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[Watercolour of Russian and British prisoners-of-war in the Batavian Republic].[North Holland?, 1799-1800]. Pencil, ink and watercolour drawing on wove paper (22 x 42.5 cm) mounted on a larger sheet.

[LANGENDIJK, Jan Anthonie]. · 1799 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€3,950.00 ($4,353.72 | £3,294.87 | ¥695,316)

colour drawing of the transport of Russian and British prisoners-of-war in the aftermath of the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland in 1799. As part of the War of the Second Coalition, an expeditionary force of British and Russian troops invaded North Holland in the Batavian Repub…

Conquista de las islas Malucas.[Madrid, Alonso Martin, 1609]. Small folio (22 x 30 cm). With an engraved architectural title-page showing an allegorical scene (the Moluccas represented by a native woman with feather headdress, cornucopia and sword, riding a crocodile, with the Spanish royal coat of arms in the sky) and a sleeping lion (representing the author?) in a separate cartouche below. Early 18th-century richly gold-tooled red morocco, each board with a large centrepiece a petit fers made partly with pointillé stamps.

ARGENSOLA, Bartolome Leonardo de. · 1580 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€35,000.00 ($38,577.24 | £29,195.08 | ¥6,161,024)

(Integral?) engraved title-page + [10], “407” [= 411], [1 blank] pp.First edition of the author's principal work, in the original Spanish, dedicated to King Philip III of Spain, whose father had untied the Portuguese and Spanish crowns in 1580. It centres on the Philippines and …

Regras de acompanhar para cravo, ou orgaõ, e ainde tambem para qualquer outro instrumento de vozes, reduzidas a breve methodo, e fácil percepçaõ.Lisbon, Francisco Luís Ameno, 1758. 4to (21 x 15 cm). With 12 pages of engraved music printed from 12 copper plates on both sides of 6 inserted leaves (mostly polyphonic music with 4 double staves - G and F clef - per page). Further with a full-page engraved dial showing the 12 intervals in all major and minor keys, including diminished and augmented intervals (lacking the inner rotating dial with the twelve notes: photocopy supplied), a woodcut ornament on the title-page, 2 woodcut decorated initials (from 2 different series) and 2 woodcut head pieces. Contemporary, richly gold-tooled red goatskin morocco.

GOMES DA SILVA, Alberto José. · 1713 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[8], “39” [= 47] [pp. 45-47 numbered as 37-39], [1 blank], [2], [2 blank] pp.First and only edition of an educational work with rules and a method for accompaniment for harpsichord, organ or other vocal instruments. It was written and composed to be short and easy to understand,…

Historia y anal relacion de las cosas que hizieron los padres de la Compañia de Jesus, por las partes de Oriente y otras, en la propagacion del Santo Evangelio, los años passados de 607. y en 608.Madrid, Imprenta Real, sold by Juan Hasrey, 1614 (colophon 1613). 4to. With a woodcut IHS Jesuit device in a decorated cartouche on the title-page, the whole in a border built up from typographic ornaments and acorns; the large woodcut coat of arms of the dedicatee, Don Geronimo Corella y Mendoza; a large woodcut scrollwork tailpiece; 6 woodcut decorated initials (6 series); and headpieces built up from arabesque typographic ornaments. Set in roman types with extensive italic, some cut by François Guyot in Antwerp. 20th-century sheepskin parchment over flexible boards, turned in at the fore-edge, sewn on 3 alum-tawed thongs laced through the joints, with the title in thin textura lettering down the spine.

[GUERREIRO, Fernão (ed.)]. and Christobal SUÁREZ DE FIGUEROA (transl.). · 1607 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€9,000.00 ($9,919.86 | £7,507.30 | ¥1,584,263)

[16], 566, [1], [1 blank] pp.First Spanish edition of an extensive account of the missions of the Jesuit missionaries in the years 1607 and 1608 in India, South East Asia, the East Indies and Africa, concerning especially in more detail their efforts in different provinces and p…

Groot Hoorns; Enkhuyser en Alkmaarder liede-boeck, versiert met veel mooye bruylofts-liedekens en gesangen.Purmerend, Adriaen Munnik, [early 18th century]. Small 8vo (7.5 x 5 cm) With a woodcut illustration of a banquet on the title page, a near-full page woodcut illustration of a domestic scene on the verso of the title page, and 1 woodcut decorated initial at the start of the text. Further with music notation in the text. Contemporary red velvet over boards, with two ornate silver clasps on the fore edge. The catch- and anchorplates are slightly heart-shaped and show a bird among some foliage. Further with gilt edges and marbled endpapers.

