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Des. Eras Roterodami viri incomparabilis vita, & epitaphia quaedam.Antwerp, Willem Vorsterman, 1536. Small 8vo (9.8 x 15.6 cm). With woodcut medallion portrait of Erasmus on the verso of the title page, and 4 woodcut decorated initials. Modern vellum.

RHENANUS, Beatus. · 1536 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[24] ll.First and only edition of this commemorative work, published shortly after Erasmus’ death in 1536, brings together a series of biographical and poetic tributes by some of his closest associates. The volume opens with the Vita Erasmi by Beatus Rhenanus (1485-1547), a huma…

Satyrae.(Colophon:) Venice, Bernardinus Benalius & Matteo Capcasa, 3 August 1491. Folio. 19th-century gold- and blind-tooled half brown morocco and marbled paper sides, with the author, title, and impressum lettered in gold.

PERSIUS FLACCUS, Aulus; Johannes BRITANNICUS, and Bartholomaeus FONTIUS (commentators). · 1450 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[48] ll.First incunable edition that brings together the Renaissance commentaries of Johannes Britannicus (ca. 1450-1518) and Bartholomaeus Fontius (1446-1513), this printing of the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus (34-62 CE) presents one of the most challenging and intellectual…

Meyn ... personlich fürbringen fuer dem hochlöbliche[n] keyserliche[n] regime[n]t zu Nürnberg, das heilig eva[n]gelium un[d] wort gottes betreffend.Zwickau, [Jörg Gastel], 1523. 4to. With an architectural woodcut title frame. Modern purple painted paper wrappers.

CRONBERG, Hartmuth von. · 1488 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[4] ll.First and only edition of a rare and important Reformation pamphlet by Hartmuth von Cronberg (1488-1549), an imperial knight (Reichsritter) and one of the earliest convinced adherents of Martin Luther (1483-1546).Von Cronberg belonged to a family of free imperial knights …

The Arabian antiquities of Spain.London, Cadell & Davies, 1815. Double elephant folio (500 x 675 mm). With an engraved frontispiece, an engraved part title and 103 plates (numbered 1 to 97, plates 8, 79 and 80 in 2 parts, plate 86 in 3 parts) including a folding plate (pl. 12), engraved by Porter, Turel, Roffe, Keux and others after Murphy. Contemporary red half morocco and marbled boards, raised spine bands, titled in gilt on spine. All edges gilt.

MURPHY, James Cavanah. · 1792 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[4], 21, [1] pp.First edition of this sumptuous work on Muslim Córdoba and Granada from the collection of Baron James de Rothschild (1792-1868), founder of the French branch of the Rothschilds. The monumental volume is an impressive work on the art and architecture of Muslim Spa…

Levenschetsen van de twaalf apostelen.[Antwerp, ca. 1640-1650]. Ca. 12.5 x 9.5 cm. With 14 engravings (ca. 9 x 6.5 cm) printed on fine vellum, in an oval with ornamented corners with subscriptions and number underneath, with protective tissue paper, bound with 17 paper leaves (ca. 11.5 x 8.5 cm) containing short and concise biographies of the apostles written in a neat 19th-century hand. 19th-century vellum over boards with the manuscript title on the spine ("Levens van de XII Apost. MS").

GALLE, [Theodoor and] Johannes. · 1636 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[17] ll. and 14 engravings on vellum.Very rare suite of 14 beautiful engravings originally made by Theodoor Galle (Antwerp, n.d.) and mentioned in the inventory of his widow, Catherina Moerentorff, 20 May 1636: “Cleyn Apostellen in ovael, veerthien platen” (Denucé (1927), p. 147…

Traité de la perspective pratique, avec des remarques sur l'architecture, suivies de quelques edifices considerables mis en perspective, & de l'invention de l'auteur. Ouvrage très-utile aux amateurs de l'architecture & de la peinture.Paris, Jacques Vincent, 1725. 3 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With 33 engraved plates (32 folding, 1 double-page), an engraved frontispiece, numerous decorated woodcut initials, and head- and tailpieces (both woodcut and built up from typographical ornaments). Contemporary gold and blind tooled mottled brown calf.

