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News Of A Kidnapping

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Marquez Gabriel Ga, Márquez, Gabriel García, Márquez, Gabriel García · 1990 · Klondyke BV

€5.95 ($6.56 | £4.96 | ¥1,047)

Paperback; Penguin Books Ltd; 304pp.; LET OP LET OP!! Wordt geleverd met ANDER OMSLAG dan getoond. Paperback met fris en schoon binnenwerk, Rug en bovenkant achterplat lichtjes verkleurd. Enkel leeslijntje in de rug. -- Conditie: Goed; Gabriel Garcia Marquez's News of a Kidnappi…

Phillip Warner - Firepower. From Slings To Star Wars

Phillip Warner · 2015 · Klondyke BV

€4.95 ($5.46 | £4.13 | ¥871)

Paperback; 2015; Class Warfare; 146pp.; LET OP wordt geleverd in ANDERE UITVOERING dan getoond, nl de Grafton UK paperback met 0586070664 isbn. Plaatje van vurend geschut hetzelfde, andere setting. Gave paperback met geringe gebruikssporen, schoon en fris binnenwerk. -- Conditie…

Candidate. What It Takes to Win - and Hold - the White House

Samuel L. Popkin · 2013 · Klondyke BV

€5.95 ($6.56 | £4.96 | ¥1,047)

Paperback; 2013; Oxford University Press Inc; 350pp.; Conditie: Goed; There are two winners in every presidential election campaign: The inevitable winner when it begins - such as Rudy Guliani or Hillary Clinton in 2008 - and the inevitable victor after it ends. In The Candidate…

Catalogue of the Works of Antiquity and Art Collected by the Late William Henry Forman, Esq., Pippbrook House, Dorking, Surrey, and Removed in 1890 to Callaly Castle, Northumberland, by Major A. H. Brown.

NORTHUMBERLAND. CHAFFERS (William) · 1892 · Forest Books

£209.63 (€251.27 | $276.95 | ¥44,225)

Printed for Private Circulation, 1892. 4to (240 x 170 mm), [4], 209,[ 32]pp., 7 plates of outlines of Greek vases, section on Greek vases, Statuary, Bronze etc. and Hogarth’s life and work, cont. full polished calf, five raised bands, spine gilt extra, contrasting red morocco la…

John Ray's Cambridge Catalogue (1660).

OSWALD (P. H.) & PRESTON (C. D.) Translated and edited by. · 2011 · Forest Books

£80.63 (€96.65 | $106.52 | ¥17,010)

London: The Ray Society, 2011. First edition, 612pp., illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w. John Ray is considered the outstanding British natural historian of the 17th century. His first publication, A catalogue of plants growing around Cambridge (1660) is famous as the first British …

Los emblemas … traducidos en rhimas Españolas. ...Lyon, Guillaume Rouille [printed by Macé Bonhomme], 1549. 8vo (18.5 x 12.5 cm). With an elaborate woodcut architectural frame; 210 emblems (200 with woodcuts); nearly every page in one of about 34 different richly decorated woodcut frames. Early 18th-century (Spanish?) sheepskin parchment.

ALCIATO, Andrea. · 1492 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

256, [6] pp.Rouille issue of the first Spanish edition of the first emblem book, by the legal scholar Andrea Alciato (1492-1550) in Milan, first published in Latin at Augsburg in 1531 with only 104 emblems (97 with woodcuts), but greatly expanded up to the author's death. The pr…

Libro di novelle, et di bel parlar gentile. ... Cento novelle ... Di nuovo ricorrette.Florence, Filippo & Jacopo Giunta, 1572. 4to (21.5 x 16 cm). With the Giunta's woodcut device on the title-page and a different one on the last page and about 120 woodcut decorated initials (about 7 series) including some repeats. With the main text set in roman type but the extensive preliminaries in italic. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment.