[SONGBOOK]. · 1703 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

310, [10] pp.A luxuriously bound, extremely rare edition of one of the most popular Dutch songbooks of the 18th century. Songbooks such as these are also known as mopsjes and contain songs for weddings, funerals, as well as other occassions where people traditionally sang togeth…

Orationes novem elegantissimae. Gregorii Nuysseni liber de homine, quae omnia nunc primum, emendatissima, in lucem prodeunt.[Venice, heirs of Aldus Manuzius and heirs of Andrea Torresano], 1536. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With the Aldine woodcut device on the title page and repeated on the verso of the otherwise blank final leaf. 19th-century elaborately gold-tooled black morocco, with the author, title, publisher, and year lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, gold-tooled tan morocco doublures, pink silk ribbon marker. Bound by François Bozerian (known as Bozerian le Jeune (the Younger), 1765-1826, fl. 1801-1818) and signed in gold lettering by the binder at the foot of the spine: “Rel. P. Bozerian Jeune”.

NAZIANZENUS, Gregorius and Gregorius NYSSENUS. · 1449 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

148, "68" [= 76], [4] ll.First edition of key Greek texts by two of the most influential Fathers of the Eastern Church, Gregory of Nazianzus (329-390 CE), Archbishop of Constantinople, and his close friend Gregory of Nyssa (335-395 CE). Gregory of Nazianzus, later honoured with …

Ziekten aan boord der uitvarende schepen naar Indië 1774-1783.1774-1783. Folio. Loosely inserted in contemporary wrappers with the manuscript title on the front. The work is kept in a brown cloth folder, with a red morocco title label on the front, lettered in gold.

[MANUSCRIPT - DUTCH - VOC - HEALTH]. · 1783 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€8,500.00 ($9,368.76 | £7,090.23 | ¥1,496,249)

[5] ll.Three manuscript reports concerning sickness, scurvy, hospital conditions and mortality aboard ships of the VOC (Dutch East India Company), specifically on voyages between the Cape of Good Hope and Batavia, and in connection with the Bengal trade.The first document is fro…

Tragoediae pristinae integritati restitutae... explanatae diligentissime tribus Commentariis...Paris, Jodocus Badius, 5 December 1514. Folio. With a woodcut border and printer’s device on the title page, printed in red and black, along with numerous woodcut decorated initials throughout. 18th-century gold-tooled mottled calf, sewn on 6 supports with corresponding raised bands on the spine, the author and title lettered in gold on the spine, both boards show a gold-tooled armorial centre piece (incorporating the arms of the city of Nevers or the arms of the Conflans family from the Champagne region, Rietstap I, plate CXVIII) within a gold-tooled floral frame, blind-tooled board edges, marbled edges.

SENECA, Lucius Annaeus and Desiderius ERASMUS and others (editors). · 1514 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[6], CCLXVII, [1] ll.1514 Paris edition of Seneca’s tragedies, printed and edited by the humanist printer Jodocus Badius (1462-1535), with contributions from Erasmus and others. Although Erasmus had permitted Badius to use his preparatory work, in his autobiographical letter to …

Beschryvinge ende lof der stad Haerlem in Holland: in rijm bearbeyd ...Including: SCRIVERIUS, Petrus. Laure-Crans voor Laurens Coster van Haerlem, eerste vinder vande boeck-druckery.Haarlem, Adriaen Rooman, 1628. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. Ad 1: With an allegorical frontispiece, 16 engraved plates, and a printer's device on the final page, the text is printed in roman, gothic and civilité type. Ad 2: With a woodcut printer’s device on the title page, a full-page engraved portrait, and a full-page engraved plate of the first printing office in Haarlem. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled overlapping vellum, gold-tooled oval coat of arms of Haarlem in the centre of both boards, surrounded by a blind-tooled single fillet frame, green closing ties, red sprinkled edges.

