen … Vermeerderd met de Nieuw verbeeterde chirurgyns scheeps-kist [by J. Verbrugge].Amsterdam, Jan Claesz. ten Hoorn, 1694. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece by Jan Luyken: “Examen der Chirurgie”, with imprint below (cut short), woodcut title vignettes, initials and tailpieces. Mottled calf, gold-tooled spine with title in gold.

BOUT, Bernardus de. · 1740 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€3,950.00 ($4,353.72 | £3,294.87 | ¥695,316)

[8], 390, [10], 96 pp.First edition of a manual for the examination to become a free master surgeon in the country or at sea. Jan ten Hoorn, a publisher of medical literature published 5 more editions to 1740 and he includes a stocklist of his medical books at the end. Also adde…

Phaedri, aug[usti]. liberti fabulorum Aesopiarum libri V. Notis illustravit in usum serenissimi principis Nassauii David Hoogstratanus, accedunt ejusdem opera duo indices …Amsterdam, François Halma, 1701. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece, an engraved printer's device on the title-page, a folding portrait of the dedicatee and 18 engraved plates with 6 roundels on each plate illustrating the 99 fables and 5 prologues, 3 portraits of Aesop and tailpieces and historiated initials. Contemporary half calf, brown sprinkled paper sides, brown spine label with title in gold, red sprinkled edges.

AESOP (PHAEDRUS, trans.). · 1658 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€2,500.00 ($2,755.52 | £2,085.36 | ¥440,073)

[32], 160, [84] pp.Gorgeous edition of the 94 Aesop fables with 5 additional fables found by the German philologist and classical scholar Marquart Gudius, together with his extensive and scholarly notes, printed in two columns below each fable, the whole prepared by David van Ho…

Phaedri, Aug[usti]. Liberti fabularum Aesopiarum libri V...Amsterdam, Henricus Wetstein, 1698. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece, title-page in red and black, woodcut title vignette and woodcut decorated initials. Mottled calf, gold double fillets on sides, gold-tooled spine with title in gold, gold-tooled board edges.

PHAEDRUS. · 1635 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€2,500.00 ($2,755.52 | £2,085.36 | ¥440,073)

[56], 312, [56], 201-462, [58] pp.First edition of the important Burman redaction of Phaedrus’s Latin verse translation of Aesop, together with the important commentaries and notes by (1) Marquatus Gudius (1635-1686), with four new fables discovered by him, published here for th…

Phaedri Fabularum Aesopiarum libri quinque cum annotationibus Joannis Schefferi … et Francisci Guyeti notis. Editio tertia … In qua jungitur, interpretatio Gallica cum notis, & index Latinus uberrimus.Hamburg, Gottfried Schultze; Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge, 1673. 8vo. With woodcut title vignette. Contemporary gold-tooled vellum, each board with the coat-of-arms of Gouda (prize binding made for the city of Gouda) and double fillets, gold-tooled spine with red label lettered in gold.

PHAEDRUS. · 1613 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,250.00 ($1,377.76 | £1,042.68 | ¥220,037)

[36], 272, [57], [1 blank] pp.Third edition of Johannes Scheffer’s extensively annotated text of Phaedrus’s Latin verse adaptation of Aesop’s fables, the first to include a French translation (in prose) probably by Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy (1613-1684), first added in the se…

Stories from the Arabian nights.London, Hodder and Stoughton, November 1907. 4to. With 50 full-page coloured illustrations after drawings by Edmund Dulac, with descriptions on the flyleaves. Original publisher’s orange cloth with gilt title in gold on decorated spine and front cover.

HOUSMAN, Laurence; Edmund DULAC (ills.). · 1865 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€300.00 ($330.66 | £250.24 | ¥52,809)

xvi, 133 pp.Second edition of an illustrated selection from the original Arabic, Persian and other fairy folk tales, such as “The fisherman and the genie”, “Ali Baba and the forty thieves” “The story of the magic horse” and “The story of the princess of Deryabar”, retold by the …

Short notes on the winds, weather, & currents, together with general sailing directions and remarks on making passages; to accompany a chart of the Indian Ocean.London, James Imray & son, 1878. 8vo. With 2 folding maps. Original publisher’s blue wrappers.

ROSSER, William Henry. · 1867 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,800.00 ($1,983.97 | £1,501.46 | ¥316,853)

[4], 71 pp.Extremely rare edition, probably the fourth, of a handbook for sailing in the Indian Ocean. As the title indicates, it not only contains sailing directions and descriptions of different routes to Singapore and the Arabian Sea, but also gives important notes for sailor…

Den spieghel der volmaecktheydt. Seer profijtelijck allen menschen, in wat staet sy zijn. ... Nu weder van nieus ghevisiteert ende gheapprobeert.Antwerp, Hieronymus Verdussen, 1607. 8vo. With a woodcut roundel portrait of Jesus on the title-page (signed "A"), a woodcut tailpiece, and decorations built up from cast arabesque fleurons. Contemporary overlapping vellum, leather thong ties.

