BUFFON, Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de.

De natuurlyke historie, van den hippopotamus of het rivierpaard. ... Verrykt met eene afbeelding van dit wonderlyk dier; nauwkeurig getekend ...Amsterdam, J.H. Schneider, 1775. With an engraved plate of a hippopotamus by Barent de Bakker after Andreas Andriesen. With: (2) SCHÄFFER, Jacob Christian. Proeven op de slakken. ... Met zeven naar het leeven gekleurde plaaten. Uit het Hoogduitsch vertaalt. The Hague, Isaac du Mee, 1776. With 7 numbered, hand-coloured engraved plates by Gerard Sibelius after drawings by Adriaan Schregardus. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine.

24; VI, 7-52 pp.Ad 1: A separately published chapter from Buffon's Algemeene en byzondere natuurlijke historie (the Dutch translation of Buffon's Histoire naturelle), dealing with the hippopotamus, containing the same engraved plate, depicting the hippopotamus on a river bank, as the French edition published by Schneider at Amsterdam. The Dutch chapter contains some new additions, not included in the original French, including an interesting description by the Amsterdam physician J.C. Klockner of the preparation and stuffing of a dead hippopotamus that was shipped from the Cape of Good Hope to Amsterdam.Ad 2: First edition of the Dutch translation of Versuche mit Schnecken by the German entomologist, mycologist and clergyman Jacob Christian Schäffer (1718-1790). It is an account of many experiments executed on several species of snails to find out whether the heads, including the tentacles, grow back after decapitation, which Schäffer finds out to be the case. It includes 7 plates, all coloured by hand, showing different species of snails in different stages after their decapitation.Title-page slightly damaged, as if something was pasted on it and later removed, hardly affecting the text, slightly creased throughout with some occasional minor stains or foxing. Binding rubbed along the extremities with partly cracked hinges. Overall in good condition and only slightly trimmed, leaving most of the deckles intact.l Ad 1: Nissen ZBI, 737; STCN (2 copies); ad 2: STCN (3 copies); cf. Nissen ZBI, 3639 (German editions).

A. Asher & Co. B.V.Professional seller

Book number: 74SB61ARZHVT

Keywords: [5091845FC46C] NATURAL HISTORY|[5091845FC46C] NATURAL HISTORY -> [8CE648004CA2] Mammals|[5091845FC46C] NATURAL HISTORY -> [55B2EF53B570] Shells & other Invertebrates|[5091845FC46C] NATURAL HISTORY -> [33C064103F15] Zoology (General incl. Faunas)|

BUIJS, Jacobus.

[Set of 22 drawings and 1 engraving].[Ca. 1781]. Various sizes. 22 washed pen and ink drawings and 1 engraving on paper. Mostly loose, nos. 8, 10, 20-23 pasted on paper support.

Unique collection of delicate washed pen and ink drawings by Jacobus Buijs (or Buys), one of the most important artists of the new generation of Dutch book illustrators of the second half of the 18th century. The drawings served as designs for illustrations in many works, including Jacobus Kok's encyclopaedic Vaderlandsch woordenboek, 35 vols. (Amsterdam, J. Kok & J. Allart, 1780-1796), and the play by L.S. Mercier, De valsche vriend, of de zegepraal der huwelijksliefde, translated from the French Le faux ami, apparently published as volume 2 in the three-volume series Het zedelyk tooneel (Amsterdam, A. Kroese, 1778-1779), though not described as such in the book itself.l E. de la Fontaine Verwey, Illustr. letterk. werken XVIIIe eeuw, pp. 83 ff.; L. Buijnsters-Smets, “Jacobus Buijs als boekillustrator”, in: Documentatieblad werkgroep achttiende eeuw, 16 (1984), pp. 91-106; Van Someren, Catalogus van portretten 2542; Muller, Portretten 1219 & 2518c; on the artist, see also Scheen I, p. 193; Waller, Biogr. woordenboek, p. 55; Wurzbach I, 1 p. 226.

A. Asher & Co. B.V.Professional seller

Book number: B3D9MQ01U79O

Keywords: [04F65CFF5112] ART, ARCHITECTURE & PHOTOGRAPHY|[04F65CFF5112] ART, ARCHITECTURE & PHOTOGRAPHY -> [34ED9446A42A] Art & Art History|[04F65CFF5112] ART, ARCHITECTURE & PHOTOGRAPHY -> [G91CNMP078RQ] Drawings, Prints & Watercolours|[04F65CFF5112] ART, ARCHITEC

BÜNTING, Heinrich and Matthias HASAERT.

Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae, das ist Ein Reisebuch uber die gantze Heilige Schrifft ...Including:[BÜNTING, Heinrich]. Itinerarium Novi Testamenti. Das ist: Ein Reisebuch over das Newe Testament.BÜNTING, Heinrich. De monetis et mensuris sacrae scripturae. Dass ist: Ein eigentliche ausrechnung und beschreibung aller Müntz und Masse in heiliger Schrift. ...Magdeburg, Paul Donat for Ambrosius Kirchner, 1585. With 3 title-pages, 7 double-page and 2 full-page woodcut mapsWith: (2) BÜNTING, Heinrich. Braunschweigische und Luneburgische Chronica. Including:Das ander Theil Braunschweigischen Chronica, gehet auff das Land LüneburgDas dritte Theil, der Braunschweigischen und Lüneburgischen Chronica, ...Das vierte Theil dieses Buches, gehet insonderheit auff das Fürstenthumb Grubenhagen, füret … den geburts Stam des fürstlichen Hauses Braunschweig und Lüneburg.Magdeburg, Paul Donat for Ambrosius Kirchner, 1584-1585. General title-page in red and black with the woodcut coat of arms of Julius of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, further with numerous finely detailed woodcut illustrations2 works in 3 and 4 volumes, bound as 1. Folio. Contemporary, richly blind-tooled pigskin, possibly by Nikolaus Müller in Wittenberg. With a matching pair of panel stamps in the central fields: portraits of Martin Luther (front board, 83 x 44 mm) and Phillip Melanchthon (back board, 81 x 45 mm), each with the date 1556 and text below.

Ad 1: [16], “141” [= 242], [18]; [6], 110, [9] [3 blank]; [6], “34” [= 33], [1 blank] pp.; ad 2: [14], “150” [= 151], [1 blank]; “46” [= 47]. [1 blank]; [1], 47-82, [1 blank]; [1], “82”-“113” [= 83-109] ll.Rare third(?) edition, in the original German, of a classic account of Biblical travels, the Itinerarium sacrae scripturae, written by the Hannover (in Lower Saxony) Lutheran pastor and theologian Heinrich Bünting (1545-1606), first published by Jakob Lucius the elder at Helmstedt in Lower Saxony in 1581, with the third volume, De monetis et mensuris sacrae scripturae, added in 1582. It is here bound with the first edition of Bünting’s complementary Chronica, a chronical of his native region made to accompany the present third edition of his Itinerarium. These editions therefore brought Bünting’s work largely to its definitive form. Both proved extremely popular, and most later editions were produced as matching sets of the Itinerarium and Chronica, which appeared in almost 80 editions (in seven languages) into the 18th century. "However much a work of the study, this book [the Itinerarium] could be easily taken and read as a travel book. Bünting, although he had never actually visited Palestine, produced an original work by recasting sacred scripture into a Reissbuch" (Noonan); “the most complete summary of the knowledge of that day concerning the geography of the biblical events” (Van der Heijden, p. 55). The Chronica, matching in format and produced by the same printer and publisher at the same time, contains a wealth of historical, military, heraldic and genealogical information, beautifully illustrated with finely detailed woodcuts, with a special emphasis on the regions around Braunschweig and Lüneburg in Lower Saxony.The contemporary binding of the present copy is spectacular and remarkable, almost certainly produced in Saxony and possibly by Nikolaus Müller in Wittenberg, where Bünting studied. It gives the date of the binding itself (the year after publication), the initials of the owner who commissioned it, and shows a rare pair of dated panel stamps (portraits of Luther and Melanchthon, both 1556), and one of the three rolls is dated 1563. The “1581” and “1582” versions of the Itinerarium published in Helmsted also seem likely to be issues of a single edition. If so the present Itinerarium is the third edition, after 1581/82 Helmsted and 1583 Wolfenbüttel.With the unidentified initials AP of the first owner on the 1586 binding, a 1681 owner’s inscription, “H. de Veltheim permuta Dn. J Haltmeier Ao 1681”, perhaps meaning the late minister of the church Johannes Haltmeier (1590-1664) of Markt Alvensleben in Sachsen-Anhalt. Also with an early drawing in the margin of the Chronica L1. The binding shows some minor abrasions, mostly on the back board, but the panel stamps and tooling are generally well-preserved. A rare and important set of Bünting’s Itinerarium, the first edition to be accompanied by the Chronica, together in contemporary (1586), richly blind-tooled pigskin with Luther and Melanchthon panel stamps (1556).l Ad 1: BMC STC German, p. 164; H.A.M. van der Heijden, “Heinrich Bünting’s Itinerarium …”, in: Quaerendo, 28 (1998), pp. 49-71, no. 7 (3 copies); Index Aureliensis 5 (1964); USTC 668397 (3 copies, incl. 1 in Van der Heijden); VD 16, ZV2668 (same 3 copies as USTC); cf. Adams B3156 (1597 Magdeburg ed.); for the maps: Laor, Maps of the Holy Land 139-146, 968 (maps in various eds., 1582-1648); not in Karrow; for the author and text: F.T. Noonan, The road to Jerusalem: pilgrimage and travel in the age of discovery (2007), pp. 158-160. Ad 2: BMC STC German, p. 164; USTC 616928 (8 copies, vol. 2 dated 1584) & 616927 (6 copies, with vols. 2 & 3 dated 1584); VD16, B9152 (same 8 copies) & B9151 (same 6 copies); cf. Adams B3156 (1597 Magdeburg ed.). For the panel stamps: Einbanddatenbank p000339 & p000338; Weale, Bookbindings and rubbings … (1894), rubbings 760 & 761.

