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Medicina Aegyptiorum. Accessit huic editione ejusdem auctoris liber de balsamo ut et Jacobi Bontii medicina Indorum. Editio nova.Including: (2) ALPINUS, Prosper. De balsamo dialogus.(3) BONTIUS, Jacobus. De medicina Indorum.(4) ALPINUS, Prosper. De rhapontico.Leiden, ex officina Boutesteiniana, 1718-1719. 4 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With a general title page printed in red and black, 7 engravings (1 folding, 5 full-page, 1 in the text), divisional titles for each part with an engraved vignette, 18 decorated woodcut initials, 13 woodcut headpieces, and 12 woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary vellum with the manuscript title on the spine, red and blue sprinkled edges.
Medicina Aegyptiorum. Accessit huic editione ejusdem auctoris liber de balsamo ut et Jacobi Bontii medicina Indorum. Editio nova.Including: (2) ALPINUS, Prosper. De balsamo dialogus.(3) BONTIUS, Jacobus. De medicina Indorum.(4) ALPINUS, Prosper. De rhapontico.Leiden, ex officina Boutesteiniana, 1718-1719. 4 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With a general title page printed in red and black, 7 engravings (1 folding, 5 full-page, 1 in the text), divisional titles for each part with an engraved vignette, 18 decorated woodcut initials, 13 woodcut headpieces, and 12 woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary vellum with the manuscript title on the spine, red and blue sprinkled edges.
ALPINUS, Prosper and Jacob de BONDT. · 1553 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€2,950.00 ($3,251.51 | £2,460.73 | ¥519,286)
[24], 325, [47]; [4], 3-44, [4]; 109, [2], [1 blank]; 25, [1], [2 blank] pp.Early Leiden edition of an important work on Egyptian medicine, written by the Venetian physician and botanist Prosper Alpinus (1553-1617). The present work includes a work on tropical medicine by Dutch …
Architecture peinture et sculpture de la maison de ville d'Amsterdam, representée en CIX. Figures en taille-douce.Amsterdam, David Mortier, 1719. Royal folio. With a title-page in red and black with an engraved device (a portrait of Erasmus in an elaborate cartouche with allegorical figures), and 124 engraved architectural and sculptural illustrations on 109 numbered plates (6 double-page, 103 full-page). Contemporary quarter brown sheepskin.
Architecture peinture et sculpture de la maison de ville d'Amsterdam, representée en CIX. Figures en taille-douce.Amsterdam, David Mortier, 1719. Royal folio. With a title-page in red and black with an engraved device (a portrait of Erasmus in an elaborate cartouche with allegorical figures), and 124 engraved architectural and sculptural illustrations on 109 numbered plates (6 double-page, 103 full-page). Contemporary quarter brown sheepskin.
[CAMPEN, Jacob van, Hubert QUELLINUS and Jacob VENNEKOOL]. · 1595 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€1,950.00 ($2,149.30 | £1,626.58 | ¥343,257)
22 pp. + 109 platesFirst French edition of Van Campen's famous description of the Amsterdam City Hall (the present day Royal Palace), with more than a hundred plates of the architectural features and sculptures of the building, including ground plans, elevations, and sections of…
Driejaarige reize naar China, te lande gedaan door den Moskovicen afgezant, E. Ysbrandts Ides...Including: KAO, Dionyzius. Korte beschrijving van ’t magtig keizerryk China …Amsterdam, Pieter de Coup, 1710. 4to. With an engraved title-page bound as a frontispiece before the typographical title-page, which is printed in red and black, a large folding map of Russia and parts of Asia, 8 folding engraved plates of cities and other views, 1 full-page engraving, and 21 half-page engravings in the text. Further with woodcut and engraved decorated initials, a large engraved head-piece at the start of the main text, 2 woodcut floral tail-pieces, and a small woodcut floral vignette on the typographical title-page. 19th-century gold-tooled light brown splattered paper with a red title-label on the spine.
Driejaarige reize naar China, te lande gedaan door den Moskovicen afgezant, E. Ysbrandts Ides...Including: KAO, Dionyzius. Korte beschrijving van ’t magtig keizerryk China …Amsterdam, Pieter de Coup, 1710. 4to. With an engraved title-page bound as a frontispiece before the typographical title-page, which is printed in red and black, a large folding map of Russia and parts of Asia, 8 folding engraved plates of cities and other views, 1 full-page engraving, and 21 half-page engravings in the text. Further with woodcut and engraved decorated initials, a large engraved head-piece at the start of the main text, 2 woodcut floral tail-pieces, and a small woodcut floral vignette on the typographical title-page. 19th-century gold-tooled light brown splattered paper with a red title-label on the spine.