COURTONNE, Jean. · 1671 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[2 blank], [12], "116" [=114], [2] pp.First edition of an excellent manual on practical perspective, written by a celebrated French architect. The work is divided into three parts, all treating the various aspects of perspective put into practice. An extra chapter is added at th…

Le floriste François. Traittant de l’origine des tulipes. ...Caen, Eleazar Mangeant, 1654. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, 2 decorated woodcut initials, and numerous head- and tailpieces, both woodcut and made up of typographical ornaments. Contemporary vellum, with the title printed in red on the spine, red and blue sprinkled edges.

CHESNÉE MONSTEREUL, Charles de la. · 1637 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[44], 250, [4], [2 blank] pp.Very rare first edition of the first French treatise on the cultivation of tulips, written by a gentleman-gardener. It one of the earliest treatises on tulips published after the well-known bubble-burst in Holland in 1637. Although interest in cultiv…

[Drop title:] Eu Elrey. Faço saber aos que este alvará de declaração virem: que tendo informação, de que do meu alvará de dez de setembro de mil setecentos sessenta e sinco, que, abollindo as frótas, permittio aos meus vassallos a liberdade de navegarem para os portos não vedados dos meus dominios ultramarinos; e de transportarem delles, e para elles quaesquer mercadorias permittidas ...[Lisbon], Na Regia Officina Typografica, [1772]. Folio (ca. 29 x 20 cm). With a large decorated woodcut initial “E” incorporating the Portuguese royal coat of arms. Disbound and subsequently mounted in a modern black stiff paper folder with a printed label mounted on the front wrapper.

[SLAVE TRADE - BRAZIL - JOSÉ I, King of Portugal]. · 1714 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€750.00 ($826.64 | £625.70 | ¥132,003)

[3], [1 blank] pp.Very rare first issue (of two) of a late 18th-century decree by the Portuguese King José I (1714-1777) dealing with difficulties in the transportation of enslaved people from Mozambique to Brazil. This text, dated 12 December 1772 and signed “Rey” (King) at the…

Zinnebeelden getrokken uit Horatius Flaccus, naer geestrijke vinding van den geleerden.Amsterdam, Justus Dankerts, 1683. 4to. With a copper-engraved vignette on the title page and 103 copper-engraved emblems. (Near-) contemporary gold-tooled red morocco.

VEEN, Otto van and Antoni Jansen van ter GOES. · 1626 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[8], 205, [3] pp.First edition of Anthony Jansen’s adaptation (1626-1699) of Otto van Veen’s (1556-1629) emblemata based on the odes and moral verses of Horace, printed with parallel texts in Latin, Dutch, and French. A highly elaborate and intellectually ambitious emblem book.T…

Cadsandria, jaarboekje voor 1854 (-1859).Comprising:(1) Cadsandria, jaarboekje voor 1854.(2) Cadsandria, Zeeuwsch-Vlaamsch jaarboekje voor 1855.(3) Cadsandria, Zeeuwsch-Vlaamsch jaarboekje voor het schrikkeljaar 1856.(4) Cadsandria, Zeeuwsch-Vlaamsch jaarboekje voor het jaar 1857.(5) Cadsandria, Zeeuwsch jaarboekje voor 1858.(6) Cadsandria, Zeeuwsch jaarboekje voor 1859.Schoondijke, A.J. Bronswijk (volumes 2-3 printed by J.C. & W. Altorffer at Middelburg), [1853-1858]. 6 volumes. 12mo. With 5 lithographed plates (1 folding, 4 full-page), 1 in each in volumes 2-6. Later quarter black buckram, marbled paper sides, with the original front wrapper pasted to the front board.

[ALMANAC - ZEELAND]. · 1828 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

XLIII, 152; XXXVI, 182, [2]; XXXVI, 151, [2]; XXXVI, 226, [2]; XLIV, 240; XLIV, 176 pp.Complete set of the original series of this historical and literary almanac for Zeelandic Flanders, mainly edited by Johan Hendrik van Dale (1828-1872), schoolmaster at Sluis, whose name has b…

Friesche Lust-hof, beplant met verscheyden stichtelijcke minne-liedekens, gedichten, ende boertighe kluchten. Den derden druck op nieuws vermeerdert ende verbetert … Midtsgaders oock noch verrijckt ende verçierd met schoone kopere figuren; ende by alle onbekende wysen de noten, ofte musycke gevoeght.Amsterdam, Widow of Dirck Pietersz. Voscuyl, [1624]. Oblong 4to. With an engraved frontispiece, an engraved portrait of the author, 10 engraved plates in the text, musical annotation, and decorated woodcut initials. 18th-century mottled brown calf.

