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Novum Testamentum Syriacè...Hamburg, Aegidius Gutbier, 1664 (engraved title-page “1663”). With: (2) GUTBIER, Aegidius. Lexicon Syriacum, continens omnes N.T. Syriaci dictiones et particulas...Hamburg, Aegidius Gutbier, 1667.(3) GUTBIER, Aegidius. Notae criticae in Novum Testamentum Syriacum... Hamburg, Aegidius Gutbier, 1667.3 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With an architectural title-page, a woodcut vase of flowers on the letterpress title-page and decorations built up from typographic ornaments. With woodcut decorated initials and other decorations built up from typographic ornaments throughout the volume. Set in roman, italic and Syriac types, with incidental Greek and Hebrew. Contemporary vellum, manuscript title on spine.

[BIBLE - NEW TESTAMENT - SYRIAC]. GUTBIER, Aegidius. · 1823 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[32], “606” [= 604]; [16], 146, [50]; 55, [1] pp.First edition of by far the best edition of the Syriac New Testament published before the 19th-century, edited by Aegidius Gutbier, which remained the standard Syriac text until Samuel Lee's 1823 edition. For the first book (the g…

Seer gedenckwaerdige vojagien, van Johan Sanderson, Hendrick Timberly, en Capt. Johan Smith, door Europa, Asia en America. …Amsterdam, Joachim van Dyck, 1678. 4to. With engraved title-page, letterpress title-page with a woodcut floral ornament, 4 folding engraved illustration plates (including 1 with 4 small views). 18th-century half vellum.

[PURCHAS, Samuel], John SANDERSON, Henry TIMBERLAKE and others. · 1671 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[12], 158 pp. including integral frontispiece.First and only Dutch edition of an account of the voyages of three English merchant adventurers: John Sanderson in the Levant, Egypt and Constantinople (Istanbul), presented here as 1671-1676 but in fact describing travels in the yea…

De koninglycke hovenier aanwyzende de middelen om boomen, bloemen en kruyden te zaayen, planten, aen queeken en voort teelen.Amsterdam, Marcus Doornick, [1676]. With engraved title-page and 31 engraved plates, including 2 bird's-eye views of a French and a Dutch royal garden, 5 plates with two pomological illustrations each, 8 plates with two illustrations of flowers each and 16 plates with a total of 32 garden designs.With: (2) COMMELIN, Jan. Nederlantze Hesperides, dat is, oeffening en gebruik van de limoen- en oranje-boomen, gestelt na den aardt, en climaat der Nederlanden.Amsterdam, Marcus Doornick, 1676. With engraved title-page and 26 engraved plates showing flowers, fruits and orangeries. 2 works in 1 volume. Folio (35 x 23 cm). Contemporary vellum, recased.

CAUSÉ, Hendrik. · 1648 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€15,000.00 ($16,532.73 | £12,513.99 | ¥2,640,063)

First editions of two of the finest 17th-century Dutch gardening books, usually found together and both with high quality engravings in crisp impressions. The work by the Dutch engraver Hendrik Causé (1648-1691) presents a clear and succinct account of the luxury gardening in th…

[Sample book of harness designs and other elaborate and decorative carriage horse tack].[Vienna, ca. 1790?]. 2 volumes. Oblong small folio (23.5 x 37 cm and 25.5 x 39.5 cm). With 67 pen-and-ink, watercolour and gouache drawings of horses, most highlighted with silver and gold , all signed, most trimmed and mounted on blank leaves ca. 1805. With 2 etchings added at the end of volume 1, executed by Friedrich Leopold Bürde and dated 1812. Volume 1 stab-sewn, volume 2 with the leaves mounted on stubs and sewn through the folds, each with marbled paper wrapped around the spine. In an early 19th-century half tanned sheepskin box in the form of a book, metal hook-clasps.

