Search Results: Authors starting with I from Asher Rare Books

[70] gray, white and blue album ll., containing 67 sketches and their accompanying manuscript captions and descriptions.Sketchbook by the English lieutenant Thomas Eden Blackwell (1803?-1845), showing views of India, Burma and Switzerland, made in the years 1826-1830, when India, which is the subject of about 30 of the sketches, and parts of Burma (nowadays Myanmar) were British colonies. The sketches, most signed and dated by Blackwell, are mounted on album leaves and accompanied by manuscript captions and descriptions, also by Blackwell and sometimes by a later hand. These descriptions explain the sketches in more detail. Some of these remarks are general or contain interesting facts, while others are very personal or describe an event that happened during Blackwell’s time as officer.As noted, most of the sketches concern India. Blackwell drew some panoramic views and buildings (for example an Indian mosque or a narrow street in Calcutta), but he pays particular attention to the Indian culture in… Read More

[19] ll.Collection of high quality drawings of plants and trees by the physician Adam Johann Ingruber, who graduated from the faculty of Medicine of the University of Pest in 1803. The 18 leaves of drawings mostly show two species of plants or trees (each with captions in French, Latin and German at the foot), the last two show silkworms, bees, a rattlesnake and a scorpion. Most species are from Asia, South America, Africa and the southern part of Europe.Water stained, some occasional smudges, a few leaves cut short, tattered spine: in fair condition.

[4], 157, [16] pp.First edition of the best-known work of the famous Spanish neo-classical poet Tomás de Iriarte (or Yriarte) y Oropesa (1750-1791). His name is most intimately associated with the present Fábulas literarias (1782), composed in a great variety of metres, and known for its humorous and satirical attacks on literary men and methods, many aimed at Juan Pablo Forner (1756-1797). R. Merit Cow writes: “The appearance of the literary fables of Tomas de Iriatre definitely established him as the great literary arbiter of his day … With the publication of his collection of poetry, his dominance of the literary scene ... was now hailed from all sides. He was considered from this time forth one of the first, if not the first.” Schopenhauer characterizes the poems as the “allerliebsten litterarischen Fabeln” (Parega, p. 255).With the owner’s inscription “Catherine de Courlande” on the title-page: Katharina Friederike Wilhelmine Benigna (1781-1839), Princess of Courland (western Latvia)… Read More

96 pp.Extremely rare first Portuguese translation of a brief treatise on the "art of artillery" by the Genovese artillerist De la Isla, who served in the Spanish Armada. First published in Spanish in 1595/96 by Madrigal in Madrid (Breve tratado del arte de artillería, geometría y artificios de fuego). Although Vicente Alvarez published a Spanish-language edition at Lisbon in 1609, the present edition appears to be the first in the Portuguese language. The present translation, by José Homem de Menezes, provided a textbook for the training of engineers and artillerymen in Portugal. We have located only one other copies at the Portuguese National Library in Lisbon, and have found no record of an other copy in auction catalogues.With the bookplate of the Portuguese architect and collector José Maria Nepomuceno (1836-95) on the front paste-down; his stamp to verso of title-page. Later in the collection of Thomas Fremantle, 3rd Baron Cottesloe (1862-1956), commander of the Territorial Army and president… Read More

[16], 324; [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], 379, [1] pp.First Dutch edition (second issue) of Ives's account of his voyage from England to India and his journey from Persia to England, first published in English in 1773. From 1753 to 1757 Edward Ives (1719-1786) was surgeon of the Kent, the flagship of Vice-Admiral Charles Watson, commander-in-chief in the East Indies. The squadron sailed via the Cape of Good Hope and Madagascar to India, where they visited the chief English settlements and major cities. When Admiral Watson died in August 1757, Ives's own health was also somewhat impaired and he resigned his appointment, travelling home overland from Basra, through Baghdad, Mosul and Aleppo, via Cyprus to Livorno and Venice, and finally through Germany and the Netherlands, arriving in England in March 1759. The plates include depictions of an altar, a Hooka (a Persian tobacco water-pipe, in the large folding plate), the tower of Babel, views of the forts St. David and Geriah, and an amulet with Arabic… Read More

[16], 324; [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], 379, [1] pp.First Dutch edition (second issue) of Ives's account of his voyage from England to India and his journey from Persia to England. From 1753 to 1757 the naval surgeon and traveller Edward Ives (1719-1786) was surgeon of the Kent, the flagship of Vice-Admiral Charles Watson, commander-in-chief in the East Indies. The squadron sailed via the Cape of Good Hope and Madagascar to India, where they visited the chief English settlements and major cities, Ives attending the company hospitals and staff in each place. When Admiral Watson died in August 1757, Ives's own health was also somewhat impaired and he resigned his appointment, travelling home overland from Basra, through Baghdad, Mosul and Aleppo, via Cyprus to Livorno and Venice, and finally through Germany and the Netherlands, arriving in England in March 1759 (ODNB). The plates include depictions of an altar, a Hooka (a Persian tobacco water-pipe, in the large folding plate), the tower of Babel,… Read More