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Pharmacia Antverpiensis galeno-chymica.Antwerp, Joris Willemsens I, 1660. 4to. With an integral engraved architectural title-page by Petrus van Caukercken after Abraham van Diepenbeeck, letterpress title-page with a woodcut decoration, a divisional title for part 2, woodcut tailpieces, woodcut decorated initials. Set in roman and italic, with incidental Greek, textura and pharmacological signs. 18th-century vellum, faded manuscript title on spine.

[ANTWERP - PHARMACOPOEIA]. [BOUDEWIJNS, Michiel, and others]. · 1568 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€2,750.00 ($3,031.07 | £2,293.90 | ¥484,080)

[1], [1 blank], [46], “285” [= 281], [32], [1 blank] pp.Rare first and only edition, in Latin, of the first and only official pharmacopoeia for Antwerp, containing hundreds of medicinal recipes and throwing a great deal of light on 17th-century medical practice in the Low Countr…

Historische print- en dicht-tafereelen, van Jan Baptist Girard, en juffrou Maria Catharina Cadiere. [The Netherlands?], 1735. Small 4to (24 x 18.5 cm). With 32 "scenes", each consisting of an engraved plate with a letterpress poem on the facing page. Gold-tooled red half goatskin morocco (2nd half of the 19th century), richly gold-tooled spine.

[CADIÈRE, Catherine and Jean-Baptiste GIRARD (subject)]. · 1748 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€6,500.00 ($7,164.35 | £5,421.94 | ¥1,144,190)

24, [128] pp.Attractive copy of a very rare erotic print series concerning the notorious case of the Jesuit Jean-Baptiste Girard and Catherine Cadière, which inspired the 1748 French novel Thérèse philosophe: an icon of 18th-century libertinism. The series was issued (simultaneo…

Deductie gedaan ... uit den name ende van wegens bewindhebberen van de Oost-Indische Compagnie ter kamer Amsterdam, eerst requiranten van appoinctement van anticipatie, en nu gedaagdens by mandament van revisie, ter eenre, op ende jegens Aaltje Fransse, weduwe van Cornelis Canter, Jan Canter, en Hendrik van Greuningen, als in huwelyk hebbende Anna Canter, zeggende te zyn moeder, broeder, en zwager respective, van Frans Canter, alle wonende te Amsterdam, ...[Amsterdam, 1752]. Folio (31.5 x 20.5 cm). Side-stitched.With: (2) Missive van de bewindhebberen van de generale Neederlandsche geoctroyeerde Oostindische Compagnie ter vergadering van Seeventienen.[Amsterdam, 1758]. Folio (33 x 21 cm). Side-stitched.

[CANTER, Frans (subject)]. · 1746 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€3,500.00 ($3,857.72 | £2,919.51 | ¥616,102)

28, [1 blank], [1]; 13, [3 blank] pp.Rare first and only edition of a legal injunction against the mother, father and brother-in-law of Frans Canter, manager of the VOC (Dutch East India Company) factory at Basra in southern Iraq from 1746 to 1750, who upon a summons to Batavia …

De re medica huic volumini insunt...[Colophon: Basel, Andreas Cratander, 1528]. Folio. With woodcut printer's device on title-page, repeated on final page, 2 pages with 4-piece decorative woodcut borders and numerous woodcut decorated initials. 18th-century half calf, with marbled paper in a tree pattern on sides, gold-tooled spine with the coat of arms of the Russian Tsars.

[TORINUS, Albanus (editor)]. · 1489 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€25,000.00 ($27,555.18 | £20,853.62 | ¥4,400,731)

[12], 125, [1] ll.First edition of a collection of four medical works, compiled by the Swiss physician Albanus Torinus (1489-1550). The main part of the work consists of De re medica, also known as Medicina Pliniana, a very popular medical text during the Middle Ages. Compiled i…

Historia insectorum generalis, in qua verissimae mutationum, seu lentae in membra epigeneseos rationes, duce Experientia, redduntur, recepta vulgo Insectorum Metamorphosis solide refutatur... Adjicitur dilucidatio ... Editio Nova. Leiden, Johannes van Abkoude, 1733. 4to. With 13 engraved plates, including 8 folding, and 1 folding table. Further with a small woodcut ornamental vignette on the title page, woodcut decorated initials, and several head- and tailpieces. Early 19th-century half blind-tooled brown sheepskin and marbled paper sides.

