Asher Rare Books

The state of religion in the Dutch East Indies

RHIJN, Leonard Johannes van. Reis door den Indischen Archipel, in het belang der evangelische zending.
Rotterdam, M. Wijt & zonen, 1851. 8vo. With 1 chromolithographed and 4 lithographed folding maps and 8 tinted lithographed illustrations. Rebacked in modern half cloth and the original gold-tooled green sheepskin backstrip laid down. XX, IV, “655” [= 651], 28 pp. Full description

€ 1,500

Church History & Missions Colour Printing / Chromolithography Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Southeast Asia Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Southeast Asia

Very rare and lavishly illustrated description of the Rhine

[RHINE RIVER]. Beknopte beschrijving van den Rhijn-stroom. ...
Amsterdam, A.B. Saakes, 1796. 4to. With a double-page frontispiece and view of the source of the river Rhine and the pierced rock near Basel, large folding map of the river basin of the Rhine from its source in Switzerland to the Dutch coast, and coloured in outlines, 13 double-page and 20 half-page views on 10 leaves with views on the Rhine . Contemporary red half roan with marbled boards, gilt spine. 58 pp. Full description

€ 4,950

Castles, Gardens & Mansions Charts & Maps City Plans, Topography & Views Germany Netherlands Switzerland

First French edition of the most important work on China of the 17th century

RICCI, Matteo and Nicolas TRIGAULT. Histoire de l'expedition Chrestienne au royaume de la Chine, entreprinse par les PP. de la compagnie de Iesus.
Lyons, for Horace Cardon, 1616. 8vo. With an engraved title page and a full-page engraved portrait of prince Philippe Guillaume of Orange, and a large folding plan (42.5 x 15 cm). Contemporary overlapping vellum. [40], 1096 pp. Full description

€ 25,000

China Church History & Missions Jesuits Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages East Asia

Important account of Cook's final voyage

[RICKMAN, John]. Troisieme voyage de Cook, ou Journal d'une expédition faite dans la Mer Pacifique du Sud & du Nord en 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, & 1780 ... Seconde edition.
Paris, Belin, 1783. 8vo. With folding engraved plate, illustrating the death of Captain James Cook, and folding engraved chart, depicting the route of Cook's expedition. Modern half calf. [4], "376" [= 378] pp. Full description

€ 3,500

Hawaii Pacific Islands Travel & Voyages Pacific

Surprising respect for Australian Aboriginal languages, with 4 botanical wood engravings and colour-printed decorations

RIDLEY, William. Kamilaroi, Dippel, and Turrubul: languages spoken by Australian Aborigines.
Sydney, Thomas Richards (New South Wales government printer), 1866. 4to. With an armorial vignette printed in several colours and gold (the unofficial "Advance Australia" Australian coat of arms), 4 fine full-page wood engravings of plants and flowers. Original publisher's maroon textured cloth. VI, 88, [2] pp. Full description

€ 1,950

Anthropology & Ethnography Australia Colour Printing / Chromolithography Language & Linguistics Literature

The Low Countries: a geographical and historical description in German,
fitting in the publishing programme of the firm of Christoph Riegel in Frankfurt am Main

[RIEGEL, Christoph]. Ausführliche und grundrichtige Beschreibung der freyvereinigten Staaten und Spannischen Niederlanden, in gewisse und sonderbare XVII. Länder abgetheilet ...
Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig, Christoph Riegel, 1691. 12mo. With a folding engraved frontispiece, 61 full-page engraved plans, and 59 full-page engraved views of the cities and fortifications of the Low Countries. Contemporary vellum with an oval supralibros mounted in the centre of both boards, red edges, leather closing ties. [8], 1078, [8] pp. + 120 engravings. Full description

€ 4,750

Belgium City Plans, Topography & Views Geography Netherlands

Travelogue of Arabia by a distinguished Lebanese Arab-American writer, with 32 plates

RIHANI, Ameen. Around the coasts of Arabia.
London, Constable & Co., 1930. 8vo. With a pictorial map as frontispiece, 31 photographic half-tone plates and a full-page map on an integral leaf. Original publishers black cloth, with title in gold on spine. X, [2], 364 pp. Full description

€ 1,500

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States English & American Literature Kuwait Literature Travel & Voyages Middle East

Rare inventory for New Bedford whaling ships in the 19th century,
used to prepare the four-year whaling expedition of the "Hibernia"

RITCHIE, Edward Samuel [and Robert GIBBS]. Catalogue of articles for a whaling voyage.
New Bedford, Massachusetts, E.S. Ritchie, dealer in ship chandlery, and importer of hard-ware. Rodman's Buildings, no. 61 North Water Street, [ca. 1849]. 18mo (16 x 10 cm). The work is printed on blue paper. Original quarter leather and printed stiff paper wrappers. 32, [8 blank] pp. Full description

€ 3,500

Australia Fishery & Whaling Naval History North America Pacific Islands Travel & Voyages Australia Travel & Voyages Pacific

Fantastic (partly true?) adventures in Ottoman Africa,
by an English merchant captured by Barbary pirates in 1648

ROBERTS, A. The adventures of (Mr T. S.) an English merchant, taken prisoner by the Turks of Argiers, and carried into the inland countries of Africa: with a description of the kingdom of Argiers, of all the towns and places of note thereabouts. Whereunto is added a relation of the chief commodities of the countrey, and of the actions and manners of the people. Written first by the author, and fitted for the publick view by A. Roberts.
London, Moses Pitt [printed by William Wilson?], 1670. Small 8vo. With 2 decorated woodcut initials and decorative bands of cast fleurons. Blind- and gold-tooled calf (ca. 1800). [8], "252" [= 254], [2] pp. Full description

€ 9,500

Mutiny, Piracy & Shipwrecks North Africa Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Middle East Turkey & Ottoman Empire

Stunning double-tinted views of the Middle East, after drawings made in 1838 and 1839,
with 250 plates

ROBERTS, David, George CROLY and William BROCKEDON. The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia.
London, Day & son (vol. 3: New York, D. Appleton & Co.), 1855-1856. 6 volumes bound as 3. Imperial 8vo (30 x 22 cm). With 250 numbered plates (including 6 tinted lithographed title-pages, 2 stone-engraved maps and 239 tinted and double-tinted lithographed and 2 chromolithographed views). Contemporary, richly gold-tooled reddish-brown morocco, gold-tooled turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt and gauffered edges. With thin paper guard leaves facing each plate. Full description

€ 18,000

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Egypt North Africa Saudi Arabia Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Middle East

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