IDES, Evert Ysbrants. · 1692 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€3,950.00 ($4,353.72 | £3,294.87 | ¥695,316)
[30], 243, [4], [1 blank] pp.Rare and richly illustrated work on the three-year journey (1692-1695) of a Russian envoy from Moscow to Beijing, in order to negotiate trade relations between Russia and China. The expedition was undertaken by a small group of people, led by the Dan…
In sanctum Jesu Christi evangelium secundum Matthaeum commentarii, diligenter ab Arrianorum faecibus purgati, & in lucem in sacrae paginae tyronum gratiam modo recens sub minoriforma aediti.Antwerp, Joannes Steelsius, 1542. With: CHRYSOSTOM, John. Passio Domini Nostri Iesu Christi secundum Matthaeum in decem Homilias divisa. Antwerp, Joannes Steelsius, 1542.2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 1: with two woodcut initials at the beginning of the introduction and the prologue, of 2 different series, and a large woodcut printer's device on the last page, showing a staff, surrounded by doves and the text 'steelsius', stuck in a plaquette that says 'concordia, res parue crescunt'. Ad 2: with a woodcut initial on the first leaf. Contemporary Flemish blind-tooled, panel-stamped calf, with a tripartite panel on both sides and remnants of ties.
In sanctum Jesu Christi evangelium secundum Matthaeum commentarii, diligenter ab Arrianorum faecibus purgati, & in lucem in sacrae paginae tyronum gratiam modo recens sub minoriforma aediti.Antwerp, Joannes Steelsius, 1542. With: CHRYSOSTOM, John. Passio Domini Nostri Iesu Christi secundum Matthaeum in decem Homilias divisa. Antwerp, Joannes Steelsius, 1542.2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 1: with two woodcut initials at the beginning of the introduction and the prologue, of 2 different series, and a large woodcut printer's device on the last page, showing a staff, surrounded by doves and the text 'steelsius', stuck in a plaquette that says 'concordia, res parue crescunt'. Ad 2: with a woodcut initial on the first leaf. Contemporary Flemish blind-tooled, panel-stamped calf, with a tripartite panel on both sides and remnants of ties.
CHRYSOSTOM, John. · 1542 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€9,500.00 ($10,470.97 | £7,924.38 | ¥1,672,278)
[8],"313" [=314], [1]; 47, [1] ll.Rare second edition of a devotional work by Saint John Chrysostom (347-407 CE). The contents of this second edition are more extensive than those of the first edition, published 5 years earlier, which only contains the first two-thirds of the wo…
Relacion de la real tragicomedia ...Lisbon, Jorge Rodriguez, 1620. 4to. With the elaborate woodcut coat-of-arms of the dedicatee, the Duke of Braganza, on the title-page, and the woodcut coat of arms of Portugal and/or King Philip II of Portugal at the head of his dedication on leaf [6]r, all text is set within a double fillet frame, and with woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary parchment binding with manuscript title on spine.
Relacion de la real tragicomedia ...Lisbon, Jorge Rodriguez, 1620. 4to. With the elaborate woodcut coat-of-arms of the dedicatee, the Duke of Braganza, on the title-page, and the woodcut coat of arms of Portugal and/or King Philip II of Portugal at the head of his dedication on leaf [6]r, all text is set within a double fillet frame, and with woodcut decorated initials. Contemporary parchment binding with manuscript title on spine.
MIMOSO, João Sardina. · 1591 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€9,500.00 ($10,470.97 | £7,924.38 | ¥1,672,278)
[10], 163, [1] ll.First and only edition of a captivating account of a tragicomedy play, written by João Sardina Mimoso, a priest from Setubal near Lisbon. It is a detailed account in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin, of an early play on the discovery of Brazil by the Portuguese, w…
Verzameling van twaalf Kleefsche outheden en gezichten.Amsterdam, Gerrit Tielenburg, (signed in the plates:) 1758-1762. Large 4to (29 x 23 cm). With 50 leaves showing 46 engravings containing a total of 91 views: 42 leaves with 2 views per leaf, 6 leaves with 2 double page views each, and 1 double page view on 2 leaves. All engraved plates are signed "J. de Beyer del. Paul: van Liender fec [year: between 1758 and 1762]". All views are captioned beneath the illustration, telling the viewer what building, town, or view they are seeing, and some captions even mention the year when the view was captured by De Beyer. Near contemporary (ca. 1778) elaborately gold-tooled red morocco, with a green morocco title-label lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled edges and turn-ins, floral decorated paper end leaves, gilt edges.
Verzameling van twaalf Kleefsche outheden en gezichten.Amsterdam, Gerrit Tielenburg, (signed in the plates:) 1758-1762. Large 4to (29 x 23 cm). With 50 leaves showing 46 engravings containing a total of 91 views: 42 leaves with 2 views per leaf, 6 leaves with 2 double page views each, and 1 double page view on 2 leaves. All engraved plates are signed "J. de Beyer del. Paul: van Liender fec [year: between 1758 and 1762]". All views are captioned beneath the illustration, telling the viewer what building, town, or view they are seeing, and some captions even mention the year when the view was captured by De Beyer. Near contemporary (ca. 1778) elaborately gold-tooled red morocco, with a green morocco title-label lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled edges and turn-ins, floral decorated paper end leaves, gilt edges.
