Authors starting with L from Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio

New York and London: Scribner & Welford; John C. Nimmo, 1885. First edition of this translation; limited to 200 copies in the US and 300 in Great Britain.. Octavo (23 cm); 3 preliminary leaves, [9]-31, v, [7]-494 pages. Engraved frontispiece portrait of La Bruyere, six additional engraved portraits by Benjamin Damman of Montaigne, Descartes, Le Brun, Louis XIV, William III, and Bossuet. Fifteen (of sixteen) vignette headpieces engraved on tissue by Valentine Foulquier and mounted at chapter titles (l... more information

Montreal: August 27, 1716. 1 leaf folio (35cm); torn at bottom edge with loss of text at lower right of recto and damage to signatures at lower left of verso. Repaired with blank white paper, which has toned to tan. Main text and signatures still present and legible. Condition noted. Reference: Lande, Political Economy of New France, #214. In 1715, the Compagnie du Castor, directed by Nicolas de la Lanouillier, retained the monopoly on the beaver trade in Canada. The company failed to honor its bills ... more information

Venice: Vincenzio Formaleoni, 1784. Four volumes only. Octavo (20 cm); 260; 267; 224,60; 296 pages, two full-page engraved illustrations, two folding illustrations, two folding charts, and four folding engraved maps. Volumes 18 through 21 only divorced from original 39-volume set. Bound in contemporary full vellum over boards, titled in manuscript on spine. Speckled edges. Vellum discolored on lower board of vol 18. Lower hinge of vol 18 split but holding. Map of Gulf of Mexico loose but present. Sca... more information

[Paris]: 20 February, 1586. 213 x 342 mm; 2 leaves (second leaf blank). Text in humanist chancery hand, signed on verso of first leaf. Rare autograph of an early North American settler, Viceroy of New France and founder of the fish and fur establishment at Ile de Sable in 1598. The French King Henry IV granted La Roche de Mesgouez the title of viceroy of New France, with the rights to govern the country and, eventually, letters patent granting him a monopoly on the North American fur trade. After two fa... more information

Reference: Lande, Beginnings of Exploration, #163. No place, no date (before 1716). Watermark: three crosses on a sphere (see Churchill, #31, dating this paper 1696-1719) Unsigned. 155 x 215 mm. 13 lines of text. Top edge repaired with cello tape. Strip of cello tape on bottom edge. This note lists belongings consigned by one Henri Lafortune to Olivier Morel de la Durantaye, among others. It says that Lafortune leaves two packs of beaver with "the reverend fathers" in exchange for 300 liv... more information

Cairo: Lehnert & Landrock, 1978. Glossy Pictorial Cover. A catalogue of the collections. Text in English, French and German. 301 pages. Illustrated. No DJ as Issued. ... more information

Tel Aviv: Dvir, 1950. First Edition. Original Boards. Boards require restoration: joints cracked and back strip peeling away; text block sound and entire. First edition of important 20th-century Hebrew poem composed just after the establishment of the State of Israel. Dramatically illustrated by Nahum Gutman. Rare and desirable in any condition. ... more information

New York: Columbia University Press, 1950. First Edition. Cloth. First owner's stamp on front free endpaper. Light green dust jacket price-clipped, with spine sun-faded. Preserved in mylar. Five essays that nature prior ot knowledge or language, contrary to most current trends. ... more information

Montreal: Privately printed, 1960. 27 cm; 89 pages on double leaves, printed on hand-made Hosho paper. Title page in red and black. White and mauve linen over boards, titled in gilt. One of two hundred signed and numbered copies of the enlarged edition (a slimmer collection, "Response to Precious Moments," was published in 1959). Introduction by Edgar A. Collard. VG with some shelf wear and discoloration. ... more information

Montreal: n.p., 1972. 36 cm x 34 cm; [8], 67, xxix leaves, including illustrations and printed music; and 2 phonodiscs (33 1/2 rpm, 12 in.) in sleeves on integrated into endpapers. Dark red printed paper over boards, in slipcase. Edition limited to only 100 copies, signed by Lande, Stein, and Duplessis. As new. Poems and songs by the Canadian bibliophile Lawrence Lande. Music arranged and performed with Lande by Karl Duplessis. ... more information

