Authors starting with E from Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio

Jerusalem: The Israel Museum, 1990. Cloth in dust jacket. 25cm; 450 pages. Black and white illustrations. The proceedings of the Wright International Symposium on Primitive and Precolumbian Art. ... more information

Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1890. 24cm; 55, [1] pages (including portrait and facsimiles) . Colored ornamental borders. Added title page in hieroglyphic characters. Half title present. Bound in original boards, with polychrome ornamental border. Boards worn and knocked at extremities. Pages unblemished ... more information

London, etc.: Cassell and Co., [1878?]. First edition. Original brown morocco, decorated in gilt and blind, with beveled corners, gilt dentelles and marbled endleaves; all edges gilt. 39 cm; 2 volumes. Richly illustrated. Covers rubbed at edges and extremities, with some crumbling leather; joints tender and beginning to split. Text bright and fine Extra shipping charges apply. ... more information

London: W. Scott, 1886. First edition. 18 cm; viiii, 229 pages. Bound in original blue decorated cloth. A little soiled on bottom edge. ... more information

Boston: Beacon Press, 1947. Cloth. Bookplate (?) removed from rear blanks. ... more information

Cairo: Tourist Development Association of Egypt, 1937. Wraps with chromolithograph illustration.. Volume 1, #1. 34cm; [32] pages, illustrated with photo halftones. Text in French and English. Wraps split and detached at fold. Premier issue of the short-lived (three years) luxury travel magazine sponsored by the Egyptian state. Volume 1, number 1, offered here, was published without a title page. The illustrations intend to promote the idea of Egypt as a modern nation and society. ... more information

Cairo: Tourist Development Association of Egypt, 1937-38. Wraps with chromolithograph illustration.. Volume 1, number 2. 34cm; [48] pages, illustrated with photo halftones. Ads. Text in French and English. Second issue of the short-lived (three years) luxury travel magazine sponsored by the Egyptian state. The illustrations intend to promote the idea of Egypt as a modern nation and society. ... more information

Cairo: Tourist Development Association of Egypt, 1937-38. Wraps with chromolithograph illustration.. Volume 1, number 3. 34cm; [32] pages, illustrated with photo halftones. Ads. Text in French and English. Third issue of the short-lived (three years) luxury travel magazine sponsored by the Egyptian state. The illustrations intend to promote the idea of Egypt as a modern nation and society. ... more information

New York: Shorewood Publishers, 1963. 25 cm. Illustrated. Cloth in slipcase. Slightly discolored slipcase. ... more information

New York: Shorewood Publishers, 1963. 25 cm. Illustrated. Cloth in slipcase. Slightly discolored slipcase. ... more information

Cairo: Government Press, 1935. First Edition. 35cm; xi, 200 pages, with 27 plates. Wraps. Bumped a little but very good. Produced under the auspices of the Mission archéologique de Nubie. ... more information

New York: John Day, 1957. Cloth. Foreword by Gamal Nasser. Very Good in Very Good (Price-Clipped) DJ. A little dusty. ... more information

Cairo: Centre de documentation et d'études sur l'ancienne Egypte,, 1972. 29 cm; iv, 35 pages, and 59 plates, mostly folding. Bound in red library cloth. Original wraps bound in. ... more information

New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1935. 86 p. Black cloth in dust jacket. VG/G, with owner's name on front pastedown; slight discoloration from manufacturer's paste. Jacket somewhat sunned at edges, with few chips and closed tears. Second edition, with a preface by Eliot, dated January, 1936. ... more information

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1936. Later printing. 23cm; 220 pages. Bound in black cloth. No dust jacket present. Pages lightly toned. Shelf wear. Apparently a 1947 printing. ... more information

[Montreal]: 22 October, 1851. Reference: Lande, Founder of Our Monetary System, #330. 48 x 29 cm; text in English and French. Extensive corrections in manuscript. Fine but for folds. Edward "the Bear" Ellice was a Director of the Hudson's Bay Company and a prime mover behind the Reform Bill of 1832.  In 1820, he was, with William and Simon McGillivray, active in bringing about the union of the North West and the Hudson's Bay Companies; and it was actually with him and the McGilli... more information

London: 17 July, 1854. Reference: Lande, Founder of Our Monetary System, #330. Paritally printed document, accomplished in manuscript, with addenda in manuscript, sealed with paper seal of the City of London. 4 leaves 200 x 320 mm; and two leaves 255 x 405 mm. Signed by Ellice, and by Lord Mayor of London Thomas Sidney, the historian John Thrupp, and others. Edward "the Bear" Ellice was a Director of the Hudson's Bay Company and a prime mover behind the Reform Bill of 1832. He purchased t... more information

London: Richard Sare, 1700. Second edition. Reference: Wing, E3154. Octavo (20 cm); [16], xli, [7], 432, [8] pages. Bound in contemporary full paneled calf, worn and rebacked early on. Joints cracked but holding. Front blank loose. Few marginal notes in pencil. Includes a life of Epictetus by Boileau. ... more information

Praha (Prague): Odeon, 1928. First edition. 20 cm; 196 pages. Bound in full cloth with panel design in red and gilt on upper board by Karel Teige. Shaken in binding, splitting at crown and heel. Some gilding worn away from upper board. Cover design by avant-garde artist Karel Teige. After welcoming the Soviet army as liberators, Teige was silenced by the Communist government in 1948. In 1951 he died of a heart attack, said to be a result of a ferocious Soviet press campaign against him as a 'Trotsk... more information

Philadelphia: Frederick W. Greenough, 1839. 24 cm; 753 pages. Wood-engraved plates. Bound in recent full leather veneer in 19th-century style. Raised bands. Pages toned, with foxing present at beginning and end. The third edition, translated from the German by N. W. Fiske. ... more information