[KLEEFSCHE OUTHEEDEN - VIEWS]. BEIJER, Jan de (draughtsman) and Paulus van LIENDER (engraver). · 1758 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€12,500.00 ($13,777.59 | £10,426.81 | ¥2,200,366)
[1], [1 blank] pp. and 50 leaves showing 91 engraved views.Splendidly bound, incredibly rare collection of views of the castles, houses, churches and towns surrounding the city of Kleve in present-day Germany near the Dutch border at Arnhem and Nijmegen. Here in their first edit…
Kruydtboeck oft beschrijvinghe van allerleye ghewassen, kruyderen, hesteren, ende gheboomten.Antwerp, Christoffel Plantin, 1581. 2 volumes bound as 1, the second in 3 parts. Large folio. With an engraved title-page, the author's large "candore et spe" woodcut device on leaf *6r, approximately 2185 botanical woodcuts in the text, 8 woodcut decorated (sometimes interlaced) initials plus repeats (6 series) and 1 typographic interlaced initial. Set in fraktur types with extensive roman and textura and incidental italic and civilité. Later (17th-century?) blind tooled vellum.
Kruydtboeck oft beschrijvinghe van allerleye ghewassen, kruyderen, hesteren, ende gheboomten.Antwerp, Christoffel Plantin, 1581. 2 volumes bound as 1, the second in 3 parts. Large folio. With an engraved title-page, the author's large "candore et spe" woodcut device on leaf *6r, approximately 2185 botanical woodcuts in the text, 8 woodcut decorated (sometimes interlaced) initials plus repeats (6 series) and 1 typographic interlaced initial. Set in fraktur types with extensive roman and textura and incidental italic and civilité. Later (17th-century?) blind tooled vellum.
LOBEL [also L'OBEL or LOBELIUS], Matthias de. · 1576 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€8,500.00 ($9,368.76 | £7,090.23 | ¥1,496,249)
[10], 994, [2 blank], "312"[= 312, 294 + 2 blank], [2 blank], 15, [1 blank], [67], [1 blank] pp.First Dutch edition, with approximately 435 more woodcuts than Plantin's Latin edition of 1576, of one of the greatest herbals. Besides the expected herbs, medical plants, etc., it il…
De zee tot land gemaakt, of, alle landing zeker gesteld, bevattende een onfeilbaar middel, om niet alleen alle drenkelingen, en als men 't ongeluk heeft van in 't water te vallen, zich zelven, te redden, maar ook om gehele armeën, door een rivier, ja door een zee heen, tegen een vijandlijk land aan te voeren.Amsterdam, J. W. Werlingshoff, 1805. 8vo. With 4 engraved plates on 2 folding leaves. Later quarter vellum, blue decorated paper sides.
De zee tot land gemaakt, of, alle landing zeker gesteld, bevattende een onfeilbaar middel, om niet alleen alle drenkelingen, en als men 't ongeluk heeft van in 't water te vallen, zich zelven, te redden, maar ook om gehele armeën, door een rivier, ja door een zee heen, tegen een vijandlijk land aan te voeren.Amsterdam, J. W. Werlingshoff, 1805. 8vo. With 4 engraved plates on 2 folding leaves. Later quarter vellum, blue decorated paper sides.
[LA CHAPELLE, Jean-Baptiste de and Cornelis van ENGELEN (translator)]. · 1710 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€2,500.00 ($2,755.52 | £2,085.36 | ¥440,073)
IV, 139, [1] pp.Exceptionally rare Dutch edition of a remarkable work about life jackets. The work, written by mathematician and inventor Jean-Baptiste de la Chapelle (ca. 1710-1792), contains a description of the manufacture and use of a life jacket made of cork, which La Chape…
Venerie normande, ou l'ecole de la chasse aux chiens courants, pour le lievre, le chevreuil, le cerf, le daim, le sanglier, le loup, le renard & la loutre; Avec les tons de chasse, accompagnés de chacun une explication sur l'occasion & les circonstances où ils doivent être sonnés; Et un traité des remedes, un traité sur le droit de suite, & un dictionnaire des termes de chasse, &c.Rouen, Laurent Dumesnil, 1778. 8vo. With 27 woodcuts on 19 leaves and a complete engraved quire of 14 pages, printed both sides with mensural music for hunting calls and fanfares, with explanatory text. Gold-tooled tan calf (ca. 1850?), signed at the foot of the spine by “Koehler” (François Koehler in Paris).
