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Batavia, begrepen in zes boeken.Amsterdam, Adriaan Wor & heirs of G. onder de Linden, 1740. With:(2) MARRE, Jan de. Bespiegelingen over gods wysheid in't bestier der schepselen, en eerkroon voor de Caab de Goede Hoop.Amsterdam, Adriaan Wor & heirs of G. onder de Linden, 1746.(3) MARRE, Jan de. Hof- en mengeldichten. Amsterdam, Adriaan Wor & heirs of G. onder de Linden, 1746.3 works in 1 volume, the first in 6 parts. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece and an elaborate title-vignette (identical on all three title-pages. And ad. 1 with a folding engraved plate of Jakarta "as it was in 1731" by Jan van der Laan. Contemporary vellum, red spine label.

MARRE, Jan de. · 1696 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[36], 320, [6]; [42], 178, [22], [20], 214, [4] pp.Three first editions, from the same publisher and in matching format, of poetic works in Dutch by Jan de Marre (1696-1763), who was a sailor for 20 years and based some of his works on his voyages to Asia. The first work in the …

Omnium gentium mores leges et ritus ex multis clarrissimis rerum scriptoribus ... nuper collecti: & in libros tris distinctos Aphricam, Asiam, Europam, optime lector lege. [Half-title:] Repertorium librorum trium Ioannis Boemi de omnium gentium ritibus. Item index rerum scitu digniorum in eosdem. Cum privilegio Papali ac Imperiali M.D.XX.[Colophon: Augsburg, Sigismund Grimm & Marcus Wirsung, July 1520]. Folio. With the letterpress half-title in an elaborate woodcut border with a trophy of arms, putti and mermen. 17th century vellum with 3 raised spine-bands.

BOEMUS (BÖHM), Johannes. · 1510 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[6], LXXXI, [1] ll.First edition of a pioneering and highly influential foundational work of anthropology that went through almost fifty editions in 100 years and was widely read throughout Western Europe. Written by the "father of scientific ethnography" (NDB), who based his in…

Stirpes novae, aut minus cognitae, quas descriptionibus et iconibus illustravit.Paris, Philip Dionysius Pierres, "1784"-"1785" [= 1785-1788]. Parts 1-4 (of 6) in 1 volume. 1mo (full-sheet leaves, ca. 37 x 54 cm). With 50 engraved plates: 22 after Pierre Joseph Redouté, 17 after L. Freret, 4 after Fossier, 2 after P. Jossigny, 2 after J.G. Bruguiere, and 1 each after James Sowerby, Cl. Aubriet and Prévost. Original publisher's pink paste-paper wrappers over boards. Preserved in a professionaly handmade box, made for this book.

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

€8,000.00 ($8,817.46 | £6,674.13 | ¥1,408,034)

[2], VI, 1-20; [2], VII-VIII, 21-40; [2], IX-X, 41-62; [2] XI-XII, 63-102 pp.First and only edition of a sumptuous botanical work by the French botanist Charles-Louis L’Héritier de Brutelle (1746-1800). In this work L’Héritier describes a great number of new taxa, including many…

The historie of the great emperour Tamerlan wherein are expressed, encounters, skirmishes, battels, sieges, assaults, skalings, taking of cities and strong places, defended, and assaulted, with diverse stratagems of warre, the which this great and renowned warriour hath conducted and accomplished, during his raigne of fortie or fiftie yeares: with other instructions for the warre, which should not be unknowen of them that would attaine unto the knowledge of armes. Drawen from the auncient monuments of the Arabians, by messire Jean du Bec, abbot of Mortimer. Newly translated out of French into English, for their benefite which are ignorant in that language. by H.M.London, R. Field for Willam Ponsonby, 1597. 4to. With a woodcut device on the title page, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces.17th-century calf, 19th century gold-tooled spine.

DU BEC-CRESPIN, Jean. · 1585 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€25,000.00 ($27,554.55 | £20,856.65 | ¥4,400,106)

[4], 265, [1] pp.Very rare first edition of the first English translation of Histoire du grand empereur Tamerlanes (Rouen 1585), the first European account of the life of Timur (Tamerlane) based on an Arabic source. The successful and barbaric 14th-century conqueror Timur create…

Groot schilderboek ...Haarlem, Johannes Marshoorn, 1740. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece, both title pages with a woodcut vignette, title to part 1 printed in red and black, an engraved portrait of De Laraisse, and 64 engraved plates. 19th-century richly gold-tooled mottled calf (dated 1841). The work has been re-backed with the original spine laid down.

