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Le denovement des intrigues du temps par la response au livret intitué, Lettres et autres pieces curieuses sur les affaires du temps. Fait par le S.I.P.P.B.Brussels, 1673.With: (2) [WICQUREFORT, Abraham de (attributed to)]. Remarques sur le discours du commandeur de Gremonville, fait au Conseil d’Estat de sa Maiesté Imperiale. The Hague, Arnout Leers, 1673.(3) [AUBUSSON de la FEUILLADE, Georges]. Harrange en forme de panegyrique presentée au Roy par Mr. l’Archevesque d’Ambrun Evesque de Metz, en son passage à Metz, le 30, Juillet 1673.Metz, Jean Antoine, 1673.(4) [CHARLES II, King of England]. Declaration du Roy d’Angleterre sur la mediation offerte par Mr. L’Electeur de Mayencé, faite à Whitehal. Le 15. Feuvrier. Anno 1673.4 works in 1 volume. 4to. Mottled calf, gold-tooled spine.

[LISOLA, François Paul de; Daniel Johannes CAMPRICHT]. · 1668 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[1], 1-15, 17-222, [2]; 47, [1 blank]; [8]; [4] pp.Ad 1: Second edition of a highly interesting collection of letters by some of the key-figures on the European political stage during the years 1668-1672, mirroring the often changing coalitions: from the Triple Alliance conclude…

De heldhaftige bevrediging van Palembang, het aldaar sints 1810 vooraf gebeurde, wederlegging van Raffles en Court, en voorlopige korte beschrijving van Palembang, Banca, enz.The Hague & Rotterdam, Arbon & Krap (back of half-title: printed by Gebroeders Giunta d'Albani, The Hague), 1822. 8vo. With 2 folding engraved maps: (1) Nieuwe kaart der rivier van Palembang, tusschen het punt, waar zij den 27 Junij 1821 door tien kanoneerbooten enz. afgesloten was ... (26 x 33.5 cm including the engraved text above and below the map); and (2) Nieuwe kaart der rivier van Palembang, tusschen haren uitloop in zee en het eilant Salanama (22 x 30 cm including text).Half calf, black spine label, marbled sides.

[BRUINING, Gerbrand]. · 1810 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,850.00 ($2,039.08 | £1,543.17 | ¥325,654)

VIII, 188 pp.A lively report, including an overview of the historical circumstances (1810-1821) of events that took place only a year earlier around Palembang, a town in the southeast part of the island of Sumatra (North of the Lampongs (Lampung)). It includes an extensive descr…

Official documents, relative to the negotiations carried on by Tippoo Sultaun, with the French Nation, and other foreign states, for purposes hostile to the British nation; to which is added, proceedings of a Jacobin club, formed at Seringapatam, by the French soldiers in the corps commanded by M. Dompart, with a translation ... Printed by order of the ... Governor General ...Calcutta, Honorable Company’s Press, 1799. Super Royal 4to (33.5 x 25 cm). Never bound, but side stitched through 3 holes.

[EAST INDIA COMPANY]. [TIPU SULTAN, Zaman Shah DURRANI, NAPOLEON BONAPARTE and others]. · 1750 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

XX, [2], 195, [1] pp.A British propaganda publication, printed in Calcutta, transcribing “secret” documents that the British supposedly found in the palace of Seringapatam: primarily Tipu Sultan’s correspondence with the French, considered a betrayal of the British. Tipu Sultan …

[Indication of contents in Greek followed by Latin:] Haec insunt in hoc libro. Theocriti Eclogae triginta. Genus Theocriti & De inventione bucolicorum. Catonis Romani sententiae paraeneticae Distichi. Sententiae septem sapientum. De invidia. Theognidis megarensis siculi sententiae Elegiacae. Sententiae monostichi per capita ex variis poetis. Aurea carmina Pythagorae. Phocylidae Poema admonitorium. Carmina Sibyllae erythraeae De Christo Jesu domino n[ost]ro. Differentia vocis. Hesiodi Theogonia. Eiusdem Scutum Herculis. Eiusdem Georgicon libri duo.Venice, Aldus Manutius, February "1495" [=1496]. Folio. With 8 fine woodcut headpieces (2 by the famous Poliphilus master) plus 29 repeats, and 23 woodcut outline interlaced initials (3 series: 3-line, 5-line and 7-line) plus 16 repeats. Modern red morocco, gold- and blind-blocked.