SWAMMERDAM, Jan. · 1684 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,250.00 ($1,377.76 | £1,042.68 | ¥220,037)

[20], "212" [= 210], [17], [1 blank] pp.Re-issue of the rare Latin translation first published in Utrecht, by Meinardus van Dreunen in 1684, of Swammerdam's famous work on the metamorphosis of insects. The original Dutch edition was published in 1669 also by Van Dreunen.Jan Swam…

[Naturhistorisches Original-Thierwerk].[Augsburg, Engelbrecht, 1825]. Oblong folio. With 127 numbered engraved plates including frontispiece incorporating a small portrait of Johann Elias Ridinger (1698-1767) in profile on a base with his name and profession, surrounded by animals, and plates showing all kinds of animals classified in 9 (of 10) sections. Lacking the title-page and part of the text, but with all plates complete. Contemporary diced half calf, gold-tooled spine, marbled sides.

RIDINGER, Johann Elias. · 1730 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€12,500.00 ($13,777.59 | £10,426.81 | ¥2,200,366)

28 pp. plus 127 plates.Rare edition of a very fine series of attractive animal prints, originally published in 7 instalments, here lacking the general title-page and section 1. The extremely rare first edition, with the title Das in seiner großen Mannigfaltigkeit und in seinen s…

Memoires ... ecrits par lui-meme.Paris, Paulin, 1833-1837. 10 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary gold-tooled quarter calf. The set is housed in two blue marbled paper slipcases.

CASANOVA, Giacomo. · 1725 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€3,500.00 ($3,857.72 | £2,919.51 | ¥616,102)

[4], 427, [3]; [4], 422, [2]; [4], 432, [4], 480; [4], 455, [1 blank]; [4], 468; [4], 475, [1]; [4], 455, [1 blank], [4], 426; [4], 394 pp.First complete French edition of Giacomo Casanova's (1725-1798) Mémoires, comprising 10 volumes. The original French manuscripts were acquir…

Panorama d’Amsterdam.[Amsterdam], [printed by R. de Vries for] François Buffa & Sons, [ca. 1860]. Oblong (ca.16.4 x 24.6 cm. per leaf). The panorama is made up of 8 numbered lithographed views, printed in monochrome with beige tone block. The viewer looks southward from the IJ over the city from the Oosterdok (eastern dock) and the Oosterkerk (eastern church) along the docks and wharfs, via the recognisable towers of several churches and the view of the Royal Palace, to the Westerdok (western dock), a large factory, and the Blauwhoofd, the northwestern-most bulwark of the city. Original brown blind-stamped wave-grained cloth with the title and imprint information lettered in gold on the front board in a rococo frame, yellow endpapers.

[PANORAMA - AMSTERDAM]. Johan Conrad GREIVE jr. (illustrator). · 1837 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€3,750.00 ($4,133.28 | £3,128.04 | ¥660,110)

8 numbered views folded making 24 pages.Extremely rare leporello-style bound copy of a lithographic panorama of Amsterdam, printed in monochrome with a beige tone block, after drawings by Johan Conrad Greive (1837-1891) and lithographed by Ruurt de Vries Jr. (1813-1874).A remark…

Opera, quae inveniri potuerunt omnia: partim ex antiquis editionibus, partim ex manuscriptis eruta.Groningen, Joannes Sassius, 1614. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, and several decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary overlapping vellum.

GANSFORT, Wessel [and Petrus PAPPUS (editor)]. · 1521 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€4,000.00 ($4,408.83 | £3,336.58 | ¥704,117)

[38], 921, [1] pp.First and only edition of Wessel Gansfort’s collected works, in which many of his letters and several of his ascetic works were published for the first time. Gansfort, often considered a forerunner of the Reformation, emphasised the importance of Scripture as a…

Sommige uytgelesene colloquia, ofte tsamen-spreeckinghen Desiderii Erasmi Roterodami, ende Luciani Samosatensis, niet min godsalich nut ende stichtelijck, dan tijdtcortich ende gheneuchelijck om lessen … Beyde in de Neder-Duytsche sprake overgeset, door Andream van Oosterbeeck.Utrecht, Jan Amelisz, 1613. 4to. With a woodcut printer’s device on the title page and the rare full-page engraved portrait of Erasmus (which is lacking in at least 2 of the 4 copies known) in an oval. On the verso of this portrait is a laudatory "Klanck-Ghedicht" (sonnet) for Erasmus, between typographical borders; the same borders on leaf. p2r: the privilege by the States General (verso blank). Contemporary gold-tooled overlapping vellum.

