Search Results: Authors starting with A from Asher Rare Books

[2], 97, [13]; [2], 39, [6], [1 blank]; [1], [1 blank], 22 [3], [3 blank]; [1], [2 blank], [1], 86, [10]; [1], [1 blank], 12, [2]; [1], [1 blank], 34, [4]; [2], 47[=49], [5]; [2], 63, [7]; [1], [1 blank], 16, [2] pp.First edition of the 25th volume of the 8vo edition of a collection of travelogues, compiled by the publisher and cartographer Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733). The complete collection, consisting of 28 volumes, covers important voyages to the East and West Indies and other countries from 1246 to "this day" (1696), undertaken by all European countries other than the Dutch. The present volume deals with voyages during the years 1611 to 1616 mostly to the East Indies, but also including an account of an embassy to the King of Ethiopia and the accounts of two voyages of the British Captain John Smith (1580-1631) to New England (West Indies). The majority of the voyages to the East Indies included here were undertaken by the British East India Company, mostly visiting India, including several… Read More

[16] pp.Only copy located of a Latin ABC book for children, published in Italy, starting with alphabets on the back of the title-page and continuing on the next page, also introducing the Latin names for the punctuation marks and including reading exercises in one-syllable words. As in many ABC books, the alphabets are followed by the most important prayers and texts from the catechism, for example the Lord's Prayer, which is followed by the Ave Maria and some other prayers in Latin to the Holy Virgin, Benedictus, Angelus Dei, antiphons, a list of symbols of the twelve apostles, prayers for during the mass, litanies (for example of the Blessed Virgin Mary), etc. This tiny book shows the strong 18th-century connection between children's education and religion: when learning to read and to write, the young children had to concern themselves with religious texts. We couldn't trace any other copy of this rare ABC book, which is beautifully illustrated with small religious woodcuts. The book collates… Read More

[6], XIV, 302; [4], VI, [2], 363 pp.Rare travel account of a voyage to Russia by Jan Ackersdijck (1790-1861), a famous professor at the University of Utrecht who travelled all over Europe to collect data on the geography, population, society, trade, etc., paving the way and laying the foundation for the disciplines that later in the 19th century would be called economics and sociology.Ackersdijck left Utrecht in June 1835 and travelled via Hamburg, Kiel and Lübeck to Saint Petersburg, and from there to Novgorod, Moscow, Nizhniy Novgorod, Kazan and Simbirsk, then back to Moscow, St. Petersburg and Hamburg, returning to Utrecht in October of the same year. The places visited are extensively described, including all important buildings and monuments, as well as many aspects of Russian society: daily life, pubs, restaurants, government, culture, religion, education, etc.In very good condition.l Muller, Bibl. Neerlando-Russe 13; Tiele, Bibl. 24; WorldCat (2 copies).

86 pp.Only known copy of a manual with rules and regulations for maintenance of the ships of the Royal Marine at Naples, the handling of the equipment, the composition, the punishments, how to salute with the canons, the division of booty, etc., published during an interesting time of Naples's turbulent history when the English and Franco-Spanish fleets dominated the Mediterranean.A preface by Antonius Count of Thurn and Valsassina (1723-1806), Commander of the navy of Naples and Sicily, precedes extracts of the rules and regulations issued by the Count of Thurn himself and Sir John Francis Edward Acton (1736-1811), Prime Minister of Naples under King Ferdinand IV of Naples (also King of Sicily and later of the Two Sicilies) and friend of the English, especially of the famous ambassador Hamiltion at Naples and his wife Emma. The preface is dated Naples, 15 April 1800, and is directed to the commanders of the Italian navy.The manual was compiled as a supplement to a manual titled Istruzioni dirette… Read More

199, [1; 4], 218; 238, [2 blank]; 206 pp.First edition in French of a travel account of the expedition by Pedro Texeira (d. 1641) and Cristóbal Diatristán de Acuña (1597 - ca. 1676), exploring the Amazon River from Quito to the east. They were the first Europeans to penetrate Indian land as deep as they did. Originally published in Spanish in 1641.This French edition is the most complete edition to be found, with the Journal du voyage qu'ont fait les Peres Jean Grillet & François Bechamel de la Compagnie de Jesus, dans la Goyane, l'an 1674, following the fourth part and including the very rare map of the Amazon River, drawn by Sanson d'Abbeville. Borba de Moraes thought the map could only be found in the simultaneous issue with the publisher's address of the widow of Louis Billane.With some water stains. Good copy of a travel account of the exploration of the Amazon River.l Alden & Landis 682/2; Borba de Moraes, p. 12; Palau 2484; Sabin 151.