THEOCRITUS, HESIOD, and others. · 1495 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€27,500.00 ($30,310.69 | £22,938.99 | ¥4,840,804)

[140] ll.Rare first issue of the first and only edition of a collection of Greek works, many of the individual works appearing here in their first editions: one of the first books produced by the famous printer-publisher Aldus Manutius, published less than a year after his first…

I quattro primi libri di architettura. Nel primo de' quali si demostrano le buone qualita de' siti, per l'edificationi delle citta & castella, sotto diversi disegni: Nel secondo, quanto si aspetta alla materia per la fabrica: Nel terzo si veggono varie maniere di tempii, & di che forma si convenga fare il principale della citta: & dalle loro piante, come ancora dalle piante delle citta & castella, ne sono tirati gli alzati per ordine di prospettiva: Nel quarto si dimostrano per diverse piante l'ordine di piu palazzi & casamenti, venendo dal pallazo regale & signorile, come di honorato gentilhuomo, sino alle case di persone private.(Colophon:) Venice, in casa de' figlivoli di Aldo (= heirs of Aldo Manuzio), 1554. Folio. With the woodcut printer's device of Aldus on the title page and the verso of the last leaf, 43 woodcut illustrations with architectural and perspectival plans and views in the text, of which 8 full-page, and numerous historiated woodcut initials. Contemporary limp vellum, with the manuscript author and title on the spine.

CATANEO, Pietro. · 1569 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€5,500.00 ($6,062.14 | £4,587.80 | ¥968,161)

[2], 54, [2] pp.Rare first edition of a beautifully produced treatise on architecture and perspectival design, published by the sons of Aldus Manutius at Venice, and beautifully illustrated with large woodcuts. The work is dedicated to Enea Piccolomini, and treats in four books…

Complete Original Edition of the surprising travels and adventures of Baron Munchausen, in Russia, the Caspian Sea, Iceland, Turkey, Egypt, Gibraltar, up the Mediterranean, on the Atlantic Ocean, and through the centre of Mount Aetna, into the South Sea. Also, an account of a voyage into the Moon and Dog Star ... A sequel, containing his expedition into Africa... humbly dedicated to Mr. Bruce.London, R.S. Kirby, 1819. 2 parts in 1 volume. 12mo. With a hand-coloured portrait of Baron Munchhausen as a frontispiece, and 27 hand-coloured engraved plates, including 8 folding. Contemporary gold-tooled calf, with a red morocco title label lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, bound by Wallis (stamp on verso of first flyleaf). Kept in a marbled paper (and brown calf fore edge) slip case.

[RASPE, Rudolf Erich]. · 1736 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€2,000.00 ($2,204.41 | £1,668.29 | ¥352,058)

XII, 179, [1] pp.Beautifully bound later English edition of The surprising adventures of Baron Munchausen by Rudolf Erich Raspe (1736-1794), first published in Oxford in 1786. Raspe was a German librarian, writer, and scientist, and is best known for his present collection of ta…

De re vestiaria libellus, ex Bayfio decerptus: addita vulgaris linguae interpretatione, in adolescentulorum gratiam atq[ue] utilitatem.Lyon, Sebastian Gryphius, 1539.With: (2) BAÏF, Lazare de and [Charles ESTIENNE (editor)]. De vasculis libellus.Lyon, Sebastian Gryphius, 1539.(3) ESTIENNE, Charles. De re hortensi libellus.Lyon, Sebastian Gryphius, 1539.(4) SENALUS [= CENEAU], Robert. De vera mensurarum ponderumque ratione. Paris, Ioannes Roigny, 1535. 4 works in 1 volume. 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title-page and final page of the first 3 works, each work with a decorated woodcut initial. Later vellum, with a brown morocco label on the spine with the author and title lettered in gold, red sprinkled edges.