AMPZING, Samuel [and Petrus SCRIVERIUS]. · 1590 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[88], 520, [8]; 1-5, [3], 9, 6-124 pp.First edition of this famous description glorifying the city of Haarlem, and one of the main early sources for the legend that Laurens Jansz. Coster was the actual inventor of the art of printing. The description itself, which is largely in …

[Five small watercolours of four country houses: "Slotzicht" at Vreeland (2x), Zuylestein Castle near Leersum, "Hoog Beek en Royen" at Zeist and "Huis ter Wegen" at Sassenheim].1863-1864. With 5 watercolours (ca. 6 x 10 cm), all signed and dated in the lower left hand margin, and titled on the back. Four of the watercolours are mounted on thin cardboard (ca. 6.5 x 10 cm), and the fifth is mounted in a late-19th-century blind-stamped passepartout (ca. 10 x 13 cm), with gold edges.

LUTGERS, Petrus Josephus. · 1808 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

Collection of five beautiful and detailed watercolours of Dutch country estates, all signed and dated in ink by Petrus Josephus Lutgers (1808-1874). The estates, which are all located near Utrecht and Leiden, have been beautifully depicted amidst nature, and surrounded by stroll…

Verscheyde schoone en vermaakelyke gezigten, in de Hofstede van Clingendaal gelegen by 's Gravenhage.[Amsterdam], Nicolaas Visscher, [ca. 1697/1701]. Small oblong folio (18 x 24 cm). With 32 numbered engraved prints (13 x 16.5 cm), including the title-page, captioned in Dutch, with views of the country house and gardens of Clingendaal near The Hague, designed and etched and engraved by Daniel Stoopendaal, Laurens Scherm and Leon Schenk. Blind- or black-tooled half calf (ca. 1900), marbled paper sides and endpapers.

STOOPENDAAL, Daniel and Laurens SCHERM. · 1672 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€2,950.00 ($3,251.51 | £2,460.73 | ¥519,286)

[32] engraved ll.A series of 32 prints, including the engraved title-page, by the etcher, engraver and draughtsman Daniel Stoopendaal (1672-1726) and etcher Laurens Scherm (fl. 1689-1701) in their second issue, executed by Leon Schenk and edited and published by Nicolaas Vissche…

Libri sex prefulge[n]tissimi ac medicine principis Galeni de sanitate tue[n]da: Thoma Linacro medico Anglico interprete: summa cum diligentia impressi omnibusq[ue] erroribus purgati.[colophon:] Venice, heirs of Alessandro Bindoni for Giovanni Battista Pederzano, 6 July 1523. 4to. With the title page printed in red and black with a nearly full-page woodcut, woodcut initials in the text. The title page is set in two sizes of gothic rotunda type, marginalia set in a smaller size of gothic rotunda type. Text set in roman type with occasionally passages in Greek. Contemporary vellum over flexible boards, sewn on 3 alum-tawed leather thongs laced through the joints, alum-tawed leather ties, a manuscript title and a later paper label with "1522" on the spine and a manuscript title at the foot edge.

GALENUS (GALEN), Claudius and Thomas LINACRE (translator). · 1523 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[4], XCIX, [1] ll.Rare 1523 second (corrected) edition of Linacre's Latin translation of Galen's important medical treatise De sanitate tuenda, also known as Hygiene or On the preservation of health, first published at Paris in 1517 but here in the only other edition published d…

Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen exhibens characteres plantarum, quas annis 1802-1805 ...Nuremberg, Leonard Schrag, 1827. With: (2) BROWN, Robert. Supplementum primum prodromi florae Novae Hollandiae: exhibens Proteaceas novas quas in Australasia legerunt DD. Baxter, Caley, Cunningham, Fraser et Sieber; ...London, Richard Taylor, 1830. 2 works in 1 volume. Large 8vo. 20th-century half brown morocco, marbled sides, title in gold on spine, red sprinkled edges.

