Asher Rare Books

14th-century tales of travels in Turkey, the Middle East, Near East, India and the East Indies,
illustrated with about 60 woodblocks

MANDEVILLE, John [= Jehan d'OUTREMEUSE]. The voyages & travels of Sir John Mandevile, Knight, ... to the Holy Land, and to Hierusalem: as also to the lands of the Great Caan, and of Prestor John: to Inde, and divers other countries: ...
London, Richard Chiswell, Benjamin Walford, Matthew Wotton, George Conyers, 1696. 4to. With a woodcut ship on the title-page and about 60 woodcut illustrations in the text (mostly about 5.5 x 8 cm) plus about 10 repeats. Gold-tooled, red goatskin morocco by Robert Riviere in London (ca. 1875/80), one of England's best binders. [4], “139” [= 135], [5] pp. Full description

€ 22,500

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Bindings Egypt Iran / Persia North Africa Southeast Asia Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Middle East Travel & Voyages Southeast Asia Turkey & Ottoman Empire West Asia

Rare account of the campaigns of the Portuguese in North Africa in the 15th century

MANUEL Y VASCONCELOS, Augustin. Vida de Don Duarte de Meneses, tercero Conde de Viana. Y sucessos notables de Portugal en su tiempo.
Lisbon, Pedro Craesbeeck, 1627. 4to. With 3 woodcut tailpieces and 11 woodcut initials (at least 6 series). Later limp sheepskin parchment, with remnants of ties. [5], 167, [3] ll. Full description

€ 1,650

Bibliography & Biography History / 17th Century Military History (17th Century) North Africa Portugal

Ca. 9000 Arabic terms and translations

[MANUSCRIPT - ARABIC - DICTIONARY]. [Vocabularium Italico-Arabicum]. Arabic-Italian dictionary.
[Probably Egypt, ca. 1770]. 4to (ca. 17 x 22 cm). Arabic and Italian manuscript on paper, 19 lines per extensum, paginated throughout from right to left. Near-contemporary brown leather with a blind-stamped oriental rosette as a center piece and similar style corner pieces on both boards, a (partial) manuscript title label on the spine. 494 pp. Full description

€ 18,000

Islamic Art, Culture & Science Italy Language & Linguistics Literature Manuscripts & Documents North Africa

An intellectual snapshot of pre-Revolutionary France

[MANUSCRIPT - FRENCH]. [18th-century manuscript in French, concerning King Louis XVI and a dictionary of old French].
[France?, second half of the 18th century]. Folio (ca. 36.5 x 23 cm). French manuscript on paper, written in a neat 18th-century hand in brown and black ink, 26-28 lines to the page. Repurposed vellum from a 17th-century manuscript, with the manuscript title "Miscellanea" on the front board and the spine, and 2 pairs of cloth ties. 267, [2], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,750

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias France History / 18th Century Language & Linguistics Law & Politics Literature Manuscripts & Documents Religion (18th Century) Science

Early 18th-century Dutch student's manuscript on navigation and mathematics

[MANUSCRIPT - NAVIGATION - DUTCH]. De schat kamer ofte de konst der stuurlieden.
[The Netherlands], [ca. 1702/13?]. Folio (33.5 x 21.5 cm). With more than 300 mathematical figures and illustrations, mainly full-, half- and quarter-circle diagrams. The Dutch text is written in a clearly legible, 18th-century cursive hand in brown ink. Contemporary flexible paperboards. [213], [4 blank], [1] pp. Full description

€ 3,850

Manuscripts & Documents Mathematics Navigation

Attractively bound and beautifully calligraphed late-18th-century German prayer book

[MANUSCRIPT - PRAYER BOOK - GERMAN]. Andachts Eyfer Worinnen enthalten Fruh- Abend- Meess Beicht und Kommunion dann andere heilige Gebether. Geschrieben in Jaht Christi 1791 von Johann Karl Erbes.
[Germany], 1791. 8vo (18.5 x 11 cm). Written in a clear Roman script by Johann Karl Erbes, title in a structured floral frame, all text is written in 15 to 18 lines per page, all within a manuscript floral frame. Contemporary gold-tooled black morocco. The work is kept in a mottled leather and floral paste paper slipcase. [1 blank], [2], [1 blank], 206, [2], [6] pp. Full description

€ 850

Book of Hours, Missals & Prayerbooks Calligraphy Germany Manuscripts & Documents

Contemporary manuscript from Córdoba on the life of Juan de Santiago,
with an extra paragraph not present in the printed editions of the work

[MANUSCRIPT - SPANISH - Vincent MORALES]. Compendio de la exemplar vida, y santa muerte, [d]el p[adre] Juan de S[an]tiago...
[Córdoba?], ca. 1770. 8vo. With a large engraving of Juan de Santiago on the second leaf and a pen drawing on page 102. Contemporary limp parchment. [4], "159" [= 162] pp. Full description

€ 6,500

Bibliography & Biography Catholicism & Eastern Orthodox Church Manuscripts & Documents Spain

Recommending a rising star for the chair of Arabic at Algiers

MARCEL, Jean-Joseph. [Autograph letter, signed, of recommendation for Louis Bresnier].
Paris, 9 September 1836. Folio (36 x 23 cm). Letter in brown ink on wove paper. [2] pp. Full description

€ 1,250

Arabic Printing & Calligraphy Autographs & Letters Egypt Literature North Africa

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

Important early bio-bibliographical dictionary, bound for the Dutch minister Jacques Renaud Bouillier

MARCHAND, Prosper. Dictionaire historique, ou Memoires critiques et litteraires, concernant la vie et les ouvrages de divers personnages distingués, particulierement dans la republique des lettres.
The Hague, Pierre de Hondt, 1758-1759. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With an engraved plate. Contemporary half calf, richly gold-tooled spine with floral ornaments. [10], 330, [6]; [2], 328, [28], [10] pp. Full description