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Natuurlyke historie van Holland.Amsterdam and Leiden, Yntema & Tieboel, 1769-1811. 9 parts in 16 volumes. 8vo. With an engraved portrait, a hand-coloured engraved map, 78 engraved plates, mostly folding, including one beautifully coloured by a contemporary hand, and 12 folding tables. Contemporary half calf and marbled paper sides.

FRANCQ VAN BERKHEY, Johannes le. · 1782 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[4], 513, [1]; [8], 342; [4], 343-962, [2]; [2], 963-1257, [43]; [8], 333; [4], 335-1094; [4], 1095-1330; [4], 1331-1782; [2], 1783-2078, [1]; [4], 314;[10], VIII, 320; [8], 470; [7], 375;[8], 425; [8], 526; [8], 470 pp.First edition of a work on the natural history of the Nethe…

Advis fidelle aux veritables Hollandois. Touchant ce qui s'est passé dans les villages de Bodegrave & Swammerdam, & les cruautés inoüies, que les François y ont exercées. Avec un memoire de la derniere marche de l'armée du Roy de France en Brabant & en Flandre.[The Hague, Jan and Daniel Steucker], 1673. 4to. With 10 finely engraved scenes on the horrors of war on 8 folding/double-page plates. Further with a woodcut device on the title page and a woodcut tailpiece on the final page. 17th- or 18th-century calf.

[WICQUEFORT, Abraham de]. · 1672 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€5,000.00 ($5,510.91 | £4,171.33 | ¥880,021)

[1, 1 blank], 202 pp.First edition of a famous Dutch history book vividly describing and depicting the cruelties of war committed by the French army of Louis XIV in The Netherlands in the years 1672 and 1673. The illustrations also rank among the best masterpieces of Baroque boo…

Mahasin ül-âsâr ve hakayik ül-ahbar.Bulaq, Bulak matbaasi, 1246 AH [= 1830 CE]. 2 volumes bound as 1. 4to. Contemporary calf with later paper label; later marbled paper on the spine. In Turkish, with the main text set in a naskh Arabic type, with a woodcut decoration and decorations built up from typographic ornaments at the opening of the main text (incorporating a woodcut heading in Arabic script).

VASIF EFENDI, Ahmed. · 1754 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€5,800.00 ($6,392.66 | £4,838.74 | ¥1,020,824)

14, 210, [1 blank], 7, 190 pp.An important first-hand account of relations between the Porte and central Europe as well as the wider political events during the second half of the 18th century. Written in Turkish (set in a Naskh Arabic type) by the Baghdad-born diplomat Ahmed Va…

De bello Belgico decades duae ab excessu Caroli V. Imp. usque ad initium praefecturae Alexandri Farnesii Parmae placentiaeque Ducis III. Ad annum 1678 [recté 1578]. continuatae ....Frankfurt am Main, Johannes Beyer, 1651. 4to. With an engraved Leo Belgicus map as a frontispiece, 26 engraved portraits (one of the author), and 30 folding engraved battle scenes. Contemporary richly blind-tooled pigskin.

STRADA, Famiano. · 1555 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[8], 778, [104] pp.First Frankfurt edition of a history of the Dutch War of Independence from 1555 to 1590, the first edition to combine two earlier volumes into one. The Jesuit Famiano Strada (1572-1649) had composed this work at the request of Duke Ranuccio Farnese, whose fath…

Dagboek eener ontdekkingsreis naar de Noorderpoolstreken, met de schepen Zijner Grootbrittanische Majesteit Hecla en Griper, in de jaren 1819 en 1820. Uit het Engelsch naar den vierden verbeterden druk door J. Lehman de Lehnsfeld.Dordrecht, Blussé and Van Braam, 1822. 8vo. With a folding map of the Northwest Territories or Nonavut (Canada), including the Melville Island, and 2 engravings in the text of a musk ox and an Eskimo. Modern sprinkled orange paper over thin boards with a modern spine label with printed title.