[CARRIAGE HORSE TACK]. FÖLSCH, Michael. · 1730 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€85,000.00 ($93,685.47 | £70,912.61 | ¥14,960,359)

Unique harness maker's colour-drawn sample book, with each drawing depicting a horse in elaborate carriage horse tack. The drawings were executed by Michael Fölsch himself, one of the foremost Viennese makers and sellers of luxury tack in the early 19th century, to show prospect…

Reize naar Arabië en andere omliggende landen.Amsterdam, S.J. Baalde; Utrecht, J. van Schoonhoven and company (vol. 1) and Bartholomeus Wild (vol. 2) (colophons: Utrecht, printed by J.J. Besseling), 1776-1780. 2 volumes. 4to. With 2 engraved title-pages, each with a vignette, 31 engraved maps and plans and 94 other engraved plates. 19th-century half calf. Untrimmed.

NIEBUHR, Carsten. · 1761 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

VIII, [6], 484, [2]; [16], 455, [1] pp.Dutch translation of an important and famous account of the Royal Danish Expedition (1761-67) to the Middle East, Egypt, Persia and India, the first scientific expedition to this area. The original German edition was published in Copenhagen…

Journael ofte gedenckwaerdige beschrijvinge van de Oost-Indische reyse. Begrijpende veel wonderlijcke en ghevaerlijcke saecken hem daer in weder-varen. Begonnen den 18. December 1618. en vol-eynd den 16. November 1625. Waer by gevoegd is het Journael van Dirck Albertsz Raven, als oock verscheyden gedenckwaerdige geschiedenissen, op veel plaetsen verbetert en een groot deel vermeerdert.Amsterdam, Joost Hartgers, 1648. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With a double-page engraved plate with 6 views of the ship at fire and in a storm, the islands St. Mary, Samatra and Princes Eyland, and an image of flying fishes. Modern marbled wrappers.

BONTEKOE, Willem Ysbrantsz. · 1625 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[4], 76 pp.One of the most compelling and entertaining travel accounts of Dutch literature, in one of the earliest and most important editions, the first to be published by Hartgers. Bontekoe details his eventful 8-year voyage to the East Indies. The vivid description of his shi…

Euripidis tragoediae duae hecuba & iphigenia in aulide, Latinae factae...Basel, Froben Office [heirs of Johann Froben], April 1530. 8vo (10.4 x 15.4 cm). With a woodcut printer's device on the title page and final page, and 7 decorated woodcut initials. 19th-century half brown calf and grey paper sides.

EURIPIDES and Desiderius ERASMUS (editor and translator). · 1822 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

293, [1], [1 blank], [1] pp.This volume brings together Erasmus’ renditions in Latin of two of Euripides’ most enduring tragedies, titled Hecuba and Iphigenia in Aulis, presented alongside the original Greek texts beginning on page 169. Euripides (ca. 480-ca. 406 BCE) was a Gree…

De gli occulti miracoli, & uarii ammaestramenti delle cose della natura, con probabili ragioni, et artificiosa congiettura confermati.Venice, Lodovico degli Avanzi, 1563. 8vo. With a woodcut device on the title page, and some woodcut initials. Near-contemporary limp vellum.

LEMNIUS, Levinus. · 1505 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[15], [1 blank], 156 ll.Second Italian edition of the celebrated work by the Dutch physician Levinus Lemnius (1505-1568). First published in 1559 under the title Occulta naturae miracula, the work occupies an intriguing position between Renaissance natural philosophy, medicine, …

Phrases seu modi loquendi Divini Scripturae, ex sanctis & orthodoxis scriptoribus ... (&c.). Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus for Joannes Steelsius, 1536. Small 8vo. With 15 decorated woodcut initials, and a woodcut printer's device at the end of the work. Contemporary elaborately blind-tooled calf.