Venerie normande, ou l'ecole de la chasse aux chiens courants, pour le lievre, le chevreuil, le cerf, le daim, le sanglier, le loup, le renard & la loutre; Avec les tons de chasse, accompagnés de chacun une explication sur l'occasion & les circonstances où ils doivent être sonnés; Et un traité des remedes, un traité sur le droit de suite, & un dictionnaire des termes de chasse, &c.Rouen, Laurent Dumesnil, 1778. 8vo. With 27 woodcuts on 19 leaves and a complete engraved quire of 14 pages, printed both sides with mensural music for hunting calls and fanfares, with explanatory text. Gold-tooled tan calf (ca. 1850?), signed at the foot of the spine by “Koehler” (François Koehler in Paris).
LE VERRIER DE LA CONTERIE, Jean-Baptiste-Jacques. · 1718 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€1,500.00 ($1,653.31 | £1,251.22 | ¥264,044)
XV, [1], 526 pp. (omitting the blank leaf, pp. 447-448).One of the most important French works on hunting, richly illustrated with woodcuts and also containing a complete quire of hunting tones, written by the French hunting specialist Jean-Baptiste-Jacques Le Verrier de la Cont…
[A choice collection of 6 original plays written by Johannes Nomsz and 10 plays of French playwrights - Racine, Corneille, Voltaire and others - together with other texts highly interesting for the history of the Amsterdam stage, and Nomsz’s historical work on the life of Mohammed in 2 volumes].Amsterdam, Izaak Duim, Johannes Smit, David Klippink, widow of David Klippink, Hendrik Gartman, Johannes Smit, heirs of David Klippink, 1764-1780. 16 plays, 3 essays and 1 biography bound in 11 volumes. 8vo. With two portraits of Nomsz by Reinier Vinkeles (vol. I) and J. Houbraken (vol. IX), a portrait of Mohammed by J. Houbraken (vol. I) and 14 frontispieces by the best engravers of the time: Jan Punt, Reinier Vinkeles, Simon Fokke, P. Tanjé and Th. Koning. Uniform contemporary vellum with a blind-tooled centrepiece and cornerpieces on each board, manuscript titles on spines.
[A choice collection of 6 original plays written by Johannes Nomsz and 10 plays of French playwrights - Racine, Corneille, Voltaire and others - together with other texts highly interesting for the history of the Amsterdam stage, and Nomsz’s historical work on the life of Mohammed in 2 volumes].Amsterdam, Izaak Duim, Johannes Smit, David Klippink, widow of David Klippink, Hendrik Gartman, Johannes Smit, heirs of David Klippink, 1764-1780. 16 plays, 3 essays and 1 biography bound in 11 volumes. 8vo. With two portraits of Nomsz by Reinier Vinkeles (vol. I) and J. Houbraken (vol. IX), a portrait of Mohammed by J. Houbraken (vol. I) and 14 frontispieces by the best engravers of the time: Jan Punt, Reinier Vinkeles, Simon Fokke, P. Tanjé and Th. Koning. Uniform contemporary vellum with a blind-tooled centrepiece and cornerpieces on each board, manuscript titles on spines.
NOMSZ, Johannes. · 1738 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€2,950.00 ($3,251.51 | £2,460.73 | ¥519,286)
[8], 76; [8], 64; [8], 56; 14; 62; [8], 54; 12, [74]; [4], 54; [12], 74; [6], 71; [8], 71; [6], 58; [12], 78; [6], 112; [8], 82, [2]; 35; [4], 88, [2]; 43; [10], 113; [10], 67; [12], 73, [2]; XXVI, 182; [4], 190 pp.Johannes Nomsz (1738-1803) was a very productive Amsterdam autho…
Livre merveilleux, contenant en bref la fleur et substance de plusieurs traittez, tant des propheties & revelations, qu'anciennes croniques, faisant mention de tous les faictz de l'Eglise Universelle, co[m]me des scismes, discords & tribulations advenir en l'Eglise de Rome, & d'un temps auquel on ostera & tollira aux ge[n]s d'eglise & clergé, ... Paris, Thibault Bessault, 1565. 8vo. With Bessault's woodcut device on the title-page. 18th-century French grained red morocco (ca. 1745?), gold-tooled spine with pointillé ornaments, each board framed with thin-thick-thin fillets with a rosette(?) stamped over their intersections at the corners, gold-tooled turn-ins, gold fillets on the board edges, gilt edges.
Livre merveilleux, contenant en bref la fleur et substance de plusieurs traittez, tant des propheties & revelations, qu'anciennes croniques, faisant mention de tous les faictz de l'Eglise Universelle, co[m]me des scismes, discords & tribulations advenir en l'Eglise de Rome, & d'un temps auquel on ostera & tollira aux ge[n]s d'eglise & clergé, ... Paris, Thibault Bessault, 1565. 8vo. With Bessault's woodcut device on the title-page. 18th-century French grained red morocco (ca. 1745?), gold-tooled spine with pointillé ornaments, each board framed with thin-thick-thin fillets with a rosette(?) stamped over their intersections at the corners, gold-tooled turn-ins, gold fillets on the board edges, gilt edges.
