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La vie du venerable pere Ignace Azevedo, de la Compagnie de Jesus. L'histoire de son martyre, & de celui de trente-neuf autres de la même Compagnie. Le tout tiré des procès-verbaux dressés pour leur canonisation. Dédiée au Roi de Pologne. Paris, Hippolyte-Louis Guerin, 1744. 12mo. With engraved armorial headpiece above the dedication to King Stanislaus I of Poland. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine, gold fillets on board edges.

BEAUVAIS, Gilles-François. · 1695 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

XLIII, [5], 300 pp.First edition of a French biography of the Jesuit martyr Ignacio de Azevedo, by Father Gilles-François Beauvais (1695-1773), who modelled his book on the Italian biography by Father Cabral (pseudonym of Giulio Cesare Cordara) (1704-1785), published at Rome in …

Grondlegginge der teeken-konst, zynde een korte en zeekere weg om door middel van de geometrie of meetkunde, de teeken-konst volkomen te leeren. ... Tweede druk.Including: SEGNER, Johann Andreas. Beschryving van twee verscheide zeer bekwame en zuinige als mede het gezicht bewarende lampen, ...Amsterdam, Gerrit Tielenburg, 1766. 4to. With a engraved illustration on title-page, 8 engraved plates (including one mezzotint) and 6 engravings in text, mostly after designs by the author, and ad 2 with 3 folding engraved plates. Contemporary richly gold-tooled calf, gilt edges.

LAIRESSE, Gerard de. · 1640 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[16], 115, [1 blank]; [4], 16 pp.Second edition of a popular practical manual teaching the art of drawing by the famous Dutch painter Gerard de Lairesse (1640-1711). The book is divided into two parts, the first part teaching young children in 12 lessons the principles of drawin…

Traduction d'un exemplaire en langue Turque contenant le detail & la description des processions des jeunes, & des penitences que le grand seigneur dit Mahomet Soliman, Empereur Turk du soleil levant, & du couchant, souverain seigneur des seigneurs, & veritable successeur de la race du grand prophete Mahomet, a commandé de faire en tout son empire.Bordeaux, Pierre Abegou, 1687. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I and (extra added) a portrait of the Polish King Jan III Sobieski, by F. Jollain, inserted as a second frontispiece. Marbled wrappers.

[THE GREAT TURKISH WAR]. · 1640 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€9,000.00 ($9,919.64 | £7,508.39 | ¥1,584,038)

[2], 7, [1] pp.Very rare pamphlet published during the European wars against Turkey, with a frontispiece portrait of the Holy Roman Emperor Léopold I (1640-1705), Archduke of Austria and King of Bohemia and Hungary. He succeeded his father Ferdinand III in 1657 and immediately h…

Scherzi poetici e pittorici. (Colophon: Parma, Giambattista Bodoni, 1795). 8vo (22 x 14 cm). With engraved title-page and 40 engraved plates (plate size: ca. 7 x 11 cm). Richly gold-tooled red morocco by Rémy Petit (active 1855-1900), spine with 5 raised bands resulting in 6 compartments, one with black title-label and the other five gold-tooled with black oval inlays; the sides with gilt triple fillet borders, corner ornaments with same oval inlays and a central oval ornament (gold on green); further with gilt fillets on board edges and richly gold-tooled turn-ins with a floral motive, gilt edges.

[ROSSI, Giovanni Gherardo de]. · 1754 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€7,200.00 ($7,935.71 | £6,006.72 | ¥1,267,230)

[52] ll.One of the several issues of the elegant first edition of a collection of allegorical poetry by the playwright, poet and scholar Giovanni Gherardo de Rossi (1754-1827), containing epigrams, sonnets and other poems dedicated to love, featuring Venus and Cupid. It is one o…

Instruction détaillée pour porter les lunettes de toutes les différentes especes au plus haut degré de perfection dont elles sont susceptibles tirée de la théorie dioptrique de Mr. Euler le pere et mise a la portée de tous les ouvriers en ce genre. Avec la description dún microscope qui peut passer pour le plus parfait dans son espèce et qui est propre à produire tous les grossissemens qu'on voudra.St. Petersburg, Académie Imp. des Sciences, 1774. 4to. With 2 folding engraved plates. Contemporary Russian mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spine. Rebacked (ca. 1810?).

FUSS, Nicolas. · 1755 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[10], 83, [1 blank] pp. plus plates.First and only edition of an important manual on the construction of telescopes and microscopes, the first publication by Nicolas Fuss (1755-1826), who grew up in a modest Swiss family but was to become one of the leading mathematicians and as…

Dialogo ..., nel quale si ragiona delle qualità, diversità, e proprietà de i colori. Venice, Giovanni Battista & Melchiorre Sessa and brothers (colophon: 1565). Small 8vo (15 x 10.5 cm). With woodcut scrollwork Pegasus device on title-page, the word "Dilogo" in a woodcut scrollwork frame, 2 woodcut headpieces, 3 woodcut decorated initials (1 with a figure riding a griffon, 1 with a leopard(?)) and 3 fleurons. With the main text set in italic and preliminaries in roman. 18th-century half parchment (recased?).