BAÏF, Lazare de and [Charles ESTIENNE (editor)]. · 1504 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€4,500.00 ($4,959.93 | £3,753.65 | ¥792,132)

65, [11], [3 blank], [1]; 54, [7], [2 blank], [1]; 97, [15] pp.; [18], 119, [1 blank] ll.Early edition of one of the first children's books ever published, together with the second and third part of the series. Charles Estienne (1504-1564) served as private tutor to Jan Antoine …

The most delectable history of Reynard the Fox. Newly corrected and purged...London, Thomas Ilive for Edward Brewster, 1701. With:(2) [REYNARD THE FOX]. The most pleasant and delightful history of Reynard the Fox. The second part. ...London, Anne Maxwell and Robert Roberts, for Edward Brewster, 1681.(3) [REYNARD THE FOX, ADDITIONS]. The shifts of Reynardine the son of Reynard the Fox, ...London, Thomas James for Edward Brewster and Thomas Passenger, 1684. 3 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With woodcut of King Lion's court on the title page, 61 woodcuts in text of part 1 (including 23 repeats) and 15 woodcuts in part 2, all repeated from part 1. Further with a large woodcut decorated initial in part 3 and decorations built up from cast fleurons in parts 1 and 2. Set in textura types with incidental roman and italic. Late-18th-century sprinkled calf, gold double fillets, blind-tooled board edges, red morocco spine label in 2nd of 6 compartments, red sprinkled edges.

[REYNARD THE FOX]. · 1479 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[160]; [112]; [4], 160 pp.One of the rare sets of all 3 parts of the English Reynard the Fox, the third part here in its first edition. The Reynard stories were already established as a coherent collection in the 12th century and were first printed in 1479, in a Dutch prose edit…

[Mosaic marble tile floors from five churches, most or all in Rome]. [Rome?, ca. 1662 or 18th century]. Small folio (26 x 19.5 cm). 40 ink and watercolour drawings (28 round and 12 square, each ca. 11 x 11 cm) showing the decorative patterns and coloured marbles from the floors of 5 churches. Each has a triple-rule border in black ink with a panel at the foot containing the name of the church. Contemporary(?) boards covered with later (ca. 1840?) Storemont on shell marbled paper.

[MOSAIC FLOORS]. · 1662 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€17,500.00 ($19,288.62 | £14,597.54 | ¥3,080,512)

[40] ll.A book of 40 detailed colour drawings showing the elaborate patterns in the mosaic marble tile floors of five different churches, with eight examples from each church: Santa Maria Maggiore (1-8), Santi Giovanni e Paolo (9-16), San Marco (17-24), Sant' Alessio (25-32) and…

Le theatre de l'art de c[h]arpentier enrichi de diverses figures avec linterpretation dicelles faict & dresse par Mathurin Jousse.Including: [JOUSSE, Mathurin]. Brief traicte des cinq ordres des colomnes.La Fleche, Georges Griveau, 1627. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With a richly engraved title page, 125 woodcut illustrations (7 double page, 118 full-page), and 5 large half-page woodcuts in the main work; 2 general perspectival model designs on 2 full-page plates, and 5 half-page woodcuts in the treatise. 19th-century gold-tooled green half morocco, with the author, title, year of publication, and bookbinder (Vogel) lettered in gold on the spine, marbled paper sides, marbled endpapers.