[TELESFORO DA COSENZA]. · 1584 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€12,500.00 ($13,777.59 | £10,426.81 | ¥2,200,366)
[54] ll.Extremely rare (third copy known?) and much sought second dated French edition (Bessault published the first earlier in the same year, but augmented it for the present edition) of a collection of fascinating and very intriguing prophecies about the Catholic Church and th…
[View of Vianen across the river Lek with fishermen and their boats and houses in the foreground].[North bank of the Lek River, near Vianen], [Ca. 1760/70]. Oblong Elephant 4to or possibly cut down oblong whole sheet (1mo) (19.5 x 31 cm). Original watercolour view on laid paper, looking southwest across the river, with Vianen in the background on the opposite bank, and a tree, houses, 11 people (mostly fishermen) and 3 fishing boats in the foreground. Mounted with 2 paper hinges on green laid paper in a passe partout (35 x 50 cm).
[View of Vianen across the river Lek with fishermen and their boats and houses in the foreground].[North bank of the Lek River, near Vianen], [Ca. 1760/70]. Oblong Elephant 4to or possibly cut down oblong whole sheet (1mo) (19.5 x 31 cm). Original watercolour view on laid paper, looking southwest across the river, with Vianen in the background on the opposite bank, and a tree, houses, 11 people (mostly fishermen) and 3 fishing boats in the foreground. Mounted with 2 paper hinges on green laid paper in a passe partout (35 x 50 cm).
[BURG, Dirk van der (formerly attributed to Nicolaas WICART)]. · 1748 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€4,500.00 ($4,959.93 | £3,753.65 | ¥792,132)
Fine watercolour in subtly shaded green and brown tones, showing a charming view looking across the Lek River (a branch of the Rhine) to Vianen on the far bank. The foreground shows thatched houses and other buildings on the near shore and fishermen with their nets and other gea…
Naaukeurige en uitvoerige beschryving van de Kaap de Goede Hoop, behelzende een zeer omstandig verhaal van den tegenwoordigen toestant van dat vermaarde gewest, deszelfs gelegenheit, haven, sterkte, regerings-vorm, uitgestrektheid, en onlangs ontdekte aanleggende landen; nevens een geleerde beschryving van het klimaat en aart van dat landschap; van deszelfs dieren, visschen, vogelen, planten, kruiden, mitsgaders verscheide wonderen der natuur, daar te lande ontdekt; waar by nog komt, een zeer nette en uit eige ondervinding opgemaakte beschryving van den oorsprong der Hottentotten.Amsterdam, Balthazar Lakeman, 1727. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With 2 titles printed in red and black, an engraved allegorical frontispiece, a full-page portrait of the author, 6 maps (1 folding, 5 double-page), and 46 plates (1 double-page, 45 full-page). Contemporary marbled calf.
Naaukeurige en uitvoerige beschryving van de Kaap de Goede Hoop, behelzende een zeer omstandig verhaal van den tegenwoordigen toestant van dat vermaarde gewest, deszelfs gelegenheit, haven, sterkte, regerings-vorm, uitgestrektheid, en onlangs ontdekte aanleggende landen; nevens een geleerde beschryving van het klimaat en aart van dat landschap; van deszelfs dieren, visschen, vogelen, planten, kruiden, mitsgaders verscheide wonderen der natuur, daar te lande ontdekt; waar by nog komt, een zeer nette en uit eige ondervinding opgemaakte beschryving van den oorsprong der Hottentotten.Amsterdam, Balthazar Lakeman, 1727. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With 2 titles printed in red and black, an engraved allegorical frontispiece, a full-page portrait of the author, 6 maps (1 folding, 5 double-page), and 46 plates (1 double-page, 45 full-page). Contemporary marbled calf.
KOLBE, Peter. · 1675 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€15,000.00 ($16,533.10 | £12,512.18 | ¥2,640,439)
[16], 529, [3]; [4], 449, [87] pp.Rare large-paper copy of the first Dutch edition of the most important and most extensive early account of South Africa, richly illustrated. The work formed the basis of nearly everything that was published concerning South Africa for the next h…
Perspectiva pictorum et architectorum ... | Prospettiva de pittori et architetti ...Rome, Antonio de Rossi (part 1) and Johannis Jacobi Komarek Bohemi (part 2), 1702 (part 1) and 1700 (part 2). 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. Part 1 with a large woodcut vignette on both title-pages (one in Latin and one in Italian), an engraved architectural frontispiece dated 1693 (behind the title-pages of part 1), a full-page engraved plate with drawing instruments before the preface, and 102 numbered engraved plates with perspectival and architectural plans and illustrations, including a large folding view of Pozzo's "trompe-l'oeil" fresco on the ceiling of the St. Ignazio church in Rome. Part 2 with a large woodcut vignette on both title-pages (one in Latin and one in Italian), an engraved architectural frontispiece by Teodoro Ver Cruys (behind the title-pages of part 2), an introductory allegorical plate, and 118 numbered engraved plates with perspectival and architectural plans and illustrations, and a full-page engraved plate on fresco painting to the added treatise at the end. Contemporary gold-tooled sprinkled (mottled?) calf, sewn on 6 supports with corresponding raised bands on the spine, with a red morocco title-label lettered in gold in the second compartment, the other compartments with detailed gold-tooled decorations. The boards show a double fillet frame in an ornamental frame with ornamental cornerpieces on the outer corners, all within a double fillet frame, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, red sprinkled edges, marbled endpapers.