A. Asher & Co. B.V.Professional seller

Book number: ABC_46348

Keywords: [94684889A2BD] BOOK HISTORY, EDUCATION, LEARNING & PRINTING|[94684889A2BD] BOOK HISTORY, EDUCATION, LEARNING & PRINTING -> [4D8E88D0D9D0] Bindings|[80CBADC1D9E8] CARTOGRAPHY & EXPLORATION|[80CBADC1D9E8] CARTOGRAPHY & EXPLORATION -> [C1D22201B2B0] Asia|[80

BÜNTING, Heinrich and Matthias HASAERT.

Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae. Dat is: het reysboek der Heyligher Schrift.Including: BÜNTING, Heinrich. Een besonder tractaet ende onderwijsinghe van de munte ende ghewichtre der Heyligher Schrifturen... [BÜNTING, Heinrich]. Itinerarium Novi Testamenti. Dat is: een reysboeck, over het Nieuwe Testament. Het tweede deel...BÜNTING, Heinrich. Harmonia evangelistarum, dat is: eene seer schoone ende eendrachtige over-een-stemminge der heyliger vier evangelisten...Amsterdam, Hendrik Laurentsz., 1635. 4 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With 5 woodcut and 2 engraved folding maps. Contemporary vellum, modern endpapers.

[16], 355, [9]; [2], 36; [4], 163, [3]; 24 pp.Rare eighth(?) edition of the Dutch translation of a work on Biblical travels, written by the German Protestant pastor and theologian Heinrich Bünting (1545-1606), first published in German in 1581 and translated by Matthias Hasaert (1578?-1663). The work proved extremely popular and appeared in almost 80 editions up to the 18th century. "However much a work of the study, this book could be easily taken and read as a travel book. Bünting, although he had never actually visited Palestine, produced an original work by recasting Sacred Scripture into a Reissbuch" (Noonan). The work is divided into four parts. The first deals with the travels from the Old Testament, starting with a description and a woodcut plan of Jerusalem. Two other woodcut folding plates show the Temple of Solomon and the route the Jews took from Egypt to the Holy Land. The second part explains the Biblical currencies and units of measurement. The third part resembles the first, but deals with the journeys from the New Testament. The work closes with a short theological treatise on the four Evangelists. With an owner's inscription on flyleaf. Browned throughout, some marginal smudges, some occasional small spots and one plate slightly torn along the fold. Binding somewhat soiled, spine restored. Overall a fair copy.l STCN (3 copies); WorldCat (1 copy); cf. Laor, Maps of the Holy Land 139-146, 968 (maps in other eds., 1582-1648); F.T. Noonan, The road to Jerusalem: pilgrimage and travel in the age of discovery (2007), pp. 158-160.

A. Asher & Co. B.V.Professional seller

Book number: I3IGKJTQBASD

Keywords: [9EE06DC76F16] ASIA|[9EE06DC76F16] ASIA -> [H9DK9EDSCHIJ] Central & West Asia|[80CBADC1D9E8] CARTOGRAPHY & EXPLORATION|[80CBADC1D9E8] CARTOGRAPHY & EXPLORATION -> [D09E3C08222C] Middle East & Islamic World|[80CBADC1D9E8] CARTOGRAPHY & EXPLORATION -> [F94A

BUONFIGLIO COSTANZO, Giuseppe.

Prima[-seconda] parte dell'historia Siciliana, nellequale si contiene la descrittione antica, & moderna di Sicilia, le guerre, & altri fatti notabili dalla sua origine per sino alla morte del Catolico Rè Don Filippo II. Divisa in XX libri et due parti.Venice, Bonifacio Ciera, 1604. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With engraved device on the title-page, full-page engraved author's portrait, and numerous woodcut headpieces, tailpieces and decorated initials. Contemporary limp vellum.

[48], 692 pp.First edition of Buonfiglio's history of Sicily, with the text divided into two parts, each with ten numbered “libri”, giving an elaborate description of his native island, its origins, the scenery, geological conditions and illustrious inhabitants. He comments on early descriptions of Sicily, the place of Sicily in mythology and in classical antiquity, its general, political and military history from the Middle Ages to the 16th century. It includes an oration on the death of King Philip II and a description of the miraculous events in Messina during the famine. A third part (not included) was published in 1613, and a second edition in two volumes appeared in 1738-1739. A drop-title on 2B3r (p. [389]) signals the beginning of the second part of the text, so the two “parts” could not be issued separately.Some marginal water stains, occasional minor foxing and the title-page slightly soiled; binding stained and with a cracked hinge. Still in good condition.l BMC STC Italian, p. 152; Mira, Bibliografia Siciliana, p. 136; Monforte 348.

