Authors starting with W from Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio

London: [Privately printed] by Taylor and Francis, 1900. First edition, limited to 200 copies, of which this is number 40. 29 cm; xix, 37, [1] pages, and 12 chromolithograph plates. Bound in original green and cream-colored cloth, titled in gilt. Binding worn at edges and somewhat soiled. Cloth on spine tanned and a bit brittle. Plates lightly toned at edges. ... more information

Stockholm: Generalstabens litografiska anstalt, 1935. First edition. 26 cm; xvi, 668 pages. Half-tone portrait, plates; several folding maps (some in colors), tables and diagrams. Bound in original printed wraps. Upper joint a little tender, and ruptured toward crown and heel, yet holding firm. Festschriften presented to Sven Hedin on his seventieth birthday, published by the Svenska Sällskapet för Antropologi och Geografi. The list of contributors reads like an international who's who o... more information

London: Printed for Rodwell and Martin [etc.], 1820. 22 cm; 4 volumes. Stipple engraved portrait frontispiece. Bound in uniform tan polished calf, gilt rules, with six-panel spines tooled in gilt and leather labels. Binding generally quite good, with variations in color and some marks, but leather labels are chipped with loss on volumes 1 and 4, and spine ends are shelf-worn. Upper board of volume 4 bumped. Early armorial bookplate. Text bright and clean. ... more information

San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1986. First American. Cloth. ... more information

New York: G. P. Putnam's, 1949. 22cm; 503 pages. Library discard stamp on title page but no other marks. Cloth, no dust jacket. Translated by Naomi Walford. ... more information

London: John Murray, 1902. First edition. 22 cm; : xviii, 122 pages, and sixteen plates. Bound in original decorated cloth, somewhat worn. Library bookplate and withdrawal stamp; blind stamp on title page. ... more information

Franklin Center: The Franklin Library, 1981. 24 cm; 298 pages. Illustrated by Elaine Raphael and Don Bolognese. Bound in full blue morocco stamped in gilt; raised bands. Mauve silk moiré endpapers and ribbon. All edges brightly gilt. Mint. Signed by Warren. Signed by Author ... more information

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1955. First Edition. Cloth. Inscribed by Saul K. Padover to Issai Hosiosky, founder og the Graduate Faculty at the New School for Social Research. ... more information

London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans,, 1843. Ex-Library. 27cm; 272 pages and 12 plates (including tinted lithographs and one engraving).Wood-engraved illustrations in text. Bound in recent faux leather. Few underlines and marginal marks in pencil. Library stamp on title page and on verso of one plate. ... more information

[London, etc.]: G.G. Harrap & Co., 1944. (c1943). Cloth. 154 pages. Photographic illustrations. Chipped and Torn DJ. ... more information

New York: Crown Publishers, 1966. Cloth. Many tipped-in plates. Dust jacket chipped at edges and pasted to binding at flaps. ... more information

Boston: J.E. Hinckley and Co., 1832. 22cm; 32 pages. Stab-stitched in wraps, titled in ink "Speech of D. Webster." Light foxing on margins of title page; pages evenly toned. Reference: Sabin 102280 In July 1832, the 22nd Congress voted to re-charter the Second Bank of the United States, whose original charter was to expire in 1836. President Andrew Jackson vetoed the Bank Bill, and the Senate vote of July 13 failed to overide the veto. Daniel Webster (1782-1852) supported the measure and ... more information

Montpelier, VT: E. P. Walton, n.d., but after 1843. Last Revised Edition. 12mo (18 cm); 168 pages. Woodcut frontispiece, title page with woodcut ornamental border, and seven woodcut vignettes in text. Bound in quarter cloth over printed boards, with title page reproduced on upper board. Worn and thumbed, yet sound and entire. Published in the year of the author's death. ... more information

New York: Philosophical Library, 1963. Cloth. Broad-section anthology of texts in English translation. ... more information

London: MacDonald, 1973. First edition. 25cm; 138 pages, including color and black-and-white plates. Cloth in dust jacket, in very good condition. Research into Egyptian mummies using x-ray photography. ... more information

London: Thornton Butterworth, 1922. New and revised ed.. Cloth. 23cm; 255 pages; photographic illustrations. ... more information

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1924. Original Cloth. 29cm; xxii, 353, [1] pages. Illustrated with halftones. ... more information

London: Thornton Butterworth, 1923. First edition. 23cm; 286 pages; 16 halftone photographic illustrations. Cloth, no dust jacket ... more information

London: The Wellcome Foundation, 1927. First edition. 23 cm; 118 pages, including frontispiece and several plates. Bound in blue cloth stamped in gilt with Egyptian motif on upper board and Wellcome monogram on lower board. A description of the museum and its contents, along with proceedings of the opening ceremonies, where theory of museology was discussed. ... more information

Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1923. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Juvenile fiction based on Caesar's Gallic Wars. ... more information