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Liber de sarcienda ecclesiae concordia deque sedandis opinionum dissidiis, cum aliis non nullis lectu dignis. Omnia recens nata, et nunc primum typis excusa.Antwerp, Michiel Hillen van Hoochstraten, 1523. 8vo. With a full-page woodcut illustration incorporating Hillen van Hoochstraten’s device on the last page, and 3 woodcut decorated initials. Modern boards covered with a leaf from a Latin incunable, probably part of a commentary on the Song of Solomon, red sprinkled edges.

ERASMUS, Desiderius. · 1499 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€2,750.00 ($3,031.00 | £2,294.23 | ¥484,012)

[56] ll.First Antwerp edition, published in the same year as the first Froben edition in Basel of Erasmus’ De sarcienda ecclesiae concordia. Dedicated to Julius Pflug of Eytra (1499-1564), later the last Catholic Bishop of Naumburg, the work sets out Erasmus’ most urgent appeal …

Gedenkwaardige voyagie van Gerret Vermeulen naar Oost-Indien, in't jaar 1668, aangevangen, en in't jaar 1674. voltrokken...Amsterdam, Jan Claesz ten Hoorn, 1676. 4to. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece, 6 almost half-page engravings in the text, and a decorated woodcut initial. Modern blind-tooled sprinkled half calf.

VERMEULEN, Gerrit · 1668 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€3,950.00 ($4,353.62 | £3,295.35 | ¥695,217)

[4], 91, [1 blank] pp.Very rare first and only edition of a beautifully illustrated account of a voyage to the Dutch East Indies, undertaken from 1668 to 1674 by Gerrit Vermeulen (dates unknown), on the Dutch East India Company (VOC) ship Eendracht. The work contains detailed de…

Liber de figuris, & vitiis orationis. His alia quaedam adijiu[n]tur. Vaeneun t apud eundem.[Paris?, Pierre Gromors?, 1529]. 8vo. With a woodcut title frame, the upper block is an illustration of the Last Supper. Modern vellum.

STERCK VAN RINGELBERG, Joachim. · 1500 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€5,750.00 ($6,337.55 | £4,797.03 | ¥1,012,024)

[8] ll.Extremely rare rhetorical and grammatical treatise by the Antwerp humanist Joachim Sterck van Ringelberg (or Joachimus Fortius Ringelbergius, 1500-1536). Ringelberg was a native of Antwerp and an associate of Erasmus. He, studied, and later taught, at the Collegium Trilin…

De ratione disputandi, praesertim in re theologica ...[Augsburg], (colophon:) Sigmund Grimm & Marcus Wirsung, 1519. 4to. With title, printed in red and black, set within an elaborately decorated woodcut frame, and 3 large and 4 smaller woodcut decorated initials. Modern, gold-tooled half calf.

MOSELLANUS, Petrus. · 1493 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€3,750.00 ($4,133.18 | £3,128.50 | ¥660,016)

[27], [1 blank] ll.Early edition of the Latin oration delivered by Petrus Mosellanus (or Peter Schade, 1493-1524) at the opening of the Leipzig Disputation, 27 June 1519, commissioned by George, Duke of Saxony (1471-1539). This work offers a contemporary witness to one of the de…

Hyperaspistes diatribae adversus Servum Arbitrium Martini Lutheri ... ab autore recognitus.Basel, Johann Froben, July 1526. Small 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page and final leaf, and 2 decorated woodcut initials. Modern calf.

ERASMUS, Desiderius. · 1520 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€5,500.00 ($6,062.00 | £4,588.46 | ¥968,023)

[120] ll.First revised edition of Erasmus' response to Martin Luther, which is part of their famous theological debate that took place in the 1520s. Erasmus received Luther's work in February 1526. The Hyperaspistes is his first reply to it, which he composed within a few days i…

De godvreezende zeeman, ofte de nieuwe Christelyke zeevaart, bestuurd door een schriftmatige verhandeling, van zes-en-twintig uytgelezene schriftuurplaatsen ... Amsterdam, the heirs of the widow of Gijsbert de Groot, 1725. 8vo (ca. 15.5 x 10 cm). With the engraved title-page by Jan Luyken (within collation) and a woodcut vignette on the typographical title-page. Contemporary sprinkled calf.