FISHER, Alexander (J. LEHMAN DE LEHNSFELD, transl.). · 1819 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[4], 364 pp.The rare first edition of Johannes Lehman de Lehnsfeld’s Dutch translation of the fourth enlarged edition of Fisher’s English travel journal: A journal of a voyage of discovery to the Arctic regions, in His Majesty's ships Hecla and Griper, in the Years 1819 & 1820, …

Sertum Anglicum, seu plantae rariores quae in hortis juxta Londinum, imprimis in horto regio Kewensi excoluntur, ab anno 1786 ad annum 1787 observatae.Paris, Pierre-François Didot, 1788 [= after 1800]. 1mo (full-sheet leaves, ca. 34 x 53,5 cm). With 35 engraved botanical plates (8 folding), including 20 drawn by Pierre-Joseph Redouté and 10 by James Sowerby. Contemporary half red roan (sheepskin). Preserved in a professionaly handmade box, made for this book.

L'HÉRITIER DE BRUTELLE, Charles-Louis. · 1746 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[4], 20 pp.Second edition, what is usually called the second issue, of a flower art book by the French botanist Charles Louis L’Héritier de Brutelle (1746-1800). In this book, L’Héritier describes 35 genera and 124 species of rare plants in Kew Gardens and the herbarium of his f…

Facetiae facetiarum, hoc est, jocoseriorum fasciculus novus, exhibens varia variorum autorum scripta, non tàm lectu jucunda & jocosa, amoena & amanda, quàm lectu verè digna & utilia, multisve moralibus ad mores seculi nostri accomodata, illustrata & adornata.[Rostock, Augustin Ferber], 1627. 17 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With general title-page and 17 part-titles, some with woodcut ornaments or illustrations. Contemporary vellum.

[FACETIAE]. · 1474 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

Rare collection of popular farcical texts, inspired by the Facetiae (1474) of the Italian humanist Poggio Bracciolini. Poggio wrote anti-clerical, bawdy and obscene stories, that enjoyed great popularity in the 16th century. He thereby showed that Latin was flexible enough to be…

Het avantuurlyk zomer-tochtje, of omlands reisje, uit Holland door 't Sticht Utrecht, Over-Yssel, Gelderland, Cleeffland, de Myery van den Bosch, Breda, enz. Behelzende eenige nauwkeurige beschryvinge van vele aardige gevallen, vermakelyke gesprekken en aangename historien, op die reize gebeurt of gehoort. Opgestelt door iemand welke dat tochtje zelf met gezelschap gedaan heeft.[Amsterdam?], printed for the author, 1735. Small 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title-page, 2 decorated woodcut initials, and a woodcut tailpiece. Contemporary vellum, with the manuscript title on the spine, blue sprinkled edges.

[TRAVEL - LOW COUNTRIES] · 1734 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[8], 439 pp.Rare second edition of a popular travel account of a summer holiday trip through the Netherlands and Cleve. Travelling from the Hague, they visited Utrecht, Leiden, Zeist, Soestdijk, Amersfoort, Voorthuizen, Deventer, Doesburg, Middachten, Rozendaal, Arnhem, Elterber…

Advis fidelle aux veritables Hollandois. Touchant ce qui s'est passé dans les villages de Bodegrave & Swammerdam, & les cruautés inoüies, que les François y ont exercées. Avec un memoire de la derniere marche de l'armée du Roy de France en Brabant & en Flandre.[The Hague, Jan and Daniel Steucker], 1673. 4to. With 10 scenes on the horrors of war on 8 folding engraved plates (ca. 31 x 20 cm) by Romeyn de Hooghe. Contemporary vellum, with the gold-stamped and crowned initials "E.F.V.D" on the front board.

[WICQUEFORT, Abraham de]. · 1672 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[1, 1 blank], 202 pp.First edition of a famous Dutch history book vividly describing as well as depicting the cruelties of war committed by the French army of Louis XVI in The Netherlands in the years 1672 and 1673. The illustrations also rank among the best masterpieces of Baro…

Bedenkingen over de beoeffening der rechtsgeleerdheid, benevens vier verhandelingen over wysgeerige stoffen.Dordrecht, Abraham Blussé and son (colophon: printed by Johan Joseph Besseling, [Utrecht]), 1781. With: (2) PERRENOT, Abraham. Considérations sur l'étude de la jurisprudence, … Nouvelle edition. Berlin, G.J. Decker; Utrecht, Henrikus Spruit, 1776. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary red morocco, richly gold-tooled spine, gold-tooled boards (triple fillets, with floral ornaments in each corner), board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges. Bound by the Dutch court bookbinder Abraham van Rossum (active in Amsterdam 1812-1854), one of the “major binders” (Storm van Leeuwen) of that period, with his letterpress ticket on paste-down (“A.v. Rossum | hof-boekbinder”).