Perspectiva pictorum et architectorum ... | Prospettiva de pittori et architetti ...Rome, Antonio de Rossi (part 1) and Johannis Jacobi Komarek Bohemi (part 2), 1702 (part 1) and 1700 (part 2). 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. Part 1 with a large woodcut vignette on both title-pages (one in Latin and one in Italian), an engraved architectural frontispiece dated 1693 (behind the title-pages of part 1), a full-page engraved plate with drawing instruments before the preface, and 102 numbered engraved plates with perspectival and architectural plans and illustrations, including a large folding view of Pozzo's "trompe-l'oeil" fresco on the ceiling of the St. Ignazio church in Rome. Part 2 with a large woodcut vignette on both title-pages (one in Latin and one in Italian), an engraved architectural frontispiece by Teodoro Ver Cruys (behind the title-pages of part 2), an introductory allegorical plate, and 118 numbered engraved plates with perspectival and architectural plans and illustrations, and a full-page engraved plate on fresco painting to the added treatise at the end. Contemporary gold-tooled sprinkled (mottled?) calf, sewn on 6 supports with corresponding raised bands on the spine, with a red morocco title-label lettered in gold in the second compartment, the other compartments with detailed gold-tooled decorations. The boards show a double fillet frame in an ornamental frame with ornamental cornerpieces on the outer corners, all within a double fillet frame, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, red sprinkled edges, marbled endpapers.
POZZO, Andrea. · 1642 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€14,500.00 ($15,982.00 | £12,095.10 | ¥2,552,424)
Complete edition, the two parts together, of Andrea Pozzo's remarkable richly illustrated architectural work. It is a huge collection of engraved perspectival and architectural plans and designs by the famous Italian artist and architect Andrea Pozzo (1642-1709). The large foldi…
Het leven en bedryf van Willem de Darde. Koning van Groot-Brittannie, Vrankryk en Yrlant &c. &c. Prince van Orangie &c. &c. &c. Sijn geboorte, jongelingschap, erf-stadthouderschap en koninglyke waardigheyd. Onder wiens heerschappy en bestieringe werden verhandelt, saken van staat en oorlog van den jare 1650. tot het uytgaen van 1693.Amsterdam, Jan ten Hoorn, 1694. 4 parts in 2 volumes. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece by Caspar Luyken, a folding engraved map of the battle of Landenon on 29 July 1693, and 12 folding engraved plates (of which 6 by Jan Luyken, 1 by Caspar Luyken, and 4 by Daniel de la Feuille after Jan Luyken). Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf, sewn on 5 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, a brown morocco title label on the spine, lettered in gold, and the volume number lettered in gold below, the coat of arms of Aron de Joseph de Pinto in the centre of both boards in a triple fillet frame, and his monogram (the crowned initials AJDP) in 4 of the 6 compartments on the spine, gold-tooled board edges, blue edges, marbled end papers.
Het leven en bedryf van Willem de Darde. Koning van Groot-Brittannie, Vrankryk en Yrlant &c. &c. Prince van Orangie &c. &c. &c. Sijn geboorte, jongelingschap, erf-stadthouderschap en koninglyke waardigheyd. Onder wiens heerschappy en bestieringe werden verhandelt, saken van staat en oorlog van den jare 1650. tot het uytgaen van 1693.Amsterdam, Jan ten Hoorn, 1694. 4 parts in 2 volumes. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece by Caspar Luyken, a folding engraved map of the battle of Landenon on 29 July 1693, and 12 folding engraved plates (of which 6 by Jan Luyken, 1 by Caspar Luyken, and 4 by Daniel de la Feuille after Jan Luyken). Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf, sewn on 5 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, a brown morocco title label on the spine, lettered in gold, and the volume number lettered in gold below, the coat of arms of Aron de Joseph de Pinto in the centre of both boards in a triple fillet frame, and his monogram (the crowned initials AJDP) in 4 of the 6 compartments on the spine, gold-tooled board edges, blue edges, marbled end papers.