STARTER, Jan Jansz. · 1593 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[14], 206, [40] pp.Enlarged and best edition of one of the most important Dutch songbooks from the 17th century.Beautifully produced in an elegant oblong size, and printed in various types, including a fine Civilité type. The present work contains wedding songs, love songs, past…

Petri Laurembergii Rostochiensis, Apparatus plantarius primus...Frankfurt am Main, Matthaeus Merian, [1632].With: (2) LAUREMBERG, Peter. Petri Laurembergii Rostochiensis, Horticultura libris II. comprehensa;...Frankfurt am Main, Matthaeus Merian, [1631].2 works bound in one volume. 4to. Illustrated title pages (18,0 x 13,5 cm), headpieces, initials, 63 copperplate illustrations, endpieces. Vellum with a manuscript title on the spine.

LAUREMBERG, Peter. · 1585 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

168, [44]; 196 pp.First editions of the two primary botanical works by Peter Lauremberg, a scientist from Rostock (1585-1639), feature copperplate illustrations engraved either by Matthäus Merian the Elder or from his workshop. These works provide guidance on garden design, incl…

[Suitte du journal depuis le départ de Manille NIII 1755].1755. Manuscript of 24 pages, 6 printed maps on cardboard.

[MANUSCRIPT - MAPS - INDONESIA - ISLANDS in the PACIFIC OCEAN]. · 1755 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[24] pp.This wonderful logbook details the journey of a French captain from Manila to the Maluku Islands in today’s Indonesia. The journey took place during the months of March to May of 1755. The captain of the ship recounted with great detail the events of every day of the jou…

Récit du séjour de Fatalla Sayeghir chez les Arabes Errans du grand désert, manuscrit acquis et traduit en Français. Brussels, Sociétés de Paris, Londres et Bruxelles, 1835. 8vo. With a small vignette of a harp with a star in the background on the title page. Browned paper wrappers, with a white label on the spine with "68" in brown ink.

LAMARTINE, Alphonse de & Henri Bosch (editor). · 1798 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€350.00 ($385.76 | £291.99 | ¥61,601)

[1], [1 blank], [2], VII, [1 blank], 109, [1 blank] pp.First edition of this travel account of Fatalla Sayeghir, who was a young Arab working as interpreter and assistant to a Napoleonic spy, M[onsieur?]. de Lascaris, who undertook an extended mission amongst the Arab peoples. D…

Alle de geestige werken … vervattende in ses boeken de dappere daaden en deftige reedenen van d’overgroote reusen Grandgousier, Gargantua, en Pantagruel … uyt het Fransch vertaelt door Claudio Gallitalo.Amsterdam, Jan Claesz. ten Hoorn, 1682. 2 volumes. 8vo. With an engraved allegorical title page and a letterpress title page to each volume, and several decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary vellum.

RABELAIS, François. · 1490 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[40], 717, [3 blank], [8]; [32], 456, [30], [2 blank], 136, [8] pp.First and only edition of the translation into Dutch of Gargantua and Pantagruel, one of the most comical and at the same time philosophical works ever written. As an admirer of Erasmus, and undoubtedly also insp…

Australian orchids.Sydney, Thomas Richards (vol. 1, part 1-2, 4-7; vol. 2, part 1-2), Charles Potter (vol. 1, part 3; vol. 2, part 4 & 5) & George Stephan Chapman (vol. 2, part 4), [1875--1894]. 12 parts in 2 volumes (vol. 1: part 1-7; vol. 2: part 1-5). Large folio (ca. 50 x 34 cm). With 118 lithographed plates (10 double-page) all but 1 coloured by a contemporary hand in watercolour. The plates were all drawn by Fitzgerald and lithographed by himself and Arthur J. Stopps. All plates are interleaved with accompanying letterpress descriptions. Contemporary half cloth in a uniform style (various colours) with the original publisher's wrappers (also in various colours: yellow, green, blue, turquoise) mounted on the cloth. The 12 volumes are preserved in 20th-century green cloth boxes with a uniform black morocco spine label.