PERRENOT, Abraham. · 1775 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,650.00 ($1,818.60 | £1,376.54 | ¥290,407)

5, [1], 339, 5; 68 pp.Rare first and only edition of the much expanded Dutch translation of a philosophical treatise for law students, on natural morality as the basis for all law, together with the second edition of the same treatise in the original French. The Monthly review (…

Assertio juris Imperatoris Caroli huis nominis quinti, in Geldriae Ducatu, & Zutphaniae Comitatu, aedita in Comitijs Ratisbonensibus, anno M.D.XLI. & confutatio oppugnationum Guilielmi Cliviae Ducis, Franckfordiae exhibitarum, anno M.D.XXXIX.Nuremberg, Johann Petri, [1541]. Large 8vo. With a large ornamental woodcut coat-of-arms of Charles V, 11 woodcut initials with pictorial decoration. 18th-century gold-tooled calf, richly decorated spine.

[GELDERLAND - CHARLES V]. · 1538 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€3,900.00 ($4,298.51 | £3,253.64 | ¥686,416)

[45], [1 blank] ll.One of the first two editions (order uncertain), in the original Latin, this one published at Nuremberg, of the assertion by the “Reichstag”, the meeting of the Imperial Counts of the Holy Roman Empire in Regensburg, of the Emperor Charles V’s rights to the Du…

Capitayn van de bende.[Amsterdam], Claes Jansz. Visscher, [ca. 1645].With: (2) QUAST, Pieter Jansz. T is al verwart-gaeren.[Amsterdam], Claes Jansz. Visscher, 1652. 2 works in 1 volume. Small folio (26.5 x 19.5 cm). Ad 1 with a series of 24 numbered engraved plates by Claes Jansz. Visscher after Jacques Callot (some copied in mirror image), the first with the title on a banner carried by the beggar in plate 1. Ad 2 with 24 (of 26) numbered engraved plates, the first with the title at the foot. 18th-century paste paper (in red, yellow, green and violet) over boards, a manuscript title-label on the front, red sprinkled edges.

CALLOT, Jacques. · 1625 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

24; 1-2, 5-26 (of 26) engr. ll.Ad 1: Only copy located, with the plates in their first state, of a print series depicting beggars and tramps published by Claes Jansz. Visscher after the original ca. 1625 print series by Jacques Callot, Capitano de Baroni. Hollstein notes that th…

Tabula smaragdina medico-pharmaceutica; in qua octingentorum, contra omnis generis morbos probatissimorum selectissimorumque medicamentorum, in nullo dispensatorio obviorum, sed partim ex optimis & hoc tempore celeberrimis practicis desumptorum, partim ab amicis communicatorum, partim ex privatis manuscriptis erutorum, partim denique propria industria inventorum, fidelis & accurata descriptio, ordine, ut vocant, alphabetico, insculpta legitur. Cum indice morborum & medicamentorum. Opus & medicis, & chirurgis, & & pharmacopoeisperutile. Revidit, emendavit, auxit Joh. Abraham. Mercklinus.Nuremberg, Johann Fr. Rüdiger, printed by Leonhard Singer, 1726. Narrow 12mo. With a folded title page printed in red and black, and some headpieces built up from typographical ornaments.19th-century half calf, gold-tooled spine, with dark green title-label.

FRAUNDORFFER, Philipp. · 1663 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[22], 468, [48] pp.Revised and enlarged third Nuremberg edition of this interesting collection of 800 unknown or forgotten prescriptions, taken from all the great writers in the history of medicine, from old manuscripts, etc. They were collected by the physician Phillip Fraundor…

Neues Weberbild- und Musterbuch, ... zur Beförderung der edlen Leinen- und Bildweberkunst, und zum Nutzen und Vergnügen angehender Meister und Gesellen, auch anderer Liebhaber der Weberkunst, auf 74 Kupfertafeln ... Fünfte Original-Ausgabe.Heilbronn, Classische Buchhandlung, 1836. Oblong folio (21 x 32 cm). With 74 numbered engraved plates showing about 300 patterns for weaving. Contemporary half tanned sheepskin, tiger marbled sides.

