Asher Rare Books

Spanish account of the 1588-1599 period from the Eighty Years' War

COLOMA, Carlos. De las guerras de los Estados Baxos, desde el año de M.D.LXXXVIII. hasta el de M.D.XC.IX.
Antwerp, Juan Bellero, 1635. 4to. With an engraved title page, 14 decorated woodcut initials, and 8 woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary overlapping vellum, red edges. [4], 651, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 1,750

Belgium History / 17th Century Military History (16th Century) Netherlands Spain

Cross-cultural navigation: Turkish-inscribed maritime pilot

COLOM, Jacob Aertsz. [Description de la mer méditerranée].
[Amsterdam, ca. 1670]. Folio (29 x 45 cm). With 9 double-page engraved charts only, each sheet ca. 44 × 55 cm, each mounted on stiff paper with maps back-to-back, with thick red and black ink borderlines. 8 of 9 maps are by Colom, numbered 2-9 in the plates from; plate 1 has been replaced with Johannes de Rams map of the Mediterranean: "Paskaart vande Middelandsche Zee In twee deelen vertoont". Contemporary stiff paper wrappers, with a manuscript label pasted upside down on the back wrapper, reading: "Carta Marinaresca del Mar Mediterraneo". Full description

€ 25,000

Arabic Printing & Calligraphy Atlases & Globes Eastern Mediterranean & Cyprus

On the wealth of the British Empire, focussing on its overseas possessions

COLQUHOUN, Patrick. A treatise on the wealth, power, and resources, of the British Empire, in every quarter of the world, including the East Indies: the rise and progress of the funding system explained; ...
London, 1814. 4to. With many letterpress tables in the text. Contemporary tree calf, gold-tooled spine; rebacked, with the original backstrip laid down. XII, 451, [1 blank], 91, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 3,500

Australia Economic History & Trade India & Sri Lanka Middle America North Africa UK - United Kingdom USA - United States of America West Indies

A collection of articles on Spanish medical history

COMENGE Y FERRER, Luís. Curiosidades médicas precedidas de un discurso sobre el florecimiento de la medicina Española en el siglo XVI y su posterior decadencia.
Madrid, Manuel Ginés Hernández, 1886. 8vo. With 3 lithographed plates (2 folding), reproducing manuscript letters. Modern dark purple half sheepskin, with the original printed front wrapper bound in. 285, [2], [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 400

Medicine & Pharmacy (19th Century) Spain

Beautiful copy of the most important collection of Dutch voyages of the 17th century

[COMMELIN, Isaac]. Begin ende voortgangh, van de Vereenighde Nederlantsche Geoctroyeerde Oost-Indische Compagnie. Vervattende de voornaemste reysen, by de inwoonderen der selver provincien derwaerts gedaen.
[Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius], 1646. 2 volumes. Oblong 4to (22 x 25 cm). With 230 engravings including 2 richly engraved frontispieces, the first signed by J. van Meurs, large folding world map, large folding map of the East Indies, maps, views, plans and plates. Contemporary vellum. Full description

€ 49,500

Charts & Maps China City Plans, Topography & Views Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Philippines Travel & Voyages Africa Travel & Voyages Asia VOC

Rare narrative of a shipwrecked voyage to India

CONCEIÇÃO, Frei Nuno da. Relaçam da viagem, e sucesso que teve a nao capitania Nossa Senhora do Bom Despacho. De que era Capitaô Francisco de Mello, vindo da India no anno de 1630.
Lisbon, "P. Craesbeeck" [= Antonio Pedrozo Galram?], "1631" [= ca. 1710/20?]. 4to. With woodcut of a ship in heavy seas on the last page, a woodcut basket of flowers on title page and a large woodcut vase of flowers tailpiece.
Earlier vellum with a manuscript cantochon in red and black, new endpapers. [8], 47, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 3,500

India & Sri Lanka Mutiny, Piracy & Shipwrecks Portugal Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages Southern Asia

A chronological history of the Portuguese Empire, including its overseas settlements

CONESTAGGIO, Girolamo. Dell unione del regno di Portogallo alla corona di Castiglia. Istoria.
Genoa, Girolamo Bartoli, 1589. 4to. With 12 decorated woodcut initials, 12 woodcut headpieces, and 4 woodcut tailpieces. Slightly later Italian/Iberian limp vellum, with the manuscript title on the head edge of the leaves and at the head of the spine, a paper label ("1350") at the foot of the spine, green closing ties. [1], [1 blank], [22], 7, [1 blank], 412 pp. Full description

€ 2,750

Brazil China Early Printing - 16th century History / 16th Century India & Sri Lanka Japan & Far East Jesuits Law & Politics Military History (16th Century) Portugal South America

First edition of an important historical work on Macaronesia, especially the Azores

CORDEIRO, Antonio. Historia insulana das ilhas a Portugal sugeytas no oceano occidental.
Lisboa occidental, Na officina de Antonio Pedrozo Galram, 1717. Small folio (ca. 28 x 21 cm). With a woodcut printer's device on the title-page, woodcut decorated initials, and woodcut head- and tailpieces. Gold-tooled brown calf from the first half of the 19th century. [1], [1 blank], [14], 528 pp. Full description

€ 7,500

Anthropology & Ethnography Geography North Africa Portugal West Africa

History of Goa, printed there

COTTINEAU DE KLOGUEN, Denis Louis and Miguel Vicente d'ABREU (translator). Bosquejo historico de Goa escripto em inglez ... vertibo em Portuguez, e accrescentabo com algumas notas, e rectificações ...
Nova-Goa, Imprensa Nacional, 1858. 8vo. With a small illustration of one of the gates of Goa. Later half red morocco. VII, [1 blank] 5-"202" [=203], [1] pp. Full description

€ 950

Church History & Missions India & Sri Lanka Portugal

Rare work on the political history of England written for King James I's son
by a famous antiquary and politician

COTTON, Sir Robert Bruce. Warrs with forregin[!] princes dangerous to our Common-Wealth: or reasons for forreign wars answered. With a list of all the confederates from Henry the first reign to the end of Queen Elizabeth. Proving that the kings of England alwayes preferred unjust peace before the justest warre.
London, William Shears, 1657.
Including: [COTTON, Sir Robert Bruce]. The French charity; written in French by an English gentleman, upon occasion of Prince Harcourt's coming to England; and translated into English by F.S.J.E.
London, William Shears, 1655. Small 8vo. Woodcut head- and tailpieces & initials. Contemporary calf. [2], 96; [2], 10 pp. Full description

€ 1,950

France Law & Politics UK - United Kingdom

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