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Abrégé de la vie des plus illustres philosophes de l'antiquité
Fénélon
Lyon: Mme J. Buynand née Bruyset, 1811. Nouvelle edition. 17 cm; xii, 335, [1 blank] pages, and seven plates of portrait busts of philosophers. Bound in contempory calf with gilt stamped border. Later leather label with extraneous legend. Edges gilt. Joints tender. Worm trail in gutter of first two gatherings affects how pages open and lay. Condition noted. ... more information
Offered by Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (New York, United States)
$25.00

 
Across the Plains
Stevenson, Robert Louis
London: Chatto & WIndus, 1892. First trade edition. Cloth. 8vo. Slight edge wear; owner's bookplate. Pieces on the American West, on Fontainbleau, Scotland, Sicily, Dreams, on being a professional artist, and a Christmas Sermon. Reference: Prideaux, 33. ... more information
Offered by Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (New York, United States)
$100.00

 
An Act for Continuation of the Act for Removing All Papists, and all Officers and Soldiers of Fortune and divers other Delinquents from London and Westminster
Great Britain, Parliament
An Act for Continuation of the Act for Removing All Papists, and all Officers and Soldiers of Fortune and divers other Delinquents from London and Westminster
London: Field, 1650. 1 leaf, folio, trimmed close to text, 21 x 22 cm. Woodcut capital; type in Gothic and Roman. Left edge backed with later paper. Condition noted. An anti-Catholic Act of Parliament, expelling Catholics from London and Westminster. Anti-Catholicism was a proominent factor in the British invasion of Ireland in the late 1640s, and Catholics would be enthusiastically scapegoated after the great London fire of 1666. ... more information
Offered by Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (New York, United States)
$150.00

 
Adventures in Collecting: Books and Blake and Buber
Lande, Lawrence M
Montreal: Montreal: McLennan Library, McGill University, 1976. 29 cm; 136, [1] pages and 17 half-tone plates. Printed in Baskerville type on Carlyle Japan paper and bound in full buckram with leather label by Morriss. Marble endpapers. An account of his mania by Canada's greatest book collector. ... more information
Offered by Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (New York, United States)
$35.00

 
Alpenblumenmärchen. Bilder und Texte von Ernst Kreidolf
Kreidolf, Ernst
Erlenbach-Z¸rich: Rotapfelverlag, 1922. Oblong, 26 x 33 cm; [40] pages, including 18 full-page color illustrations by Kreidolf. Pictorial endpapers. Bound in pictorial boards. Binding soiled and somewhat shaken, with early owner's inscription on title page. First trade edition. Flowers come alive. ... more information
Offered by Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (New York, United States)
$100.00

 
Alphabets. An introduction to written and printed letter forms
Scarfe, Laurence
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
Offered by Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (New York, United States)
$20.00

 
The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature. On Personal Identity. On the Nature of Virtue
Butler, Joseph
Boston: David West, 1809. 22 cm; iv, 422 pages. Bound in full calf, worn and scuffed at corners. Pages evenly toned, with some leaves foxed. This American edition of Joseph Butler (1692-1752) is significant in that Butler "Analogy" was a source for American trancendentalists such as Emerson and Thoreau. ... more information
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$50.00

 
The Antiquary
Scott, Sir Walter
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1857. 8vo (22cm); 479 pages, engraved title page and seven Romantic steel-engraved plates. Bound in 1/2 calf over swirled red and blue marbled boards, with marbled endleaves and edges. Spine decorated in gilt and titled on leather labels. (Lacks front free endpaper; extremities rubbed, fromt hinge starting.) A handsome copy over all with fine plates. ... more information
Offered by Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (New York, United States)
$30.00

 
Apologia Diffidentis
Leith, W. Compton
Third edition. London: John Lane, 1927. 20 cm; 186 pages. Title page printed in red and black. Bound in half vellum over marbled boards. Few spots on vellum. A manifesto for misanthropes. ... more information
Offered by Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (New York, United States)
$30.00

 
Apples and Plums. By Mabel
Parks, Mabel E
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
Offered by Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (New York, United States)
$65.00

 
The Art of Calligraphy
Jackson, Donald
N.p.: Governement Development Bank for Puerto Rico, [1971]. First edition. Folio.[4] text leaves, and two silkscreen plates loose in portfolio with tissue guards. Each plate initialed and numbered in pencil by the artist. Portfolio in slipcase. About to turn 60, Donald Jackson has exerted enormous influence over the development of modern calligraphy. ... more information
Offered by Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (New York, United States)
$250.00

 
The Australian Encyclopaedia
Jose, Arthur Wilberforce; Herbert James Carter
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1925. 28 cm; 2 volumes. 768;748 pages, and 50 color plates including folding plates, primarily of subjects in natural history, and several maps. Bound in original green cloth stamped in blind on covers and in gilt on spines. This copy inscribed in calligraphic hand to Otto Braitmayer from the Sydney office of the Dayton Moneyweight and Scale Company, dated March 1927. An artifact of the early days of IBM. In 1901, the company then known as the Computing Scale Company of A... more information
Offered by Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (New York, United States)
$150.00

 
Background to the Long Search
Smart, Ninian
London: British Broadcasting Corporation, 1977. 26 cm; 315 pages. Color photo illustrations. Cloth in dust jacket. VG/VG. ... more information
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$15.00

 
Balzac's Contes drolatiques ; Droll Stories collected from the Abbeys of Touraine
Balzac, Honore de
London: Privately printed, 1874. 23cm; viii, 366 pages. Fifty illustrations. Bound in 1/2 blue russia over marbled boards by Bayntun. Slightly rubbed at front joint and extremitites. Top edge gilt. ... more information
Offered by Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (New York, United States)
$80.00

 
Banbutsu hinagata gafu, volume 1
Eitaku; Yasuchika Otogawa; Tetsugoro Otsuka
Banbutsu hinagata gafu, volume 1
Nihonbashi-ku [i.e., Tokyo]: eto Kibe, 1880. First edition. Woodblock book in hanshi-bon format (23 cm). Volume 1 only (of 5). 19 double leaves, most of them illustrated. Traditional fukurotoji style binding, but lacks stitching. Disbound, pages thumbed, yet without marks or blemishes. Illustrates Japanese decorative motives and themes. ... more information
Offered by Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (New York, United States)
$150.00

 
Beethoven and Quebec
Lande, Lawrence
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
Offered by Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (New York, United States)
$10.00

 
Bibliography of Modern Icelandic Literature in Translation, Including Works Written by Icelanders in Other Languages
Mitchell, P. M., and Kenneth H. Ober
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1975. 317 p. Blue cloth. VG but for stain on top board. ... more information
Offered by Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (New York, United States)
$25.00

 
Bibliography of Comparative Literature
Baldensperger, Fernand, and Werner P. Friedrich
1950; Rpt. New York: Russell and Russell, 1960. Full cloth. Fundamental ... more information
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$10.00

 
Bibliomania. A tale
Flaubert, Gustave
London and Emmaus: Rodale Press, 1954. 19cm; 42 pages including four full-page color illustrations and several vignettes by Wragg. Bound in patterned boards. Endleaves are a facsimile of Flaubert's manuscript from the original in the Stefan Zweig collection. Advertising half-wrap present. ... more information
Offered by Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (New York, United States)
$25.00

 
Bibliotèque littéraire Marcel de Merre
Sotheby's
Paris: June 5 & 6, 2007. Wraps. Auction catalogue. ... more information
Offered by Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (New York, United States)
$10.00


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