[24] ll.First edition of a monumental commemorative work to mark the campaigns of the Austrian army in Italy during the years 1848-49. The plates, lithographed by Ernst and Franz Adam and printed by Julius Adam, depict the street riots, assaults, cavalry battles, and sieges near Milan, Santa Lucia, Vicenza, Custozza, Volta, Mortara, Novara, Malghera and elsewhere during the suppression of the Italian revolt by the Habsburgs. The war correspondent Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer (1816-77) wrote the extensive explanatory texts (most in both German and French) for each plate. Austria won this first Italian War of Independence; a decade later, however, Italy was an independent state.From the library of Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria (1808-1888), father of Elisabeth, Empress of Austria ('Sisi'). Some minor browning and foxing. Frayed edges. Very good set of lithographs depicting military scenes during the first Italian Independence War.l Hiler, p. 6; Lipperheide Qe 20.

XVII, [7], 724, 14, 2 pp.Second edition of a detailed and thoroughly illustrated account of microscopes and their use by the famous London optician George Adams (1750-1795), mathematical instrument maker to King George III, first published in 1787, but here with both the text and illustrations greatly expanded. Adams earned a worldwide reputation as a maker of spectacles and microscope lenses and wrote many scientific publications that give regular and systematic instruction in the most important branches of natural science with all its modern improvements, including the present one devoted to microscopes. With an owner's inscription of the Edinburgh Royal Society on the title-page of the text volume and an inscription, perhaps by the Glasgow professor of medicine, eye surgeon and fellow of the Royal Society Thomas Wharton Jones (1808-1891) on the first contemporary endpaper of the plates volume: "For the Royal Society Edinburgh from their ... humble servant / Mr Jones". Bindings only very slightly… Read More

VI, 353, [1 blank] pp.First Dutch edition of Adam’s The narrative of Robert Adams,... (1816). Robert Adams, an American sailor whose real name was Benjamin Rose, sailed in the Charles on a trading voyage along the west coast of Africa. Somewhere near Cape Blanc the ship struck ground, and after the crew had struggled ashore they were immediately taken prisoner by some 30 Moors, possibly with the intention of selling the crew as slaves. The prisoners were taken into the interior of Mauritania, and after the party had reached a hilly village, they were assaulted by a company of black Africans. Both the Moors and the captives were imprisoned and subsequently taken to the King in Timbuktu, where they arrived in February 1811. Adams, who stayed as a guest of the king, describes Timbuktu and its inhabitants at length. Timbuktu wasn’t the thriving metropolis it was made out to be, but a small city with no walls, and houses made of clay and grass. However, after a time Adams was sold as a slave to a group… Read More

Text volume: X, [1], [1 blank], 388 pp.Rare treatise specially devoted to the perspective of shadows, first published in 1838 (plates) and 1840 (text). A second edition appeared in 1852. Only the plates-volume indicates it is part of the series Cours de mathématiques. In the preface to this posthumous edition (the preface apparently used for an unknown earlier edition, at page 386 our text is dated in letterpress: “Mai 1854”), the author Joseph Alphonse Adhémar (1797-1862) indicates the difference between the first and the present edition: (1) by demonstrating many principles that appeared not to have been properly developed yet and (2) by adding quite a number of plates meant to improve the students' abilities in graphic exercises."A good example of an author who attempts to embrace the mathematical, pictorial and technically illustrative aspects of perspective in this period is Joseph-Alphonse Adhémar, one of the Mongean theorists [following Gaspard Monge's Geométrie descriptive, 1798].… Read More