N. S. V. L. [= LEEUWAARDEN, Nicolaas Simon van] and Hieronymus Simons van ALPHEN. · 1648 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[1], [1 blank], [52], 754 pp.Rare fifth edition of a very popular Dutch work for seafarers written by Nicolaas Simon van Leeuwaarden (1648-1730), a prolific Dutch author of mainly Christian works. He was the grandfather of the Dutch playwright and poet Nicolaas Simon van Winter …

Taboada curiosa, novamente reformada, e augmentada ...Lisbon, Domingos Rodrigues, 1747. 4to. With the engraved coat-of-arms of the dedicatee Alexandre Metello de Sousa Menezes at the start of the dedication, 4 woodcut decorated initials, a woodcut headpiece at the start of each chapter, a headpiece made up of typographical ornaments at the start of the prologue, and 2 woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary vellum, red spotted edges.

GARRIDO, João Antonio. · 1687 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€4,500.00 ($4,959.82 | £3,754.20 | ¥792,019)

[18], 182 pp.Very rare merchant's guide. This popular handbook gives rates of exchange for many European currencies, rules for basic math, instructions on bookkeeping for companies, and a number of lists, including notable items for the numbers 1-12, religious orders in chronolo…

Egypt & Nubia.Cairo [and elsewhere in Egypt and Nubia], 1838-1839. Folio (48 x 36.5 cm). Album containing 42 pencil and other drawings (a few partly coloured) and 3 squeezes, some on the album leaves and some loosely inserted, mostly of ancient Egyptian and Nubian architecture, sculpture, bas-reliefs and hieroglyphic inscriptions, but also with a few botanical drawings and landscapes with buildings. Most have English-language captions in brown ink and are signed and dated 1838 to 1839. New black half morocco, using mid-19th-century marbled paper for the sides.

ROBERTSON, William (draughtsman). · 1838 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€45,000.00 ($49,598.19 | £37,541.97 | ¥7,920,190)

[37] ll. including title leaf and 7 blanks, plus 16 loosely inserted ll.An album of drawings (and squeezes of bas reliefs) made by William Robertson on a journey from Cairo in December 1838 down the Nile into Nubia, reaching as far south as the present-day Egyptian-Sudanese bord…

[Collection of 34 albumen prints of Egypt].[Cairo?, 1888-1900?]. 34 albumen prints (ca. 22 x 27 cm) mounted on cream cardstock (ca. 28 x 35.5 cm).

[PHOTOGRAPHY - EGYPT], SÉBAH, Jean Pascal. · 1872 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€4,000.00 ($4,408.73 | £3,337.06 | ¥704,017)

Remarkable collection of 34 stunning photographic prints of Egypt, all numbered, titled and signed in the negative by photographer Jean Pascal Sébah (1872-1947), who owned the leading studio for Orientalist photography. He was even named the official photographer of the Sultan o…

[Collection of 13 photographs of the Alhambra in Granada].[Granada, ca. 1865]. All albumen photographic prints (18 x 24 cm) are mounted on black card stock (29.5 x 21 cm).

