Authors starting with S from Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio

Bari: Laterza, 1936. Cloth. 550 p. Cloth. Original wraps bound in. Sonnets, canzoni and madrigals by Petrarch's contemporary. ... more information

Berlin: Verlag der Königl. Akademie der Wissenschaften, in Kommission bei G. Reimer, 1908. First edition. 28 cm; 46 pages, and two folding plates. Bound in original printed boards. Quite worn. Ex-library, with discard stamp. Contents clean. ... more information

Trois-Rivières (Quebec): 16 May, 1664. Lande, Creditability of Land, #286. 240 x 355 mm; one leaf, extracted. Professionally reinforced on four sides and on horizontal fold with Japan paper. Text quite faded but legible. Marginal stains. A leaf from the register of Trois-Rivières, signed by the first governor of New France, Saffray Mézy, and by François Laval, as Bishop of Pétrée. Trois-Rivières, at the confluence of the St. Lawrence and St. Maurice ri... more information

Paris: Chez P. Fr. Didot le jeune , 1791. First edition. Reference: Cioranescu, 58849; Tchemerzine, V, 651.. 13 cm; xlvij, [1], 130 pages. Lacks final blank (?) leaf, as in LC and most other copies. First edition per BN, with vertical chainlines and with statement "De l'imprimerie de Monsieur" preceding publisher's imprint. Bound in contemporary full calf, with double fillets in gilt on both boards. Red leather title label gilt. Light wear, crown a little rubbed; contents clean and b... more information

Milano: Salamon 3 Agustoni, 1971. First edition. 31 cm; 33 pages, and 34 plates (13 of them folding). Original cloth in dust jacket. Minor edge wear to dust jacket. ... more information

Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1968. 22 cm; 94 pages, including 70 plates. Color frontispiece. Wraps ... more information

London: Religious Tract Society, [1915?]. 3rd edition. Decorative Cloth. Frontispiece in color, photo offset plates in black and white. Somewhat spotted and canted. ... more information

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964. First American. Cloth. 29cm; 159 pages. Translated from the German by Michael Bullock. Cloth slightly discolored at edges. ... more information

Chicago: Univeristy of Chicago Press, 1928. Oriental Institute Communications, No. 3. 25cm; [xii], 52 pages, and map. Half tone illustrations in text. Printed wraps, frayed with loss at corners. Upper wrap detaching, spine frayed/ On pre-historic Egypt. Forward by James Henry Breasted. ... more information

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1929. First edition. 31 cm; xvi, 77 pages, and 11 plates. Full color folded and linen-backed wall map, 41 x 70 cm. Cloth in dust jacket. Dust jacket darkened and splitting at folds; cloth and text about fine. ... more information

Bari: Laterza, 1912. 21 cm; 466 pages. Bound in original printed wraps. Poor condition, offered as reading copy only. Text block cracked, holding by threads; one leaf with closed lateral tear. No marks or blemishes. "Scrittori d'Italia" series. Contains the text of L'amor Costante by Alessandro Piccolomini; L'Aridosia by Lorenzino de' Medici; Il Ragazzo by Lodovico Dolce; and I Bernardi by Francesco D'Ambra ... more information

Padua: Editrice Antenore, 1979. 8vo; 434 p. Wraps. Shelf wear only. Comprehensive study of a neglected body of work: vernacular poetry in Naples during the latter half of the 15th century. Rare. ... more information

London: Printed for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1787. Second edition. Recent leather in period style. 22cm; 2 volumes. 4 folding plates, including three maps and a plan of the Great Pyramid. Pages evenly toned but crisp and fresh. Kalfatovic 0157 ('an excellent account of Egypt before the French occupation"); Ibrahim-Hilmy II, 214. ... more information

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1965. First edition. 36 cm; unpaginated. 114 collotype illustrations, many in color and mounted. Cloth in dust jacket. Dust jacket a bit soiled, with loss of patina and small chip at upper right; contents unblemished. English translation of Museo egizio di Torino. Extra shipping charges may apply. ... more information

London: Batsford, 1954. First edition. 4to (27 cm); 192 p., including 102 pages of alphabets on yellow, blue and pink paper, and more than 75 pages of facsimile reproductions of historical types and scripts. Cloth in dust jacket. light to moderate wear, sound and entire. First edition. ... more information

Paris: P. Jannet, 1857. 2 volumes; 16cm. 352, 304 pages. Red cloth, stamped in blind, titled in gilt on spine. "Bibliotèque elzivirienne" series, vols. 91-92. Minor wear only, with two millimeters of cloth shaved from the top of the spine of volume 1. Bookplate of Isaac Norris. The most celebrated work of satirist Paul Scarron (1610-1660). ... more information

Paris: Nizet, 1973. 488 p. Wraps, slightly buckled on spine. ... more information

Berlin: Propyläen-Verlag, 1925. 27 cm; 726 pages, and 32 color plates mounted on black stock; many color and b/w illustrations in text. Bound in recent sturdy library cloth. ... more information

Como: Tipografi Ostinelli di Cesare Nani, 1921. First edition. 23 cm; [xii], 207, [5] pages, with 32 illustrations in text. [1] leaf publisher's ad laid in. Bound in original printed wraps. Untrimmed, unsophisticated copy. Foxing present on wraps and along fore edge. ... more information

New York: Macmillan, 1955. 25 cm; 27 pages of plates. Cloth in dust jacket. Dust jacket somewhat discolored along spine. ... more information