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Entdeckungs-Reise der französischen Corvette Astrolabe unternommen auf Befehl König Karls X. in den Jahren 1826-1827-1828-1829.Schaffhausen, J. Brodtmann, [ca. 1840]. 2 parts in 1 volume (text and plates). Folio. With a lithographed title-page and 60 lithographed plates. Modern green half morocco, original boards.

DUMONT D'URVILLE, Jules Sébastien César. · 1826 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€4,950.00 ($5,455.80 | £4,129.62 | ¥871,221)

118, [1], [1 blank]First and only edition of the German translation of a richly illustrated account of the first voyage of the French corvette Astrolabe to Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific from 1826 to 1829. The expedition was led by the French naval officer Jules Sé…

Collegie der medecyne, op-ghericht door den magistraet der stadt BrusselBrussels, Antoine Claudinot, 1721. With:(2) [BRUSSELS - MEDICAL COLLEGE]. [Collegie der medecyne, op-ghericht door den magistraet der stadt Brussel].Brussels, Antoine Claudinot, 1721.(3) WEIGEL, Christian Ehrenfried. Programma quo Christ. Ehrenfr. Weigel... fratris dilectissimi Caroli Henrici Bernhardi Weigel... dissertationem inauguralem... publice defendam indicit praemittens historiae baryllorium rudimenta.Greifswald, Anton Ferdinand Röse, 1785.(4) WEIGEL, Christian Ehrenfried and Karl Heinrich Bernhard WEIGEL. Dissertatio inauguralis sistens experimenta chemica et instrumenta chirurgica emendata.Greifswald, Anton Ferdinand Röse, 1785. 4 works in 1 volume. Small 4to (19.5 x 15 cm). Ad 3 with a folding letterpress dedication page and a woodcut headpiece of Minerva. Ad 4 with a folding engraved plate showing surgical instruments and a woodcut headpiece of Minerva. 19th-century boards, red title label on spine.

[BRUSSELS - MEDICAL COLLEGE]. · 1650 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,850.00 ($2,039.04 | £1,543.39 | ¥325,608)

[1], [1 blank], [6], 76, [4]; 76, [4]; 28; [1], [1 blank], [4], 50 pp.Ad 1-2: Third edition, in Dutch, of the statutes of the Medical College of the city of Brussels, first published in 1650, bound with a second copy lacking the preliminaries.Ad 3: Short lecture on beryllium by …

[Drop-title:] Breve ragguaglio di quanto è accaduto in Roma à Sig: Mandarini venuti co[n] il P: Guido Tasciard della compagnia di Giesù, inviato straordinario dal rè di Siam dopo l'Udienza hauuta da N.S. Innocenzo XI.(Colophon: Rome, Domenico Antonio Ercole, 1689). Small 4to (21.5 x 15.5 cm). With decorated woodcut initial on the first page. Disbound.

[TACHARD, Guy]. · 1651 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€3,800.00 ($4,188.29 | £3,170.21 | ¥668,816)

8 pp.Very rare first and only edition in the original Italian, of a pamphlet detailing the visit of the Siamese embassy to Rome, under de guidance of the Jesuit Guy Tachard, where they would meet with Pope Innocent XI.The French Jesuit missionary Guy Tachard (1651-1712) was sent…

Egypt and Palestine. Photographed and described.London, James S. Virtue, [1858-1859]. 2 volumes. Folio (44.5 x 32.5 cm). With 76 photographs on plates by Francis Frith (ca. 14.5-16.5 x 21.5-23 cm), each with a separate leaf of text. Contemporary red morocco, gold-tooled spines and boards, marbled endpapers, gilt edges.

FRITH, Francis. · 1856 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€40,000.00 ($44,087.28 | £33,370.64 | ¥7,040,169)

First edition of an important early photobook on the Near East by one of the greatest pioneers of early photography. From 1856 to 1859, Frith (1822-1898) made three visits to Egypt and the Holy Land. He published this selection of his photographs, from wet-collodion 9 x 7 inch g…

Neuer Vestungs-Bau.Düsseldorff, Jacobus von Wesel (colophon: printed by the heirs of Johann Kattepoel), 1709. 4to. With 14 (of 15) folding engraved plates. Contemporary tanned sheepskin.

COEHOORN, Menno van. · 1648 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€2,250.00 ($2,479.91 | £1,877.10 | ¥396,009)

[38], 203, [1] pp. plus plates.First German edition (second issue) of one of the greatest classics of the art of fortification, by the Inspector General of Dutch fortifications and Master General of the artillery, Menno van Coehoorn. While the Dutch had established themselves as…

Les fortifications ... contenans la maniere de fortifier toutes sorte de places ...Lyon, Philippe Borde, 1640 (engraved title-page 1641). With an engraved title-page, engraved portrait of the author, 53 numbered engravings (10 double-page. Later 17th-century gold-tooled calf, each board with the French royal arms, gold-tooled spine. Rebacked, with the original backstrip laid down.

