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Verscheide stucken en cieraden van roermakers gereedschap nieuwelijks uitgevonden en uit de voornaamste meesters van Europa getrocken. - Plusieurs pieces et ornements d'arquebuzerie, le plus nouvellement inventées et tirees des premiers maistres d l'Europe.Amsterdam, Petrus Schenk, 1692. Oblong folio. With an engraved allegorical title page and 7 expertly engraved plates of ornamental designs on arquebuses. Modern half calf and green decorated paper sides.

SCHENK, Pieter. · 1660 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[8] ll.Very rare complete and uncut copy of an expertly engraved pattern book for decorated firearms by the German engraver Petrus Schenk I (1660-1711), after the French designer of gun fittings and ornamental engraver Claude Simonin (ca. 1635-1721).During the seventeenth centur…

Antiquitates biblicae et ecclesiasticae, accedit ejusdem autoris tractatus de antiquis ritibus sepulchralibus Graecorum, Romanorum, Judaeorum & Christianorum ...Wittenberg, Christian Schrödter, 1688.With: (2) PFEIFFER, Johann Philipp. Libri IV, antiquitatum Graecarum gentilium sacrarum, politicarum, militarium & oeconomicarum.Königsberg; Leipzig, Heinrich Boye, 1689. With an engraved title-page, engraved author's portrait as frontispiece and title-page printed in red and black. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. Contemporary vellum.

QUENSTEDT, Johann Andreas. · 1617 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€875.00 ($964.41 | £729.98 | ¥154,004)

[16], “971” [=980], 183, [1], 48; [16], “773” [=771], [88], [1 blank] pp.Ad 1: First edition of an extensive work on ancient Biblical and ecclesiastical rituals by the German Lutheran theologian Johannes Andreas Quenstedt (1617-1688). The work is divided into 14 chapters coverin…

Relacion del sucesso que tuuo nuestra santa fe en los reynos del Iapon, desde el año de seyscientos y doze hasta el de seyscientos u quinze, Imperando Cubosama. Madrid, widow of Alonso M. de Balboa, 1617. Folio. With woodcut coat of arms on title-page, repeated at the end of books 1, 2 and 3. Contemporary parchment.

PIÑEYRO, Luys. · 1560 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[16], 516, [8] pp.Rare first edition of a history of the persecution of Christian missionaries in Japan and Japanese converts to Christianity, written in Spanish by the Portuguese Jesuit Luys Piñeyro (1560-1620). The history is in five books followed by lists of martyrs, a table…

Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabrica figura. Iam tandem ad finem perductus, quamplurimis aeneis tabulis Hispaniae, Africae, Asiae & Americae auctus ac illustratus à Judoco Hondio. Quibus etiam additae (praeter Mercatoris) dilucidae & accuratae omnium tabularum descriptiones novae, studio et opera Pet. Montani.Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, 1606. Folio. With an engraved title page and 144 mostly double-page maps, each with a signature (E-7T) and with explanatory texts on the recto of the first and on the verso of the second fol. (the text pages on the rectos and versos of the maps are paginated 33-354). Original gold- and blind-tooled calf, re-cased, the original leather pasted to the new boards. With a large blind-tooled centrepiece in a blind-tooled lozenge frame, within a blind-tooled rectangle frame, gold-tooled smaller and larger corner pieces and a gold-tooled floral frame along the edges of the boards, both boards show the same design. Further with the title lettered in gold on the spine, and red edges.

MERCATOR, Gerardus and Jodocus HONDIUS (publisher). · 1595 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€125,000.00 ($137,772.75 | £104,283.25 | ¥22,000,528)

[16], 354, [12] pp. [+ 8 + 4 + 4 + 8 = 24 pp. for the indexes].The first edition of the famous Mercator-Hondius Atlas, which follows the arrangement of the complete Mercator atlas published by Gerard Mercator’s son Rumold in 1595 as the Atlas sive cosmographicæ meditationes de f…

Opus quibuslibet aromatariis: necessariu[m]. Mesue in vulgare rescripto. Primo che se rechercha allarte della aromataria como se conosseno le medicine simplice & composte li quattro canone p[er] arte in vulgare declarate alla antidotario: li dubie al configere qlle resolute.[Napels or Venice, ca. 1500?]. 4to (14.5 x 19.8 cm). Half calf over marbled boards [ca. 1900], gold-tooled spine, gold-tooled red spine label, red sprinkled edges.

