Asher Rare Books

Richly gold-tooled French morocco in the style of "Le Gascon": includes Elichman's Greek, Latin and Arabic Tabula Cebetis and Aurea carmina Pythagoræ

SIMPLICIUS of Cilicia. Commentarius in Enchiridion Epicteti, ex libris veteribus emendatus. Cum versione Hieronymi Wolfii, et Cl. Salmasii animadversionibus, et notis quibus Philosophia Stoica passim explicatur & illustratur.
Leiden, Johannes Maire, 1640. 4 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With three title-pages. Set in roman, Greek and Arabic types. Contemporary French pointillé binding in the style of "Le Gascon", richly gold-tooled in concentric panels on both covers, and in the six compartments of the spine, the second with the title. [20], 332, [12]; [1], [1 blank], 329, [23]; [34], 88, 15 pp. Full description

€ 9,750

Arabic Printing & Calligraphy Bindings Classical Antiquity Greek & Non-Western Types Greek & Roman Classics History / 17th Century Literature Philosophy & Humanism

Very rare first issue of a decree by José I, King of Portugal,
concerning difficulties in the transportation of enslaved people from Mozambique to Brazil in 1772

[SLAVE TRADE - BRAZIL - JOSÉ I, King of Portugal]. [Drop title:] Eu Elrey. Faço saber aos que este alvará de declaração virem: que tendo informação, de que do meu alvará de dez de setembro de mil setecentos sessenta e sinco, que, abollindo as frótas, permittio aos meus vassallos a liberdade de navegarem para os portos não vedados dos meus dominios ultramarinos; e de transportarem delles, e para elles quaesquer mercadorias permittidas ...
[Lisbon], Na Regia Officina Typografica, [1772]. Folio (ca. 29 x 20 cm). With a large decorated woodcut initial "E" incorporating the Portuguese royal coat of arms. Disbound and subsequently mounted in a modern black stiff paper folder with a printed label mounted on the front wrapper. [3], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 750

Brazil Broadsides, Ephemera & Pamphlets East Africa Portugal Slavery South America Southern Africa

Classic history and description of Gelderland with maps in a contemporary hand-colouring,
bound by the Utrecht "Vase Block Bindery"

SLICHTENHORST, Arend van. XIV. Boeken van de Geldersse Geschiedenissen, van 't begin af vervolghd tot aen de afzweeringh des Konincx van Spanien; ...
Arnhem, Jacob van Biesen, 1654. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With an engraved title page, a letterpress half-title, a large folding engraved map, 20 double-page plans and maps, 28 woodcut coats of arms in the text, as well as woodcut medals, and letterpress genealogical tables. With exception of some medals all plates and illustrations are coloured by a contemporary hand and partly highlighted with gold. Early 18th-century gold-tooled mottled calf by the so-called "Vase Block Bindery". [16], 116, [4]; 596, [24] pp. Full description

€ 25,000

Bindings Netherlands

Robert Smith's influential theories on light and optics together in the first edition of an illustrated textbook for university students

[SMITH, Robert and others]. The elementary parts of Dr. Smith's compleat system of opticks, selected and arranged for the use of students at the universities: to which are added in the form of notes some explanatory propositions from other authors.
Cambridge, printed by J. Archdeacon, 1778. Large 4to (27 x 20.5 cm). With 17 numbered, folding engraved plates. Contemporary gold-tooled brown sprinkled calf, gold-tooled red morocco spine label, gold-tooled board edges. VI, [9], [1 blank], 119, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 6,000

Optics & Perspective School & Textbooks Science UK - United Kingdom

Rare Dutch manual on clockwork, with 16 folding plates

SMIT, Jacob Levi. Horologie- en uurwerkmakers handboek.
Nijmegen, the widow of J.C. Vieweg and son, 1826. 8vo. With 4 letterpress folding tables, and numerous illustrations and figures on 16 folding plates, lithographed by Guillaume Philidor van den Burggraaf, Brussels. Modern quarter sheepskin. [2], XII, 256 pp. Full description

€ 950

School & Textbooks Technology

Very rare examination book for pharmacology students

SODRÉ, Antonio Martins (Antonio DOS MÁRTIRES). Collectaneo pharmaceutico divido em duas partes, nas quaes se acharáõ as melhores perguntas, e respostas, e algumas eleiçoens de simples, com suas explicaçoens ao texto de Mesue, tiradas dos melhores autores antigos, e modernos da arte pharmaceutica. Obra utilissima para se examinarem os novos professores da mesma arte.
Porto, Antonio Alves Ribeiro Guimaraens, 1768. 8vo. Contemporary mottled tanned sheepskin, sewn on 4 supports, gold-tooled spine. [32], 188, [4 blank] pp. Full description

€ 3,500

Medicine & Pharmacy (18th Century) Pharmacy / Pharmacopaea Portugal School & Textbooks

Hebrew for beginners, including alphabets of meruba, rabbinical, Yiddish and script Hebrew types

SOMMERHAUSSEN, Hartog. Hebreeuwsch spel- en lees-boekje voor eerstbeginnenden.
Amsterdam, Belinfante & Comp., J. van Embden & son, S.A. Proops, 5570 [=] 1810. 2 parts in 1 volume. Small 8vo (15.5 x 9.5 cm). With the authenticating oval stamp at the foot of the last page of the main text in part 2. Set in roman and italic type with 3 sizes of (sephardic) meruba Hebrew plus alphabets of rabbinical (semi-cursive), Yiddisch and script Hebrew types, and printed on Dutch wove paper. Publisher's original yellow, printed paper wrappers over thin boards. 24, [1], [1 blank]; 28, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 3,950

Greek & Non-Western Types Judaica Language & Linguistics Literature School & Textbooks

Luxuriously bound Dutch songbook with ornate silver clasps

[SONGBOOK]. 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. 310, [10] pp. Full description

€ 2,750

Bindings History / 18th Century Holland Music, Theatre & Dance Songbooks

One of the earliest editions of a famous songbook

[SONGBOOK]. 't Groot Hoorns, Enkhuyser en Alkmaerder liede-boeck, versiert met veel mooye bruylofts-liedekens en gesangen.
Amsterdam, Pieter van Ryschooten, 1702. 32mo. With a woodcut illustration on the title page, a full-page woodcut illustration on the verso of the title page, and musical annotation. Contemporary gold-tooled calf with a clasp. 310, [10] pp. Full description

€ 1,250

Holland Miniature Books Songbooks

Unrecorded issue of the famous Dutch songbook

[SONGBOOK]. 't Nieuw groot Hoorns lied-boekje, bestaande in veel stigtige en vermakelyke bruylofts liedekens.
Hoorn, Reinier Beukelman, [between 1713 and 1735]. 24mo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, a decorated woodcut initial, and several leaves with musical annotation. Later marbled paper pasted over brown cloth. "210" [= 310], [10] pp. Full description