A. Asher & Co. B.V.Professional seller

Book number: 5528

Keywords: [7F0260752519] EUROPE|[7F0260752519] EUROPE -> [5C534DC5B117] France, Greece & Italy|[BFFF1D78AE20] HISTORY, LAW & PHILOSOPHY|[BFFF1D78AE20] HISTORY, LAW & PHILOSOPHY -> [G8QGI4BLWW6I] Archaeology & Classical Antiquity|[BFFF1D78AE20] HISTORY, LAW & PHILOS

BURG, Hermanus van den.

Verzámeling van uitgekórene zin-spreuken, en zinnebeeldige print-vercieringen, eertyds, op bevel van den aller doorlugtigsten Keizer der Russen, Peter Alexis, of the Gróte, getékent en gesnéden ...Haarlem, Johannes Marshoorn, 1743. 4to. With engraved frontispiece by J. Mulder and 840 numbered circular emblems on 140 full-page engravings in text, the facing pages to the left with captions in Dutch, short proverbial phrases in Latin, French and German, and two-line verses in Dutch by Van den Burg. 19th-century half sheepskin, gold-tooled spine.

[8], 281, [1 blank], [10] pp.First and only edition of Van den Burg's revised edition of the first Russian emblem book. The original emblem book was published in the Netherlands in 1705 as Symbola et Emblemata, with captions in Russian, German, Dutch, etc. It was published as part of a deal by Tsar Peter the Great granting the Dutch merchant Jan Tesing the right to print books in Holland for sale in Russia. The first genuinely Russian edition was published in 1788. This edition by the Dutch poet Hermanus van den Burg (1682-1752), uses the original plates and replaces most of the captions, including the Russian, by new two-line verses in Dutch. With a wormhole in the lower outer corner of the first 9 leaves and in the gutter, both not affecting the text, also with some minor spots. Binding somewhat rubbed along the extremities. Overall in good condition.l Landwehr, Emblem books Low Countries 92 (cf. 786); Praz, p. 292 (cf. pp. 509-510); STCN (8 copies); cf. Hippisley, The first Russian emblem book.

A. Asher & Co. B.V.Professional seller

Book number: J6GBSEZBE5KR

Keywords: [7F0260752519] EUROPE|[7F0260752519] EUROPE -> [A8051DE2C24A] Low Countries|[7F0260752519] EUROPE -> [G93BC775QOI7] Russia|[6369B77AC038] LITERATURE & LINGUISTICS|[6369B77AC038] LITERATURE & LINGUISTICS -> [CB9F1A8B7F5C] Dutch Literature|[6369B77AC038] LI

[BURG, Dirk van der (formerly attributed to Nicolaas WICART)].

[View of Vianen across the river Lek with fishermen and their boats and houses in the foreground].[North bank of the Lek River, near Vianen], [Ca. 1760/70]. Oblong Elephant 4to or possibly cut down oblong whole sheet (1mo) (19.5 x 31 cm). Original watercolour view on laid paper, looking southwest across the river, with Vianen in the background on the opposite bank, and a tree, houses, 11 people (mostly fishermen) and 3 fishing boats in the foreground. Mounted with 2 paper hinges on green laid paper in a passe partout (35 x 50 cm).

Fine watercolour in subtly shaded green and brown tones, showing a charming view looking across the Lek River (a branch of the Rhine) to Vianen on the far bank. The foreground shows thatched houses and other buildings on the near shore and fishermen with their nets and other gear in three rowboats, hauling in their nets and bringing their catch on land. The rightmost large building in the city across the river appears to be the Lekpoort (the city gate on the Lek River), but the largest tower, a bit to its left, doesn’t look like any in other views of Vianen and might have been influenced by the cathedral tower in Utrecht. Also prominent in the present view is a large windmill near the river bank further to the left of the tower.The watercolour had been attributed to Nicolaas Wicart (Utrecht 1748-1815), painter of landscapes and river views, and painter of porcelain (pencilled note “Wicart f[eci]t.” on the back of the drawing). He was mainly active in the province of Utrecht and worked at the porcelain factory at Loosdrecht. On the occasion of an exhibition by the Kunststichting Zeist, in June 1960, however, the watercolour was re-attributed to Dirk van der Burg (Utrecht, 1723-1773), a painter and draughtsman of landscapes and views of the countryside in the province of Utrecht.A 19th-century manuscript note inside the passe partout may or may not be related to the watercolour now in the passe partout and parts of the note are covered: it refers to an 1891 estate of “Stuych[?] in Dordt”, “tecke[ning] Kat. v. Hardinxveld te Dordt” and “In ’t Haagsche Gemeente Museum”. Notes certainly referring to the present drawing record it in possession of the art dealer H. Marcus, Amsterdam in 1954 and in the 1960 exhibition noted above, when it was in possession of the Dutch art collector Hans van Leeuwen (1911-2010), director of the Utrecht Symphony Orchestra, with his stamps on the back of the drawing (rampant lion above HVL, in a circle): Frits Lugt L.2799a (in green) and L.5935 (in violet). A lovely watercolour view of fishing boats with their crews and equipment on the Lek River, with Vianen in the background.l Catalogus der tentoonstelling van aquarellen en tekeningen uit de collectie van de heer Hans van Leeuwen, [Zeist], Kunststichting Zeist, 1960; for Van der Burg: Thieme-Becker 5, p. 244; Scheen I, p. 187; for Wicart: Thieme-Becker 35, p. 506; Scheen II, p. 591.

