Asher Rare Books

16 views of the Royal Palace "Het Loo" and its gardens

SCHENK, Pieter and Jacob Pieterszoon ROMAN. Conspectus Novi Praetorii Loo ex accurata delineatione Jacobi Romani ...
[Amsterdam], Pieter Schenk, [ca. 1720]. Oblong royal 4to (ca. 23 x 29 cm). With an engraved dedication also serving as a title-page, and 16 unnumbered engraved views (15 x 18.5 cm). Modern half sheepskin parchment. [17] ll. Full description

€ 2,500

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

The Mexician's devil's claw drawn by a Dutch master naturalist painter

[SCHOUMAN, Aert]. [Proboscidea louisianica].
[Netherlands, 2nd half of the 18th-century]. Watercolour on laid paper (40.5 x 27 cm) of a flowering Proboscidea louisianica, with fruit and a horned seedpod on the ground. In passepartout (55 x 40 cm). Full description

€ 12,500

Drawings & Watercolours Flowering Plants Latin America Mexico Middle America North America

Six lithographs depicting people from the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and Athens

SCHÜTZERCRANTZ, Adolf Ulrik. Reseminnen från Orienten.
Stockholm, L.J. Hjerta, 1839. Folio. With 6 lithographed plates by Schützercrantz. Original publisher's printed paper wrappers mounted on a larger sheet serving as a folder. 4 pp. Full description

€ 8,500

Balkan & Greece Costumes & Uniforms Egypt North Africa Prints & Print Series Travel & Voyages Europe Travel & Voyages Middle East Turkey & Ottoman Empire

First and only edition of a Catholic devotional work with nearly 700 Van Sichem woodcuts

SICHEM, Christoffel II van. 't Schat der zielen, dat is: Het geheele leven ons Heeren Jesu Christi naer de vyer Evangelisten. Naer vervolgh des tijdts by een ghevoeght, in seven stucken verdeelt. Met seer schoon figuren verciert, gesneden door C. van Sichem, voor P. J. P[aets].
Amsterdam, Pieter J[acobsz]. P[aets], 1648. With 686 woodcuts, many full-page, by Christoph van Sichem (many with his monogram), after his own designs and after drawings and paintings by Aldegrever, Goltzius, Dürer, Bloemaert, the Wierix brothers, Lucas van Leyden, Maarten van Heemskerck, Joannes Stradanus, etc. 17th-century vellum, manuscript title on smooth spine. 800, [4] pp. Full description

€ 8,000

Catholicism & Eastern Orthodox Church Dutch Literature

Remarkable early 19th-century sketchbook with drawings of American sailing ships

[SKETCH BOOK - AMERICAN SHIPS]. [Drawings of US Navy ships and other vessels].
[United States of America, between 1810-1832 (or after 1832?)]. Oblong (17.5 x 22 cm). With 26 coloured pencil and ink drawings of ships. Stitched through three holes. [12] ll. and 9 multicolour tissue paper guards (some with illustrations). Full description

€ 6,500

Art & Art History Drawings & Watercolours Manuscripts & Documents Naval History North America Ships & Shipbuilding

Impressive aquatint battle scenes

SKJÖLDEBRAND, Anders Frederik, Comte Erik Johansen DAHLBERG and Johann Philip LEMBKE. Batailles de Charles X Gustave Roi de Suède...
Stockholm, A.F. Skjöldebrand, 1806. Large oblong folio (52 x 68 cm). With an engraved title with aquatint vignette, engraved portrait by Sandrart after a painting by Ehrenstrahl, and 11 aquatint plates after drawings by Count Dahlberg and paintings by Lembke, engraved by Skjöldebrand, numbered I-XII, all in sepia. Contemporary half calf with marbled brown boards, gold-tooled spine. [13] ll. Full description

€ 5,500

Battle Plans & Siegecraft Central Europe Military History (19th Century) Poland & Baltic Prints & Print Series Scandinavia

Impressive drawing of a hawk, produced by a renowned 20th-century Dutch ornithological illustrator

SLIJPER, Hendrik Johannes (artist). [A hawk perched on a birch branch].
[The Netherlands], 1973. Gouache and watercolour drawing on greyish paper (ca. 74.5 x 57.5 cm). With a manuscript dedication by the artist "Voor Joosje & Thomas Rap", signed "H.J. Slijper" and dated "1973" in black ink in the lower right-hand corner. In passepartout and framed (ca. 100 x 80.5 cm). Full description

€ 6,000

Birds - Ornithology Drawings & Watercolours Falconry, Fishing & Hunting

Fine painting of a falcon, produced by a renowned 20th-century Dutch ornithological illustrator

SLIJPER, Hendrik Johannes (artist). [A Eurasian hobby perched on a tree stump].
[The Netherlands], 1986. Oil painting on board (ca. 29.5 x 19.5 cm). Signed "H.J. Slijper" and dated "1986" in white paint in the bottom right corner. In passepartout and framed (ca. 47.5 x 37 cm). Full description

€ 5,000

Birds - Ornithology Drawings & Watercolours Falconry, Fishing & Hunting

The earliest photographic documentation of Mecca

SNOUCK HURGRONJE, Christiaan [and Al-Sayyid 'Abd AL-GHAFFAR (photographer)]. Bilder-atlas zu Mekka.
The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff and Het Koninklijk Instituut voor de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indië, 1888. Folio. With 65 mounted collotype photographs, 6 toned lithographic plates (1 folding, 5 full-page), 4 full-page chromolithographic plates, and a letterpress table of contents. The plates are kept in the original portfolio of quarter dark brown cloth, beige printed paper sides, and a closing tie in the middle of the fore edge. [1], [1 blank], XXIII, [1], 228; [1], [1 blank], XVIII, 397, [1 blank] pp.; [1], 40 ll. Full description

€ 25,000

Photography Prints & Print Series Saudi Arabia

Beautiful collection of large, 18th-century watercolour paintings of birds

[SOUDRY, Antoine]. [Collection of 6 watercolours of birds].
[France, 1780-1800]. All ca. 42 x 34 cm. Six watercolours, finished with an egg wash.
The drawings are housed in a clear plastic sleeve. [6] ll. Full description