DOLCE, Lodovico. · 1508 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€6,700.00 ($7,384.62 | £5,589.58 | ¥1,179,228)

87, [1] ll.First (and only early) edition of an important treatise on colour by Lodovico Dolce (1508-1568). Dolce's work is typical for the Venetian tradition. At first the Aristotelian propositions on colour are outlined. The main part of the treatise is concerned with the char…

Opera Omnia, recensuit Filon.Paris, A. Sautelet, 1828. 32mo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page. Contemporary gold-tooled dark blue morocco, with the author lettered in gold on the spine, a floral border in the centre of both boards, surrounded by a single fillet frame, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, white watered silk end papers.

HORATIUS FLACCUS, Quintus and Auguste FILON (editor) · 1765 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

VIII, 229, [1 blank] pp.Beautiful and finely bound miniature edition of the complete works of Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace, 65-8 BCE), and one of the real miracles of microscopic printing. The microscopic, 2.5 point type was created by Henri Didot the Elder (1765-1852) in th…

L'architecture à la mode ou sont les nouveaux dessins pour la décoration des bâtimens et jardins. Par les plus habils architectes sculpteurs peintres menuisiers jardiniers serruriers &c.Paris, Nicolas Langlois, [ca. 1675-ca. 1728? (engraved ca. 1655-ca. 1728)]. 2 volumes. Folio (31.5 x 22 cm). With 2 (identical) engraved title-pages and 497 engravings on 496 plates, including 52 double-page. Contemporary uniform brown calf, gold-tooled spines, gold-tooled board edges. Rebacked.

[LE PAUTRE, Jean and Pierre, and others]. · 1640 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€35,000.00 ($38,576.37 | £29,199.31 | ¥6,160,148)

[498] engr. ll., numbered in about 50 series.Magnificent collection of about 50 complete series of engravings of all kinds of ornaments and architectural details, mostly by Jean and Pierre Le Pautre. In the late seventeenth century, the enterprising Parisian print publisher Nico…

Pratica di fabricar scene, e machine ne'teatri.Pesaro, Flaminio Concordia, 1637. 4to. With the woodcut coat of arms of the dedicatee Cardinal Grimaldi on the title page and 49 woodcut diagrams and illustrations of decors and stage settings in the text, many illustrating the use of perspective to give an illusion of three dimensions and some showing mechanical systems, such as screens raised and lowered with pulleys. Decorated paper wrappers (ca. 1700?).

SABBATTINI, Nicola. · 1610 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€35,000.00 ($38,576.37 | £29,199.31 | ¥6,160,148)

[4], 89, [2] pp.Rare first edition, in the original Italian, of the first book devoted exclusively to stage design, stage architecture, machinery and special effects on stage. It is written in the form of directions to the architect who must transform a hall of state into a thea…

Tractatus physico-medicus de catechu, sive terra Japonica, in vulgus dicta ad normam Academiae Naturae-Curiosorum.Jena, Johannus Bielk, (printed by Samuel Krebs), 1679. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece depicting a Japanese man holding a shield with the inscription: "E.H.D. Catechu" designed by C. Nisius. Contemporary boards, wholly untrimmed.

HAGENDORN, Ehrenfried. · 1640 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€6,000.00 ($6,613.09 | £5,005.60 | ¥1,056,025)

[22], 82 pp.First edition of a very rare medical treatise by Ehrenfried Hagendorn (1640-1692), a Polish doctor and the personal physician of the Elector of Saxony. In the present Tractatus he introduced a new medical application for the popular exotic "terra Japonica" or catechu…

Lettres écrites de Lausanne.Including: Caliste ou suite des lettres écrites de Lausanne.Genève and Paris, Prault, 1788. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine.

[CHARRIERE, Isabelle de, Belle van ZUYLEN]. · 1740 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[4], 118, [2]; [2], 148, [4] pp.Fifth edition of a well-known series of fictional letters by the famous Dutch novelist and playwright Belle van Zuylen (1740-1805), known as Isabelle de Charrière after her marriage to the Swiss teacher Charles-Emmanuel de Charrière de Penthaz (17…

Medecijn-boeck. Daer inne, wt bevel des doorluchtighen hooch-gheborenen vorsten, ende heeren, heeren Lodewijck, hertoghe tot Wirtenberghe ... Meest voor alle lijfgebreken, ende cranckheyden wt gelesene en[de] beproefde medicijnen, die wt vele hooge ende nederstandes persoonen gheschrevene medicijnboecken, te samen, ende by een gebracht zijn. … Wt Hoogduytsche sprake getrouwelick overgeset.Dordrecht, Abraham Canin, 1598. 4 parts in 1 volume. Small 4to (19.5 x 14 cm). With Canin’s woodcut device on the title page. Contemporary vellum.