A. Asher & Co. B.V.Professional seller

Book number: 93TCXWZF1Q3L

Keywords: [04F65CFF5112] ART, ARCHITECTURE & PHOTOGRAPHY|[04F65CFF5112] ART, ARCHITECTURE & PHOTOGRAPHY -> [G91CNMP078RQ] Drawings, Prints & Watercolours|[80CBADC1D9E8] CARTOGRAPHY & EXPLORATION|[80CBADC1D9E8] CARTOGRAPHY & EXPLORATION -> [G2MMG7CAUIT4] Geography,

[BURGASSI, Antonio Cesare and Jacopo MORELLI].

Serie dell'edizioni Aldine per ordine cronologico ed alphabetico. Seconda edizione con emendazioni e giunte.Padua, Pietro Brandolese, 1790. 12mo. Contemporary wrappers.

[8], 182, [1], [1 blank] pp.Second, expanded edition of an early chronological survey of the editions published by the Aldine Press (1494-1595). It is one of the very few early bibliographies on the output of a publishing house, the more interesting as it regards the famous Aldine Press of Aldus Manutius and his sons at Venice.Breslauer & Folter mention the present publication in their description of the standard bibliography of the Aldine Press of Renouard: "Although it (Renouard) had eighteenth-century precursors, these were of little value, except perhaps for Antonio Cesare Burgassi's Serie dell'edizioni Aldine (Pisa 1790), especially in its second edition, by Jacopo Morelli (Padua 1790)".A tiny speck on the title-page and on page 1, otherwise in fine condition and wholly untrimmed, with all deckles intact. Wrappers slightly discoloured and the spine label has a tear, but are otherwise good.l Ahmanson-Murphy, The Aldine press 1185A; Besterman, Early printed books 1644; Breslauer & Folter, Bibliography: its history and development (1984) 115.

A. Asher & Co. B.V.Professional seller

Book number: 738FX11SL76E

Keywords: [94684889A2BD] BOOK HISTORY, EDUCATION, LEARNING & PRINTING|[94684889A2BD] BOOK HISTORY, EDUCATION, LEARNING & PRINTING -> [B87603D9D0AF] Bibliography & Biography|[KCRG291IIT91] EARLY PRINTING & MANUSCRIPTS|[KCRG291IIT91] EARLY PRINTING & MANUSCRIPTS -> [

[BURGESS, Thomas].

The Arabick alphabet...Newcastle, printed by S[arah]. Hodgson, 1809. Large 12mo. Twentieth-century half calf, marbled sides, with a blind-tooled roll where the calf covering (including the corners) meets the marbled paper, gold fillets on the smooth spine, black morocco spine label with the title in large gold capitals running up the spine, lettered in gold. With 22 sturdy blank leaves at the end and the bookbinder’s ticket of “Period Binders, Bath”.

V, [3], 20 pp.Rare first and only edition of an introduction to Arabic intended for students of Hebrew. As the author writes in his dedication to the Rev. John Frederick Usko, “The object of the following pages is to put the Hebrew student in possession of just so much Arabick as may enable him to profit by the illustrations of Hebrew words in the Lexicons of Simonis and others.” The text looks at the construction of the alphabet itself, compares Hebrew and Arabic letters, and similarly verbs and their tenses. It gives a synopsis of the letters of the Arabic alphabet, each with its initial, medial, final and stand-alone forms and gives some information on diacritical marks. Thomas Burgess (1756-1837), Prebendary of Durham, was Bishop of St. David’s (Wales) from 1803 to 1825 and then of Salisbury.With some contemporary handwritten annotations in ink and an owner’s inscription on the title-page “A Bertiz | August 5, 1829”. Not recorded in auction records. An unusual Newcastle imprint, printed by a woman who had taken over her late husband’s printing office. It’s curious that this small provincial printing office had a fount of Arabic type.l WorldCat 35518227 & 55524381.

A. Asher & Co. B.V.Professional seller

Book number: ABC_45294

Keywords: [6369B77AC038] LITERATURE & LINGUISTICS|[6369B77AC038] LITERATURE & LINGUISTICS -> [C60CF2EA3C85] Literature & Linguistics|[G8L0P27N9XV3] MIDDLE EAST & ISLAMIC WORLD|[G8L0P27N9XV3] MIDDLE EAST & ISLAMIC WORLD -> [J5ICQ5VEHAD1] Arabic Printing & Calligraph

BURMAN the Elder, Pieter.