VILLE, Antoine de. · 1596 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€2,250.00 ($2,479.91 | £1,877.10 | ¥396,009)

Engraved title + [10], 441, [1 blank], [12] pp. plus 9 engravings not counted in the pagination.Second Lyons edition of the most comprehensive and most important French fortification manual before Vauban, especially noteworthy for the 53 engravings (plus the engraved title-page)…

Delle fortificationi ... libri cinque.Venice, Antonio Rampazetto, 1597 (colophon: 1596). Large folio (34.5 x 25 cm). With a large engraved device on the title-page, woodcut printer's device above the colophon, an engraved plate with a portrait of the author (often lacking), and more than 150 diagrams and woodcut illustrations on the integral leaves, many full-page or double-page. Modern vellum in 17th-century style.

LORINI, Buonaiuto. · 1597 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[12], “219” [= 217], [1], [2 blank] pp.First edition, one of the 1597 issues (with a rare dedication), of the pioneering "first systematic course of instruction in all aspects of military architecture, and the first work to give measured [fortification] plans in its illustration…

Medicina spagyrica oder spagyrische Artzneykunst. In welcher I. Compendium Hermeticum, … II. Antidotarium chymicum, … III Jatrium chymicum, … mit Hinzuthuung Pharmacopoea chymica und Herbarii Hermetica zusammen gelesen, und in gewisse Ordnung gebracht. [Engraved title-page:] Medicina spagyrica tripartita.Frankfurt, Johann Hüttner, 1648. 12mo. With an engraved frontispiece by Sebastian Furck (with his monogram at the foot), including portraits of Hermes Trismegistus and Arnaldus de Villa Nova. Contemporary vellum.

RHUMEL (RHUMELIUS), Johann Pharamund. · 1597 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€3,250.00 ($3,582.09 | £2,711.36 | ¥572,014)

[60], 769, [23] pp.Rare first edition of a collection of three earlier published works of the German alchemist and physician Johann Pharamund Rhumel (1597-1661), translated into German and here incorporating information from two others. They all concern spagyric medicine, a term…

Vade-mecum medicum, in duas partes divisum, ...Leiden, Abraham and Jan Honkoop, 1800. 12mo. Contemporary mottled boards.

[PHARMACOPOEIA]. TAZEWELL, William. · 1798 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€2,250.00 ($2,479.91 | £1,877.10 | ¥396,009)

XII, 192 pp.Rare second edition of "the first general (as distinguished from hospital) 'pharmacopoeia' compiled by an American" (Cowen), first published at Paris in 1798. The first part of the book is a classification of diseases, and is taken word for word from the influential …

Ordinancie, statuyt ende policie gemaect byden coninck onsen aldernadichsten Heere, op tfeyt vande contracten vande asseurancien ende versekeringen in dese Nederlanden. Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1571. 4to. With armorial woodcut on the title page. Modern vellum.

[PHILIP II, King of Spain]. · 1570 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

15, [1 blank] pp.Rare royal decree on marine insurance addressed to the Council of Brabant, replacing the decree of 27 October 1570. In 1569 the Duke of Alfa took a radical measure by banning all marine insurance. "This "provisional" decree of 31 March 1569 was abolished by an o…

Veterum Persarum et Parthorum et Medorum religionis historia.Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1760. 4to. With 21 engraved plates (including 5 folding) by Michael Burghers. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum, with the manuscript title on the spine.

HYDE, Thomas. · 1975 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,800.00 ($1,983.93 | £1,501.68 | ¥316,808)

[40], 580 pp.Second edition of Thomas Hyde's important study into the pre-Islamic religions in Persia. It includes an account of the life of Zoroaster (Zarathustra) and a comparative study of Persian and other oriental languages. Hyde based himself on Latin, Greek and Arabic sou…

[Autograph letter, signed, to Reinier Arrenberg].Groningen, 2 February 1773. 4to. Brown ink on laid paper, addressed on the outside and with an armorial red wax seal.With: (2) [PORTRAIT]. [PUJOS, André]. P. Camper, …[Paris, André Pujos, 1786]. 4to. Mezzotint portrait on laid paper.

[AUTOGRAPH]. CAMPER, Petrus. · 1722 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[1], [1 blank, except for the address]; [1] ll.Signed autograph letter from the well-known Dutch anatomist Petrus Camper (1722-1789), professor of medicine and anatomy at the University of Groningen, to the bookseller, publisher and newspaper editor Reinier Arrenberg (1733-1812)…

Reize naar Oost-Indië en Persië, en de daar omliggende landen. Ondernomen langs een' ongewoonen weg.Amsterdam, De Compagnie, 1779. 2 volumes bound as 1. 4to. With 2 engraved title-pages, 2 folding engraved maps, one of India (44 x 51 cm), the other tracking Ives's journey from Basra to Latakia (ca. 42 x 56 cm), and 9 engraved plates (including 1 large folding). Early 20th-century boards.