ERASMUS, Desiderius, LUCIAN of SAMOSATA, and Andreas van OOSTERBEECK (translator). · 1584 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€4,950.00 ($5,455.92 | £4,129.02 | ¥871,345)

[18], 141, [3] ll.Very rare first and only edition of a collection of 27 colloquia (dialogues) by Erasmus and 13 by Lucian (of Samosata, ca. 125-after 180 CE). The colloquia were translated into Dutch by Andreas van Oosterbeeck (fl. 1584-ca. 1620), a minister in Abcoude (1590) a…

[drop title:] Soneto. ¿Quién sino tú, dulcísima Maria ... ?[Mexico, ca. 1821]. Ca. 21.5 x 15.5 cm. The text is set within a decorative woodcut border, together with a woodcut illustration of the Virgin of Guadalupe.

[SONNET - MEXICO]. · 1810 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,800.00 ($1,983.97 | £1,501.46 | ¥316,853)

[1] leaf.Beautifully printed broadside sonnet, thanking the Virgin of Guadalupe for Mexico's victory over Spain after the Mexican War of Independence (1810-1821). Because the Virgin's image was used from the very start of the war, she became a central symbol in Mexico's fight fo…

Vruchtmandje voor de jeugd.Amsterdam, J. Kaal, [1811]. 8vo. With a hand-coloured vignette (a fruit basket) on the title-page and 18 hand-coloured full-page plates. Original publisher's stiff brown printed paper boards.

ROEMER, Jan. · 1769 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€2,500.00 ($2,755.52 | £2,085.36 | ¥440,073)

XXXII [= XXX], 111, [1 blank] pp.The very rare second edition of a rare Dutch children's book about botany by Jan Roemer (1769-1838), with 18 beautiful hand-coloured plates. Vruchtmandje ("Fruit Basket") contains illustrations and descriptions of almonds, apples, strawberries, c…

[Costumes Portugueses].[Lisbon, ca. 1850]. Folio. With 46 contemporary hand coloured numbered lithographs showing Portuguese dress. Contemporary gold-tooled, quarter green buckram, with the title lettered in gold on the spine, green (pseudo-) marbled paper sides.

[PALHARES, João]. · 1819 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€7,500.00 ($8,266.55 | £6,256.09 | ¥1,320,219)

46 ll.First edition of this fine set of lithographs by João Palhares (1819-1891), illustrating costumes and professions of Portugal in the 19th century. This is the largest collection of plates by Palhares that has been recorded. Other examples known contain 40 plates, as establ…

Vexation and strife.Kolkata (Calcutta), 1797. Oblong folio. Aquatint etching on paper (leaf: ca. 29 x 38 cm.; plate: 27 x 35 cm; illustration: 24.5 x 31.5 cm). Aquatint etching showing domestic scene of a couple fighting at a table, with a dark figure watching on in the background. Signed "Calcutta J M del. et sculp. 1797" and captioned "vexation and strife". Printed on laid paper made by James Whatman the younger, watermarked.

MOFFAT, James. · 1775 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€7,500.00 ($8,266.55 | £6,256.09 | ¥1,320,219)

Very rare aquatint and etching by the Scottish engraver in Kolkata,James Moffat (1775-1815), with a rare Calcutta imprint. The subject of the print is a somewhat satirical representation or a subtle caricature of domestic vexation and strife surrounding intoxication of a (suppos…

Lectionarium Syriacum seu collectio orationum et lectionum quae in horis canonicis per totum anni decursum excepto jejunio quadragesimali ab ecclesiae Syriacae clero adhiberi solent.Mosul, typis Fratrum Praedicatorum (= Dominican printing office), 1879. Folio. With a Latin title-page set in roman type and a Syriac title-page set in Syriac type, both within a red and blue ornamental frame. Preliminary leaves also set within a red ornamental frame. Text set in Syriac type and printed in black and red. With a few religious illustrations throughout the text. Contemporary half blue sheepskin, blue cloth sides, gold-tooled spine lettered (in Syriac) in gold, marbled endpapers.

[LECTIONARY - SYRIAC]. [JOSEPH DAVID, Clemens]. · 1829 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€12,500.00 ($13,777.59 | £10,426.81 | ¥2,200,366)

648 pp.Syriac lectionary printed at the Dominican Press of Mosul, here in its first and only edition by Clemens Joseph David (1829-1890). Clemens Joseph David was a prominent scholar of the Syriac Catholic Church, who was greatly admired for his knowledge of the Syriac language …

Waerachtige beschryvinghe. Inhoudende wie de eerste autheuren ende vinders aller verscheyden consten, inventien, ende hantwercken zijn gheweest … uyt de Latijnsche in onse Nederlantsche tale … overgeset, door E.M.G.Amsterdam, Jan Evertsz. Cloppenburch, 1612. 8vo. With a printer’s device on the title page, 3 decorated woodcut initials, 3 headpieces built up from typographical ornaments, and a woodcut tailpiece. 19th-century gold-tooled half mottled calf.

