Asher Rare Books

First Dutch edition of one of the greatest herbals, with approximately 2185 botanical woodcuts

LOBEL [also L'OBEL or LOBELIUS], Matthias de. 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. [10], 994, [2 blank], "312"[= 312, 294 + 2 blank], [2 blank], 15, [1 blank], [67], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 8,500

Early Printing - 16th century Herbals & Medical Botany Plantin Press

With beautiful hand coloured views

LOOSJES, Adriaan. Hollands arkadia of wandelingen in de omstreeken van Haarlem.
Haarlem, A. Loosjes Pz., 1804. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With an engraved title with a hand coloured view by F.A. Milatz, an engraved silhouette portrait of Hermina Christina Bicker in the text, 4 engraved folding views of Haarlem, Beverwijk and surroundings, all beautifully hand coloured, and 9 full-page engraved plates with musical scores. Contemporary gold-tooled half calf. VI, 532 pp. Full description

€ 1,750

Castles, Gardens & Mansions City Plans, Topography & Views Holland

Belgian and Dutch military uniforms, civil dress and clerical garb from antiquity to 1830,
in 124 hand-coloured plates

[MADOU, Jean Baptiste and Jean Louis van HEMELRYCK]. Costumes Belgiques anciens et modernes, militaires, civils et réligieux.
Brussels, Lithographie Royale de J.B.A.M. Jobard, 1830. Folio. With a hand-coloured lithographed title, and 124 hand-coloured full-page numbered lithographed plates, of which some heightened with gold, all protected by tissue paper guards. Contemporary gold-tooled quarter polished calf. II, 26, [27-198], IV pp. Full description

€ 1,750

Belgium Costumes, Fashion & Uniforms Military History (19th Century) Netherlands

The first comprehensive treatise on the Northern Lights

MAIRAN, Jean Jacques d'Ortous de. Traité physique et historique de l'aurore boréale. Suite des mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences. Année 1731. Seconde édition, revûe, & augmentée de plusieurs éclaircissemens.
Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1754. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page, 17 folding engraved numbered plates by Ph. Simonneau, several tables in the text, a decorated woodcut initial, 2 woodcut headpieces, 6 woodcut tailpieces, and 5 headpieces built up from typographical ornaments. Including: [IDEM]. Éclaircissemens sur le traité physique et historique de l'aurore boreale.
Late 19th-century gold tooled brown morocco. [1], [1 blank], [10], 570, XXII pp. Full description

€ 2,000

Astronomy & Cosmography Science

19th-century manuscript on Chinese and Japanese painting and colouring techniques

[MANUSCRIPT - ART - PAINTING]. Manuel des arts d'agréments. Ou traité des différentes peintures, applications et procédés emproyés sur bois, sur etoffes et sur papiers.
[France, ca. 1830-1840]. 8vo (ca. 19 x 14 cm). With 30 illustrations, including 4 folding leaves with 3 illustrations each. Half beige sheepskin and red leather-patterened paper sides. [1], 56, [10 blank], [2] pp. Full description

€ 6,000

Art & Art History China Japan & Far East Manuscripts & Documents

Unpublished manuscript on the history of 17th-century Sweden,
including the embassy leading to the treaty with the Russian Tsar of 22 May 1684

[MANUSCRIPT - GERMAN - SWEDISH POLICIES]. Relation. Von dem gegenwartigen Zustande des Konigreichs Schweden.
With: [MANUSCRIPT - FRENCH]. Journal de LAmbassade envoyée de la part de S. M.té le Roy de Suède vers le Grand Duc de Moscovie lan 1684, dressé par un des Gentils-hommes de la Suite.
1684-1688. Folio (ca. 30 x 20 cm). The German part is neatly written in a Kurrent script, and the French part in a cursive hand. Contemporary gold-tooled calf, sewn on 7 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, the initials "M.F.K" in the centre of the front board, red and black sprinkled edges, green closing ties. 167 ll. Full description

€ 4,500

Law & Politics Manuscripts & Documents Russia (incl. Siberia) Scandinavia & Arctic

A notable narrative with detailed information on Northwest America, in splendid bindings