[PHOTOGRAPHY - ALHAMBRA]. MAUZAISSE, Charles (photographer). · 1823 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€9,500.00 ($10,470.73 | £7,925.53 | ¥1,672,040)

[13] ll.Collection of 19th-century albumen photographic prints of the Alhambra in Spain by Charles Mauzaisse (ca. 1823-1885?; fl. 1860s). The beautiful images show many different parts of the Alhambra, especially of the court and palace of lions, including the central fountain a…

Histori van het notarisschap, behelzende den oorsprong, 't begin, en den voortgang van het notarisschap, kancellierschap, sekretarisschap, griffierschap, klerkschap, enz. byzonder in de Nederlanden, enz. mitsgaders de Engelsche praktyk, ... Als ook ontrent het koopen, aanneemen, en administreeren; en het verkoopen, en transporteeren van Engelsche effecten; onder andere gevolgd in de Nederlanden...Rotterdam, Philippus en Jakobus Losel, 1745. 8vo. With the title printed in red and black, a folding engraving of notarial seals, and two decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary parchmen.

SCHELLING, Pieter van der. · 1691 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[74], 746, [75], [1 blank] pp.First edition of an extensive treatise on the notarial profession, in which all aspects of the notarial work are treated. According to Pitlo, it is the only Dutch work that describes the history of the profession. It discusses the different types of…

Le Pays d'Israël. Collection de cent vues prises d'après nature dans la Syrie et la Palestine pendant son voyage d'exploration géographique en 1851 et 1852.Paris, Veuve Jules Renouard, 1857. Elephant folio (44 x 57 cm). With 99 lithographed plates and 1 engraved map. Contemporary half red morocco and brown marbled paper, with the title lettered in gold on the gold-tooled spine, marbled endpapers.

VELDE, Charles William Meredith van de. · 1818 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€28,000.00 ($30,861.10 | £23,359.45 | ¥4,928,118)

[1], 88 pp.First edition of this rare and splendid series of Palestinian views, uncommonly complete with all the plates. The ninety-nine beautiful lithographs, most subtly tinted in blues and warm tones, show magnificent views of Beirut, Sidon, Mount Hermon, the ruins of Hazour,…

Dagbok öfwer en Ostindisk resa åren 1750, 1751, 1752. Med anmärkningar uti naturkunnigheten, främmande folkslags sprak, seder, hushållning m.m. jåmte 12 tabeller och afledne skepps-predikanten Torens bref.Stockholm, Lorentz Ludwig Grefing (printed by N. von Oelreich), 1757. 8vo. With 12 folding engraved plates (numbered 1-12), a small woodcut ornament at the start of the dedication and a decorated initials and an elaborate head-pieces, both built up from typographical ornaments. Contemporary(?) gold-tooled half sprinkled calf, with a beige title-label lettered in gold on the spine, sprinkled paper sides, red edges.

OSBECK, Peter and Olof TORÉN. · 1723 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[8], 376, [16] pp.First edition of an account of two Swedish voyages to China and the East Indies, the first by the Swedish minister, botanist and explorer Peter (Pehr) Osbeck (1723-1805) and the second by the Swedish naturalist Olof Torén (1718-1753). Osbeck's journal contains …

Essai sur la coca (erythroxylon coca) du Perou.Paris, Rignoux, imprimeur de la faculté de médicine, 1862. 4to. Side stitched through two holes.

DEMARLE, Louis-Gustave. · 1827 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

52 pp.Rare 19th-century work about the medicinal properties of the coca plant, specifically Erythroxylum coca or Amazonian coca, which is native to Peru and Bolivia. The work is an academic (doctoral) thesis and was written by Louis-Gustave Demarle (1827-1890), to receive his do…

Recherches chimiques et physiologiques sur l'erythoxylum coca du Perou et la cocaïne.Paris, A. Parent, imprimeur de la faculté de médecine, 1868. 4to. With a lithographic plate of coca leaves and 7 figures in the text showing the tension on the arteries after ingesting coca in various ways. Side stitched through 2 holes.