BOSCH, Lambert van den. · 1620 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€2,500.00 ($2,755.52 | £2,085.36 | ¥440,073)
[8], 432; 442, [6]; [2], 180; 528, [8] pp.First and only edition of this biography of the illustrious stadholder and king William III and his wife Maria Stuart, by Lambert van den Bosch (1620-1698), the former head of the Latin school at Dordrecht, who published this work with h…
Heel-konste, ofte derde deel van de genees-konste, om de uytwendige gebreken te heelen.Dordrecht, Hendrick van Esch for Pieter Looymans and Maerten de Bot, 1645. With:(2) BEVERWIJCK, Johan van. Lof der medicine, ofte genees-konste.Dordrecht, [Hendrick van Esch for Jasper Gorrisz., 1644]. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 1: finely engraved architectural frontispiece with the Dordrecht coat of arms, supported by griffins, and a view of Dordrecht at the foot, a woodcut decoration on title page, 8 half-page and 11 full-page engravings on integral leaves, 1 with an emblematic image of Fortuna in the preface, 5 illustrating herbs and other plants with botanical details (2 appear in views of Marseille and the city of Orange in Provence, and another includes a view of Cairo at the head) and 13 human anatomical views, including the vascular system and the musculature, woodcut initials. Ad 2: With Van Esch’s woodcut device (the Maid of Dordrecht with “virgo Dordracena” and “libros non liberos pariens”) on the title page. Contemporary vellum, sewn on 3 vellum tapes laced through the joints, with a hollow back, early manuscript title on spine, red edges.
Heel-konste, ofte derde deel van de genees-konste, om de uytwendige gebreken te heelen.Dordrecht, Hendrick van Esch for Pieter Looymans and Maerten de Bot, 1645. With:(2) BEVERWIJCK, Johan van. Lof der medicine, ofte genees-konste.Dordrecht, [Hendrick van Esch for Jasper Gorrisz., 1644]. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 1: finely engraved architectural frontispiece with the Dordrecht coat of arms, supported by griffins, and a view of Dordrecht at the foot, a woodcut decoration on title page, 8 half-page and 11 full-page engravings on integral leaves, 1 with an emblematic image of Fortuna in the preface, 5 illustrating herbs and other plants with botanical details (2 appear in views of Marseille and the city of Orange in Provence, and another includes a view of Cairo at the head) and 13 human anatomical views, including the vascular system and the musculature, woodcut initials. Ad 2: With Van Esch’s woodcut device (the Maid of Dordrecht with “virgo Dordracena” and “libros non liberos pariens”) on the title page. Contemporary vellum, sewn on 3 vellum tapes laced through the joints, with a hollow back, early manuscript title on spine, red edges.
BEVERWIJCK, Johan van. · 1594 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€1,950.00 ($2,149.30 | £1,626.58 | ¥343,257)
[44], 487, [7]; 152 pp.Ad 1: First edition of one of the famous medical works in the vernacular by Jan or Johan van Beverwijck, in Latin Beverovicus, (1594-1647): a most practical manual on surgery, starting with a discourse on the history, value, and necessity of surgery: “Lof …
Arithmétique élémentaire ou tableaux d'arithmétique composés selon les principes et assujetis aux procédés de l'enseignement mutuel; par M. Jomard, secrétaire de la Societé pour l'enseignement élémentaire.[France?, ca. 1822]. Small folio (ca. 29.5 x 19 cm). With 6 folding text leaves. Contemporary quarter vellum.
Arithmétique élémentaire ou tableaux d'arithmétique composés selon les principes et assujetis aux procédés de l'enseignement mutuel; par M. Jomard, secrétaire de la Societé pour l'enseignement élémentaire.[France?, ca. 1822]. Small folio (ca. 29.5 x 19 cm). With 6 folding text leaves. Contemporary quarter vellum.
[JOMARD, Edmé François]. · 1777 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€5,000.00 ($5,511.04 | £4,170.72 | ¥880,146)
[1], 88, [1 blank] ll.Remarkable and well preserved manuscript on arithmetic, especially written as a schoolbook for the new educational system known as "mutual tuition". This system was popular all over Western Europe, and the author, Edmé-François Jomard (1777-1862) was one of…
Eerste (-derde) deel van de Thalia, of geurige sang-godin.Amsterdam, David Lindenius and Andries Vinck, 1679. With: (2) [ULAEUS, Johannes & Willem Godschalk van FOCQUENBROCH]. De herders-sangen van Virgilius Maro, in Nederduyts gesongen, op twee verscheydene toonen. Amsterdam, David Lindenius and Andries Vinck, 1679.(3) FOCQUENBROCH, Willem Godschalk van. Min in 't Lazarus-huys, blyspel. Amsterdam, Jacob Vinckel, 1674. 3 works in 1 volume, the first in 4 parts. 8vo. With 3 finely engraved allegorical frontispieces by Schoonebeek, a large engraved vignette on the separate title to ad 3, and several decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary vellum.
