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Neuer, vollkommener, verbesserter und ergäntzter Pferd-Schatz.Frankfurt am Main, Johann Philipp Andrea for Georg Heinrich Oehrling, 1688. 2 parts in 1 volume. Small folio (31.5 x 20.5 cm). With engraved frontispiece and 25 engraved folding plates (with figures numbered 1-40). 19th-century half calf.

PINTER VON DER AU, Johann Christoph. · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€6,500.00 ($7,164.35 | £5,421.94 | ¥1,144,190)

[2], 456, [8] pp.Second, enlarged and corrected edition of a "very elaborate compilation of the available literature on horsemanship, Pinter von der Au referred to his sources without restraint, from Xenophon and Vegetius, via Rusio and Ruellius to Carraciolo and Zechendorff. Qu…

Voyage philosophique et pittoresque, sur les rives du Rhin, a Liège, dans la Flandre, le Brabant, la Hollande, l'Angleterre, la France, etc. fait en 1790, ... Paris, F. Buisson and Charles Pougens, l'an VIII [= 1800]. 3 volumes. 8vo. With a folding engraved map of Great Britain and 9 folding engraved views of famous English buildings. Contemporary mottled, tanned sheepskin (tree pattern), gold-tooled spines.

FORSTER, Georg. · 1778 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€2,650.00 ($2,920.85 | £2,210.48 | ¥466,478)

[4], XVI, 408; [4], 446; 8, 407 pp.Second French edition of what is considered Forster's major work, Ansichten vom Niederrhein. Forster's fame was instantly established when he published an impressive account of James Cook's second voyage around the world in 1778-1780. The prese…

Advis ... envoyé de Paquin cité de la Chine, au R.P. Loys de Gusman ... Sur le succes de la religion chrestienne au royaume de la Chine. De l'entree d'aucuns peres de ladire compagnie en la cour du roy, & de plusieurs choses memorables, qu'ils ont veu en ce païs.Lyon, Pierre Rigaud, 1607. 12mo. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment, remains of ties.

PANTOJA, Diego de. · 1571 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€19,000.00 ($20,941.93 | £15,848.76 | ¥3,344,556)

[8], 145, [1 blank] pp.First edition in French, of an account of the Jesuit mission in China, written by the Spanish Jesuit Diego de Pantoja (1571-1618). Pantoja was sent to Japan in 1596, but ended up in China, where he accompanied Matthieu Ricci (1552-1610), establishing the J…

Théorie de l'oeil. Première partie. Nota. Cette première partie compose un volume à part; la seconde partie paraîtra sous une autre forme.Paris, J. B. Ballière, 1844-1846. Large 8vo. With 94 illustrations of perspective and the working of light in the eye on 6 large folding plates, engraved by Marlier after designs by the author. Modern half red morocco.

VALLÉE, Louis Léger. · 1784 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,000.00 ($1,102.21 | £834.14 | ¥176,029)

LXXV, [1 blank], 456 pp.First edition of a new theory on the working of light in the eye, illustrated with 94 figures on 6 folding plates. A graduate of the École Polytechnique and later inspector at the Ponts et Chaussées in Paris, Louis Léger Vallée (1784-1864) had already int…

[Proboscidea louisianica].[Netherlands, 2nd half of the 18th-century]. Watercolour on laid paper (40.5 x 27 cm) of a flowering Proboscidea louisianica, with fruit and a horned seedpod on the ground. In passepartout (55 x 40 cm).

[SCHOUMAN, Aert]. · 1710 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

Beautiful watercolour drawing of a Proboscidea louisianica by the notable and versatile Dutch artist Aert Schouman (1710-1792). "He was best known for his ornithological studies rather than for his botanical work, but the latter are so pleasing, with the plants in their pale, sc…

Navis carmen.Rennes, widow of Mathurnus Denys, 1695. With a folding engraved plate of a 44-gun ship. With: (2) CHARLEVAL, Charles-François de. Simius carmen.Rennes, widow of Mathurnus Denys, [ca. 1695]. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine.