Oratio funebris in obitum viri clarissimi Joannis Georgii Graevii, Magnae Brittanniae Regis historici, politices, historiarum & eloquentiae professoris ordinarii. Dicta XI. Kal. Martias MDCCIII.Utrecht, Willem van de Water, 1703. Woodcut coat-of-arms of Utrecht on title-page. (2) BURMAN the elder, Pieter. Oratio pro pigritia, publice habita. Ad diem XX Febr. M.DCCII.[No place], 1702. Woodcut title-vignette. (3) BURMAN the elder, Pieter. Somnium, sive iter in arcadiam novam, publice narratum in majori Academiae Ultrajectinae Acroaterio. Ad diem IX. Septembris MDCCX.[No place], [1710]. (4) BURMAN the elder, Pieter. Oratio pro comoedia, publice in auspiciis Academicarum recitationum, quibus Terentii fabulae explicantur, habita, a.d. XIV Septembris MDCCXI.Utrecht, Willem van de Water, 1711. Woodcut publisher's device.(5) BURMAN the elder, Pieter. Oratio in humanitatis studia. Habita a.d. VIII. Februarii MDCCXX. Cum magistratu Academico abiret.Leiden, Samuel Luchtmans, 1720. Woodcut publisher's device.(6) BURMAN the elder, Pieter.. Pro literatoribus et grammaticis oratio, habita a.d. VIII Februarii MDCXXXII. Cum magistratu academico abiret.Leiden, Conrad Wishoff & Daniel Goedval, [1732]. Woodcut title-vignette, headpiece and tailpiece.(7) RÜCKER, Joannes Conradus. Oratio de honoribus academicis, magno doctrinae praemio. Habita cum virum eruditissimum Danielem ... van Alphen, Lugduno Batavum, juris utriusque doctorem, more majorum renuntiaret. A.d. XIII. Dec. MDCCXXXV.Leiden, Samuel Luchtmans, 1735. Woodcut publisher's device and tailpiece.(8) VITRIARIUS, Johannes Jacobus. Oratio funebris, in obitum eruditissimi ac celeberrimi viri, Antonii Schultingii, Joh. fil. ... Dicta Publice a.d. XII. April A. MDCCXXXIV.Leiden, Samuel Luchtmans, [1734]. Woodcut publisher's device and tailpiece. 8 works in 1 volume. 4to. Slightly later half calf (ca. 1765), gold-tooled spine, title lettered in gold, marbled sides with central gold vignette of the “Society of Writers to the Signet” on both boards.

57, [26]; 23; [39]; [4], 36; 61; [2], 75, [1]; 28, 37, [3] pp.Six academic orations in Latin, all in their first (and at least mostly only) editions, delivered by Pieter Burman, or Petrus Burmannus (1668-1741), a Dutch classical scholar and one of the best classical philologists of the eighteenth century, known as the elder to distinguish him from his nephew Pieter Burman the younger, was born at Utrecht as the son of Frans Burman, professor of theology at Utrecht. Ad 1: Funeral oration delivered by Burman on 19 February at the University of Utrecht for the famous Johannes Georgius Graevius who had died on 11 January 1703. Ad 2: Public oration delivered on 20 February 1702 on slowness.Ad 3: Oration in Latin verse delivered in the Aula of the University of Utrecht on his dream of a new Arcadia.Ad 4: Oration on the old and notorious dispute between Church and School/University concerning theatre for youth, set off again by an attack on the indecency and harmfulness of the theatre, launched by the Utrecht Church Council against the magistrate of Utrecht. Pieter Burman took up the defence of the theatre as a useful tool in education.Ad 5: Oration delivered at Leiden University on the usefulness of the study of humanities.Ad 6: Oration more or less on the same subject: for the benefit of literary men and grammarians.Ad 7: Oration on the value of a doctoral degree by Joannes Conradus Rücker (d. 1778;), professor of law at Leiden University since 1734, delivered on the occasion of Daniel van Alphen, whom he had tutored, taking his doctoral degree on 13 December 1735.Ad 8: Funeral oration delivered by Johannes Jacobus Vitriarius (1679-1745;), professor of law at Heidelberg (1706), Utrecht (1708) and Leiden (1720) for prof. Antonius Schulting (1659-12 March 1734), prof. of law at Harderwijk (1691), Franeker (1694) and Leiden (1713).The present convolute belonged to one of the “Writers to the Signet” at Edinburgh, the famous psalmist Robert Boswell (1746-1804), who signed his name on the inside front cover.Occasional slight browning, first free endpaper somewhat loose; corners slightly bumped, but the whole still in good condition.l NNBW IV, p. 354f; Dekkers, p. 30; Sandys, pp. 443 ff.; for Rücker (ad 7): NNBW II, cols. 1240-41; for Vitriarius and Schulting (ad 8): NNBW III, col. 1316 & I, cols. 1462-4.