MARCHAND, Étienne and Charles Pierre Claret de FLEURIEU. Voyage autour du monde, pendant les anneés 1790, 1791 et 1792, par Étienne Marchand, précédé d'une introduction historique; auquel on a joint des recerches sur les terres Australes de Drake, et un examen critique du voyage de Roggeween.
Paris, De l'imprimerie de la République, [1798-1800]. 6 volumes: 5 text volumes and 1 atlas. Large 8vo (23 x 15 cm) and 4to atlas. With 3 folding tables with vocabulary in 3rd volume and 15 engraved maps and 1 engraved plate in atlas volume. Contemporary light brown calf, gold-tooled spine gilt with star and flower pattern and 2 red morocco title labels, gold-tooled ornamental borders on the boards, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges (COURTEVAL). [4], VIII, CCI, [3], 294, [2]; VII, [1], 529, [1]; [2], VIII, 474, [2]; VIII, 494, [2]; XII, 559, [5]; [2], VIII, 158, [2] pp. Full description

€ 27,500

Alaska Anthropology & Ethnography Bindings Canada & Greenland Charts & Maps Hawaii Navigation North America Pacific Islands Travel & Voyages North America Travel & Voyages Pacific

The first printed biography of a pirate: Claes Compaen and the ambiguities of Dutch freebooting

[MARITIME HISTORY - PIRACY - CLAES COMPAEN]. 't Begin, midden en eynde der zee-rooveryen, van den alder-fameusten zee-roover, Claes G. Compaen, van Oostzanen in Kennemerlandt. vervattende sijn wonderlijcke, vreemde landts schadelijcke drijf-tochten. waer in vertoont wordt hoe hy met weynigh schepen de zee onveyligh ghemaeckt, een ongelooflijcken buyt, en groot getal van schepen, van alle landen gerooft, en af geloopen heeft.
Amsterdam, Michiel de Groot, 1675. 4to (19.1 x 14.5 cm). With a large woodcut illustration of a Dutch merchant ship on the title page, 3 woodcut illustrations in the text (including a repeat of the woodcut on the title page), and a large decorated woodcut initial. Contemporary multicolour brocade paper wrapper, covered with protective clear plastic. [6], 42 pp. Full description

€ 7,500

Bibliography & Biography Caribbean Islands Mutiny, Piracy & Shipwrecks West Africa

A contemporary account of the happenings in Goa between 1746 and 1753

MASCARENHAS, José Freire de Monterroyo. Epanaphora Indica na qual se dà noticia da viagem, que o illustrissimo, et excellentissimo senhor Marquez de Castelo Novo fez com o cargo de Vice-Rey ao Estado da India, e dos primeiros progressos do seu governo; e se referem tambem os successos da viagem do excellentissimo, e rev.mo senhor D. Fr. Lourenco de Santa Maria, Arcebispo Metropolitano de Goa, Primaz da Azia Oriental ...
Lisbon, Parts 1-5: unknown; part 6: Francisco da Silva, 1746-1753. 6 parts in 1 volume. Small 4to (20.5 x 15 cm). With a large, folding, engraved map of Goa, 2 woodcut headpieces, and 5 decorated woodcut initials. Later quarter vellum. 59, [1 blank]; 70; [20], 67, [1 blank]; [2], 109, [1 blank]; [2], 86; [12], 72 pp. Full description

€ 6,500

India & Sri Lanka Law & Politics Portugal

Early atlas of the Dutch East Indies, with 60 large and detailed maps

MELVILL VAN CARNBEE, Pieter and Willem Frederik VERSTEEG. Algemeene atlas van Nederlandsch Indië. Uit officieele bronnen en met goedkeuring van het gouvernement zamengesteld.
Batavia (Jakarta, Indonesia), Van Haren Noman & Kolff, 1853-1862. Oblong folio (39.3 x 50.5 cm). With 60 lithographed maps, coloured in outline, and 3 lithographed index maps. Contemporary blind-tooled half black morocco. [68] ll. Full description

€ 1,850

Atlases & Globes Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Southeast Asia

191 books found / Show all

Advanced Search

Highlights