JOUSSE, Mathurin. · 1814 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€9,500.00 ($10,470.97 | £7,924.38 | ¥1,672,278)

[4], "176" [= 172]; 14 pp.Rare original edition of a very important and most richly illustrated model book on timber frame construction for use of carpenters, beautifully bound by E. Vogel (fl. 1814-1849) from Paris, one of the best French bookbinders from the Romantic era, who …

Opuscula quae ad Grammaticam spectant, omnia, in unum volumen compacta.Franeker, Gilles van den Rade, 1609.With:(2) DRUSIUS, Johannes. De litteris mosche vechaleb libri duo.Franeker, Gillis van den Rade, 1608.(3) DRUSIUS, Johannes (junior). Lachrymae, Iohannis Drusii Iunioris, tribus carminum generibus expressae, in obitum illustriss. et incomparabilis Heroïs Josephi Scaligeri.Franeker, Gillis van den Rade, 1609.3 works in 1 volume. 4to. Each title page with a woodcut vignette (ad 1 and 2 the same, ad 3 different) and with some woodcut decorated initials (3 series). The text is set in roman and Hebrew type. Contemporary limp vellum, with the author and title in manuscript on the spine, remnants of ties.

DRUSIUS, Johannes. · 1550 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€6,000.00 ($6,613.24 | £5,004.87 | ¥1,056,176)

[8], "152" [= 160]; 55, [1 blank]; [8] pp.Ad 1: Re-issue under a joint title of two works on the Hebrew and other languages of the Holy Scripture by the Franeker professor and orientalist Johannes Drusius (1550-1616). Drusius had first published these works for the benefit of hi…

De vocis auditusq[ue] organis historia anatomica singulari fide methodo ac industria concinnata tractatibus duobus explicata ...(Colophons: Ferrara, Victorius Baldinus, 1601 & "1600" [= 1601]). 2 parts in 1 volume. Royal folio (40.5 x 27.5 cm). With an engraved title page with the title in a large oval scrollwork cartouche surrounded by and incorporating dozens of skeletons and skulls of people and animals, 2 full-page engraved portraits (of the dedicatee Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma, and the author) and 34 full-page anatomical engravings on integral leaves. 17th-century sheepskin parchment.

CASSERIO, Giulio (Julius CASSERIUS). · 1561 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€27,500.00 ($30,310.69 | £22,938.99 | ¥4,840,804)

[60], 191, [1 blank]; 126, [1], [1 blank] pp. including engraved title-page, 2 portraits, and illustrations.Beautiful first edition of a ground-breaking work on the anatomy of the vocal and auditory organs, written by the well-known anatomist and surgeon Giulio Casserio (1561?-1…

Traité de la géométrie descriptive. Paris, Mme Ve Courcier, 1819. 2 volumes (a text and an atlas volume). Large 4to. With a lithographed portrait of Gaspard Monge in the text volume, an engraved title to the atlas volume, and 60 engraved plates (3 double-page, 57 full-page) with illustrations of perspectival projections by Ambroise Tardieu after designs by the author. Contemporary gold-tooled quarter green morocco.

VALLÉE, Louis Léger. · 1746 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€2,250.00 ($2,479.97 | £1,876.83 | ¥396,066)

XX, 355, [1 blank]; 8 pp. + 60 engraved plates.Rare first edition of a treatise on descriptive geometry, perspective, and the mechanism of vision, complete with the atlas volume. The work is dedictated to Gaspar Monge (1746-1818), the inventor of descriptive geometry, and is the…

Cum explicatione notarum in usum juventutis. (Tironibus rei lapidariae studiosis ut posthabita barbarie quam in plerisque recentibus inscriptionibus eruditi fastidiunt, et nova epigrammata eleganter condere, et vetera interpretari recte discant. Angelus Josephi F. Cominus hunc inscriptionum fasciculum D.D.)