HERP, Hendrik. · 1478 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,450.00 ($1,598.20 | £1,209.51 | ¥255,242)

[162], [2 blank] ll.Rare edition of Henrick Herps important work on mystic theology. The work is divided into three parts, all intended for moral and religious education. The first part in 12 chapters covers how to die well, the second part how to live the "true" life and the la…

Dissertationum ecclesiasticarum libri duo, in quibus de episcoporum dignitate, ac potestate; deque aliis ecclesiasticis dogmatibus disputatur.Paris, Sebastien Cramoisy, 1641. 8vo. With Cramoisy's engraved coupling storks device on the title page. Gold-tooled red goatskin morocco (ca. 1700?), gilt edges.

PÉTAU, Denis (Dionysius PETAVIUS). · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€2,950.00 ($3,251.51 | £2,460.73 | ¥519,286)

[24], 354, [8] pp.First edition of a controversial work by Denis Pétau containing the results of his historical research on the functioning of Christian clerical authorities (primarily bishops) from the time of the Church Fathers to his own time, followed by a discussion of vari…

Lettera annua della Provincia delle Filippine dell' anno M.DC.VIII.Rome, Bartolomeo Zanetti, 1611. Small 8vo (16 x 11.5 cm). 18th-century limp sheepskin parchment.

LOPEZ, Gregorio. · 1608 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€12,500.00 ($13,777.59 | £10,426.81 | ¥2,200,366)

124, [2 blank] pp.Rare first Italian edition of the annual report and letter on the events that had taken place in the Philippines during the year 1608, especially regarding the Jesuit mission there. It is one of the earliest works published in the West solely devoted to the Phi…

Naufrage et aventures de M. Pierre Viaud; natif de Rochefort, capitaine de navire.Bordeaux, the Labottiere brothers; Paris, Lejay, 1780. With: (2) [POIVRE, Pierre]. Voyage d'un philosophe, ou observations sur les moers & les arts des peuples de l'Afrique, de l'Asie et de l'Amerique.Yverdon, 1768. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary gold-tooled tree calf, richly gold-tooled spine; very subtly rebacked, preserving original backstrip.

VIAUD, Pierre (and Jean Garpard DUBOIS-FONTANELLE). · 1780 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,950.00 ($2,149.30 | £1,626.58 | ¥343,257)

XXIV, 307, [4], [1 blank]; 140, [2] pp.Ad 1: 1780 edition of the adventures of the French sailor and merchant Pierre Viaud (1725), who sailed along the Gulf Coast of Florida and shipwrecked on a reef near Dog Island. As full of drama as an Indiana Jones adventure, Viaud's story …

Het eiland Balie en de Balienezen.Amsterdam, G.J.A. Beijerinck, 1848. 8vo. With lithographed title-page and a folding lithographed map of the island Bali. Contemporary dark green half cloth.

LAUTS, Ulrich Gerard. · 1787 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€3,500.00 ($3,857.72 | £2,919.51 | ¥616,102)

[2], VIII, 285, [1 blank] pp.First and only edition of a description of the Indonesian island Bali and its people by Ulrich Gerard Lauts (1787-1865), a professor at the Royal Maritime Institute at Medemblik in the Netherlands. Without ever having set foot in the Dutch East Indie…

Travels through some parts of Germany, Poland, Moldavia, and Turkey.London, (back of title-page: printed by A. Straham), 1818. 4to. With 15 hand-coloured aquatints on 11 plates by I. Clark after drawings by author. 19th-century half morocco (Root bookbinders, London), richly gold-tooled spine.

NEALE, Adam. · 1780 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,950.00 ($2,149.30 | £1,626.58 | ¥343,257)

XIII, 295 pp.First and only edition of a vividly written account of a voyage through Germany, Poland, Moldavia and the Ottoman Empire, beautifully illustrated with fifteen coloured aquatints after the designs of the author. Adam Neale (ca. 1780-1832) of Scottish descent, was an …

Passio domini nostri Jesu Christi s[ecundu]m serie[m] q[ua]ttuor eva[n]gelistaru[m].(Colophon: Basel, Adam Petri de Langendorff, 31 July 1514). 4to. With a large woodcut (12 x 9.5 cm) on the title page and 20 small woodcuts in text (ca. 4.5 x 3.5 cm), all by Urs Graf. Modern gold-tooled light-brown calf.