KIRSCHBAUM, Johann Michael. · 1771 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

6 pp. plus plates.Fifth edition, printed from the plates of the 1771 first edition, of an extremely rare and richly decorative weaver's sample book containing about 300 models for weaving cloth in all sorts of patterns (some wholly abstract, some with acorns, flowers, trees, etc…

Belli detestatio. Ofte oorlogs vervloeckinge.Zwolle, for Zacharias Heyns (colophon: printed by Frans Jorrijaensz), 1629. 4to. With a large engraved emblem on the title page, 5 decorated woodcut initials, a woodcut headpiece, 2 headpieces built up from typographical ornaments, a woodcut tailpiece, and a tailpiece built up from typographical ornaments. 19th century half brown morocco.

ERASMUS, Desiderius and Zacharias HEYNS (translator). · 1515 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[28] ll.First edition of Zacharias Heyns' new Dutch translation of Erasmus' famous anti-war essay Dulce bellum inexpertis. This essay was originally part of the 1515 edition of the Adagia, but was first published as an independent work by Johann Froben in 1517 with the title Bel…

Verhandelinge van de opvoedinge en ziekten der kinderen. Vertoonende op wat wyse de kinderen gezond konnen blyven, en ziek zijnde, bequamelyk konnen herstelt werden. Zeer nodig voor alle huyshoudende lieden.Amsterdam, Hieronymus Sweerts, 1684. 8vo. With an engraved title page showing a hospital scene and 19 figures on 6 engraved plates. Near contemporary vellum.

BLANKAART, Steven. · 1650 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[8], 332, [20] pp.Rare first and only early edition (here with the dedication in the rarer first of two settings) of one of the first medical books on raising and educating children and especially on paediatrics. Intended for parents, it offers advice and instructions for treati…

Notice sur la carie des dents et sur l'emploi d'une liqueur alumineuse camphrée au chlorophorme, qui calme la douleur et arrête les progrès de la carie, sans qu'il soit nécessaire d'extraire les dents malades. Metz, the author (back of the title page: Metz, printed by Ch. Dieu), 1848. Small 8vo. With slab-serif capitals on the title page and sans-serif capitals in a heading on p. 3. Modern boards, with a gold-tooled morocco title-label on the spine.

DELACOUR, chirurgien-dentiste. · 1854 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

12 pp.First edition of a 12-page notice on the use of a mouth-wash with an aluminous elixer of camphorated chloroform to stop the progress and kill the pain of dental cavities, written by Delacour, described as a ch[irurgien]. dentiste, living in the house “Le Palais Français” i…

Discours du tabac. Ou il est traité particulierement du tabac en poudre.Paris, Martin le Prest, for the author, 1668. 12mo. With 3 half-page woodcut illustrations of tobacco plants in the text and several woodcut borders, initials and headpieces. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf.

BAILLARD, Edme [= Jean le Royer DE PRADE]. · 1640 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[30], 125, [1 blank], [14], [2 blank] pp.Extremely rare first edition of a popular textbook on snuff and also the first work of its kind by Jean Royer de Prade (1640-1685). We have only been able to trace one copy in institutions and four in sales records. The present copy comes…

Voyages dans l'Amérique Méridionale, ... depuis 1781 jusqu'en 1801; contenant la description géographique, politique et civile du Paraguay et de la rivière de La Plata; ...Paris, Dentu, 1809. 8vo (4 text volumes) and folio (1 atlas volume). With 3 folding tables and 25 engraved maps, plans, views and plates of animals and birds. Modern black half calf, gold-tooled spine.

AZARA, Félix Manuel de. · 1746 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€12,500.00 ($13,777.28 | £10,428.32 | ¥2,200,053)

LX, 389; [4], 388-562; [4], II, 479; [4], 380 pp.First French edition of a description of the South American territories visited by the Spanish military engineer and naturalist Félix de Azara, "to this day a major source of information about the land and peoples of Paraguay and …

(Bound with:) Petite grammaire latine à l'usage des élèves de l'École Royale Militaire. (&:) Petite grammaire grecque à l'usage des élèves de l'École Royale Militaire.

PETITE GRAMMAIRE FRANÇOISE, A L'USAGE DES ÉLEVES DE L'ÉCOLE ROYALE MILITAIRE. · 1778 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta

€275.00 ($303.10 | £229.42 | ¥48,401)

Paris, Chez Nyon l'aîné, 1778. 3 volumes in 1: 59,(1 blank); 93,(3 blank); 70 p. Contemporary wrappers. 18 cm (Details: Marbled wrappers. Woodcut ornament on the title, depicting a radiant sun, in the heart of which stand the three fleurs-de-lis of the House of Bourbon) (Condit…