Montreal: The Redpath Library, McGill University, 1966. 24 cm; [20] pages and 8 facsimiles and portraits. Printed wraps, staple bound. Fine condition. Reproduces a fragment in Beethoven's hand from "Freu dich des Lebens" that he wrote out for the Canadian music teacher Theodore Molt in 1825. According to the text, this is Beethoven's only known communication with North America. A note by Edgar Andrew Collard glosses the fragment and explains its history. Texts in English and French. Editi... more information

Montreal: McGill University, 1973. 28 cm; [1], 23 pages, including facsimiles and illustrations. Printed wraps, sewn. Annotated check list of 112 manuscripts, printed sheets, books and documents related to music in Canada, including Native American music. ... more information

Montreal: The Lawrence Lande Foundation for Canadian Historical Research, McLennan Library, McGill University, 1987. 26 cm; lvi, 263 pages, including illustrations, facsimiles and maps, some folding. Printed in a limited edition of 100 copies on Archivart paper and bound in blue simulated leather with device stamped in gilt on top board by Pierre Ouvrard. Signed by Lande. As new. Bibliographical descriptions of 393 manuscripts, documents and books illustrating the roots of modern commerce in North America,... more information

Montreal: The Lawrence Lande Foundation for Canadian Historical Research, McLennan Library, McGill University, 1988. 26 cm; xxi, 197 pages, including illustrations, facsimiles and maps, some folding. Printed in a limited edition of 100 copies on Archivart paper and bound in blue simulated leather with device stamped in gilt on top board by Pierre Ouvrard. Signed by Lande. As new. Bibliographical descriptions of 293 manuscripts, documents and books illustrating the roots of modern commerce in North America,... more information

Montreal: The Lawrence Lande Foundation for Canadian Historical Research, McLennan Library, McGill University, 1989. 26 cm; xlii, 183 pages, including illustrations, facsimiles and maps, some folding. Printed in a limited edition of 100 copies on Tweedweave paper and bound in blue simulated leather with device stamped in gilt on top board by Pierre Ouvrard. Signed by Lande. As new. Bibliographical descriptions of 293 manuscripts, documents and books illustrating the roots of modern commerce in North Americ... more information

Montreal: The Lawrence Lande Foundation for Canadian Historical Research, McGill University, 1975. 28 cm; 68 pages in stapled wraps. Facsimiles. Edition limited to 100 copies signed by Lande. Full bibliographical descriptions of 366 books, manuscripts and documents relating to Canada. ... more information

Montreal: The Lawrence Lande Foundation for Canadian Historical Research, McGill University, 1975. 28 cm; 62 pages in stapled wraps. Facsimiles. Edition limited to 100 copies signed by Lande. Full bibliographical descriptions of 474 books, manuscripts and documents relating to Canada. ... more information

Montreal: McGill University (Lawrence Lande Foundation for Canadian Historical Research), 1967. 23 cm; 67 pages, and 9 plates (one folding). Bound in stiff printed wraps. One of 500 copies signed by the author. ... more information

Montreal: [Alfred Van Peteghem], 1980. 2 vols. 28 cm. 36, [1], 28 pages, including facsimiles. Wraps. One of 150 numbered copies printed on Strathmore Pastelle and signed by Lande. Complete bibliographical descriptions of 63 books, manuscripts and documents from the collection of the Canadian bibliophile Lawrence M. Lande, all relating to the John Law and the development of modern trade and commerce. Introduction by scholar-bookseller Israel Ehrlich. ... more information

Montreal: The Lawrence M. Lande Foundation for Canadian Historical Research, McLennan Library, McGill University, 1982. 29 cm; [xx], 193 pages, including facsimiles and illustrations of original material, some printed separately and tipped in. Printed on Strathmore Pastelle and bound in simulated leather by Pierre Ouvrard. Edition limited to 195 copies. The rise and fall of John Law, a Scot who single-handedly introduced paper money and credit into France and briefly became the most powerful banker in Euro... more information