Asher Rare Books

Among Le Pautre’s earliest work

PHILIPPON, Adam. Curieuses recherches de plusieurs beaus morceaus d'ornemens antiques, et modernes, tant dans la ville de Rome, ques autres villes et lieux d'Italie.
Croissant, Adam Philippon, 1645. Wholly engraved print series consisting of a title-page, dedication, privilege, and 50 plates. The leaves are numbered 1-42, followed by 10 plates with their numbers changed by hand, and the privilege.
With: (2) LE PAUTRE, Jean. Frizes feuillages ou Tritons marins antiques et modernes.Paris, P. Mariette, [ca. 1664]. Series of 6 numbered engraved plates, each with two friezes. 2 series in 1 volume. Small folio (26.5 x 18.5 cm). Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment. [59] ll. Full description

€ 7,000

Architecture Art & Art History Classical Antiquity Italy Prints & Print Series

Pendant of a drawing in the Amsterdam city archives, together with two engravings after the drawing

[AMSTERDAM]. PHILIPS, Caspar Jacobsz. Afbeelding van de Oostzijde der Muijder Poort te Amsterdam, na dat dezelve tussen den 29 en 30 Januarij 1769 bij na 16 voeten diep in de grond gezakt was.
[Netherlands], 1772. (23 x 29 cm). Original pen drawing.
With:
(2) KEUN, Hendrik. Afbeelding van de Muyderpoort te Amsterdam, zo als die zig vertoonde, na dat dezelve tussen den 29 en 30 Jannuary 1769 by de 16 voeten in de grond gezakt was.
Amsterdam, F.W. Greebe, [1769]. (22 x 28.7 cm)
(3) KEUN, Hendrik. Afbeelding van de Muyderpoort te Amsterdam, zoo als die ingezakt synde, van buiten af te zien zig vertoond.
Amsterdam, F.W. Greebe, [1769]. (21.7 x 28.2 cm.
Two engraved views with captions below the image, both signed "H. Keun Fecit" in the plate. Full description

€ 2,500

Amsterdam City Plans, Topography & Views Prints & Print Series

Captivating views of the Alhambra, produced for tourists visiting Granada

[PHOTOGRAPHY - ALHAMBRA]. MAUZAISSE, Charles (photographer). [Collection of 13 photographs of the Alhambra in Granada].
[Granada, ca. 1865]. All albumen photographic prints (18 x 24 cm) are mounted on black card stock (29.5 x 21 cm). [13] ll. Full description

€ 9,500

Architecture Islamic Art, Culture & Science Photography Spain

Nineteenth-century panorama photograph of Sydney Harbour

[PHOTOGRAPHY - AUSTRALIA]. [Sydney Harbour and Circular Quay].
[Sydney, ca. 1875]. Ca. 8 x 46.5 cm. Panorama photograph, consisting of three albumen prints joined together with white bookcloth. Full description

€ 350

Australia Photography

Late 19th-century photographs of Sydney and surroundings

[PHOTOGRAPHY - AUSTRALIA]. [Views of New South Wales].
[Australia, ca. 1885]. Folio (ca. 44 x 36.5 cm). With 65 albumen prints. Contemporary gold-tooled black morocco, with the title lettered in gold on the front, gold-tooled turn-ins, gilt edges, watered-silk end papers. [29] ll. Full description

€ 5,500

Australia Photography

A photographic tour from France to Australia, via Egypt

[PHOTOGRAPHY - AUSTRALIA, EGYPT & FRANCE]. [Album containing photographs of Australia, Egypt and France].
[ca. 1895]. Oblong folio (28 x 39 cm). With 58 printed photographs (ca. 21 x 25.5 to 13.5 x 20 cm). Mounted on both sides of the leaves in the album. Contemporary black morocco, gold-tooling to boards and spine and gilt on all edges. [60] pp. Full description

€ 5,000

Australia Egypt France North Africa Photography

Collection of photographs of 19th-century Egypt, by the leading Orientalist photographer of the time

[PHOTOGRAPHY - EGYPT], SÉBAH, Jean Pascal. [Collection of 34 albumen prints of Egypt].
[Cairo?, 1888-1900?]. 34 albumen prints (ca. 22 x 27 cm) mounted on cream cardstock (ca. 28 x 35.5 cm). Full description

€ 4,000

Egypt Islamic Art, Culture & Science North Africa Photography

Interesting and intimate photograph album showing buildings, views, people and life in Calcutta in the 1870s

[PHOTOGRAPHY - INDIA]. [Manuscript title on the front paste-down:] Views of Calcutta.
Calcutta, [ca. 1874/79]. Oblong 8vo. With 33 mounted sepia albumen prints (ca. 15/15.5 x 10.5/11 cm), all captioned. Manuscript title and captions of the pictures in English, written in brown ink in a neat 19th-century cursive hand. Contemporary gold-tooled half red morocco, brown cloth sides. [2 blank], [25], [1 blank], [8], [2 blank] pp. Full description

€ 6,500

Anthropology & Ethnography Architecture India & Sri Lanka Photography

Photographs and illustrations of a British warship's travels in Latin America

[PHOTOGRAPHY - LATIN AMERICA]. [Album with photographs, engravings, and drawings relating to Madeira, Tenerife, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Chile].
[ca. 1885]. Oblong (ca. 38 x 27.5 cm). With 20 albumen prints, 43 plates (engraved and lithographed), and 3 drawings. Contemporary gold-tooled dark purple quarter morocco, brownish-purple pebble-grain cloth sides, with a paper label ("3") mounted on the front. [31] ll. Full description

€ 3,500

Argentina Brazil Drawings & Watercolours Naval History North Africa Photography South America Travel & Voyages South America UK - United Kingdom

Celebrations in 19th-century Moscow: photographic prints showing an Imperial coronation
and the consecration of a cathedral

[PHOTOGRAPHY - RUSSIA - MIECZKOWSKI, Jan]. [Collection of photographic prints depicting Moscow during the coronation of Alexander III & Maria Feodorovna and the consecration of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in May 1883].
[Russian Empire (probably Warsaw in present-day Poland)], Mechkovsky (= Jan Mieczkowski), [1883]. 9 photographic prints mounted on large white paper boards, captioned in Russian above and below the image. Kept together in a clear plastic sleeve. Full description

€ 18,000

Photography Russia (incl. Siberia)

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