MASAWAIH AL-MARDINI (MESUE the younger). · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€45,000.00 ($49,598.19 | £37,541.97 | ¥7,920,190)

[34] ll.Rare and almost unobtainable first edition of a digest of medical prescriptions, taken from the works of the highly-regarded Arabic physician Mesue the younger (also known as Masawaih al-Mardini), including "a kind of general manual for apothecaries and perfumers" (Duvee…

De weke vanden edelen gheest-rijcken Willem van Saluste, Heere van Bartas, inhoudende de scheppinghe des werelts.Zwolle, Zacharias Heyns, 1616. 8vo. With 7 full-page engraved plates, an engraved printer's device on the title page, and a woodcut headpiece at the start of the work, and a decorated woodcut initial. Contemporary vellum with overlapping fore-eges.

HEYNS, Zacharias. · 1578 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)

[4], "187" [=196] ll.First edition of a Dutch translation of an epic poem about the creation of the world, according to the Bible. The work is divided in seven chapters, which correspond to the seven days of the creation. Each chapter starts with an engraving which illustrates t…

Voyage dans l'Amerique du Sud. Pérou et Bolivie.Paris, J. Claye for Michel Lévy Frères, 1861. 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title. Contemporary blue morocco by Capé, with the title and author lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, marbled end papers.

GRANDIDIER, Ernest. · 1806 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[4], 310, [1], [1 blank] pp.First edition of this account of a French scientific expedition through Peru and Bolivia, combining travel with observations on archaeology, mining and natural history. The present copy is number 3 of only 15 on Holland paper. Beautifully bound by Cha…

Della fabrica et uso di diversi stromenti di astronomia, et cosmografia, ove si vede la somma della teorica, et pratica di queste due nobilissime scienze.Venice, Roberto Meietti, 1598. 4to (22 x 16.5 cm). With an engraved title page, a folding woodcut plate, 3 woodcut volvelles with moving parts, and numerous woodcut illustrations in text. Including a world map in two hemispheres (incl. America and a scattering of islands at the location of Australia) on two facing pages, they reappear with volvelle attachments on both sides of leaf 149 and leaf 153. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment.

GALLUCCI, Giovanni Paolo. · 1538 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€35,000.00 ($38,576.37 | £29,199.31 | ¥6,160,148)

[8], 228 ll.First edition of a well-illustrated encyclopaedia of astronomical and surveying instruments available from classical times to the time of publication, by the Italian astronomer Giovanni Paolo Gallucci (1538-ca. 1621), a well-known private tutor to the Venetian nobili…

A plain and literal translation of the Arabian nights’ entertainments, now entituled the book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. [Boston?], The Burton Club, [ca. 1904]. 14 (instead of 17) volumes. Royal 8vo (24 x 16 cm). With frontispieces and numerous illustrations (vol. 8 lacking one image). With: Supplemental nights to the book of the thousand nights and a night with notes anthropological and explanatory.[Boston?], The Burton Club, [ca. 1940]. Contemporary richly gilt and sometimes also silver full cloth, some top edges gilt, some red.

[ARABIAN NIGHTS]. BURTON, Richard Francis. · 1885 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

The first Burton Club edition of Richard Burton’s celebrated translation of Alf Laylah Wa Laylah, commonly known in English as the Arabian nights. These Arabic tales, cherished in Europe since the early 18th century, are often erotic in content, and in Burton’s unexpurgated tran…

Chronologica et astronomica elementa, e Palatinae bibliothecae veteribus libris versa, expleta, & scholiis expolita.Frankfurt, Andreas Wechel (heirs of), Claude de Marne, and Johann Aubry, 1590. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page and the final leaf, a woodcut decorated initial, and a woodcut head- and tailpiece. Near contemporary overlapping vellum with the manuscript title on the spine, remnants of ties, red edges.