LAIRESSE, Gerard de. · 1707 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[3], [1 blank], [52], 434, [33], [1 blank]; 400, [28] pp.Celebrated and very influential theoretical manual on the art of painting by Gerard de Lairesse, in the second enlarged, and third overall, edition; now including a biography of the author by the painter Arnold Houbraken a…

[Oranda-jin. Dutchmen. Japanese colour woodcut].Yokohoma, Yamashiroya Jimbei, 1863. 36,6 x 24,5 cm. Japanese colour woodcut in red, black, blue, and yellow with a Dutch couple and a banderol with Japanese text of phonetic Dutch words. Mounded on decorated paper, framed.

YOSHITORA UTAGAWA. · 1840 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

Charming 19th-century Japanese so-called Yokohama woodcut by the artist Yoshitora Utagawa (active ca. 1840-1880) with a Dutch couple of which the woman caries a parasol. At the top a banderol with a Japanese text with a phonetic list of Dutch words reading from right to left: s…

Pancharis.Lyon, Thomas Soubron, 1593. 2 parts in 1 volume. 12mo. With a large woodcut printer's device on the title page of the first part, and a smaller variant device on the title page of the second part, further with 5 woodcut headpieces, 3 woodcut tailpieces, 6 woodcut decorated initials, and a border made up of typographical materials around the colophon. With: DURAND, Gillis. Imitations du Latin de Iean Bonnefons: avec autres gayetez amoureuses, de l'invention de l'autheur.Lyon, pour Thomas Soubron (colophon: Etienne Servain), 1593. 17th-century gold tooled brown calf.

BONNEFONS, Jean. · 1554 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

68; 153, [1] pp.First Lyon edition of a collection of amorous and lightly erotic poems in Latin by the French poet Jean Bonnefons (1554-1614). The poems are love songs to an imaginary mistress, or pancharis (Greek for "all gracious"), in the tradition of the Book of kisses by Je…

De rebus nuper in Italia gestis [in the running heads: "De bello Mediolanensi"] libro octo ...(Colophon: Antwerp, Maarten de Keyser), 1533. With: (2) SERVILIUS, Johannes (Jan KNAAP). Geldrogallica conjuratio in totius Belgicae clarissimam civitatem Antverpiam, duce Martino Rosheymio, ...Augsburg, Heinrich Steiner, 1544. 2 works in 1 volume. Small 8vo (15 x 10 cm). Contemporary vellum wrappers, with 2 fragments of the March and April calendar leaf (in red and black) of a manuscript Missale romanum (ca. 1475/1500?) used as end leaves.

CAPELLA, Galeazzo Flavio. · 1521 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

96; [44] ll.Contemporary accounts of two political and military power struggles, written in Latin and bound together at an early date. Ad 1: First edition of an important contemporary account of what the running heads and the titles of some later editions call the Milanese Wars …

Instrument zur Architectur damit die fünff Seülen auch aller sorten Stück und Morsser, sowol allerley Bilder und dergleichen Sachen, leicht und recht proportionirt zuu ergrössern oder zuu erkleinern seindt, erfunden.Nürnberg, (colophon:) printed by Ludwig Lochner, 1622. 4to. With an engraved title page, showing all components of the newly invented instrument designed to help draftsmen enlarge or reduce drawings, and 9 numbered figures on 5 plates: 4 plates showing the instrument and its use and 1 large folding plate (32.5 x 30.5 cm) with model drawings of the five orders of architectural columns. Further with a woodcut headpiece, 3 woodcut decorated gothic initials (3 series), a woodcut headpiece and a headpiece built up of cast fleurons. Set in fraktur types. Modern nonpareil marbled boards, red morrocco spine-label, by Ateliers Laurenchet (stamp on paste-down) in Paris, established by Henri Laurenchet in 1947.

ALBRECHT, Andreas. · 1620 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€14,500.00 ($15,981.64 | £12,096.86 | ¥2,552,061)

[16] pp.Rare first edition of a description, illustration, and full explanation of the use of a newly invented instrument for artists and draftsmen, invented by Andreas Albrecht. He was a German military engineer, inventor, and author on technical drawing, active in Nürnberg ca.…

Notice de mes souvenirs d'un voyage à Paris, écrite pour mes chers enfans.Amsterdam, 1838. Small 8vo. Manuscript in French, written in ink in a regular and readable hand on 7 quires of writing-paper, some with a slight green cast.With: ALBERDINGK THIJM, Josephus Albertus. Decemberliedtjen op tantes feest, in 1878. Manuscript poem, signed J.A.Th. 4to. Folded.Loose quires in a contemporary red morocco portfolio with gold-tooled title and ornamental frames on covers, richly gold-tooled turn-ins and silk paste-downs. With 3 pairs of green silk ties.

