Asher Rare Books

The Jesuits in Japan

CRASSET, Jean. Außführliche Geschicht der in den äussersten Welt-Theil gelegenen japonesischen Kirch, ...
Augsburg, Franz Anton Ilger (printed by Anton Maximilian Heiss), 1738. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With title-page printed in red and black, and 9 etched plates by Joseph Anton Zimmermann; woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards. [24], 534; “559” [= 555], [1 blank]. Full description

€ 3,950

Japan & Far East Jesuits

Only Portuguese edition of Crasset's history of the Jesuits in Japan, the only edition with a map of Japan

CRASSET, Jean and Maria Antonia de Saõ Boaventura MENEZES (translator). Historia da Igreja do Japaõ, . . .
Lisbon, Manoel da Sylva (vols. 1-2), Manoel Soares (vol. 3), 1749-1751. 3 volumes. 4to. With 5 folding engraved plates, 1 folding engraved map of Japan (28×42 cm) and 1 engraved illustration in the text. Contemporary tanned sheepkin, gold-tooled spines. Full description

€ 9,000

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Defending the Church in turbulent times

CROCUS, Cornelius. Ecclesia ad confirmandam fidem catholicorum dogmatum, & stabiliendos animos adversus falsae doctrinae ventos, nimium extremis hisce periculosis temporibus ...
Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus (colophon:) for Joannes Steelsius, 1536. 8vo (15.3 x 8.5 cm). With a full page woodcut illustration incorporating Steelsius' device at the end, and with 1 woodcut decorated initial. Modern printer's waste paper binding. [55] ll. Full description

€ 2,250

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

Moralistic lessons drawn from an Augustinian canon, here embodied by the "Great Cook"

CROON, Petrus. Cocus bonus ofte geestelijcke sinne-beelden ende godtvruchtighe uyt-legginghen op alle de gereetschappen van den kock.
Bruges, Franciscus Beernaerts, [between 1739 and 1762].
With:
(2) CROON, Petrus. Cocus Bonus. Tweede deel, ofte geestelycke bemerckingen op de tafel ende spysen maeltyt.
Bruges, Widow of P.J. Vincent, [between 1731 and 1769]. 2 parts in 1 volume. 12mo. Ad 1: with an engraved portrait of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (1614-1662) mounted on the verso of the second flyleaf as a frontispiece. Further with a woodcut ornament on the title page and some woodcut head- and tailpieces. Ad 2: with a woodcut ornament on the title page and a headpiece built up from typographic ornaments. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine with a black title label lettered in gold, simple blind-tooled fillets on the boards, red sprinkled edges. [1], [1 blank], [18], 207, [1]; "314" [= 312] pp. Full description

€ 3,500

Rare and important speech given in Goa in October 1641 on the occasion of the restauration
of Portuguese independence and the end of the Iberian Union

CRUZ, Manuel da. Fala que fes o P. Fr. Manoel da Crus, Mestre em S. Teologia, Deputado do S. Officio, & das Ordens Militares na segunda instancia, Vigairo Geral da Ordem dos Pregadores da India.
(Colophon:) Lisbon, Lourenço de Anveres for Andre Godinho, 1642. Small 4to (20 x 15 cm). With the woodcut crowned Portuguese coat of arms on the title page and 2 woodcut decorated initials. Later gold-tooled vellum. [1], [1 blank], [20], [2 blank] pp. Full description

€ 6,500

Broadsides, Ephemera & Pamphlets History / 17th Century India & Sri Lanka Law & Politics Portugal Religion (17th Century)

Journey around the world with a long stay in India

CUBERO SEBASTIAN, Pedro. Breve relacion, de la peregrinacion que ha hecho de la mayor parte del mundo.
Madrid, Juan Garcia Infançon, 1680. Small 4to (20 x 14.5 cm). With the title-page in a border built up from cast fleurons, woodcut coat of arms of the dedicatee Charles II of Spain, and some woodcut initials and tailpieces.Gold-tooled morocco, by the leading Barcelona binder Emilio Brugalla (1901-1987), with the arms of the Spanish bibliophile Isidoro Fernandez (1878-1963) stamped in gold on front and back, gilt edges. [20], 360 pp. Full description

€ 18,000

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4th copy located of a defence of the Archbishop of Goa against an attack by the Propaganda Fide untrimmed, most bolts unopened and the publishers printed front wrapper bound in

[CUNHA RIVARA, Joaquim Heliodoro da]. The Archbishop of Goa and the Congregation de Propaganda Fide.
"New-Goa" [= Panaji, near Goa], "printed at the national press", 1862 (wrapper 1863). 8vo in 4s with double-size sheets, giving 4to proportions (20.5 x 16 cm). With the original publishers front wrapper, printed letterpress on blue paper, repeating the title page but in a decorative frame built up from typographic ornaments, with a different decorated swelled rule and dated 1863 rather than 1862. The imprint is set in back-sloping roman capitals. Half navy blue, gold-tooled goatskin morocco (later 19th-century). 92 pp. Full description

€ 1,750

Church History & Missions India & Sri Lanka Jesuits Portugal

First Erasmus edition of the works of Saint Cyprian, an important work in the Humanistic rediscovery of the early Church Fathers

CYPRIANUS, Thascius Caecilius and Desiderus ERASMUS. Opera divi Caecilii Cypriani episcopi Carthaginensis, ... ingenti labore suo Erasmus Roterodamus ...
Basel, Johann Froben, 1520. Folio. With an elaborate woodcut border on the title page and on the first page of the dedication. Further with a small woodcut illustration incorporating Frobens device on the verso of the last leaf, numerous woodcut decorated initials by Ambrosius Holbein throughout, and some ornamental woodcut headpieces. Contemporary richly blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, with brass clasps, catch- and anchor plates along the fore-edge and brass edge guards around the corners and on the bottom board edge near the spine, manuscript waste pastedowns, re-backed. [24], 515, [1 blank], [32] pp. Full description

€ 4,000

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

Second Erasmus edition of Saint Cyprian’s works, with manuscript annotations

CYPRIANUS, Thascius Caecilius, and Desiderus ERASMUS Opera divi Caecilii Cypriani episcopi Carthaginensis, ... ingenti labore suo Erasmus Roterodamus ...
Basel, Johann Froben, 1521. Folio. With a detailed woodcut border on the title page and the first page of the dedication. Further with a small woodcut illustration incorporating Frobens device on the verso of the last leaf and with woodcut decorated initials throughout. Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, with brass catch- and anchor plates along the fore-edge of the boards, lacking the clasps. [24], 515, [1 blank], [32] pp. Full description

€ 3,500

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

By a female publisher: the first separate edition of Cyril's commentary on the Law of Moses

CYRIL of Alexandria. De adoratione in spiritu et veritate, & spiritali totius legis Mosaicae in religione Christiana observantia, ...
Lyon, Sybille de la Porte, 1588. 4to. With Porta's woodcut device on title-page, a woodcut headpiece, several woodcut tailpieces, numerous decorated woodcut initials (at least 3 series) and decorations built up from cast fleurons. Contemporary limp calf parchment. 24, 454, [25], [1 blank] pp. Full description