WESTHEIMER, Bartholomaeus. · 1499 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

340, [8] ll.Rare first edition of a survey of biblical terms. Arranged more or less alphabetically, it explains difficult or distinctive biblical expressions and was intended as a philological aid to understanding Scripture. The author made use of traditional Christian sources i…

Enchiridion militis Christiani, saluberrimis praeceptis refertum ... Including: ERASMUS, Desiderius. Paraclesis, id est, adhortatio ad sanctissimum, ac saluberrimum Christianae philosophiae studium ...[Paris], Gilles de Gourmont, [after 1518 (and before 1522?)]. 8vo (10.3x16.2). With both titles set within an identical woodcut architectural frame and several woodcut decorated initials. Modern half vellum.

ERASMUS, Desiderius. · 1501 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[106], [10] ll.Very rare Paris edition of Erasmus’ Enchiridion militis Christiani, including a short text urging readers to study Christian philosophy. Before Erasmus became a household name for his satire The Praise of Folly, or for his Latin translation of the New Testament, h…

Het onbekent en wonderlijk Eyland Utopia, ontdekt door Rafaël Hythlodeus, en by t'samenspraeke beschreven.Rotterdam, François van Hoogstraten, 1677. 18mo. With an engraved portrait. Contemporary vellum, sewn on 5 supports laced through the joints, with the manuscript author and title on the spine.

MORE, Thomas and François van HOOGSTRATEN (translator). · 1700 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[24], 263, [1] pp.First edition of Van Hoogstraten's translation of Utopia, which was only the second translation into Dutch. Considered a "beautiful and fluent translation" (Van Bunge), it reached a wide audience in its own time, and was even republished in 1700. François van H…

Novelle arabe divise in mille ed una notte, tradotte dall’idioma francese nel volgare italiano. Vol. primo [-sesto]. Venice, Francesco di Nicolò Pezzana, 1784. 6 volumes. 12mo. With a small vignette built up from typographical ornaments on each title page and some headpieces built up from typographical ornaments. Near-contemporary gold-tooled half calf, marbled paper sides, with a red morocco title label lettered in gold on the spine.

[ALF LAYLA WA-LAYLA - ITALIAN]. · 1721 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

336; 332, [2], [2 blank]; 381, [2], [2 blank]; 360; 392; 367, [1] pp.First edition by Pezzana, a both prolific and diligent publisher of exotic tales. After Coleti’s first Italian edition of 1721-22 and that of Domenico Occhi between 1741 and 1743, Nicolò Pezzana was the third t…

[Historiated initial - Capital "G"].[Viseu?, first quarter of the 17th century]. Frame: ca. 36.5 x 33.5 cm. Tempera on parchment (ca. 20 x 21 cm), heightened with gold. Mounted in a passe-partout (ca. 28.5 x 25.5 cm), framed behind glass in a later gold frame.

[NETO, Estêvao Gonçalves, circle of (attributed)]. · 1627 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€8,500.00 ($9,368.55 | £7,091.26 | ¥1,496,036)

Beautifully painted historiated initial, attributed to the circle of Estêvão Gonçalves Neto (?-1627), who is often considered to be Portugal's finest miniature artist. The work has been exhibited twice in 2016, in the National Museum of Ancient Art in Lisbon, and the Grão Vasco …

[Album of 250 photographs of the Middle East].[Habbinya?, ca. 1944]. Ca. 20 x 16 cm. With 250 gelatin silver prints (various sizes), mounted on the leaves of a ruled notebook. Contemporary quarter black cloth, blue waterered paper sides, blue sprinkled edges.

MEKELBURG, Corporal George (compiler). · 1940 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€2,000.00 ($2,204.36 | £1,668.53 | ¥352,008)

[85] ll.Remarkable album with 250 photographs of cities and people in the Middle East in the 1940s, by a British soldier. The work contains a short letter written by the compiler of the album, Corporal George Mekelburg (dates unknown). He was a member of the Persia and Iraq Forc…

The interpreter in the Arabic and English Languages, consisting of nouns, epithets (or adjectives), verbs & afterwards some compendious examples.Ca. 1830s. 4to (21.5 x 27 cm). With 2 folding tables, 17 lines to the page, written in red and black ink. Contemporary navy blue morocco, with the title lettered in gold on spine, marbled endpapers.