ALBERDINGK THIJM, Catharina & Josephus Albertus ALBERDINGK THIJM. · 1838 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

135, [4 blank]; 4 pp.Album with manuscripts in French and Dutch from the notable Amsterdam literary family Alberdingk Thijm. More than half gives a full account, in French, of a tourist trip to Paris in 1838 by Mrs. Catharina Alberdingk Thijm (1793-1864) and her friends. Without…

[5 etched print series:]1) Divers combats.Series of 6 unnumbered prints including title-print.2) Diverses especes d[']animaus faits apres nature.Series of 7 unnumbered prints including title-print.3) Veuës et païsages du Chasteau de Longuetoise et des environs.6 unnumbered prints, including title-print, from a series of 12.4) [Views near Paris].Series of 4 numbered prints, published without title.5) [Pastoral views].Series(?) of 2 unnumbered prints without title. Paris, [Jacques Lagniet (ads 1, 3), Jacques van Merlen (ad 4), unknown publisher (ads 2, 5)], [ca. 1660]. Small 4to (16.5 x 13 cm). Five series of small oblong folio etched views (16 x 21.5-23 cm; plate size: 10 x 17 to 12.5 x 21.5 cm), 3 complete, 1 incomplete and 1 documented only as separate prints. Each print folded to form a double leaf and mounted on a stub so that it can open flat. Gold-tooled, dark green goatskin morocco (ca. 1890).

FLAMEN, Albert. · 1620 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[6]; [7]; [6 of 12]; 4; [2] etched ll.Five series of finely executed and well-printed etchings by Albert Flamen, mostly in their first states and all in early states, the five series showing: 1) cavalry fighting viewed from the thick of the battle; 2) wild and domestic animals o…

Moeurs, usages, costumes des Othomans, et abrégé de leur histoire. Avec des éclaircissemens tirés d'ouvrages orientaux, et communiqués par M. Langlès.Paris, Nepveu, 1812. 6 volumes. 18mo (14 x 9 cm). With 75 hand-coloured engraved plates: a frontispiece in each volume and 17, 17, 9, and 26 plates in volumes 3, 4, 5, and 6 respectively. Most plates depict costumes, but also tools and instruments are shown. All plates are very detailed and beautifully coloured by hand, in very fresh contemporary colouring, some even finished with gold. Contemporary gold- and blined-toole purpleish-black morocco.

CASTELLAN, Antoine Laurent. · 1772 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

Beautifully illustrated 6-volume work on the customs, habits and costumes of the people in the Ottoman Empire. The work gives an elaborate account of Ottoman history, the emperors, people, religion, arts and professions, which are shown in the handcoloured detailed full-page eng…

Histoire naturelle et morale des Iles Antilles de l'Amérique ...Rotterdam, Arnout Leers, 1658. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With an engraved title-page, a woodcut printer's device on the typographical title-page, a full-page portrait of Amproux, 43 engraved plates in the text of all kinds of plants, trees, animals and costumes from the Antilles. Further with a divisional title-page for the second part, and woodcut decorated initials, head- and tailpieces throughout. Contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf, with a red morocco title-label lettered in gold, gold-tooled board edges, marbled edges, marbled endpapers, and a bright pink reading ribbon.

[ROCHEFORT, Charles de]. · 1690 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[1], [1 blank], [12], 527, [12], [1 blank] pp.First edition of an important work on the geology and natural history of the Antilles and on the culture and history of the inhabitants of the different islands, by Charles de Rochefort (died ca. 1690). Most of the bibliographies are…

Topographia Helvetiae Rhaetiae et Valesiae. Das ist, Beschreibung und eigentliche Abbildung der vornembsten Stätte und Plätz, in der hochlöblichen Eydgnoßschafft, Grawbündten, Walliß, und etlicher zugewanten Orten. [Frankfurt am Main], Matthäus Merian, 1642. Folio. With richly engraved title-page, 74 (of 76) engraved maps, plans and views on 54 (of 56) plates normally included the 1642 first edition (nearly all double-page) plus 1 large folding plate from the 1653 Anhang, and 67 additional engravings from the 17th and 18th century, including at least 16 by or after Merian. Altogether there are 3 general maps (1 of Germany and surroundings and 2 of Switzerland), 4 detail maps, and numerous city plans and views. Lacking the bird's eye view of Herisau and the second of two views of Neuchâtel. Tanned sheepskin (ca. 1700?), gold-tooled spine.