IVES, Edward. · 1753 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€2,950.00 ($3,251.44 | £2,461.08 | ¥519,212)

[16], 324; [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], 379, [1] pp.First Dutch edition (second issue) of Ives's account of his voyage from England to India and his journey from Persia to England. From 1753 to 1757 the naval surgeon and traveller Edward Ives (1719-1786) was surgeon of the Ke…

La theologie naturelle ... traduite en François ...Rouen, Jean de la Mare, 1641. 8vo. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment.

SABUNDE (SEBONDE), Raymond of and Michel de MONTAIGNE (translator). · 1533 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[1], [1 blank], [13], [1 blank], 891, [49] pp.Sixth (?) edition of Michel de Montaigne's (1533-1592) translation of the Book of creatures or Natural theology by the Catalan theologian Raymund of Sabunde (ca. 1385-1436). Written round 1436, "the Book of creatures belongs to the t…

Voyage de Mons. Olof Torée[,] Aumonier de la Compagnie Suedoise des Indes Orientales, fait à Surate, à la Chine &c.Milan, Reycends brothers, 1771.With:(2) ECKEBERG, Carl Gustaf. Précis historique de l'économie rurale des Chinois.Milan, Reycends brothers, 1771.(3) BLACKFORD, Dominique de. Précis de l'état actuel des colonies Angloises dans l'Amérique Septentrionale. Milan, Reycends brothers, 1771. 3 works in 1 volume. 12mo. Contemporary French mottled calf, gold-tooled spine.

TORÉN, Olof. · 1766 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€3,250.00 ($3,582.09 | £2,711.36 | ¥572,014)

92; [4], 47, [1 blank]; 99, [1] pp.Ad 1-2: First French editions of two books about China, especially interesting for their botanical and agricultural information, bound with (ad 3): the first and only edition of their translator's book on the English colonies, including a 31-pa…

Dottrina Christiana. [Manuscript in Italian].[Genoa, ca. 1815/20]. 8vo. With 117 (of 118) full-page hand-coloured drawings, each in a frame of double rules (20.5 x 14 cm), with lively illustrations of the Christian doctrine, and text in Italian. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine.

[ASSAROTTI, Ottavio Giovanno Battista]. · 1753 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€18,500.00 ($20,390.37 | £15,433.92 | ¥3,256,078)

117 (of 118), [3 blank] ll., including the last 3 blanks.Important manuscript containing a method of teaching “Dottrina Christiana” (Christian doctrine) to Italian deaf-mutes, devised in Genoa by Padre Ottavio Giovanni Battista Assarotti (Genoa 1753-1829). Assarotti was an Itali…

Bibliographie instructive: ou traité de la connoissance des livres rares et singuliers.Paris, 1763-1769. 9 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spines. Supplement volumes (vol. 8-9) in slighty different mottled calf with gold-tooled spines.

DE BURE, Guillaume-François. · 1732 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[2], IV, III-LXXVI, 603, 17, 80; XXVIII, 772; XVI, 734; 544; XXIII, 631; 685; 687; XL, 621; 491, [1] pp.First edition of "the best of the eighteenth-century rare book bibliographies, important for the new classification scheme employed and for the extensive bibliographical data …

Verzeichniss der verschiedenen Arten und Abarten des Geschlechts Aloe, welche von den Herren von Willdenow, Haworth, de Candolle und Freiherrn von Jacquin beschrieben worden sind, oder noch unbeschrieben in den Gärten Deutschlands, Frankreichs und der Niederlanden sich befinden. [Schloss Dyck, near Dusseldorf, 1817]. 8vo. Original blue coated paper wrappers.

SALM-REIFFERSCHEID-DYCK, Joseph. · 1773 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.85 | ¥35,201)

8, 73, [1 blank] pp.German edition of a detailed catalogue of succulents, covering the family Alooideae. Also published in French, both editions with descriptions in Latin. Salm-Reifferscheid-Dyck (1773-1861) started collecting succulents at Schloss Dyck in 1800 after consortin…

De belydenis van een lichtmis ...[The Netherlands, ca. 1770]. 8vo. With 4 engraved plates. Contemporary red half roan, gold-tooled spine.

[EROTICA]. · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[2], 184 pp.Second copy located of the first and only edition of "Confessions of a libertine", an 18th-century Dutch picaresque, erotic novel in which the principal narrator Karel tells his fiancée Charlotte about his promiscuous past. The story starts with how his father met hi…

Oeuvres complètes d'Antoine-Raphaël Mengs ...Paris, à l'hôtel de Thou, 1786. 2 volumes bound as 1. 4to (27.7 x 20.7 cm). With a small woodcut device on both title pages, and woodcut head- and tailpieces throughout. Contemporary half beige calf.

MENGS, Anton Raphael, and José Nicolás de AZARA (editor). · 1741 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€850.00 ($936.85 | £709.13 | ¥149,604)

[2], viij, [2], 354 (= 350), [4], 392, [2], [2 blank] pp.First French edition, translated from the Italian by Hendrik Jansen (1741-1812), of the collected theoretical writings of Anton Raphael Mengs (1728-1779), one of the foremost painters and art theorists of the 18th century …