BROWN, Robert. · 1802 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

xiv, 460; 40; [2] pp.Second edition of Brown's famous first systematic account of Australian flora, the result of his botanical research in Australia in the years 1802 to 1805 together with Matthew Flinders (1774-1814) who led the first circumnavigation of Australia. Brown colle…

Het Britannische Ryk in Amerika, Zynde eene Beschryving van de Ontdekking, Bevolking, Inwoonders, het Klimaat, den Koop-handel, en tegenwoordigen Staat van alle de Britannische Coloniën, In dat gedeelte der Wereldt... Uit het Engelsch, Als mede een omstandig Berecht aangaande Koffy en Koffy-plantery, Uit het Fransch vertaald. Amsterdam, Rudolf & Gerard Wetstein, 1721. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. Part I: Engraved frontispiece by J. Goeree dated 1720, title in red and black, 5 folding engraved maps, engraving in text, woodcut headpieces and initials. Part II: Engraved frontispiece by J. Goeree dated 1720 (same as in part I), title in red and black, 3 folding engraved maps, folding engraved plate, 2 full-page engraved plates, woodcut head- and endpieces and initials. The maps are by J. Keyser after H(erman) Moll. Contemporary full calf.

[OLDMIXON, John]. · 1708 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

(26), 300 (i.e. 296); (2), 327 (14, 1 blank) pp.Dutch translation of The British Empire in America (London 1708) by John Oldmixon, containing an account on coffee and coffee plantations that is not present in the English edition. In the first part, the author describes North Am…

Maleische spraakkunst, uit de eigen schriften der Maleiers opgemaakt; met eene voorreden, behelzende eene inleiding tot dit werk, en een dubbeld aanhangsel van twee Boekzalen van boeken, in deze tale zo van Europeërs, als van Maleiers geschreven.Amsterdam, printed for the VOC (Dutch East Indian Company) by R. & G. Wetstein, 1736. 8vo. With the VOC's ship device on title page, several woodcut initials and tailpieces. Contemporary vellum.

WERNDLY, George Henrik. · 1693 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[2], LXVIII, 357, [23] pp.First edition of a rare early European grammar of the Malay language, representing one of the first systematic attempts to codify Malay for Western readers. Written by the German missionary George Henrik Werndly (ca. 1693-1744), who worked extensively i…

Huishoudelyk woordboek, vervattende vele middelen om zyn goed te vermeerderen en zyne gezondheid te behouden, met verscheiden wisse en beproefde middelen voor een groot getal van ziekten, en schoone geheimen om tot een hoogen en gelukkigen ouderdom te geraken, een menigte van manieren om lammeren, schapen, koejen, paarden, muil-ezels, hoenderen, duiven, honigbyen, zywurmen te kweken, voeden, genezen, en winst te doen met die dieren;...In't Nederduits vertaald, in orde geschikt, en vermeerderd met nuttige artikelen, door de heeren Jan Lodewuk Schuer, A.H. Westerhof, en zeker liefhebber. Leyden, S. Luchtmans; Amsterdam, H. Uytwerf, 1743. 2 volumes. 4to. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece by Jan Punt (1711-1779) and 80 engraved folding plates by F. de Bakker. Half calf.

CHOMEL, Noël. · 1496 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€2,950.00 ($3,251.51 | £2,460.73 | ¥519,286)

[8], 616; [2], 617-1496, [4] pp.The first Dutch edition of the most popular domestic encyclopaedia of agriculture and house-keeping of the 18th century, written by Noël Chomel (1632-1712), a French agronomist entrusted with the domestic management of the possessions of the abbey…

Bref om de Förenta Staterna, författade under en resa till Amerika, ären 1818, 1819, 1820. ... Förra[-Senare] delen.Stockholm, Ecksteinska Tryckeriet, 1824. 3 volumes, the 2 text volumes bound as 1. 8vo (text) & 1mo (atlas, 42 x 56 cm). Each text volume with the same engraved title-page, and in volume 1 a folding letterpress table. The atlas volume has a lithographed title-page with a view of the White House, 2 large engraved maps of the northern part and the southern part of the United States by John Melish, dated 1816, and 14 maps, plans and views of New York, Philadelphia and Washington, including 8 fine engraved aquatints by Akrell. Bound in the atlas volume are 2 letterpress 4to leaves, one with the numbered list of 19 plates: the 2 engraved title-pages for the text volumes (1-2), lithographed title-page for the atlas (3) and 16 plates for the atlas (4-19: seven are 1mo - full or nearly full sheets - and nine smaller). With: (2) [KLINKOWSTRÖM, Axel]. Atlas til Friherre Klinckowströms Bref om de Förente Staterne. [Stockholm, Ecksteinska Tryckeriet, 1824]. Contemporary half sprinkled calf with the volume numbers 1 & 2 in half tanned sheepskin.