GAEBELKOVER, Oswald. · 1538 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€5,950.00 ($6,557.98 | £4,963.88 | ¥1,047,225)

[8], 199, 100-456 [= 556], [4] pp. (pp. 113-116 and 201-204 misbound).Rare first and only edition of the Dutch translation of the Artzneybuch of Oswald Gäbelkover (1538-1616), who was the personal physician to the dukes of Württemberg. It was originally printed in 1589 under the…

De la cita d'Dio. [Venice?, Antonio di Bartolommeo Miscomini, ca. 1477? (not after 1483)]. Folio. Printed in two columns, each 47 lines, with spaces for 3-6 line initials left blank. Early 19th-century gold-tooled calf.

AUGUSTINE of Hippo (Saint AUGUSTINE). · 2071 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€19,000.00 ($20,941.46 | £15,851.05 | ¥3,344,080)

[1 blank], [322], [1 blank] ll.Beautiful copy with wide margins of the first edition of the first Italian translation of the most famous work of St. Augustine (354-430), his Latin De civitate Dei, the City of God, also known as De civitate Dei contra paganos (The City of God aga…

Direzioni a' giovani studenti nel disegno dell' architettura civile, nell' academia clementina dell' instituto delle scienze ...Bologna, Lelio dalla Volpe, 1745 & 1732. 2 volumes. Small 8vo (17.5 x 10 cm). With 75 full-page engraved plates in the first volume, and 58 full-page engraved plates in the second volume, including 18 folding. Further with some woodcut decorated initials, and some tailpieces built up from typographical ornaments. Contemporary vellum, with the manuscript title on the spine, red spotted edges.

GALLI BIBIENA, Ferdinando. · 1657 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[1], [1 blank], [10], 143, [1]; 159, [1] pp.Rare early edition of the first volume and first edition of the second volume of 18th-century text books for art students, compiled by Ferdinando Galli Bibiena (1657-1743). He was a teacher at the Academia Clementina, and the founder o…

Coup d'oeil sur l'ile de Java et les autres possessions Néerlandaises dans l'archipel des Indes.Brussels, C.J. de Mat, 1830. 4to. With a steel engraved view of Chateau de Buitenzorg, by Lauters after the engraving by Titsingh and 1 folding map, coloured in outlines, of Java and the other Dutch posessions in the Far East, engraved by F. Callens. Contemporary elaborately gold- and blind-stamped dark blue morocco.

HOGENDORP, Carel Sirardus Willem van. · 1788 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

XII, 422, [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank] pp.Beautiful original edition in French by the Dutch Count Carel Sirardus Willem van Hogendorp (1788-1856), Resident of Batavia, Buitenzorg, and Crawang from 1818 to 1827. In this book, he gives an account of varying aspects of the island…

KEBÊTOS THÊBAIOU PINAX. Cebes, des Thebaners Gemählde, mit erklärenden Anmerkungen und einem vollständigen Wortregister. Für Schulen bearbeitet von Johann David Büchling.

CEBES. · 1796 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta

€90.00 ($99.20 | £75.08 | ¥15,840)

Meissen, Bey Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Erbstein, 1796. 8vo. 176 p. Contemporary boards 18 cm (Ref: VD18 11454512; Hoffmann 1,443; not in Graesse or Ebert) (Details: Schoolbook, with an introduction of 34 p. At the end an index verborum of 54 p. Greek text on the upper half of the …

C. Salustius Crispus. Roomsche historie. Van de t'Zamenzweeringe van Catilina, en den oorlog met Jugurtha. Vertaelt door F.v.H.

SALLUSTIUS. · 1683 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta

€225.00 ($247.99 | £187.71 | ¥39,601)

Rotterdam (Tot Rotterdam), By Fransois van Hoogstraeten, 1683. 12mo. (XVI),98,(2),196 p. Vellum 13 cm (Ref: Geerebaert 132,3; OiN 331; Schweiger 598; In NCC 5 copies) (Details: 5 thongs laced through the joints. Title printed in red and black) (Condition: Vellum slightly soiled…

AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED (AMS): "The Singing Birds"

BURROUGHS, John · 0 · Charles Agvent

$3,750.00 (€3,402.34 | £2,838.46 | ¥598,827)

Original manuscript of an essay titled “The Singing Birds”: 21-pages in pencil with corrections, mostly on rectos of 6" x 9" sheets, SIGNED and dated by Burroughs at the conclusion. Housed in a cloth chemise and green morocco-backed clamshell box. Written in two parts, the first…

STRIDE TOWARD FREEDOM

KING, Martin Luther, Jr · 0 · Charles Agvent

$21,875.00 (€19,846.99 | £16,557.67 | ¥3,493,155)

New York. Harper & Brothers. First Edition. Early but not first printing of Martin Luther King's first book. Illustrated with photographs. Boldly INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front pastedown: "To:/Ruth/With Best Wishes/and Warm Personal Regards/Martin L. King Jr./Ap…

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS): Charming Missive to a Young Boy Named Charlie

LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth · 1867 · Charles Agvent

$2,500.00 (€2,268.23 | £1,892.31 | ¥399,218)

Cambridge. Superb 4-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED "Henry W. Longfellow" on a 9" x 7" sheet of paper, folded once, to "My Dear Charlie," a young boy as obvious by the content. In full: "I have been so long in answering your letter, that no doubt you begin to think that I am not go…