Authors starting with P from Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1973. First Edition. Paper covered boards. Citations on various aspects of Democracy from Pericles to JFK. Wide-ranging and interesting. Inscribed to New School of Social Research founder Issai Hosiosky. Inscribed by the author ... more information

New York: Random House, 1995. Cloth in dust jacket. About fine. ... more information

New York and London: Johnson Reprint Company, 1972. 16 cm; xlii, [10], 237, [2], viii pages. Bound in stamped red cloth, no dust jacket. Facsimile reprint of an important and neglected treatise on the sensibilities of animals, refuting the postition of Descartes that "brute animals are mere machines." Some have suggested that the work is satiric in intent, and in fact supports Descartes. ... more information

N.p. ; Venice: N.p.; Leonardo e Giammario Basaglia, [1803]; 1784. 18 cm; Two titles bound together (Parini's "Poemetti" bound second). 559, [1 blank] ; 162 pages. Half title of second volume: "Poemetti di Giuseppe Parini." Bound in contemporary half vellum over patterned-paper boards. Leather label titled in gilt. Abrasion on upper board. Lower board dusty and somewhat discolored. Reference: Bustico, Bibliografia di Giuseppe Parini, #48. Parini has been called "the grea... more information

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. First Edition. Cloth. ... more information

Stuttgart: Strecker & Schröder, 1911. 24 cm; xiv, 876 pages. Portrait frontispiece and 56 half tone plates, 4 maps. Bound in original decorated cloth, with South Pacific motif on upper board. Bookplate of Olle Norbeck, the Swedish bank director who assembled a stunning collection of books in ethnography. German text glossed with compelling half tones and text illustrations. ... more information

London and New York: Frederick Warne & Co.; A. C. Armstrong & Son, 1882. 15cm; 24 pages "with 24 pictures in colours by George Lambert." Bound in illustrated boards. Spine split, some leaves beginning to separate, but still entire. Victorian tale about an apple and a plum that try to escape being made into a pie. ... more information

Bologna: Zanichelli, 1910. 5th edition. 25 cm; xii, 249 pages. Bound in recent vellum with leather cords, original wraps bound in, with art deco design by Carolis. Engraved pictorial bookplate of Ellen Elisabeth Hill. Untrimmed. Unblemished copy in very good condition. Fourth in the "Poesie di Giovanni Pascoli" series. ... more information

Bologna: Zanichelli, 1909. First edition. 25 cm; xii, 223, [1] pages. Bound in recent vellum with leather cords (cords missing from lower board), original wraps bound in, with art deco design by Carolis. Hinges of recent binding are tender. Untrimmed. Unblemished copy in very good condition. ... more information

London and New York: Edward Arnold, 1896. First edition. 24cm; xviii, 636 pages, and 22 plates. 1 (of two) folding map (lacks map showing area of Mahdist influence). Bound in original green decorated cloth. Spine slightly canted. Tear in gutter of list of illustrations, not affecting text. Owner's name on front blank. Minor shelf wear only. Top edge gilt. ... more information

Venice: Francesco Andreola, 1818. Nuova edizione. 17 cm; 214 pages. Bound in contemporary 1/4 sheep over marbled boards. Shelf worn. Pages toned and moderately foxed. Useful condition. Nth edition of the popular dictionary of mythology used as an auxiliary text in Italian schools at the turn of the 18th century. Pasini was responsible for the earliest editions, although his name appears nowhere in the present edition. ... more information

1951; Rpt. Bristol: Thoemmes, 1990. 23 cm; 120 p. Green cloth. Condition about fine. ... more information

Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1990. 20 cm; 439 pages. Wraps. VG+ ... more information

London and New York: Unwin Books and Barnes & Noble, 1964. 19 cm; 93 pages. Original wraps. Minor shelf wear only. ... more information

New York: Burt Franklin, 1978. Reprint of 1889 edition. 24 cm; 2 volumes. Bound in original green cloth. Negligible bumps at corners. ... more information

Argentorati [i.e., Strassburg]: sumptibus authoris filij S. Paulli,, 1665. First edition. Reference: Biblioteca nicotiana 71; Sabin 59223. Quarto (22 cm); [11] 61 leaves, including engraved portrait; two additional folding engraved plates of tea utensils. Text in Latin and German. Bound in contemporary full vellum over boards. Pages somewhat browned, with foxing especially on first and last leaves. One of the pioneering works on the medicinal properties of tobacco, tea and salvia, and one of the fir... more information

Copenhagen: P.G. Philipsens, 1894. Second edition ("Andet forandrede Oplag"). 23 cm; 170 pages. 117 illustrations in text. Bound in half pebbled morocco over pale leather sculpted in an unusual "sandy bottom" pattern, that is, like sand in shallow water. Upper 2 cm of backstrip torn away but present; front joint split halfway up; stain along lower joint. Pages evenly toned; occasional marginal mathematical notations in pencil, else clean and unblemished internally. Adam Paulsen, the... more information

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1927. First edition. 21 cm; 208 pages, including 115 illustrations and diagrams. Bound in red cloth with original printed dust jacket, protected in mylar. Closed tear at base of title page; pages evenly toned. ... more information

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1927. First edition. 21 cm; 152 pages, including illustrations and diagrams. Bound in blue cloth with original printed dust jacket, protected in mylar. ... more information

London: Methuen & Co, 1905. 20 cm; 144, 40 pages and 100 color plates. Bound in blue cloth decorated in gilt on spine. Binding very well preserved. Text and plates show moderate foxing. Sound and entire. First edition. ... more information