A. Asher & Co. B.V.Professional seller

Book number: AB7GU76YPSLF

Keywords: [BFFF1D78AE20] HISTORY, LAW & PHILOSOPHY|[BFFF1D78AE20] HISTORY, LAW & PHILOSOPHY -> [G8QGI4BLWW6I] Archaeology & Classical Antiquity|

BURMEISTER, Hermann.

Beiträge zur näheren Kenntniss der Gattung Tarsius, ... Nebst einem helminthologischen Anhange von Dr. Creplin.Berlin, Georg Reimer, 1846. Large 4to (31 x 24.5 cm). With 7 lithographed plates (including 1 coloured by hand). Original publisher's printed green boards.

X, 140 pp.First edition of a detailed work on the genus Tarsius (tarsiers) by the German zoologist Karl Hermann Konrad Burmeister (1807-1892). Today Tarsius species can only be found on Sulawesi and a few other Indonesian islands. The work contains a historical introduction to the genus, which was first described by Buffon; a chapter on the tarsier's appearance, describing its fur and skeleton; and very detailed chapters on the animal's organs, muscular and nerve systems. The hand-coloured plate depicts a tarsier holding on to a branch, the other plates show its skeleton, muscles, nerves and organs, all with details. Some foxing, mostly on the first and last few leaves. Binding rubbed along the extremities. Otherwise in good condition.l BMC NH, p. 290; Nissen, ZBI 757.

A. Asher & Co. B.V.Professional seller

Book number: K7BF22AX15UV

Keywords: [9EE06DC76F16] ASIA|[9EE06DC76F16] ASIA -> [F857342FAC3B] Indonesia|[9EE06DC76F16] ASIA -> [B3901A4D7D14] Natural History|[5091845FC46C] NATURAL HISTORY|[5091845FC46C] NATURAL HISTORY -> [8CE648004CA2] Mammals|

BURNES, Alexander.

Voyages de l'embouchure de l'Indus a Lahor, Caboul, Balkh et a Boukhara; et retour par la Perse, pendant les années 1831, 1832 et 1833 ... Atlas. Paris, Arthus Bertrand (colophon on back wrapper: Imprimerie et Fonderie de Fain), [1835]. 3 text volumes and 1 atlas volume. 8vo. With 11 numbered lithographed plates (1 folding) showing costumes of the regions, medals and engraved stones, topographic views, archaeological sites, etc., and a large folding engraved map with the routes hand-coloured in red and orange. Contemporary gold-tooled half sheepskin (text volumes), original publisher's letterpress-printed brown paper wrappers (atlas volume).

[3], [1 blank] pp. plus plates.First French edition of Alexander Burnes's Travels into Bokhara, translated from the English by Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès (1767-1846). It details a voyage through Lahore (Punjab, Pakistan), Kabul (Afghanistan), Balkh (then part of Persia/Iran, now in Afghanistan), Bukhara (Uzbekistan) and back through Persia in the years 1831 to 1833. Burnes (1805-1842), a Scottish explorer, learned Hindi and Persian while serving the British East India Company in India. King William IV of England sent him on the present voyage to Punjab. His detailed and well-illustrated account of these regions, still little known to Europeans, lead to his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society and other honours. "It is noteworthy for the freshness and acuteness of its descriptions and, given the times, the relatively cosmopolitan outlook of its author" (Prior). The text volumes foxed and the bindings rubbed. Atlas volume with a small marginal worm hole in the title-page and some marginal foxing, but in good condition, mostly untrimmed. The wrappers are browned, especially around the edges, where they are chipped, and the back wrapper is detached.l Brunet I, col. 1409; WorldCat (5 copies); for the author: Prior, "Burnes, Sir Alexander (1805-1841)", in: ODNB (online ed.).

A. Asher & Co. B.V.Professional seller

Book number: F7ALDJRZH1LS

Keywords: [9EE06DC76F16] ASIA|[9EE06DC76F16] ASIA -> [C4A78A11DA49] Cartography & Exploration|[9EE06DC76F16] ASIA -> [2E35157B4164] India & Sri Lanka|[80CBADC1D9E8] CARTOGRAPHY & EXPLORATION|[80CBADC1D9E8] CARTOGRAPHY & EXPLORATION -> [D09E3C08222C] Middle East & I

BURNET, Gilbert.

Nauwkeurige voyagie door Italiën, Switserland, &c. Behelsende veele aanmerkenswaardige, curieuse, en tot noch toe ongehoorde saken, welke in geen Reys-beschrijvingen aangetekend zijn.Utrecht, Johannes Ribbius, 1687. 4to. With woodcut decoration on title-page and a woodcut tailpiece. Modern multi-coloured decorative boards.

