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Crocodile Bird. a gripping psychological thriller from the award-winning Queen of Crime

Juliet Stevenson, Ruth Rendell · 1994 · Klondyke BV

€7.95 ($8.76 | £6.63 | ¥1,399)

Paperback; 1994; Dell Pub Co; 368pp.; Vouw voorplat, leeslijntjes in de rug. let op WORDT GELEVERD MET ander omslag DAN GETOOND. -- Conditie: Redelijk; When her mother, Eve, tells Liza that she must leave their remote home, the gatehouse of a country mansion, Liza is terrified. …

1421 Year China Discovered World. The Year China Discovered The World

Gavin Menzies, Neil Hanson, Neil Hanson · 2004 · Klondyke BV

€7.95 ($8.76 | £6.63 | ¥1,399)

Paperback; 1e druk, 2004; Bant; 649pp.; Leeslijntjes in de verschoten rug; overigens fris en schoon binnenwerk, recht boekblok -- Conditie: Redelijk; In 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admiral…

Marches

Rory Stewart · 2016 · Klondyke BV

€7.95 ($8.76 | £6.63 | ¥1,399)

Hardcover, hardcover; 1e druk, 2016; Mariner Books; 368pp.; Conditie: Goed; `This is travel writing at its best.' Katherine Norbury, Observer An Observer Book of the Year His father Brian taught Rory Stewart how to walk, and walked with him on journeys from Iran to Malaysia. Now…

Who Were The Pharaohs?. A Guide to their Names, Reigns and Dynasties

Stephen Quirke · 2010 · Klondyke BV

€9.00 ($9.92 | £7.51 | ¥1,584)

Paperback; 1e druk, 2010; British Museum Press; 112pp.; Paperback in prima staat, idem omslag. -- Conditie: Goed; In Ancient Egypt, a name did more than express ones identity; it incorporated it, forming a profound element of it. This book covers 3000 years of history from the d…

De meisjes van de suikerwerkfabriek

Loo · 1946 · Klondyke BV

€7.95 ($8.76 | £6.63 | ¥1,399)

Hardcover, hardcover; 1e druk; Reeks Schrijvers van Nu. Schoon en gaaf ex., ook wat losse stofomslag betreft. -- Conditie: Goed; Tessa de Loo (Bussum, 1946 ) is he t pseudoniem van Tineke Duyvené de Wit. Zij debuteerde in 1983 met de verhalenbundel 'De meisjes van de suikerwerkf…

Digital Ground. Architecture, Pervasive Computing, and Environmental Knowing

Malcolm Mccullough · 2004 · Klondyke BV

€9.00 ($9.92 | £7.51 | ¥1,584)

Hardcover, hardcover; 2004; Mit Press Ltd; 290pp.; Boek schoon, fris & gaaf; losse stofomslag met verwaarloosbare gebruikssporen. -- Conditie: Goed; A theory of place for interaction design. Digital Ground is an architect's response to the design challenge posed by pervasive com…

In The Footsteps Of Churchill

Richard Holmes · 2006 · Klondyke BV

€9.50 ($10.47 | £7.93 | ¥1,672)

Paperback; 2006; BBC; 464pp.; Conditie: Goed; 'Richard Holmes provides a truly fresh interpretation of the great man Holmess mature and wise portrait is studded with facts about the period and episodes in Churchills life that amuse, engage and entice. Richard Holmess insightful …

The Mineral Conchology of Great Britain; or Coloured Figures and Descriptions of those remains of Testaceous Animals or Shells, which have been preserved at various times and depths in the Earth.

SOWERBY (James) SOWERBY (James de Carle) & SOWERBY (George Brettingham) · 1812 · Forest Books

£11,819.63 (€14,167.70 | $15,615.38 | ¥2,493,575)

London: Printed by Benjamin Meredith [and others], 1812-29. First edition, 6 vols., large 8vo (233 x 144 mm), engraved portrait frontispiece, complete with 611 hand-coloured engraved plates, each with a letterpress description (numbered 1-609: including 33 and 184 bis; 22 foldin…

A Catalogue of the British, Medicinal, Culinary, and Agricultural Plants, Cultivated in the London Botanical Garden. To which are prefixed, Proposals for opening it by Subscription.