MORÉNO Y MAÏZ, Thomas. · 1860 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)

[8], 90, [2] pp.This exceptionally rare doctoral thesis is widely considered to be the first ever study on the physical effects of cocaine. It was published less than a decade after cocaine was first created (1860). The research was conducted by Thomas Moréno y Maïz (dates unkno…

Schaede die den staet der Vereenichde Nederlanden, en d’inghesetenen van dien, is aenstaende, by de versuymenisse van d'Oost en West-Indische negotie onder een octroy en societeyt te begrijpen.The Hague, Jan Vreely, 1644. Small 4to. Flexible boards.

[VOC - WIC - MERGER]. · 1630 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

51, [1] pp.An anonymous pamphlet passionately urging the Dutch East and West India Companies (VOC and WIC) to join forces and form a single united company and lamenting what the author, in the title, describes as the “damage that the state of the United Netherlands and its peopl…

[Photographs showing mob killings, grieving families and funerals].Palermo, [ca. 1961-1966?]. 5 loose silver gelatin photographic prints on baryta paper, ca. 24 x 30 cm, all but one with manuscript captions on the reverse.

[PHOTOGRAPHS - MAFIA - SICILY]. SCAFIDI, Nicola. · 1925 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€4,500.00 ($4,959.82 | £3,754.20 | ¥792,019)

A collection of 5 loose silver gelatin photographic prints, showing mob killings, funerals and families by Nicola Scafidi (1925-2004), Sicily's most important mafia photographer of his time. The Palermo photographer Scafidi spent much of his career making striking yet chilling p…

Essai sur les principes régissant l'administration de la justice aux Indes Orientales Hollandaises surtout dans les îles de Java et Madoura et leur application.Semarang, G.C.T van Dorp; Amsterdam, Scheltema & Holkema, 1880. 8vo. With an original sepia-toned photographic print of a session of the local (indigenous) court on Java and a lithographed folding map of the Dutch East Indies by the widow and sons of E. Spanier in The Hague. Half red sheepskin with blue decorated paper sides, gold-tooled spine, red sprinkled edges.

WINCKEL, Christiaan Philip Karel. · 1854 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

XII, 315, [1] pp.First edition of an essay concerning the administration of justice in the Dutch East Indies, including a French translation of the complete set of governmental regulations regarding the Dutch East Indies (of 1854), by Christiaan Philip Karel (von) Winckel. Winck…

Delineatio domus recreatricis adjacentiumq[ue] prospectuum amoenissimorum extra urbem Zutphaniensem, auspicys & jussu ... Arnoldi Justi ...Amsterdam, Pieter Schenk, [1702 or ca. 1720]. Oblong 4to (21 x 27 cm). With an engraved title-page and 16 numbered engraved views (ca. 15 x 19 cm), each with a caption in Dutch and Latin below the border, mostly in two lines. 19th-century grey-brown paste-paper with a wave pattern over boards.

SCHENK, Pieter. · 1669 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€2,750.00 ($3,031.00 | £2,294.23 | ¥484,012)

[1], 16, [1 blank] engraved ll.A magnificent series of 16 views of the house and gardens of "De Voorst", the country estate of Arnold Joost van Keppel (1669/70 - 1718), Baron of Ashford, Margrave of Bury and Count of Albemarle, built by the architect Jacob Roman (1640 - ca.1716)…

[Photographs of Budapest, Vienna and other cities].Budapest, Dresden, Innsbruck, München, Calderoni és társa, Verlag von Stengel & Co, Fritz Gratl, 1897/1899. Oblong album (32 x 41 cm). Album with 43 photographic prints of various sizes (22 x 16.5 to 30 x 24 cm ), pasted on thick paperboard. Half black leather, red buckram sides, gold-stamped spine with the date "1899".

[AUSTRIA-HUNGARY - GERMANY]. · 1897 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€3,950.00 ($4,353.62 | £3,295.35 | ¥695,217)

[43] ll.From mountains in Austria to city views and interiors of churches in Budapest, Vienna, Innsbruck and München: all can be found in the 43 photographic prints in the present album. They were taken in at the end of the nineteenth-century, probably in 1897 and 1899 according…