Authors starting with D from Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio

Paris and London: Le Sycomore; Al Saqi , 1983. 34 cm; 265 pages and 176 plates, many in color. Bound in decorated cloth. No blemishes. Contents: Portrait of Egypts nature, soil, and climate, and of the various human races its population comprises -- Historical prolegomena : First period; The caliphs; From the conquest of `Amr to the Ayyubids--8th to 13th centuries -- Historical prolegomena : Second period; The Mamluks -- Historical prolegomena : Third period; From the conquest of Sultan Selim to the conq... more information

Paris: Honore Champion, 1971. 2 vols. 661 p. continuously numbered. Wraps, unopened. Wrote love poems to his wife from a prison cell in London. The best of the 15th century poetes courtois. ... more information

Quebec: November 13, 1821. 2 leaves folio (305mm x 205mm), sealed and docketed. Cut of British royal device. Signed by Dalhousie at lower right. Also signed by R. Dunn. Usual folds; pencil annotation in upper margin. Document authorizes payment from the "Jesuits' Estates" fund (i.e., money raised from the sale of lands that had belonged to the Jesuits under French rule) to the firm of Bell and Stewart, proprietors of the St. Maurice Iron Works at Trois-Rivieres, Quebec. The St. Maurice ... more information

Treasury Department [Washington, DC], 28 April 1815, addressed to John Steele, Collector, at Philadelphia.. Text: "I have received your letter of the 25 instant. You will be pleased to pay Debentures with Treasury Notes. I am Respectfully ..." Alexander Dallas (1759-1817) was at the time of this letter about to resign his successful term as Secretary of the Treasury. His measures in establishing a Second Bank of the United States restored public confidence and provided revenue for the bankrupt tr... more information

Treasury Department [Washington, DC], 16 September 1816, addressed to William Whann, Cashier of the bank of Columbia.. 195 x 250 mm; 1 page with integral address leaf, postmarked, with remains of wax seal (and its tear). Franking signature of R. Harrison, with hand stamp. The text reads, "The proposition made by Mr. Polk Cashier of the Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank of Delaware, in his letter to you of the 16th ult'o, is acceded to, on the part of the Treasury...." Alexander Dallas (175... more information

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1979. First edition. 24 cm; xiv, [2], 245, [1] pages. Original decorated cloth. No dust jacket as issued. ... more information

Paris: Editions DenoÎl, 1938. Illustrated Wraps. 23cm; 243 pages. Text in French. Front joint tender. Well-researched biography of John Law in his later years. ... more information

Paris: Nelson, 1936. Decorative Cloth. 17cm; four half-tone plates. Bound in yellow cloth with green-and-mauve wreath design in art-nouveau style. ... more information

London and Boston: Egypt Exploration Fund, 1902. First edition. 2 vols., 32 cm; vii, 43 pages and 27 plates; viii, 51 pages and 30 plates. Frontispieces in both volumes lithographed in color. Some plates folding. Bound in original printed boards. INSCRIBED BY DAVIES in both volumes. Boards somewhat worn. Volume I: Tomb of Aba and Smaller Tombs of the Southern Group. Volume II: Tomb of Zau and Tombs of the Northern Group. With appendices by W.E. Crum and G.A. Boulenger. ... more information

Paris: A. Guillot, 1953-54. 34 cm; 5 volumes, 50 color plates tipped in. All leaves loose in five separate portfolios, as issued. Portfolios in fine condition, all in original wraps with glassine jackets, gathered in publisher's slipcase. Slipcase splitting at edges and somewhat bowed. French translation of Ancient Egyptian Painting, which first appeared in English in 1936. ... more information

London: British Museum, 1984. 30 cm; vi, 37 pages, and 23 pages of plates. Bound in library cloth, stamped in gilt. Original wraps bound in. Minor soiling on upper wrap only. British Museum Occasional Papers # 36 ... more information

New York: Newsweek, 1973. First Edition. Padded leatherette. 4to. 172 pages, with many photographic illustrations. Published in the Newsweek Book Division "Wonders of Man" series. Informative text. ... more information

London: Constable and company, 1912. First edition. 36cm; x, 135 pages, frontispiece, text illustrations, and 92 chromolithograph and photogravure plates. Title page printed in red and black. Bound in original green cloth. Top edge gilt. Cloth shows signs of having survived moisture, with scattered marks. Tiny closed tears at crown and heel. Text unblemished but for slight discoloration at bottom edge. Pictorial bookplate of Andrew Fleming (showing Taj Mahal in an architectural border). In the serie... more information

London: Constable and company, 1910. First edition. 36cm; xxiv, 45 pages, frontispiece, text illustrations, and 35 photogravure and color offset plates. Title page printed in red and black. Bound in original green cloth. Top edge gilt. Scattered light foxing, mostly marginal. Pictorial bookplate of Andrew Fleming (showing Taj Mahal in an architectural border). In the series, "Theodore M. Davis' excavations: Bibân el Molûk." Also contains text by Gaston Maspero, "Sketch ... more information

London: Constable and company, 1908. First edition. 36cm; xxix, 46 pages, chromolithograph frontispiece, text illustrations, and 25 chromolithograph and photogravure plates. Title page printed in red and black. Bound in original green cloth. Top edge gilt. Scattered foxing affecting some plates. Pictorial bookplate of Andrew Fleming (showing Taj Mahal in an architectural border). In the series, "Theodore M. Davis' excavations: Bibân el Molûk." Also contains text by Gaston Ma... more information

Paris: Editions Alsatia, 1963. 473 p.: Cloth. Essais de psychologie litteraire suivis d'une etude sur la condition de la litterature Vol. II of 2? ... more information

Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1972. 2 vols., 263, 232 p. Wraps. Unopened. Small stain on cover of volume 1. ... more information

Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1972. 2 vols., 263, 232 p. Wraps. Unopened. Old price stickers on covers. ... more information

Parma: Reale Stamperia [i.e., Bodoni], 1802. First edition. Reference: Brooks 881. Octavo (23 cm); 2 volumes, viii, 192; 170, [2] pages. List of author's works at the end of volume 2 present. Unsophisticated copy in publisher's pink marbled wraps, with original paper label on spine. Edges untrimmed. Pages largely unblemished. A bit of sun bleaching to spine, but otherwise a pristine copy as it was issued from the press. The principle non-Jewish Hebrew philologist of his time, De Rossi took the... more information

Parma: ex Regio typographeo [i.e., Bodoni], 1780. First edition. Reference: Brooks, 157. Octavo (22 cm); xvi, 112 pages. Bound in contemporary pink pasteboard with leather title label and gilt roundels on spine. Speckeled edges. Early owner's printed bookplate. Professor of Oriental languages at the University of Parma, Giovan Bernardo De Rossi early on developed a working relationship with the local printer, Giovanni Battista Bodoni. A true scholar of Hebrew, De Rossi made the first studies of ... more information