Asher Rare Books

One of the most beautifully illustrated editions of the Leuven Vulgate

[HENTEN, Johannes (editor) and Jost AMMAN (illustrator)]. Sacra biblia ad vetustissima exemplaria castigata.
Frankfurt am Main, Georg Rab for Sigmund Feyerabend, 1571. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With 198 woodcut illustrations in the text, a woodcut printer's device on the final page, the titles of both parts are set within an elaborate woodcut border. Contemporary richly blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, with the initials "WFL" and the year "1578" blind-tooled on the front board, and with two engraved metal clasps. [16], 423; 311 ll. Full description

€ 7,500

Bibles, Liturgy & Devotional Works Early Printing - 16th century Religion (16th Century)

Collection of four works on Roman history

HERODIAN. In hoc volumine haec continentur. Herodiani Historiae. Libri VIII. Sexti Aurelii Victoris a d. Caesare Augusto usque ad Theodosium excerpta. Eutropii Historiae. Libri X. Pauli Diaconi libri VIII. Ad Eutropii historiam additi.
(Colophon:) Florence, Filippo Giunta, 1517. 4 works in 1 volume. Small 8vo. With Giuntas woodcut device on the verso of the otherwise blank final leaf.
Including:
(2) AURELIUS VICTOR, Sextus. A D. Caesare Augusto usque ad Theodosium excerpta.
(3) EUTROPIUS. Historiae libri X.
(4) PAUL THE DEACON (PAULUS DIACONUS). Libri VIII. ad Eutropii historiam additi.
Later gold tooled quarter calf, with a red morocco title label on the spine lettered in gold, brown decorative paper sides, marbled edges. [4], 90; 127, [1 blank] ll. Full description

€ 4,000

Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century

"Father of History" in elegant & famous first Greek edition by Aldus Manutius, from the Arenberg library

HERODOTUS. [Historiarum] libri novem. Quibus musarum indita sunt nomina.
(Colophon: Venice), Aldus Manutius, (colophon: September 1502). Folio (29.5 x 20 cm). With Aldus's anchor and dolphin device on the title page and the verso of the last leaf. Late 19th-century blind-tooled, polished tan calf, the central panel with the arms of the Dukes of Arenberg. [140] ll. Full description

€ 29,500

Aldine Press Bindings Book History, Printing & Typography Classical Antiquity Early Printing - 16th century Egypt Greek & Non-Western Types North Africa West Asia

Early edition of a bestseller of the incunable period, throwing light on the popular understanding of the Epistles and Gospels

[HEROLT, Johannes], edited by Guillermus PARISIENSIS. Postilla super Epistolas et Evangelia.
[Cologne, Ulrich Zell, 1483/87]. Small folio. Printed in 2 columns, each with 49 lines to the page. Set in a late example of a hybrid form type, with lombardic initials in red gouache. Rubricated on c4v-d2r. Mid- or late-18th-century gold-tooled French(?) red goatskin morocco, the spine with a dark green gold-tooled morocco label in the 2nd of 6 compartments, gold fillets on the board edges, gold-tooled turn-ins, gilt edges, French marbled endpapers. With the first page (the only preliminary page) in facsimile, but further complete. [130] ll. Full description

€ 13,500

Bibles, Liturgy & Devotional Works Catholicism & Eastern Orthodox Church Early Printing - 15th century Religion (15th Century)

Italian translation of an important 15th-century Dutch mystical treatise

HERP, Hendrik. Specchio della perfettione humana. Opera devotissima e necessaria ad ogni fidel Christiano historiata.
Venice, Batholomeo detto l'Imperadore & Francesco Venetiano, 1546. 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title-page of a Roman emperor, 3 full-page woodcut illustrations depicting the life of Christ, and some woodcut decorated initials. 17th-century(?) vellum, sewn on 5 supports, with the manuscript title on the spine. 122, [2] ll. Full description

€ 3,500

Catholicism & Eastern Orthodox Church Early Printing - 16th century Religion (16th Century)

Saint Jerome through Erasmus eyes: selected letters with commentary, printed in 1518

HIERONYMUS, Eusebius Sophronius (SAINT JEROME) and Desiderius ERASMUS (editor). Divi Hieronymi epistolaeres ab Erasmo Roterodamo recognitae, cuius & argumentis & scholiis oppidoque elegantibus sunt illustratae.
[Cologne, Johann Gymnic, 1518]. 4to. With the title set with in a frame built up from 4 (or possibly 6) woodcut illustrations including printer's initials and the date 1518, and 10 woodcut decorated initials. Modern faux-leather-patterned paper with a grey paper label on the spine with the authors name lettered in silver ("Erasmus v. Rotterdam"). [48] ll. Full description

€ 1,950

Church History & Missions Early Printing - 16th century Erasmus Humanism & Reformation Philosophy & Humanism Religion (16th Century)

Early Latin edition of the Hippocratic corpus

HIPPOCRATES and Janus CORNARIUS (translator). Opera quae ad nos extant omnia, per Ianum Cornarium Medicum Physicum Latina lingua conscripta, & recognita.
Basel, (colophon:) Hieronymus Froben and Nikolaus Episcopius, 1558. Folio. With Frobens woodcut printers device on the title page, repeated on the otherwise blank verso of the final leaf, and 2 decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary overlapping vellum. 804, [116] pp. Full description

€ 2,950

Early Printing - 16th century Greek & Roman Classics Medicine & Pharmacy (16th Century)

An Antwerp union of the Iliad and Odyssey

HOMER, and Raffaele MAFFEI (translator). Odysseae Libri XXIIII. Raphaele Volaterrano interprete ...
(Colophon:) Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus, April 1528.
With:
(2) IDEM. Iliados, tum odysseae libri XLVIII. In singulos libros argumenta. Batrachomyomachia. Deorum hymni XXXII. Homeri vita.
(Colophon: Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus), 1528. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo (15.6 x 10.4 cm). Ad 1 with a full page woodcut device at the end of the volume, lightly hand-coloured. Ad 2 with the same device. Contemporary blind-tooled calf, sewn on 4 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, and rebacked. 183; 259, [8]; [1], "184-214" [=31], [8] ll. Full description

€ 3,750

Early Printing - 16th century Greek & Roman Classics

1472 incunable encyclopaedia of the world,
containing references to Arabia, Syria, Palestine and the Saracens

HONORIUS AUGUSTODUNENSIS (HONORIUS OF AUTUN). [Incipit:] ... de ymagine mundi.
[Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 1472(?)]. Folio (31 x 22 cm).Rubricated throughout and about half of the spaces left for initials filled in by hand in red ink. 19th-century red sheepskin. [46], [1 blank] ll. Full description

€ 45,000

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Early Printing - 15th century Eastern Mediterranean & Cyprus Egypt North Africa

A 16th-century introduction to legislation and jurisprudence

HOPPERS, Joachim. De juris arte libri tres. Eiusdem, juris civilis, sive ad pandectas libri sex priores.
Louvain, Petrus Colinaeus, 1555. 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page (repeated on the last page), and many woodcut initials. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment. [12], 505, [2], [1 blank] pp. Full description