AL-FARGHANI, Ahmad ibn Mohammad ibn Kathir and Jacob CHRISTMANN (translator). · 1496 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€17,500.00 ($19,288.18 | £14,599.65 | ¥3,080,074)

[1], [1 blank], [12], [2 blank], 565, [1], [1 blank], [1] pp.Rare first edition of the Latin translation of a very influential astronomical work, which was in large part responsible for spreading Ptolemaic astronomy in medieval and early modern Europe. Written in the 9th century…

Dawn Over India

Bankim Chandra Chatterji · 1941 · Dodman Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

New York, The Devin-Adair Company, 1st Edition, "A nation's appeal to be independent once again" in the form of "a classic novel of mystic India". First English language edition, translated from the original Bengali by Basanta Koomar Roy. Light toning to stock, moreso to endpape…

NEMPNETT THRUBWELL: BARROWS, NAMES AND MANORS Essays On The Landscape History Of A North Somerset Parish

Richard Dunn · 2004 · Dodman Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

NempnettBooks, 1st Edition, I'm tempted to adopt Nempnett Thrubwell as a pseudonym. In the meantime, this is a well produced and illustrated local history in fine internal order throughout. No inscriptions. Light wear only to pictorial card covers. This is a charity sale for Fri…

ON LAMBETH MARSH The South Bank And Waterloo

Graham Gibberd · 1992 · Dodman Books

£37.50 (€44.95 | $49.54 | ¥7,911)

London, Jane Gibberd, 1st Edition, Well produced study of this most interesting area of London. All in VG+ clean and bright order throughout. No inscriptions. Light wear only to card covers and a little light marking to rear. This is a charity sale for Friends Of Morston Church …

The Archaeology Of Mills And Milling

Martin Watts · 2002 · Dodman Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Stroud, Tempus, 1st Edition, Well produced study in VG+ clean and bright order throughout. Minimal wear to card covers. This is a charity sale for Friends Of Morston Church (reg.1099831). 4to. 160pp + plates , Very Good, No Jacket, 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall, 176

Mariners And Markets

Charles P Kindleberger · 1992 · Dodman Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

New York, New York University Press, 1st Edition, The historic pay, conditions and treatment of seamen, afloat and ashore. Would be rated 'near fine' but for vertical crease to front board. Otherwise in excellent order throughout. VG+ unclipped d/j in removable protective sleeve…

Direct Action

Howard, Johnny 'Two Combs' · 1999 · Barter Books Ltd

£12.60 (€15.10 | $16.65 | ¥2,658)

VG : in Very good condition with chipped dust jacket London Orion First Edition 240mm x 160mm (9" x 6"). 266pp.

Isabel the Woman

Howard, Liz · 1990 · Barter Books Ltd

£7.60 (€9.11 | $10.04 | ¥1,603)

G : ingood condition with dust jacket. Ex-lib. Fep missing London Robert Hale Ltd First Edition 220mm x 140mm (9" x 6"). 175pp.

Crispin's Day

Howard, Leigh · 1952 · Barter Books Ltd

£9.60 (€11.51 | $12.68 | ¥2,025)

VG: in very good condition with rubbed and chipped dust jacket London Longmans, Green & Co Ltd First Edition 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). 265pp.

Crispin's Day

Howard, Leigh · 1952 · Barter Books Ltd

£6.60 (€7.91 | $8.72 | ¥1,392)

G : in good condition without dust jacket. Ex school library London Longmans, Green & Co First Edition 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). 265pp.

The Joyful Morrow

Howe, Muriel · 0 · Barter Books Ltd

£12.60 (€15.10 | $16.65 | ¥2,658)

VG: in very good condition with rubbed and chipped dust jacket. Previous owner inscription to fep London Herbert Jenkins Ltd First Edition 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). 190pp.