VIRGILIUS, Polydorus. · 1470 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,750.00 ($1,928.86 | £1,459.75 | ¥308,051)

[14], 327, [9] pp.Rare first edition of the translation of the famous work by Italian humanist Polydore Virgil (ca.1470-1555, commonly Latinized as Polydorus Vergilius). He was born in Urbino but spent most of his life in early Tudor England. His most popular work, De inventorib…

Oorsprongk, begin, en vervolgh der Nederlandsche oorlogen, beroerten, en borgerlyke oneenigheden, beginnende met d' opdracht der selve landen, gedaen by keyser Karel den Vijfden, aen sijnen soon konink Philippus van Spanjen, en eindigende met het einde van 't jaer MDC, ... voorts met een byvoeghsel van authentyke stukken en nieuwe registers vermeerdert.[engraved title:] Historie der Nederlandtsche oorlogen. ontpartydiglyk beschreven.Amsterdam, the widow of Joannes van Someren, Abraham Wolfgangh, Hendrick and Dirck Boom, 1679-1684. 4 volumes. Folio. With the joint device of the publishers (with their initials) on each title-page, four nearly identical engraved frontispieces and a total of 80 engraved plates (including 4 identical portraits of the author and 39 double-page plates). Contemporary blind-tooled vellum with remnants of green ties.

BOR, Pieter Christiaensz. · 1555 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€4,850.00 ($5,345.70 | £4,045.60 | ¥853,742)

[28], 1006, [10], 188; [8], 231, 234-242, 241-672, 679-994, [8], 128; [8], 532, [6], 529-690, 693-896, [8], 28; [8], 419, 432-512, 517-692, 14, 16, [188] pp.The most detailed and complete edition of Bor's history of the Revolt against Spain in the Low Countries from 1555 to 1600…

A small collection of valuable tracts, relating to the herring fishery; comprehending John Keymer's celebrated observations on the Dutch fisheries, in 1601. The grand pensionary John De Witt's sentiments on the same subject, and a discourse shewing the necessity, and proving the practicability, of establishing a British herring fishery, by Sir Roger L'Estrange. To which an introduction is prefixed.London, printed for Ralph Griffiths, 1751. 4 parts in 1 volume: an introduction and three tracts relating to the herring fishery. Small 8vo. An introduction and three tracts relating to the herring fishery, published together as a single edition. 20th-century half calf.

KEYMER, John; WITT, Johan de; L'ESTRANGE, Sir Roger. · 1584 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,650.00 ($1,818.64 | £1,376.34 | ¥290,448)

[4], xxiv; 24, “33”-“37” [=25-29], [1 blank]; [3], 34-37 pp.First and only edition of a collection of rare 17th-century tracts concerning herring fishery in Great Britain and the Dutch Republic, which was a common cause of conflict between the two nations. The anonymous compiler…

[Manuscript diary and drawing of his voyage to India].[Onboard the ship from Portsmouth to Madras, India, 1835]. 4to. With a half-page pen drawing on p. 168 and a loosely inserted full-page drawing (16.5 x 22 cm) by Baldwin of a mausoleum in India. 20th-century grey paper over boards.

[AUTOGRAPH]. BALDWIN, John Timins. · 1891 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€6,500.00 ($7,164.35 | £5,421.94 | ¥1,144,190)

[4] ll.; 189 pp.An amusing, unpretentious and therefore all the more lively and interesting diary meant for his wife Barbara Baldwin (née Moore Campbell; † 1891) and his friends, by the Scottish Captain John Timins Baldwin (1805-Sholopore 1846), an officer in the Royal Artillery…

Geschiedenis van America. Uit het Engelsch vertaald [by P. Loosjes].Amsterdam, Yntema & Tieboell, 1778. 4 volumes. 8vo. With woodcut title-vignettes; 4 folding maps by Thomas Kitchin (1718-1784), representing (1) the Gulf of Mexico with adjacent countries and islands; (2) Mexico or New Spain; (3) South America and (4) Central America and the South Sea; and a folding plate showing part of the 14th-century Mixtec Codex Vindobonensis. Uniform contemporary half calf.

ROBERTSON, William; [Petrus LOOSJES, transl.]. · 1777 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,250.00 ($1,377.76 | £1,042.68 | ¥220,037)

XXXII, 378; 307; XIV, 15-439; IV, 7-322, [65] pp.First edition of the Dutch translation by P. Loosjes of William Robertson’s highly important history of the discovery of America, first published in 1777 as The history of America, an immensely popular anthropological account of A…