GUALTERUZZI, Carlo (compiler) and [Vincenzo BORGHINI (“corrector”)]. · 1470 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[26], [2 blank], "153" [= 165], [3] pp.Third edition (usually called the second), in the original Italian, of the first collection of native Italian stories, best known under the titles Il novellino and Le cento novelle antiche, written up as a collection between 1281 and 1300. …

Recueil de lions, dessinez d'après nature par divers maitres & gravez, ... Divisé en six livres chacun de six feuilles.Amsterdam, Bernard Picart [title-print also: Paris, François Chereau], 1729 (engraved 1728-1729). Oblong 4to (18.5 x 24 cm). With a letterpress title-page in red and black with Picart's engraved "device, 1 title-print and 42 lion prints in 6 series, on 37 leaves, all engraved by Bernard Picart after drawings made by himself (8, all from life), Rembrandt (18), Charles le Brun (6), Albrecht Dürer (1), Paulus Potter (1) and unattributed (8). Late 19th-century pimpled red cloth with the spine at the head of the pages. Rebacked in red cloth.

PICART, Bernard, partly after REMBRANDT and others. · 1673 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[1], [1 blank], 6 pp. plus 37 engraved plates with title-print & 42 lion prints.First edition of a complete set of six series of lion prints (30 full-page, 12 half-page, on 36 inserted leaves) engraved by Bernard Picart (1673-1733), including at least 8 from his own drawings fro…

[Album of watercolours drawn aboard HMS Myrmidon].On board HMS Myrmidon, [1884-]1886[-1887]. Oblong 4to (17.5 x 25 cm). With 25 watercolours (including 1 double-page) and 13 pencil drawings, most of them captioned in pencil. Contemporary half-sheepskin album.

SPINKS, Walter. · 1887 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[32] ll.Album of watercolours drawn by a crewmember of the survey ship HMS Myrmidon and showing actions during the Anglo-Egyptian War and the Mahdist War and a surveying journey around the Dutch East Indies and Australia. Most of the watercolours are waterside views of the vario…

Memorabilium, utiliu[m], ac jucundorum centuriae novem, in aphorismos arcanorum omnis generis locupletes, perpulchrè digestae. Paris, Fédéric Morel, 1566. 8vo. With Morel's woodcut tree device on the title page, 2 woodcut headpieces and 7 woodcut decorated initials (plus 3 repeats), the headpieces and initials in an unusually delicate design, finely executed. Set in italic types with the preliminaries in roman, and incidental Greek. 17th-century limp sheepskin parchment.

MIZAULD, Antoine. · 1510 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[16], 136 pp.First edition, in the original Latin, of what proved an extremely popular work: 900 medical and other "secrets", including information on astrology, gardening, cosmetics and other subjects, arranged in nine numbered chapters, each containing 100 numbered prose "apho…

Libro de los inventores del arte de marear, y de muchos trabajos que se passan enlas galeras. ... Tocanse enel muy excellentes antiguedades, y avisos muy notables para los que navegan en galeras.Antwerp, Martin Nutius, [ca. 1545/46]. Small 8vo (13.5 x 10 cm). With Nutius's woodcut device on the title-page. Set in rotunda gothic type with a few words in a large roman. Blind-tooled brown goatskin (1920s?) in 16th-century style by Victor Arias (1856-1935) in Madrid, gold-tooled turn-ins.

GUEVARA, Antonio de. · 1912 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€12,000.00 ($13,226.18 | £10,011.19 | ¥2,112,051)

XXIX, [1], [2 blank] ll.Rare (first?) separately published edition of an early discourse on the art of sailing and navigation, in the original Spanish, first published as part of Libro llamado Menosprecio de Corte. The book discusses the invention and use of the galley, mariners…

Campagne de circumnavigation de la frégate l'Artémise, pendant les annéees 1837, 1838, 1839 et 1840, ... Tome premier[-sixième]. Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1841-1854. 6 volumes. 8vo. With 2 large folding engraved maps and 31 steel-engraved views. With the maps coloured in outline or partly coloured, and with the routes indicated and coloured. Contemporary boards, covered with the publisher's original green printed paper.