FITZGERALD, Robert Desmond. · 1830 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

118 plates plus letterpress descriptions.First edition of one of the earliest studies on Australian orchids, by Robert Desmond Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald (1830-1892) was an Australian deputy surveyor-general and botanical artist of Irish birth, who lived in Sydney from 1856. He is b…

Summa philosophie naturalis ... una cu[m] libro de co[m]positione mundi qui astronomie ianua nuncupari potest ... [at the head of the page:] Primus liber incipit De co[m]positione mu[n]di.Paris, Jean Lambert (colophon: printed by Thomas Kees, 14 November 1513). Small 4to (28 x 20.5 cm). With 55 woodcut illustrations in the text, including 12 northern and 12 southern pictorial constellations with stars. Flexible wrap-around paperboards (ca. 1750?), sewn on 3 tanned leather supports.

VENETUS, Paolo Nicoletti [and Restoro d'AREZZO]. · 1429 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[35], [1 blank] pp.First edition of one of the best early attempts to give a scientific account of astronomy, cosmography, geology, meteorology, tides, springs and rivers, by Paolo Nicoletti Venetus (ca. 1369/70-1429), edited by Jean Dullaert of Ghent (ca. 1470-1513). The book i…

[Manuscript spine title:] Indian antiquities.[Various places, various publishers, 1877-1903]. About 40 publications in 1 volume. Large and occasionally small 8vo. About 40 archaeological works, most written by John Harry Rivett-Carnac, on prehistoric remains in India and on Indian culture, along with loosely inserted prints, with 41 (lithographed?) plates (some folding) showing monoliths, gorges, tumuli, cup-marks, ancient rock carvings, stone implements, spindle whorls and flint tools, all found in India, but also Buddha and Hindu sculptured figures and ancient coins of important Indian dynasties. Also included are 2 lithographs (one of a sculpted Hindu group near Kanouj) and 3 photographic collotypes reproductions of ancient coins. Half black morocco, green cloth sides, title and author's name in gold on spine.

RIVETT-CARNAC, John Henry; Archibald Campbell CARLLEYLE; Raja Rajendralal MITRA; and others. · 1838 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

ca. 230 leaves, including the plates.Offprints of articles and other publications on Indian antiquities and archaeological research, mainly written by John Henry Rivett-Carnac (1838-1923), a British employee of the Indian Colonial Service and scholar of Indian prehistory. Most w…

[Promissory note for Venetian customs taxes on goods from Damascus].Venice, 22 Feb. / 5 March 1488. Italian notarial document on vellum (44.5 x 16 cm; text block ca. 27 x 14 cm). Written in two fine cursive hands.

[DAMASCUS – VENETIAN TAXES]. · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

A promissory note drawn up by a notary public of the Venetian Republic: Francesco Marcello, a Venetian gentleman owed the main commissioner of Venice 3300 ducats, for customs taxes in Damascus. The creditor renounces all other claims, and Marcello is to pay the debt in 11 annual…

Die cronycke van Hollant, Zeelant ende Vrieslant. Dordrecht, Peeter Verhaghen, 1591, 1591, 1590. 3 volumes bound as 1. Small folio (30.5 x 20.5 cm). With 3 title-pages, each with a different woodcut full-length portrait (the first count of Holland Dirck I, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and King Philip II of Spain), 1 double-page engraved map of Holland in part 2 (in its first state), and 36 woodcut portraits in text. Blind-tooled vellum (ca. 1740?).

[AURELIUS, Cornelius and Ellert de VEER]. · 1591 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[6], 264; [6], 162; [1], 1-110, 110-130, [6] ll. plus the map.One of the four issues (differing only in the imprint) of the third major revision and extension of the famous Dutch national chronicle, known as the "Divisiekroniek", the first edition to include the important contin…