CURTIS (William) · 1783 · Forest Books

£698.75 (€837.56 | $923.15 | ¥147,415)

London: Sold by B. White, 1783. First edition, 8vo (170 x 110 mm), vi, [2], 9-149, [3]pp., with the final advert leaf and list of 40 subscribers which includes Sir Joseph Banks, Lord Bute, Daines Barrington Lettsom, and Thomas White, folding plan, orig. boards, rubbed, uncut, pa…

Generale beschrijvinghe van Indien. Ende in 't besonder van 't Coninckrijck van Guseratten, staende onder de beheersinge van den groot machtighen coninck Chaiahan: anders genaemt den grooten Mogor. ...Including:- Corte beschrijvinghe van het coninckrijcke Cuncam, ofte Decam, staende onder de beheersinge, van den grootmachtigen Sultan, Mamedh, Idelxa, Coninck van Visiapour.- Aenwijsinge van meest alle custen, drooghten ende reden, om door gansch Indien te seylen.Batavia, Druckerye vande Gansen Pen, 1638 [= Amsterdam, J. Jansonius 1645]. 3 parts in 1 volume. Oblong 4to. Later half vellum.

TWIST, Johan van. · 1645 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,750.00 ($1,928.82 | £1,459.97 | ¥308,007)

[12], 112 pp.General description of India and in particular of the Kingdoms of Gujarat and Deccam, by the director of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in Northwest India: Johan van Twist. He was responsible for the Dutch activities in four cities of the Kingdom of Gujarat: Ahm…

Icones selectæ plantarum, quas in Japonia collegit et delineavit.London, [Library of the British Museum], 1791. Folio (42 x 26.5 cm.). With 59 etched plates, (8 are double-page), by Daniel Mackenzie. Slightly later half calf, marbled sides, gold-tooled monogram AL on spine.

KAEMPFER, Engelbert (Sir Joseph BANKS, ed.). · 1651 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€38,000.00 ($41,882.92 | £31,702.11 | ¥6,688,160)

[4], 3, [1 blank] pp.First and only edition of one of the rarest books on Japanese flora. The author Engelbert Kaempfer (1651 - 1716) was a professor from Lemgo, Germany, who joined the Dutch East India Company (VOC) as a medical doctor in 1685. After periods in what are now Ind…

Het secreet-boek vol heerlijke konsten. Als van de hooftstoffen in elks gebruik, vande gebreken, siekten en qualen der menschen, van tamme en wilde dieren ..., bloemen, kruiden en saden ..., van olien en salven te bereiden, van distileren en andere weetenschappen; met een aenhangsel verrijkt, uyt een groot getal Latijnsche, Italiaansche, Francoische, Hoog- en Neder-duitsche autheuren vergadert.Leeuwarden, Hendrik Rintjes, 1694. 12mo. With a woodcut vignet on title-page. Contemporary vellum with boards partly folded over the edge, with manuscript short-title on spine.

BATTUS, Carolus. · 1609 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

573, [3] pp.A popular Dutch book of secrets. This is the very rare last (11th?) edition, the first edition was printed in Dordrecht in 1609. We have located only two copies of the present edition in libraries, both in Amsterdam (VU & UB). The complier, physician Carolus Battus (…

Rei agrariae auctores legesque variae. Quaedam nunc primum, caetera emendatiora prodeunt curâ.Including: Antiquitatum agrariarum liber singularis.Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge, 1674. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. With an integral engraved allegorical frontispiece, a general title-page with a woodcut decoration, 6 integral divisional titles including one for the Antiquitatum agrariarum, 3 folding engraved plates, 55 further engravings on integral leaves (15 full page), numerous woodcut illustrations in the text (mostly geometric diagrams) and woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine, sprinkled edges.

GOES, Willem and Nicolas RIGAULT · 1611 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[20], 360, [60]; 328 pp.First and only edition of a collection of texts on land surveying and agricultural law from classical antiquity, known as the Corpus agrimensorum Romanorum, here edited by Willem Goes (1611-1686). The classical authors include Aggenus Urbicus, Frontinus, …

Twee-rampspoedige zee-reyzen, den enen ... met een Fransch Oost Indiesch Compagnie-schip, genaamt Le Prince, ... Den anderen, met het Hollandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie schip, genaamt Rustenwerk, ...Amsterdam, Bernardus Mourik, [1752 or soon after]. 4to. With 2 etched plates, the publisher's woodcut BM cypher monogram on the title-page, a woodcut tailpiece and 2 woodcut decorated initials. Boards covered with modern pink decorated paperl.

[VOC - SHIPWRECK & PIRACY]. · 1752 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[2], 37, [1] pp.Second and rare edition of an account of two fatal voyages with two ships. The first voyage was made with the French East Indiaman Le Prince and was commanded by Captain Morin. On 19 February 1752 this ship left the port of Lorient, sailing for Pondicherry. Howev…

[Views of Singapore and surroundings].[Singapore, ca. 1870]. 20 large uniform albumen prints (21 x 27 cm), all but 1 in landscape format. Each print mounted on paperboard (24.5 x 32.5 cm) with a manuscript series number and a German caption. Kept in a modern black cloth clamshell box.