AGRICOLA, Daniel [and Urs GRAF (illustrator)]. · 1485 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€5,000.00 ($5,511.04 | £4,170.72 | ¥880,146)

39, [1] ll.Well-produced fourth(?) edition of a Gospel Harmony, concentrating on the Passion of Christ and beautifully illustrated by Urs Graf (ca. 1485-1528), by the publisher of the first (1509) edition. The work is beautifully printed in a fine rotunda in various sizes, with …

Beschryving van het Oosten, en van eenige andere landen. Uit het Engelsch overgezet en met aantekeningen voorzien, door Ernst Willem Cramer.Utrecht, Rotterdam and Amsterdam, G.T. en A. van Paddenburg, J. Bosch, R. Arrenberg, and M. de Bruyn, 1776-1786. 3 volumes (in 6 parts) bound as 6. 4to. With 205 folding engraved maps, plans, views and plates. Contemporary half calf.

POCOCKE, Richard. · 1704 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€12,000.00 ($13,226.48 | £10,009.74 | ¥2,112,351)

First Dutch translation of Pococke's important and popular description of his travels in the East. The narrative provides detailed information on the fauna, flora, topography, and the local manners of the areas Pococke visited. Volume one covers Egypt, volume two is devoted to P…

Journal, oder kurtze Erzehlung des Anfangs, Fort- und Aussgangs des Krieges, welcher zwischen dem König und mehrerer Regierunge des Reichs Macassar und der Oost-Indischen Compagnie der Vereinigten Niederlanden in den Jahren 1666, 1668 und 1669 geführet worden.Hamburg, Gottfried Schulken, 1670. 4to. Disbound, preserving the original endpapers.

[SPEELMAN, Cornelis Janszoon]. · 1666 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€3,250.00 ($3,582.17 | £2,710.97 | ¥572,095)

[18] ll.Rare first and only edition of the German translation of the account of the expedition against the Kingdom of Makassar in the years 1666 to 1669, under command of Cornelis Speelman (1628-1684) on behalf of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). The work was translated from …

Reis door Duitschland, Zwitserland, Italie en Sicilie. Uit het Hoogduitsch.Amsterdam, J. Allart, 1798-1801. 4 vols. + atlas-vol. 8vo. With 19 folding engraved views by D. Vrijdag after the German originals, and 6 folding leaves with engraved musical scores. Contemporary half calf.

STOLBERG, Friedrich Leopold. · 1750 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€2,250.00 ($2,479.97 | £1,876.83 | ¥396,066)

XVI, 469, (1); 479, (1); 586, (2); 386, (2) pp.First Dutch edition of a literary, almost romantic travel book, for Italy much inspired by the classical authors. The author, Friedrich Leopold Graaf zu Stolberg-Stolberg (1750-1819), a German poet and diplomat, belonged to one of t…

La Hollande à vol d'oiseau.Paris, G. Decaux, A. Quantin, 1881. 4to. With a full-page lithographed map of the Netherlands, printed in black and blue, a double suite of 24 full-page heliogravures (one suite in proof-state, the other with the printed text), showing views of the main Dutch cities, and numerous wood-engraved views and illustrations in the text. Contemporary gold-tooled half brown morocco.

HAVARD, Henry. · 1838 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,250.00 ($1,377.76 | £1,042.68 | ¥220,037)

[6], II, "400" [= 398] pp.First edition of a beautiful work on the Netherlands, showing cities such as Amsterdam, Delft, Rotterdam, Groningen, Kampen and others in bird's-eye view. After his successful series La Hollande pittoresque, Henry Havard (1838-1921) wanted to produce a …

Fables nouvelles, dédiées au Roy. Avec un discours sur la fable. Paris, Gregoire Dupuis, 1719. 4to. With engraved allegorical frontispiece by N. Tardieu after Charles Coypel, engraved vignette on title-page by C. Simeneau after N. Vleughels and 100 engraved illustrations to the fables by and after Claude Gillot, Charles Antoine Coypel, Jean Ranc, Bernard Picart, Jean Baptiste Massé, etc. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine.

LA MOTTE, Antoine Houdar de. · 1672 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€2,500.00 ($2,755.52 | £2,085.36 | ¥440,073)

XLII, [4], 358, [2] pp.First edition of a famous French fable book, beautifully illustrated by the most famous artists of the day. The book contains 100 fables by Antoine Houdar de La Motte (1672-1731), modelled after the fables by Jean de La Fontaine, the most important French …

Journal de l'expedition de Monsieur de la Feuillade, pour le secours de Candie. Par un volontaire.Lyon, Jean Thioly, 1669. 12mo. With woodcut printer's device on title-page, some woodcut initials and head-and tailpieces and 1 engraved folding plan of the fortification of Candia (20 x 28.5 cm). Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine and sprinkled edges.

[LA FEUILLADE, François Aubusson de]. · 1625 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€4,750.00 ($5,235.48 | £3,962.19 | ¥836,139)

[8], 198, [2] pp.Rare first edition of a journal of an expedition to Candia (Heraklion), Greece, commanded by François d'Aubusson, duc de la Feuillade (1625-1691), to help the Venetians during the Siege of Candia (1645-1669) against the Ottoman Empire. De la Feuillade had alread…