LAPLACE, Cyrille Pierre Théodore. · 1837 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€16,000.00 ($17,634.91 | £13,348.26 | ¥2,816,068)

XXXIX, [1 blank], 343, [1 blank], [3], [1 blank]; [3], [1 blank], 467, [1 blank], [3], [1 blank]; [3], [1 blank], 548, [1], [1 blank]; [3], [1 blank], 464, [3], [1 blank]; [3], [1 blank], III, [1 blank], 542, [2]; [3], [1 blank], 400 pp.First and only complete edition, containin…

[Prominent Ottoman and entourage boarding boats before the Kilic Ali Pasha Mosque].[Istanbul?, ca. 1830/50?]. Watercolour drawing on wove paper (29.5 x 45 cm) with highlights in shellac and a thin black border. Mounted on a larger sheet of paper in a passe-partout.

[ISTANBUL]. [KING, Helena Caroline or Adelaide Charlotte]. · 1580 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

A lively scene on the Tophane Quay in Istanbul, with the background dominated by the dome and minaret of the 1580 Kilic Ali Pasha Mosque. The tip of a second minaret, perhaps from a different mosque, is visible in the distance. On the quay, an opulently dressed black-bearded Ott…

L'oraison dominicale d'un habitant d'Unterwalde; suite de sept scènes de la Révolution helvétique.Basel, the author and Schoell et Cie, 1803. 4to (29.5 x 22 cm). With 8 brush etchings or aquatints, including the title page, mounted on green paper with letterpress captions, interleaved with tissue guards. Contemporary gold-tooled calf, black sheepskin spine-label, gilt edges.

USTERI, Martin (artist) and Marquard WOCHER (engraver). · 1798 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

Rare edition with the French captions, of a print series "plunged in noble bile" (Füssli) on the misery of a peasant in the Helvetic Republic (1798-1803). This so-called Bauernvaterunser, a type of parody in which the miseries of peasants during war are placed opposite the Lord'…

[Views, scenes, monuments, airplanes, military vehicles, British troops and local inhabitants].[Iraq (plus Malta and Egypt), ca. 1928-1933]. Oblong albums (25 x 34.5 cm & 21.5 x 28.5 cm). Two albums containing about 275 silver halide photographic gelatin prints (6 x 8.5 cm to 16 x 21.5 cm) assembled and mostly taken by a British Royal Air Force pilot while stationed in Iraq and then briefly Malta, with a visit to Egypt. The photos mounted with paper corner-mounts in two contemporary cloth-covered albums, the larger with padded boards covered in alligator-skin patterned dark green cloth, with the photographs on both sides of 24 dark grey album leaves, each leaf with a glassine paper guard-leaf (embossed with a spider-web pattern) bound in before it; the smaller covered in black cloth with a grey-white bird in a cloud painted on the front board and the word “snaps”, with the photographs on both sides of leaves 2-35 & 51-52 of 54 light brown album leaves.

[PHOTOGRAPHS - IRAQ]. REYNISH, William. · 1928 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

A collection of about 275 photographs made by an RAF pilot, Sergeant William Reynish, during his service in Iraq ca. 1928-1933 and Malta 1933, and during a brief visit to Egypt. Most have captions written on the album leaves clearly identifying the scenes. Some photos show scene…

De medica materia libri sex.Lyon, Thibaud Payen (Theobaldus Paganus), 1546 (colophon: 1547). 16mo. With a woodcut device on the title page and some woodcut decorated initials. 18th-century calf, rebacked with original gold-tooled backstrip laid down.

DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius. · 1546 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[30], 543, [147] pp.Rare pocket edition of Jean Ruel's translation into Latin of Dioscorides's standard work on pharmacology, the most important botanical book up on to the 16th century. This is the first issue with the date on the title page saying 1546, colophon 1547. Dioscori…

Chorographia sacra Brabantiae sive celebrium aliquot in ea provincia ecclesiarum et coenobiorum description, …Brussels, Philips Vleugaert, 1658-1660. 24 parts in 1 volume. Folio (43.5 x 28 cm). With 26 double-page engraved plates, 2 engraved portraits (the author's portrait in facsimile), 12 engravings on 6 leaves, a full-page engraving, and 10 engravings in text. Most of these are views of churches, castles and abbeys with their gardens, and many by Lucas Vorsterman the Younger. Further with engraved illustrations on 23 (of the 24) title-pages, mostly portraits of saints or coat of arms. 19th-century blind-tooled, tanned sheepskin.

SANDERUS, Antoine. · 1658 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

The first volume of a beautifully illustrated description of the Duchy of Brabant, published in parts from 1658 to 1660, by the Flemish historian Antoine Sanderus (1586-1664), with most of the illustrations by Lucas Vorsterman the Younger (1624-1666/67). "In this detailed and ex…

Malby's terrestrial globe.[London], Malby & Co. (engraved by Chas. Malby), 1 January 1848. Diameter: 45.5 cm (18 inch), height in stand: 64.5 cm. An engraved terrestrial globe with 12 gores and 2 polar caps over a plaster-covered core, and the engraved horizon ring on the wooden stand, all coloured by a contemporary hand. In a contemporary wooden stand with 3 turned legs supporting the horizon ring, and 3 turned stretchers with a cylindrical centrepiece with a knob on the underside. Further with a contemporary brass hour circle and a slightly later iron meridian ring (and probably the axis pivots).

[GLOBE - TERRESTRIAL]. MALBY & CO. · 1848 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

Only recorded copy of the 1848 edition (preceded only by one recorded copy of 1846 edition) of Malby's 18 inch (45.5 cm) terrestrial globe, the largest he engraved and much rarer than his 12 inch globe. It shows small pieces of the Antarctic coast, noting sightings and explorati…

The voyages & travels of Sir John Mandevile, Knight, … to the Holy Land, and to Hierusalem: as also to the lands of the Great Caan, and of Prestor John: to Inde, and divers other countries: ...London, Richard Chiswell, Benjamin Walford, Matthew Wotton, George Conyers, 1696. 4to. With a woodcut ship on the title-page and about 60 woodcut illustrations in the text (mostly about 5.5 x 8 cm) plus about 10 repeats. Gold-tooled, red goatskin morocco by Robert Riviere in London (ca. 1875/80), one of England's best binders.

MANDEVILLE, John [= Jehan d'OUTREMEUSE]. · 1400 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€22,500.00 ($24,799.10 | £18,770.98 | ¥3,960,095)

[4], “139” [= 135], [5] pp.A rare 17th-century English edition, with about 60 different woodcut illustrations, of a classic and partly fictional 14th-century account of travels presented as voyages of Sir John Mandeville through Turkey, Egypt, Ethiopia, Syria, Persia, Arabia, In…

Analyse d'un mémoire de M. Eugène de Froberville sur les langues et les races de l'Afrique Orientale au sud de l'equateur.[Port Louis, Mauritius], [Société d’Histoire Naturelle de Maurice], [1846]. Offprint, with its own pagination, from Procès-verbaux de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Ile Maurice, du 6 octobre 1842 au 28 aou^t 1845, [1846].With: (2) FLOURENS, Pierre, [Louis-Isidore?] DUPERREY and Etienne SERRES. Rapport sur les races nègres de l'Afrique Orientale au sud de l'équateur, observées par M. de Froberville.(Colophon: Paris, printed by Bachelier, [1850]). Offprint, with its own pagination, from Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Sciences, XXX (1850).2 works in 1 volume. Small folio & large 8vo. 19th-century black half morocco, with the blue paper back wrapper of the second offprint bound in.

FROBERVILLE, Eugène de, and [Louis BOUTON]. · 1790 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

Two offprints discussing the researches of the French ethnographer Eugène de Froberville (1790-1871) in Mauritius on the languages and races of sub-equatorial East African, the first one published in Mauritius. The first is especially interesting, because it is an account of a l…