[SINGAPORE - PHOTOGRAPHS]. [SACHTLER, August, and others]. · 1839 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€18,000.00 ($19,839.28 | £15,016.79 | ¥3,168,076)

A uniform set of large photographic albumen prints of Singapore, including exterior views of traditional, European and mixed-style buildings, landscapes, the botanical gardens, etc., many with European and/or Malay people in the scene and some with horse-drawn carriages, or boat…

Skizzen aus dem Orient, gesammelt in den Jahren 1840 und 1841. | Esquisses de l'Orient, recueillies dans les années 1840 et 1841.Darmstadt, Ernst Kern; Paris, H. Gache, 1843. Oblong 1mo (48 x 63.5 cm). With 6 tinted lithographed plates by Frisch, with captions in German and French below. The first three in the deluxe issue printed by B. Dondorf, Frankfurt am Main, the last three in the regular issue printed by G. Küstner. Original publisher's letterpress printed wrappers, with a list of subscribers and advertisements on the back of the front wrapper.

FRISCH, Friedrich. · 1813 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€18,000.00 ($19,839.28 | £15,016.79 | ¥3,168,076)

Extremely rare set of 6 beautifully lithographed plates showing scenes made on a journey to the Middle East to procure Arabian horses for the Royal Wuerttemberg stud farms Weil and Marbach, by Friedrich Frisch (1813-1886), court painter in Darmstadt. In 1840/41 he accompanied th…

A history of the late Siege of Gibraltar. With a description and account of that garrison, from the earliest periods. … Third edition.London, T. Spilsbury, 1786. 4to. With an engraved device on title-page, 4 folding engraved maps and 6 folding engraved views. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine.

DRINKWATER BETHUNE, John. · 1779 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

XXIV, 356 pp.Third edition of a detailed account of the Great Siege of Gibraltar (1779-1783), one of the longest sieges in history, by the English army officer and military historian John Drinkwater Bethune (1762-1844). When he was 15, Drinkwater joined the 72nd Regiment of Foot…

Histoire des naturels des Iles Tonga ou des Amis, situées dans l'Océan Pacifique depuis leur découverte par le Capitaine Cook; rédigée par John Martin, sur les détails fournis par William Mariner, qui y a passé plusieurs années; ...Paris, Gide and Nicolle (back of half-title: Imprimerie de J. Smith), 1817. 2 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary red half morocco, gold-tooled spine, paper sides with the crowned monogram of Empress Marie-Louise in gold on both sides of each volume.

MARINER, William and John MARTIN (editor). · 1791 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

XXII, [23]-398, [2]; 398 pp.First edition of the French translation of an important account of the Tonga islands by the English William Charles Mariner (1791-1853), who lived in Tonga for four years. When he was young, Mariner sailed in the privateer Porte au Prince to the New W…

Histoire des deux conquestes d'Espagne par les Mores, la premiere faite par Tarif & Mussa, sur les Crestiens; la seconde, par Abdalasis, sur les Mores revoltez, et des revolutions arrive´es dans l'empire des califes pendant pre´s de cinquante ans. ...Paris, widow of François Muguet, 1708. 12mo. Contemporary mottled calf, red edges.

LUNA, Miguel de. · 1592 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[24], 485, [4], [3 blank] pp.First edition of the second French translation of a history of the conquest of Spain by the Moors, detailing events from 712 to 761 CE, a description of Spain during the same period, and a biography of Almanzor (ca. 938-1002), the Islamic ruler of th…

Göttingisches Magazin der Wissenschaften und Litteratur.Göttingen, Johann Christian Dieterich, 1780. 6 parts in 3 volumes. 8vo. With an engraved portrait of James Cook as frontispiece of part 2, 5 engraved plates (including one coloured by hand), 4 folding engraved plates (including one printed on blue paper and with highlights in silver) and one folding plate with letterpress music. Modern paste-paper boards.

LICHTENBERG, Georg Christoph and Georg FORSTER. · 1742 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€4,750.00 ($5,235.36 | £3,962.76 | ¥836,020)

[8], 168; [1], [1 blank], 169-334;First edition of the complete first series of a scientific and literary periodical, compiled by the German writer Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799) and the German writer, naturalist and ethnologist Georg Forster (1754-1794), who joined Cap…