MERIAN, Matthäus. · 1593 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€29,500.00 ($32,514.37 | £24,610.85 | ¥5,192,124)

72, [8] pp. plus engraved plates.First edition of the famous topography of Switzerland, richly illustrated by Matthäus Merian (1593-1650). The main interest of the work is in the engravings, which are of the highest artistic standard. Nearly all the plates are double-page, with …

De triplici philosophia naturali, astrologica, et minerali. In quibus differit cohaerenter de elementis, & variis mixtorum proprietatibus. ... Opus theol. philos. medicis, chymicis, & astrologis jucundum, ac simul utile.Bologna, Giovanni Bapttista Ferroni, 1653. 4to. With an engraved heraldic and allegorical frontispiece drawn and engraved by Bartolomeo Coriolano with the arms of the dedicatee Hipolyto Cattaneo, a full-page engraving (with 7 figures) on an integral leaf, and 2 engraved illustrations and 2 woodcut diagrams in the text. Contemporary boards covered with a vellum leaf from a 16th-century(?) plain-chant manuscript antiphonary.

MAZZOTTA, Benedetto. · 1599 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€19,500.00 ($21,492.55 | £16,268.19 | ¥3,432,082)

Frontispiece plus [10], [2 blank], 148, “252” [= 272] pp.First and only edition of a detailed Latin treatise mixing astronomy, astrology, mineralogy, metallurgy, chemistry, alchemy and gemology, by Benedetto Mazzotta, professor of theology at the University of Bologna and a memb…

Rerum et urbis Amstelodamensium historia.Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, 1611. Folio. With an engraved title, 7 engraved maps and plates (5 folding, 2 double-page), and 50 engraved maps and views in the text. Contemporary limp vellum.

PONTANUS, Johannes Isaac. · 1594 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[8], 292, [6], 38, [3] pp.First edition of the first objective description of Amsterdam and its history, with extensive accounts of Dutch East India Company's (VOC) maritime trade, exploration, and navigation. It contains the report of Willem Barentsz' voyages to the Arctic regi…

Sedigh leven, daghelycks broodt, met korte jaer-langhe dicht-stichtighe spreuck-beelden, tot deughden voedsel uytghedeylt.Leuven, Everaert de Witte, 1639. Oblong 8vo (8 x 13.5 cm). With 2 woodcut decorated initials, the text is mainly set in gothic type. Contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf with the title lettered in gold on the spine; re-backed, with the original gold-tooled backstrip laid down, blue painted endpapers.

BORN, Honorius van den [= Erycius PUTEANUS]. · 1574 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[1], [1 blank] [22], 366, [10] pp.A delightful little volume containing 366 moralistic Dutch epigrams, one for each day of the year. This is the second and much enlarged edition; the first was published the previous year and contained only 255 epigrams. The work was published un…

Nuovo metodo, che facilita la lingua Toscana disteso con regole grammaticali, ...Rome, Paolo Moneta, 1683. Small 12mo (14 x 8 cm). Contemporary marbled wrappers.

SEBASTIANI, Pietro de’. · 1677 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[4], 47, [1 blank] pp.Unrecorded first and only edition of a concise grammar of and guide to the Italian language (in its Tuscan variant, which had already spread to Rome by this date), dedicated to Massimiliano di Bethune, Prince of Henrichemont. Pietro de' Sebastiani, professo…

La vie du pere Francois de Borja ...Douai, Baltazar Bellère, 1603. 8vo. With a woodcut "IHS" vignette on the title-page, some woodcut decorated initials and woodcut head-pieces, and a large woodcut tail-piece on p. 480. Contemporary overlapping vellum, with the manuscript title on the spine, remnants of ties.

RIBADENEYRA, Pedro de [and Michel d'ESNE DE BETENCOURT (translator)]. · 1527 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[1], [1 blank], [22], 480 pp.Second edition of the French translation of the biography of Saint Francis of Borgia, a Spanish Roman Catholic reformer and third general of the Jesuits. The original work was written by the famous Spanish jesuit Pedro Ribadeneyra (1527-1611), the pr…

Voyage de découvertes aux Terres Australes, fait par ordre du gouvernement, sur les corvettes le Géographe, le Naturaliste et la goëlette le Casuarina, pendant les années 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804; historique.Paris, (printed by Lebel for) Arthus Bertrand, 1824. 4 text volumes (8vo) and 1 atlas volume (folio). With lithographed portrait of François Péron; the atlas with engraved title-page and 68 (27 hand-coloured) lithographed plates, maps and charts, including a double-page map of Australia. Contemporary gold-tooled red half sheepskin.

PÉRON, François Auguste and Louis Claude de Saulses de FREYCINET. · 1800 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

XXIV, 400; 532; 432; 353, [4] pp.; Atlas vol. [10] pp. text (Index of plates).Second and improved edition of the famous account of the French Baudin expedition to Australia in the years 1800-1804. The objective of the expedition, commanded by Captain Baudin, was to thoroughly ex…