[ARABIC & ENGLISH VOCABULARY AND PHRASE BOOK]. · 1881 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[6], 237, 238-266, [10] pp.A unique, handwritten vocabulary and phrasebook of English and Arabic from the first half of the 19th century. This meticulously prepared manuscript is written in the fashion of a printed book, opening with a title page and ending with an index of topi…

Icones et descriptiones plantarum minus cognitarum. Decas I.Halle (Saale), Germany, J.J. Curt, 1766. Folio (37.5 x 24.5 cm). With 10 full-page numbered engravings of plants, an engraved image on the title-page, and a woodcut initial on the first page of the preface. Never bound, housed in a modern folder with a printed design of 19th-century marbled paper.

SCHREBER, Johann Christian Daniël von. · 1668 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[8], 20 pp.First and only edition of an important botanical work on Greek, Turkish and Armenian plants, which were here studied, classified and named for the first time. The work consists of 10 highly detailed, full-page engravings of these plants, with scientific descriptions o…

Response de Rene de la Fon pour les religieux de la Compagnie de Jesus. Au playdoyé de Simon Marion en l'arrest donné contre iceux le 16. Octobre 1597.Villefranche, Guillaume Grenier, 1599. 8vo. With a small vignette on the title page built up from typographical ornaments and 2 headpieces built up from typographical ornaments. Later vellum with leather ties.

FON, René de la (pseudonym of Louis RICHEOME). · 1594 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

238 [= 239], [1 blank] pp.First edition of a work written in defence of the Jesuits, after they were temporarily banished from France in 1594, a few years before. Addressed to the members of the court of the parliament in Paris, it attempts to refute slander against the Jesuits.…

Epigra[m]mata: ac ludicra quedam facilioris muse carmina eruditissimi viro Philippi Beroaldi. Ab Afsefio nuper elucidate et eo ordine difpofita vt maxime fint omnium prima, C Ante domum cuius Martini pendet imag Rocius hec vendit pressa Dionysius.Parijs, Denis Roce, [ca. 1505]. 4to. With a printer's device on the title-page, and 20 decorated woodcut/ metalcut intitials. Later vellum.

BEROALDO, Filippo. · 1453 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[30], [1 blank] ll.Very rare work with poetry by Filippo Beroaldo the Elder (1453-1505), one of the leading Italian humanists. The work contains twenty different poems and includes Carmen lugubre, which is considered one of Beroaldo's masterpieces, because he combined all his or…

[In Arabic script:] Filistin hezimeti: Ceneral Allenbi'nin raporu [Palestine defeat: the report of general Allenby].Istanbul, Matbaa-yi Orhaniye, 1335 AH [= 1919 CE]. 8vo (ca. 18.5 x 12.5 cm). With the Turkish text printed using Arabic script. Original publisher's orange printed paper wrappers.

[WWI - PALESTINE CAMPAIGN], HIKMET, Mülazim-i Evvel (translator). · 1915 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

48 pp.First and only edition of a report about the Sinai and Palestine campaign (1915-1918), in Ottoman Turkish translation. This second half of this campaign was led by General Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby (1861-1936). He commanded the Egyptian Expeditionar…

Abbregé methodique des principes heraldiques ou du veritable art du blason.Lyon, Benoist Coral, 1665. 12mo. With an engraved title-page (still dated 1661, as in the first edition), a double-page engraving of the coronation of Charles I, King of Naples and Sicily, and 8 (of 10) engraved plates with a total of 209 (of 293) figures, nearly all coats of arms, with all plates coloured by a contemporary hand. Also with small woodcut coats of arms in the text. Polished gold-tooled tan calf (ca. 1840/49) by F. Koehler.

MÉNESTRIER, Claude-François. · 1631 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[24], 111, [9] pp. plus frontispiece and plates.Rare second edition of a classic, richly illustrated manual of heraldry, one of the principal publications of one of the most important heralds of his time, Claude-François Ménestrier (1631-1705). It explains the principles of hera…