ROMANARUM INSCRIPTIONUM FASCICULUS. · 1774 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta

€175.00 ($192.89 | £145.98 | ¥30,805)

Padua (Patavii), Excudebat Josephus Cominus, Superiorum permissu, 1774. 8vo. (XVI),222 p. Contemporary limp cardboard. 18.5 cm (Details: Cover still remarkably fresh; woodcut printer's device on title: a man digging for antique objects, Motto: 'Quidquid sub terra est in apricu…

AMERICAN FOLKSONG “To The Woman I Found And I Lost And Still Love And Always Will.…”

GUTHRIE, Woody · 0 · Charles Agvent

$21,875.00 (€19,846.54 | £16,554.90 | ¥3,493,572)

[New York]. [DISC Co. of America]. First Edition. Stiff blue illustrated wrappers, staple-bound as issued (7-1/2" x 10"); 48 pages; housed in a blue morocco-backed cloth clamshell box with chemise. First edition of "the most extensive piece of Guthrie’s writing actually to see p…

ARCHIVE OF 15 TYPED LETTERS SIGNED (TLSs) and Related Material to Henry Rago, the Editor of POETRY Magazine

ELIOT, T. S · 19571959 · Charles Agvent

$25,000.00 (€22,681.76 | £18,919.88 | ¥3,992,654)

London. A series of 15 TYPED LETTERS SIGNED as "T. S. Eliot" to poet and editor of POETRY Magazine, Henry Rago, all but one on Faber and Faber stationery. The letters, which span the dates 7 January 1957 through 23 October 1959, primarily concern Rago's invitation to Eliot to re…

Inside-Painted Snuff Bottle Artist: Ma Shaoxuan (1867-1939), A Biography and Study by Ma Zengshan, Translated and Annotated by Ka Bo Tsang

Zengshan, Ma; Tsang, Ka Bo · 1997 · Jorge Welsh Works of Art Lda

€25.00 ($27.56 | £20.85 | ¥4,401)

Book Very Good Dust Jacket Included 1st Edition The International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society, Maryland English text.; Hardcover (with dust jacket).; 22.5 x 2+ cm.; 1.2 kg.; 183 pages with colour illustrations.; Used with signs of wear on the exterior and interior. The dust jac…

Famille Verte: Chinese Porcelain in Green Enamels

Jörg, Christiaan J.A. · 2011 · Jorge Welsh Works of Art Lda

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.83 | ¥35,206)

Book Good No Jacket 1st Edition BAI-Schoten - Belgium, Groninger Museum English text; Hardcover (without dust jacket - as issued); 22.6 x 29.8 cm; 1.2 Kg; 192 pages with various colour images; Used with signs of wear on the exterior, namely edge wear. The spine is slightly faded…

The Wares of the Ming Dynasty

Hobson, R.L. · 1978 · Jorge Welsh Works of Art Lda

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.68 | ¥3,521)

Book Good No Jacket Dover Publication Inc., New York English text.; Paperback.; 16 x 23.5 cm.; 0.5 kg.; 240 pages with black and white illustrations.; Used with minor signs of wear on the exterior. The interior as an ex-library stamp on title page and a few pages underlined with…

Ukiyo-e to Shin Hanga: The Art of Japanese Woodblock Prints

Consulting Editors: Newland, Amy and Uhlenbeck, Chris; Contributors: Bennett, Jonathan; Bickford, Lawrence; Hutt, Julia; Illing, Dr Richard; Kruml, Richard; Matsuoka, Haruo; Newland, Amy; Rappard-Boon, Charlotte van; Uhlenbeck, Chris; Waterhouse, David · 1990 · Jorge Welsh Works of Art Lda

€30.00 ($33.07 | £25.02 | ¥5,281)

Book Good Dust Jacket Included 1st Edition Magna Books, Leicester English text.; Hardcover (with dust jacket).; 27 x 37 cm.; 2 kg.; 256 pages with colour illustrations.; Used with signs of wear. The dust jacket show edge wear, scuffs and scratches on the front cover, spine and b…