Eerste (-derde) deel van de Thalia, of geurige sang-godin.Amsterdam, David Lindenius and Andries Vinck, 1679. With: (2) [ULAEUS, Johannes & Willem Godschalk van FOCQUENBROCH]. De herders-sangen van Virgilius Maro, in Nederduyts gesongen, op twee verscheydene toonen. Amsterdam, David Lindenius and Andries Vinck, 1679.(3) FOCQUENBROCH, Willem Godschalk van. Min in 't Lazarus-huys, blyspel. Amsterdam, Jacob Vinckel, 1674. 3 works in 1 volume, the first in 4 parts. 8vo. With 3 finely engraved allegorical frontispieces by Schoonebeek, a large engraved vignette on the separate title to ad 3, and several decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary vellum.
FOCQUENBROCH, Willem Godschalk van. · 1682 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€1,250.00 ($1,377.76 | £1,042.68 | ¥220,037)
[16], 447, [1 blank]; [16], 223, [1]; [16], 112; [8], 77, [3 blank] pp.Rare collection of the most important of Focquenborch's works, incorporating all three parts of the Thalia, a translation of Virgil's Bucolica, and the play Min in 't Lazarus-huys. The present copy includes a…
Epistolarum libri X. ad exemplar manuscriptum Rodol. Agricolae diligentiss. recogniti ...Including: (2) SUETONIUS TRANQUILLIUS. De viris illustribus liber. (3) OBSEQUENS, Julius. Ab anno urbis conditae quingentesimoquinto, prodigiorum liber imperfectus.(4) CATANAEUS, Johannes Maria. C. Plinii Caecilii secundi Vita.Antwerp, Antonius Dumaeus [= Anthonis van der Haeghen], 1542. 8vo. With several decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary blind tooled pigskin, sewn on 3 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, both boards tooled in a panel design with floral motives in the 2 central panels, surrounded by a border with portraits on the front, and passion scenes and saints on the back, the manuscript initials "E.K" on the front, remnants of white leather closing ties.
Epistolarum libri X. ad exemplar manuscriptum Rodol. Agricolae diligentiss. recogniti ...Including: (2) SUETONIUS TRANQUILLIUS. De viris illustribus liber. (3) OBSEQUENS, Julius. Ab anno urbis conditae quingentesimoquinto, prodigiorum liber imperfectus.(4) CATANAEUS, Johannes Maria. C. Plinii Caecilii secundi Vita.Antwerp, Antonius Dumaeus [= Anthonis van der Haeghen], 1542. 8vo. With several decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary blind tooled pigskin, sewn on 3 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, both boards tooled in a panel design with floral motives in the 2 central panels, surrounded by a border with portraits on the front, and passion scenes and saints on the back, the manuscript initials "E.K" on the front, remnants of white leather closing ties.
PLINIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS, Caius. · 1530 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€6,500.00 ($7,164.35 | £5,421.94 | ¥1,144,190)
494 [=496], [39], [1 blank] pp.Rare early Antwerp edition of the Letters by Plinius Secundus, in a beautiful contemporary pigskin binding. This edition is virtually a reprint of the edition by Johannes Sichardt published in 1530 by Andreas Cratander at Basel. Sichardt (ca. 1499-…
Perpetua crux, sive passio Iesu Christi a puncto incarnationis ad extremum vitae; iconibus quadragenis explicata; quarum ligneae laminae in bonum publicum gratis datae. Pretium libelli, vide pag. 15.Antwerp, Cornelius Woons, 1649. With: (2) [ANDRIES, Josse]. Altera perpetua crux Iesu Christi a fine vitae usque ad finem mundi, in perpetuo altaris sacrificio ...Antwerp, Cornelius Woons, 1649. 2 parts in 1 volume. 12mo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page of ad 1, and 80 full-page woodcut illustrations (40 in ad 1, which are repeated in ad 2). Contemporary parchment over boards, sewn on 3 supports laced through the joints, with the manuscript title on the spine.
Perpetua crux, sive passio Iesu Christi a puncto incarnationis ad extremum vitae; iconibus quadragenis explicata; quarum ligneae laminae in bonum publicum gratis datae. Pretium libelli, vide pag. 15.Antwerp, Cornelius Woons, 1649. With: (2) [ANDRIES, Josse]. Altera perpetua crux Iesu Christi a fine vitae usque ad finem mundi, in perpetuo altaris sacrificio ...Antwerp, Cornelius Woons, 1649. 2 parts in 1 volume. 12mo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page of ad 1, and 80 full-page woodcut illustrations (40 in ad 1, which are repeated in ad 2). Contemporary parchment over boards, sewn on 3 supports laced through the joints, with the manuscript title on the spine.
[ANDRIES, Josse]. · 1648 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€3,750.00 ($4,133.28 | £3,128.04 | ¥660,110)
96; 95, [1] pp.Original and only edition of the second part, and second edition of the first part of a rare devotional work. The first part was originally published only one year earlier by Willem Scheybels in 1648, in Brussels. A French translation was first published also in 1…