Authors starting with R from Rulon-Miller Books

London: privately printed for the Navarre Society Limited. 1921. 2 volumes, 8vo; 2 plates, numerous illustrations throughout text, approximately 100 are full-page; ex-library copy with usual markings; very good or better in original white cloth, gilt lettering on spines, t.e.g. ... more information

London: John Lane The Bodley Head; New York: Boni & Liveright. [1927]. First edition thus, limited to 4300 (!) sets, 2 volumes, 8vo; 24 plates, numerous illustrations throughout text, a fine set in original decorative black cloth stamped in gilt on upper covers and spines, and preserving the printed dust jackets, chipped at spine ends and with splits starting along the folds. ... more information

Paris: Librairie Garnier Frères, n.d.. [ca. 1937]. Small folio, pp. [4], 56; illustrated in color and black and white throughout; original red cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards, one scrape approx. 1½" x 2½" on front cover affecting the border of the illustration, text a bit browned, all else very good. One copy in OCLC. ... more information

Oxford & London: Oxford University Press. 1930. First edition in English, 8vo, pp. xii, 408; near fine copy in a very good jacket. ... more information

London, Cape Town [et al.]: Sampson Low, [and] J. C. Juta & Co.. 1898. First edition, 8vo, pp. xix, [1], 248; folding map printed in red and black, and 53 illustrations on 48 plates; spine ends rubbed, light overall wear, but generally a good, sound copy in original pictorial red cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine. ... more information

Grand Marais, Minnesota: Cook County Historical Society. 1981. First edition, large 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 402, illustrations throughout, original green cloth stamped in black, two notes in pen on front cover and a few pen underlinings in text, else very good. This copy with a full-page (ffep) inscription from the author to Waring Jones dated October 10, 1981. ... more information

London: John Murray. 1830. 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xlviii, 536; iv, 332, clxxix (appendices and index); 2 folding tables; slightly later half red morocco over marbled boards; gilt- lettered direct on gilt-decorated spine, t.e.g.; some scuffing of the leather, but generally very good. Without the separately published quarto atlas of plates. ... more information

Copenhague: Secretariat de la Societe, imprimerie de J.H. Schultz. 1845. First edition, second (and best) issue, containing all the sheets of the first issue of 1837, but with an additional 24-p. introduction and a French (as opposed to a Danish) title-page; folio, engraved title-page, pp. 24, xl, 479, [1], [6] genealogical tables; 8 facsimiles, 10 engraved plates and maps, including the coast of southeast New England, a folding map of the North Atlantic, and two double-p. maps, including 1 of Iceland; a bi... more information

New York: Atheneum. 1981. First edition, 8vo, pp. 114, [3]; illustrations throughout; fine in original yellow cloth, dust-jacket with light edge wear. Explains how we see and how other creatures see to a juvenile audience. ... more information

Norimbergae: haeredum Felseckerianorum. 1737. Small 4to, pp. [20], 82; title-p. printed in red and black; engraved head- piece, woodcut tailpieces, folding plate of Ptolemy dressed as a king in his palace with his instruments, folding plate of Greek and Latin script, and an engraved plate illustrating a border from another manuscript; 20th century half brown morocco, gilt-lettered direct on spine, t.e.g., corners and upper joint rubbed. Raidel (1702-1741) was deacon at Altdorf and later at the church of St.... more information

London: Surtees Society. 1890. 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 100; old college bookplate on front free endpaper, pressure stamp in margin of preliminaries, top of spine chipped away, all else very good in original green cloth, gilt-lettered spine. ... more information

Delmar, NY: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints. 1977. 8vo, pp. xxiii, [1] plus facsimile text of 4 p.l. and 62 ff.; fine in original blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine. ... more information

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.. [1956]. First edition, 8vo, xvi, 272; endpaper maps, illustrations in the text, 16 photographs on rectos and versos of 8 plates; a fine copy in the dust jacket. "A woman's story of her adventures in the man's world of an oceanographic expedition" (cover). ... more information

New York: J. W. Bouton. 1892. 8vo, pp. xviii, 254; 10 plates by Alfred Thompson; recent gray cloth, gilt lettering on spine, t.e.g.; library perforated stamp in bottom margin of title-p. and small rubberstamp on verso, all else near fine. ... more information

Cleveland: World Publishing Co.. [1966]. Facsimiles of the 1596 and 1601 editions, sm. 4to, pp. [16], 112, [2]; [12], 97, [1]; orig. gilt-stamped vellum, yapp edges, linen ties, publisher's felt-lined folding box, with the separately printed Introductions and Notes laid in, as issued. Generally fine. ... more information

Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd. 1852. First edition, 12mo, xiv & 189pp., orig. blue cloth (spotted); with an advertisement slip tipped-in at title. A concise, no-nonsense grammar written for the use of Scottish students by a professor of language and literature in the Naval and Military Academy; Rampini was also a fellow of the Educational Institute of Scotland and the Edinburgh Philosophical Society. A second edition of this work appeared in the 1860's. Scarce. NUC locates 1 copy only. ... more information

Glasgow: printed and sold by Andrew Foulis. 1796. Tall folio (14½"), pp. [4], 86, 15 (Glossary), [1], 18 (engraved music); engraved frontispiece portrait, 12 engraved aquatints by David Allen; full contemporary tree calf neatly and sympathetically rebacked, red morocco label on spine; minor rubbing, but a nice copy. One of the last of the Foulis Press imprints, followed only by an edition of Euripides, in Greek, dated 1797, and a book on Roman antiquities possibly printed by Andrew Foulis in 180... more information

London: B. T. Batsford, Ltd.. [1987]. 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 250; 16 illustrations on rectos and versos of 8 plates; fine copy in the dust-jacket. First published in a limited format in 1954. ... more information

Saint Anthony: printed by H. & J.P. Woodbury. 1852. 8vo, 13pp., recent brown cloth; title browned, with closed on verso and with small chips out at top gutter and corner, the paper quite delicate. The first book printed in what is present-day Minneapolis. The same text was printed in Saint Paul by Goodhue at about the same time. The only other 1852 Saint Anthony printing (exclusive of the newspapers, the earliest of which was dated May 31, 1851) is the Minutes of the Minnesota Baptist Association, print... more information

St. Paul: at the Pioneer Office. 1853. "Fifteen Hundred Copies Printed by Order of the House of Representatives," containing the Governor's Message, 8pp.; Second Annual Report of the Superintendent of Common Schools, 8pp.; School Law of Minnesota, 8pp.; Auditor's Report, 8pp.; Report of the Board of the Building Commissioners, 30pp.; Report of the Adjutant General, 8pp. 8vo, fine copy in original printed wrappers. Martin, Minnesota Imprints, 38 (containing Martin nos. 37, 35, 43, 34 & ... more information