CHARLEVAL, Charles-François de. · 1667 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

34, [2 blank], 31 pp.Ad 1: Rare first and only edition of a Neo-Latin poem on ships and shipbuilding, including several lines on the etymology of the various terms used to describe a ship, which are depicted on a folding engraving. Although elegantly composed, the author seeming…

[12 drawings of Old Testament scenes].Amsterdam, 1783. Twelve pen and ink wash drawings (each ca. 8 x 6.5 cm) in subtle shades of grey and sepia. All 12 drawings mounted on a single contemporary stiff paper support (44 x 61 cm), neatly arranged in three rows of four, each with a border of lines drawn around it in ink. A contemporary pencil inscription below the lower right drawing reads "S. Fokke Amsterdam 1712-1784". Another in a later hand in the lower right corner of the support reads "S. Fokke".

FOKKE, Simon. · 1712 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

A set of drawings by Simon Fokke (1712-1784) made as models for the illustrations in J.F. Martinet's Alle de werken van Flavius Josephus (Amsterdam 1783-1787). The 12 pen and ink wash drawings vividly depict Old Testament scenes, very beautifully drawn and so subtly washed in a …

Lettres instructives et curieuses sur l'éducation de la jeunesse. ...[Grenoble, for the author], 1760. 12mo. Contemporary gold-tooled red morocco richly gold-tooled spine, ornamental borders on sides, gold-tooled turn-ins, gilt edges.

MARTIN, Grégoire. · 1712 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,600.00 ($1,763.53 | £1,334.63 | ¥281,647)

XXIII, [1 blank], 253, [5] pp.Rare essay on education, written in the form of letters and intended for fathers and private tutors of bourgeois families. In twenty-four letters, the book offers advice to pedagogues, as well as the lessons to give and the books to use with their p…

Voyage de Guinée, contenant une description nouvelle & très-exacte de cette côte où l'on trouve & où l'on trafique l'or, les dents d'elephant, & les esclaves: ...Utrecht, Antoine Schouten, 1705. Large 12mo (17 x 10 cm). With an engraved author's portrait, an engraved frontispiece and 27 folding engraved plates. Contemporary marbled boards.

BOSMAN, Willem. · 1672 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,750.00 ($1,928.86 | £1,459.75 | ¥308,051)

[16], 520 pp.First edition of the French translation of a work on the trade-settlements on the West Coast of Africa. The author, Willem Bosman (b. 1672), was Chief Factor at Fort Elmina for the Dutch West Indian Company. "He stayed on the coast for fourteen years, his Voyage de …

De spectris, lemuribus et magnis atque insolitis fragoribus, variisque praesagitionibus quae plerunque obitum hominum, magnas clades, mutationésque imporium praecedunt.Geneva, Eustache Vignon, 1575. 8vo. Early 20th-century vellum.

LAVATER, Ludwig. · 1527 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[6], 272 pp.Second edition of the Latin translation of a work on ghosts, phantoms and apparitions of people who have passed away, written by the Swiss theologian Ludwig Lavater (1527-1586). Besides ghosts, it deals with strange sounds, voices, inexplicable events and peculiar ac…

Recherches anatomiques et physiologiques sur l'organe de l'ouïe des poissons.Paris, Imprimerie Royale, for J.B. Baillière in Paris and London, 1838. 4to. With 17 folding lithographed plates (ca. 560 x 210 mm.) of the auditory organs, and other details, of various fishes. Original blue publisher's wrappers.

BRESCHET, Gilles. · 1784 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€800.00 ($881.77 | £667.32 | ¥140,823)

[6], 126 pp.First separate edition of a rare and important work on the auditory organs and gills of fishes, with 17 folding plates, made after drawings by the author. Gilles Breschet (1784-1845) was a professor of anatomy at Paris and member of the Institute de France. He was an…

Philologemata abstrusa de pollice: in quibus singularia animadversa vom Diebes-Daüme, et manu: item de patibulo, virgula Mercuriali, alruna, esu casei magico &c. Gerrae profanorum refutatae, cum revelata origine vera et admiranda superstitionum; et virga critica castigata habentur aliquot loca ambigua primaria celeberrimorum grammaticorum.Leipzig, Elias Fiebig; printed in Zagan (now in Poland) by Johann Ockel, 1677. Small 4to (19.5 x 16 cm). With a woodcut illustration on title-page showing a hand with turned up thumb, and one woodcut in text (p. 195) showing a hand divided into alphabetical compartments. 18th-century vellum.