64, [1], [1 blank] pp.First edition of a Syriac grammar for beginners, written by Jakob Georg Christian Adler (1756-1834). It starts with a short introduction to Syriac grammar and is followed by excerpts from works by two important Syrian Christian authors: Gregory Bar Hebraeus (1226-1286), a prominent writer and church figure, and Jacob of Edessa (640-708), the bishop of Edessa and one of the most important scholars of the Christian-Aramean tradition.Adler was an Orientalist and Syriac language professor at the University of Copenhagen. He was also a Lutheran theologian and became the head of the Bible society in Schleswig-Holstein. He has written multiple works on Syriac and Arabic. With a paper label mounted at the head of the front wrapper and an annotation at the foot of page 17. The edges and corners of the wrapper show some signs of wear, with some loss of material at the foot of the spine. With a tear in the lower margin of page 43, without affecting the text. Overall in good condition.l VD18… Read More

282, [6] pp.Rare Latin edition of Aesop’s fables with 187 woodcut illustrations, based on the first illustrated edition of the "Aesopus Dorpii" to be published in Italy, by Dominicus Nicolinus at Venice in 1563 (Bodemann 31.3; Thoen 135). This Latin prose collection of fables compiled by Martinus Dorpius (1485-1525), a humanist teaching in Louvain, was first published in 1509 at Antwerp without illustrations. The Dorpius compilation proved very important for the diffusion of Aesop as a school textbook during the following centuries and went through at least two hundred editions to the mid-19th century, mostly in small formats.With "Aesopi" written in ink on the foot edge. Rebound with modern endpapers; binding soiled and slightly worn. With a small hole in the margin running through the first half of the book. A good copy.l EDIT16 CNCE 407 (1 copy); ICCU (same copy); USTC 807915 (same copy); WorldCat (3 copies); cf. Bodemann 31.1-3 (1556 Lyons, 1561 Paris & 1563 Venice eds.); Fabula docet ; Paul… Read More

XVI, 98, [112] pp."Seventh" edition of Phaedrus’s Latin verse translation and adaptation of 94 Aesop fables, without the commentaries by Gude, Rittershausen and others, in the redaction by Pieter Burman (1668-1741), professor of eloquence and history at the Utrecht University, which he first published in 1698. It includes the 34 fables added in the appendix of J.F. Nilant’s 1709 edition. Phaedrus wrote in the first century CE and went through dozens of editions, but the present edition calls itself the seventh, perhaps counting only editions of Burman’s redaction of the five books. The first edition of the five books appeared at Troyes in 1596.With several contemporary owner's inscriptions and annotations and drawings throughout; modern stamps on the pastedown. Binding soiled and margins cut close tot the text, but with practically no loss. A fair copy.l Schwabe & Barbier (1826), I, p. 104.

279, [280], [8] pp.Elegant edition of de Dorpius redaction of the Aesop fables. All Latin 349 fables in prose are printed in one column, each with a ‘Adfabulation’. The edition is an almost page-for-page reprint of an earlier Bassano edition (see nr. 35) which is a reprint of the Brescia edition of 1623 (Bodemann, 64.1), with partly the same woodcuts as in the undated earlier Bassano edition, which are after those in the 1623 edition but somewhat enlarged. The woodcuts in our edition (not all!) are more worn down than in the u dated Bassano edition).l Bodemann, 64. 2 (variant, or printing error in Bodemann: 1743 = 1734?), see also 64.1 (& 31.1); not in Fabulae docet.

410, [6]; [8], 168 pp.Ad. 1: One of the many Aesop editions based on the famous first illustrated edition by Jean de Tournes, Lyon 1571, which was a landmark in humanistic scholarship and printing with woodcuts by Bernard Salomon (Bodemann 29.1). The De Tournes family moved to Geneva in 1585 to escape religious persecution as Hugenots. In 1619 Jean de Tournes III sold his house in Lyon to the printer Guichard Juliéron, who probably issued the present edition in Lyon under the name of Jean de Tournes.Ad 2: A rare collection of Greek poetry and other works by Theognis and Phocylides, ideas and thoughts of Pythagoras, and the mottos of Solon. The editor and translator, Fredericus Sylberg (1536-1596) was a classical philologist working as a corrector and editor for the publisher Henr. Commelin at Heidelberg. Ad. 1: with owner’s entry on the front paste-down: "Sum ex libris Hugonis Suchier, Ritelii [= Rinteln], 1881". There are more than a dozen errors in the pagination, but both books are nevertheless… Read More