KLINKOWSTRÖM, Axel. · 1812 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€7,000.00 ($7,715.45 | £5,839.02 | ¥1,232,205)

IX, 242, [2]; VIII, [2], 243-496 pp.First edition of an interesting and stunningly illustrated travel book in the form of letters written during a journey through the United States by a Swedish nobleman and lieutenant-colonel of the Swedish Royal Navy. It provides an interesting…

Heures nouvelles tirées de la Sainte Ecriture. Écrites et gravées par L. Senault.Paris, “l'autheur” and Claude De Hansy, [1690 or soon after]. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece, a richly engraved title-page with the title in a wreath of flowers with 2 dolphins and the crowned coat-of-arms of the Dauphine, and 260 engraved calligraphic text-pages, richly decorated and illustrated, including 8 engraved divisional titles, this copy with the frontispiece, the 4 illustration plates and 2 otherwise blank pages with gilt borders. 18th-century richly gold-tooled (browned) olive-green goatskin morocco, each board with a wide border, spine with the title in roman capitals in the 2nd of 6 compartments and a flower built up from several stamps plus several decorations in each of the other compartments, rolls on the raised bands and at the head and foot, gold-tooled turn-ins and board edges, 2 silver clasps with a stamped mark, red silk paste-downs, gilt edges, red silk ribbon marker.

SENAULT, Louis (calligrapher & engraver). · 1660 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[1], [1 blank], 260 engraved pp. plus 5 engraved plates including frontispiece.Beautiful, wholly engraved calligraphic book of hours originally dedicated to Marie Anne Christine Victoire de Bavière (1660-1690), dauphine of France from 1680 to her death in 1690, in a luxurious co…

Dialectica ... nunc recens Hermani Raiani Welsdalii fructuosis scholiis illustrata, & in multis locis emendata. Accessit huic Ioanni Murmelii Isagoge in decem Aristotelis Praedicamentas.Venice, Giovanni Maria Leni, 1579. 8vo. With Leni’s woodcut device on the title-page (a figure holding a set square up to the sun, in a scrollwork cartouche with motto, “In eo qui fecit me omnia possum”) which has the letterpress title “Dialectica” in a woodcut factotum with scrollwork and putti at the head, and woodcut decorated initials. Set in roman and italic type with occasional Greek. Contemporary vellum.

CAESARIUS, Johannes. · 1468 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

189 [= 179], [1 blank] ll.Rare edition of a popular school textbook on dialectics (logic) by the important German humanist Johannes Caesarius (Jülich ca. 1468-Weidenbach near Cologne 1550). Here edited and enlarged with notes by his student Hermann Rayanus (Welsdalius) (fl. 1555…

L[']histoire ecclesiastique ..., translatee de Latin en Fra[n]coys, par Messire Claude de Seyssel, Evesque lors de Marseille, & depuis Archevesque de Thurin.Antwerp, Maarten de Keyser, 1533 (colophon: 17 April). 8vo. With a woodcut border on the title-page, assembled from 4 blocks (that at the foot with De Keyser's printer's device), about 10 woodcut decorated initials plus about 10 repeats (2 gothic series and 2 roman series). Set in three sizes of bastarda type with textura initials. Contemporary Flemish blind panel-stamped calf, each board with the same panel and double and single fillets, a triple fillet in the panel stamp separating the inner and outer panel. The inner is an acorn cresting panel with 4 1/2 acorns on each side and the flowers not attached to the acorns, remnants of leather ties.

EUSEBIUS. · 1532 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[12], "297" [= 299], [1] ll.Rare second (first Antwerp) edition of Claude de Seyssel's French translation of Eusebius's chronological church history, first published by Geofroy Tory in Paris in 1532. Written in Greek in the 4th century, Eusebius drew on a wide variety of sources…