PRAETORIUS, Johann. · 1630 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€4,500.00 ($4,959.93 | £3,753.65 | ¥792,132)

216 pp.First and only edition of a curious collection of material on the history of superstition by the prolific and versatile, but later unjustly overlooked author, Johann Praetorius, the partly Latinized name of Hans Schultze (1630-1680). "Praetorius had an open eye and a shar…

How the Wise Men Got to Chelm The Life and Times of a Yiddish Folk Tradition. ISBN 9781479828449

Bernuth Ruth von · 2016 · Antiquariaat Spinoza

€27.25 ($30.04 | £22.73 | ¥4,797)

New York, University Press, 2016. 317 pp. Very good copy. Clean, no traces from former owner. Hardcover with dustjacket. first in-depth study of Chelm literature and its relationship to its literary precursors. When God created the world, so it is said, he sent out an angel wit…

Japheth in the Tents of Shem: Studies on Jewish Hellenism in Antiquity

HORST, PIETER W. VAN DER · 2002 · Antiquariaat Spinoza

€49.05 ($54.06 | £40.91 | ¥8,634)

Leuven, Peeters Publishers, 2002. 272 pp. Name on halftitle. Else clean and very good. Paperback. In rabbinic parlance, A Japheth in the tents of ShemA (Genesis 9:27) has become a proverbial expression for the interaction between Greek and Jewish cultures. The present volume co…

Freedom Next Time

John Pilger · 2006 · Book Haven

NZ$15.50 (€7.77 | $8.56 | £6.48 | ¥1,367)

Bantam 2006 Paperback, 352pp. John Pilger is one of the worlds pre-eminent investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. His best-selling books of reportage, which include HEROES & HIDDEN VOICES, have in the words of Noam Chomsky been a beacon of light in often dark tim…

Sancti Augustini Episcopi Hipponensis & Ecclesiae Doctoris opuscula quaedam selecta. (...) Editio quarta.

AUGUSTINUS. · 1662 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta

€90.00 ($99.20 | £75.07 | ¥15,843)

Brussels (Bruxellae), E typographia Francisci Vivien, 1662. 12mo. (XXIV),514,(2 blank) p. Vellum 12 cm (Ref: STCV:12911771; Bib. catholica Neerlandica impressa 11822) (Details: 5 thongs laced through the joints. Short title in ink on the back. Marbled endpapers. Lacking the fro…

Ru van Rossem, een modern grafisch kunstenaar. With english summary / Mit deutschem Auszug / Avec un résumé français.

ROSSEM, R. VAN.- BAAS,D.P. · 1955 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta

€105.00 ($115.73 | £87.59 | ¥18,483)

N.pl., Stichting De Getijden Pers, 1955. 45,(1) p. Red and green wrapper over stiff card cover. Oblong, 19x21.5 cm (No. 17 of 325 copies printed; 25 copies were reserved for the artist and the publisher, and not in commerce. It was published as volume 8 of the series 'De Gouden…

Untersuchungen über den Mythos der berühmtern Völker der alten Welt, vorzüglich der Griechen; dessen Entstehen, Veränderungen und Innhalt.

HUG,I.L. · 1812 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta

€190.00 ($209.42 | £158.49 | ¥33,446)

Freiburg und Konstanz, In der Herderschen Buchhandlung, 1812. (VI),IV,349,(1 blank) p. Half cloth 25 cm (Details: Simple binding. 4 large folding plates, 1: of the zodiac of the two hemispheres, 3 & 4: 'Alter Tierkreis den man in dem Tempel zu Tentyra in Oberägypten gefunden h…

TYPED LETTERS SIGNED (TLSs)

SULLIVAN, Frank · Charles Agvent

$312.50 (€283.52 | £236.50 | ¥49,908)

Saratoga Springs. A pair of one-page typed letters SIGNED in full, the earlier to a Professor Wells and the later to an unnamed editor. In the letter to Wells, Sullivan gives his permission to include his essay "Football is King" in an anthology: "In fact, I am including it myse…

NO SIRREE! An Anonymous Entertainment Playbill, by the Vicious Circle of the Hotel Algonquin, 49th Street Theater, Sunday Evening April 30th, 1922, Theater courtesy of Messrs. Shubert

[ALGONQUIN ROUND TABLE] · 1922 · Charles Agvent

$11,875.00 (€10,773.84 | £8,986.94 | ¥1,896,511)

New York. Golden PTG Service. First Edition. A 5-1/2" x 23-1/4" broadside matted and framed to 10-1/4" x 28-1/2" serving as the original playbill for this famous one-night performance of what is considered the foundational document of the Algonquin Round Table. All of the member…