[1], [1 blank], 182, [13], [1 blank] pp.First edition of the Dutch translation of a work on travels through Europe, undertaken and written by Gilbert Burnet (1643-1715). Burnet was a Scottish historian, philosopher, and later Bishop of Salisbury. In 1685 Burnet left Great-Brittain to travel Europe, where he visited the Netherlands, France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland. During his stay in the Netherlands, Burnet got exiled from England by King James II, after writing a pamphlet advising the Dutch prince William and his wife Mary not to support James for the repeal of the Test Act. The text is written in the form of letters, starting in Zurich, to Milan, Florence, Rome, and ending in Nijmegen, where he noted everything that "seemed most remarkable" and was unheard of in any other travelogue.Binding rubbed along the extremities, paper cracked at the hinges (hinges still firm) and spine discoloured. Title-page reattached (restored in the gutter), some spots and smudges throughout and a few leaves slightly browned. A good copy.l STCN (6 copies); Tiele, Bibl. 217; cf. Berne, Descriptions géographiques et récits de voyages et excursions en suisse, p. 26.

A. Asher & Co. B.V.Professional seller

Book number: HCEDMC7TS7VW

Keywords: [80CBADC1D9E8] CARTOGRAPHY & EXPLORATION|[80CBADC1D9E8] CARTOGRAPHY & EXPLORATION -> [00D011F711B3] Europe|[80CBADC1D9E8] CARTOGRAPHY & EXPLORATION -> [F94AEB0D1632] Voyages & Travel|[7F0260752519] EUROPE|[7F0260752519] EUROPE -> [1721867F3CA5] Cartograph

BURNET, John.

A practical treatise on painting. In three parts. Consisting of hints on composition, chiaroscuro, and colouring. The whole illustrated by examples from the Italian, Venetian, Flemish, and Dutch schools.London, James Carpenter, 1826-1827. 3 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With 25 full-page partly handcoloured etched and aquatint plates with 105 reproductions by Burnet of famous paintings. Contemporary calf, covers blind-tooled in a checkered pattern, marbled edges.

[4], 31, [1 blank]; VI, 45; V-IX, [3], 64 pp.First edition of the collected works on the art of painting by the Scottish artist John Burnet (1784-1868), illustrated by himself. It is divided into three parts: on composition, chiaroscuro (light and shadow), and colour.Minor foxing. New spine and endpapers, boards somewhat soiled. In very good condition.l Abbey, Life, 100; Dict. of Nat. Biography III, 407. Graesse I, 578.

A. Asher & Co. B.V.Professional seller

Book number: 18824

Keywords: [04F65CFF5112] ART, ARCHITECTURE & PHOTOGRAPHY|[04F65CFF5112] ART, ARCHITECTURE & PHOTOGRAPHY -> [34ED9446A42A] Art & Art History|[94684889A2BD] BOOK HISTORY, EDUCATION, LEARNING & PRINTING|[94684889A2BD] BOOK HISTORY, EDUCATION, LEARNING & PRINTING -> [4

BURTIN, François-Xavier.

Oryctographie de Bruxelles ou description des fossiles tant naturels qu'accidentels découverts jusqu'à ce jour dans les environs de cette ville.[Brussels], Le Maire, 1784. Folio (46 x 28 cm). With engraved title-page by Pris after M.J. Speeckaert, and 32 engraved plates printed in brown and coloured by a contemporary hand. 19th-century half sheepskin (roan).

[2], 152 pp.First and only edition of a careful study on fossils discovered in the region of Brussels by François-Xavier de Burtin (1743-1818). "Apparently, the first extensive book treating Belgium fossils and minerals" (Schuh). Burtin accurately describes fossil fishes, tortoises, echinoderms, worms, etc. and gives an analysis of the geological composition of the soils around Brussels. These descriptions are accompanied by fine illustrations, engraved in brown and coloured by hand, by A. Pris, J.A. Balconi, etc., after M. J. Speeckaert, Daveaux, etc. The author studied medicine and natural sciences. He was doctor to Prince Charles de Lorraine, and was later appointed to the ruling council of the Netherlands, because of his excellent scientific work. With the arrival of the political upheavals of the latter part of the 18th century, he retired from public life to concentrate on science and writing. His interests were wide-ranging, and, in addition to geology, he wrote on agriculture and industry and was considered an authority on pictures, particularly the Dutch and Flemish schools.The title-page slightly soiled and some occasional foxing in the margins, otherwise in good condition and wholly untrimmed. Binding rubbed.l Landwehr, Coloured plates 49; Nissen, ZBI 769; Schuh, Burtin-1; Ward 410.

A. Asher & Co. B.V.Professional seller

Book number: 5505

Keywords: [5091845FC46C] NATURAL HISTORY|[5091845FC46C] NATURAL HISTORY -> [G8QGX12B5OOZ] Drawings, Photographs, Prints & Watercolours|[5091845FC46C] NATURAL HISTORY -> [6A469E92B700] Fishes / Ichthyology|[5091845FC46C] NATURAL HISTORY -> [55B2EF53B570] Shells & ot