324, [12] pp.Nineteenth-century edition of de Dorpius redaction of the Aesop fables, the collection of the Aesop fables in prose, originally compiled by Martinus Dorpius (1485-1525), a humanist teaching in Louvain. This so-called ‘Aesopus Dorpii’, was first published in 1509 in Antwerp. All 349 Latin Fables are provided with an ‘Adfabulation’. The Dorpius compilation has been very important for the diffusion of Aesop as a textbook during the following centuries and was reprinted in a variety of ways at least two hundred times. Four of the woodcuts are illustrating the Vita, 82 the Fables.Ownership’s entry of Franc. Ant. Vetonnes, 1819, on first fly-leaf. The woodcuts are partly rather worn out. Title a bit soiled, some slight browning at the end.l Cf. Bodemann, 64,1-3 (1623, 1734, 1788: Madrid with 81 woodcuts).

258, [6] pp.One of the later editions of the Laudi redaction and translation of the Aesop fables in Italian prose augmented with many fables by others, to a total of 400, only 40 of which are here illustrated with rather ‘primitive’ woodcuts in a frame, inspired by the original woodcuts for the first Landi editions of 1581 and 1585. Each fable is followed by a ‘Sentenza della favole’.In good condition.l Cf. Bodemann 52.(1-)4.

[25], [1 blank], 342, 349-513, [32], [1 blank] pp.Vögelin’s 1570 Aesop edition, a nearly page for page (often line for line) reprint of his own important 1564 edition, including one of the most extensive collections of Aesop fables to that date, following but augmenting Camerarius’s 1544 Leipzig edition. It contains more than 500 fables collected by the humanist classical scholar Joachim Camerarius (Bamberg 1500 - Leipzig 1574) who played a decisive role in the German Reformation, helped Philip Melanchthon with the composition of the famous Augsburg Confession, and published editions of many classical authors. The preface and printer’s note originally copied the 1564 date from the 1564 edition, but in the latter a correction slip changed the date to 1570. One can see in the present copy that the slip was present, but it has fallen off. Many copies lack the last printed leaf, present here, containing only the colophon.Lacking the final blank leaf. Somewhat browned, the title-page thumbed and the… Read More

364, [4] pp.Venice school edition of Aesop's fables with parallel text in Greek and Latin. The book is neatly printed and the clear Greek type has relatively few ligatures. Besides the life of Aesop and Aesop's fables, the book contains several collections of fables and single fables by other authors (pp. 232-364): [Ignatius von Nicaea], Gabriae Graeci fabellae (often added to the Aesop canon); Aphthonius, Excercitamentis de fabula; Philostratus, De fabula; pseudo Homer, Batrachomyomachia (the battle of frogs and mice, a parody of Homer's Iliad); Musaeus, De Ero & Leandro (Hero and Leander; Agapetus, De officio regis; Hippocrates, Ius iurandum (the Hippocratic oath!), and [Theodorus Prodromus], Galeomnomachia (the battle between the cats and the mice), the last two in Greek only. The book ends with a 4-page index and the colophon.With a few contemporary manuscript notes in brown ink. With some marginal worm holes, mostly in the gutter of quires r and s, and some mostly marginal water stains, more… Read More

[8], C, 314, [2] (out of 10) pp.Augmented nicely illustrated re-edition of the editions of 1764 and 1787 with the same collation, printed by Richard Lallemant in Rouen (Bodemann, 113.1-2). As in these editions, also in our edition there are the 225 fables of Aesop in French prose with the quatrains by the French writer and dramaturge Isaac Benserade (1612-1691). The translation of the Vie d’Ésope is illustrated with 28 woodcuts; the other 164 woodcuts illustrate 164 Fables. They are after the series of Bernard Salomon and Marcus Gheeraerts.Our edition is copied page-for-page, strikingly accurate, from the edition: Rouen, chez les libraires, An VI [=1798], also in 12mo. (see nr. 57), using exactly the same type and (at least for the greater part) the same woodblocks for the illustrations.Library stamp, ownership’s entries and a note (1805) written on the first fly-leaves.l Cf. Bodemann, 113.1-2.

450, [4] pp., lacking the last blank.One of the many school editions of the fables of Aesop with the same title (at least 8 between 1524 and 1589, some printed in Basel by Froben, others in Venice), with parallel Greek and Latin text printed on facing pages.A few leaves cut short, at two or three places affecting the text, upper corner of title-page restored. Otherwise in good condition.l Not in Bodemann; Fabula docet.