Authors starting with G from Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio

Tolentino: Nazareno Gabrielli, 1977. Folio; 67 p., including 28 color plates of tooled leather. Cloth in slipcase, with leather bookmark. VG. The story of one of Italy's foremost leather artisans. Published for private circulation. ... more information

Paris: Fischbacher, 1968. Wraps. 185 p. Wraps a little scuffed, with a creased corner at upper left. ... more information

Paris: Ledentu, 1825. Nouvelle edition. 8 volumes 12mo (15cm). 36 fine copperplate engraved plates. Charming, unsophisticated copy in original publisher's wraps, untrimmed. Paper labels. Edges worn, and many corners rounded; paper labels partly missing from first two volumes. Scattered moderate dampstaining and spots, yet very good condition overall. ... more information

Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery, 1936. Cloth. 25cm; 175 pages, illustrated. Binding a little spotted; contents very good. ... more information

London: Oxford University Press, 1964. Third edition, revised.. Cloth. 29cm; 646 pages, plates. ... more information

London: Bernard Quaritch, 1913. 39 cm; 45 pages and 15 photogravure plates. Bound in original cloth-backed printed boards. Light scattered foxing confined to endleaves and title page. ... more information

London: Oxford University Press, 1950. Second edition. Cloth. 29cm; 646 pages, plates. ... more information

Clipped signature in brown ink on paper, 115 x 27 mm, with underline. Two faint marks in paper. Garibaldi's popularity, his skill at rousing the common people, and his military exploits are all credited with making the unification of Italy possible. He also served as a global exemplar of mid-19th century revolutionary nationalism and liberalism. He led uprisings against oppressive regimes in Italy, Brazil, Uruguay, and he offered to serve as Commander in Chief of the Union Army in the American Civil... more information

Florence: Banca Toscana, 1992. 4to; 311 p. Full cloth in d.j. Very good, with dust jacket spine somewhat faded 1492, year of discovery. The Renaissance peaked, the New World appeared on the horizon, the old beliefs began to give way to empirical science. This lavishly illustrated book, published for the Banca Toscana, surveys that signal year in all of its permutations. ... more information

London: Archibald Constable, 1907. First edition. 27cm; xv, [1], 250 pages. Title page in red and black. Color frontispiece, 15 plates and 231 half-tone illustrations in text. Bound in green cloth, beveled boards, with gilt title on upper board and on spine. Minor shelf wear; scattered light foxing in margins. ... more information

New York: William Morrow & Co, 1977. 26 cm; 304 pages. Color and black-and-white photo illustrations. Cloth in dust jacket, VG/G, with slight fraying at edges of dust jacket. ... more information

Hagae-Comitum: Ex Typographia Adriani Vlaco, 1655. Editio secunda auctior et correctior. Reference: Houzeau & Lancaster 6190 and 7788.. Small quarto (21 cm); Extra printed title page, xl, 373, [11] pages, and two full-page engraved portraits of Tycho Brahe and Copernicus. Extra title page printed in red and black, dated 1655. Bound in contemporary vellum with gilt arms of the Society of Writers to the Signet. Some wear; covers dusty; minor foxing, etc. Writers to the Signet ownership inscription o... more information

Böblingen: Codex-Verlag, 1975. Facsimile of 1822 edition. 42 cm; five volumes in one. Bound in recent black buckram. Binding a bit discolored in places, contents fresh. Reprint of the 1822 ed. published in Stuttgart by J.G. Cotta and in Paris by F. Didot. Note: extra shipping charges may apply. ... more information

London: Hutchinson, 1964. Cloth. Edition not stated. Maps on endapers. Many color and black and white photos. Dust jacket chipped and rubbed at edges. The authors were the first westerners in Tibet after the Chinese takeover in 1951. ... more information

London: Jennings and Chaplin, 1832. Sequel to the 1817 Pompeiana by Gell and Gandy. Reference: Brunet II, 1520.. Large paper copy (Royal quarto, 30 cm); 2 volumes; xxiv,198; 207 pages, and 87 (numbered 88) plates, all of them proof plates, two of them hand-colored, and 30 engraved vignettes printed separately on India (?) and mounted. Rebacked with remains of original two-tone paneled calf, tooled in gilt, by Estes and Lauriat, spines and all edges restored; covers scuffed. Marbled endleaves. Text an... more information

13 August, 1828. 1 leaf, 20 x 12.5 cm. "Mr. Genet sends to Mrs. Morrison a parcel of woolen yarn-wrap and filling, which she is requested to sort and weave, and if there is more filling than wanted, to let Mr. Genet know the quantity." (Signed) "E.C. Genet" Then, in what seems to me a different hand, "There is 5 skeins of filling more than warp." Darkened along folds. Charles Edmond Genet (1763-1834) was a French agent who, during the American War of Independence, attempted to... more information

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1914. First edition. 30 cm; lii, 196 pages, and 64 plates, some of them in color, with tissue guards. Color frontispiece with glassine overlay. Bound in original green cloth stamped in gilt. Corners bumped, minor wear to edges; pages lightly and evenly toned, endleaves a bit darker; neat pencil notes on lower pastedown. Overall, clean, sound and entire. ... more information

Florence: per Néri Dorteláta, 1544. First edition. References: Adams G-589; European Americana I, 54; Sabin 27265; Fiske Dante 250; Olschki, Letteratura Dantesca (Cat. LXXV) 461; Harrisse, 260 ("This work ... is ... interesting ... on account of the introduction of accents ... but it requires no little stretch of imagination to place it among the books relating to America on the strength of a small fanciful map on page 18").. 16 cm; 153, [15] pages. Printer's device on title pa... more information

New York: Doubleday & McClure, 1899. First edition. 27 cm; 114 pages, illustrated. Bound in original decorated cloth. Text block shaken in binding; front hinge split. Complete. Text and illustrations unblemished. Condition noted. ... more information

Washington: September 6, 1841. 20 x 25 cm; 1 page, addressed to "Addison. This letter was written in the House of Representatives by Giddings (Whig, Ohio) while voting on the Clay-Benton Bank Bill, which was twice vetoed by President Tyler. A few days after this letter was written, Tyler's entire cabinet resigned (except for Daniel Webster) over the vetoes. The text of the letter is immediate: "It is now a quarter past two o"clock and we are voting on the enactment of the Bank Bill.... more information