Titles starting with A from Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio

Basel: J. Decker, 1796. First Edition. 22cm; 2 volumes only (of 4). v. 1. ...Depuis la Paix de Westphalie en 1648, jusqu'aux traités d'Utrecht et de la Barriere en 1715 -- v. 2. Depuis la Triple-Alliance en 1717 jusqu'à la Paix de Fontainebleau en 1785. x, 352 [2]; [2], 301, [1] pages (last blank). Bound in original publisher's marbled stiff wraps, untrimmed, with manuscript title labels. These two volumes contain the treaties of the South and West of Europe (Spain, Portugal, ... more information

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

London: Egypt Exploration Fund, 1902. First edition. 32 cm; 60 pages and 80 plates. Extra illustrated with photograph tipped in on front blank, and ink tracing on onion skin laid in showing "detail from arch leading to inner hall of tomb of Qen Amen," signed in March 1903 with the initials T.M. Bound in original printed boards with cloth spine. Boards and spine somewhat worn and text block somewhat shaken in binding. ... more information

London: Egypt Exploration Fund, 1902-03. First edition. 32 cm; 2 volumes (of three); 60 pages and 80 plates; 58 pages and 64 plates. Bound in original printed boards with cloth spine. Boards and spine somewhat worn and text block somewhat shaken in binding. Upper hinge of volume II split but holding. ... more information

Georgetown [DC], Office of Indian Trade: 30 September, 1819. 195 X 243 mm. Addressed to R. Smith, cashier in the Department of Indian Trade. Very good but for small chip on the lower right corner, affecting a part of the signature. Old mounting ghosts on verso. From the Dictionary of American Biography: James Madison appointed McKenney superintendent of Indian trade in 1816. As superintendent, he coordinated a network of government-owned trading houses known as the factory system. Established by Cong... more information

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

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

London: George Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode, 1838. First printing. Reference: Izhak Gross, "Parliament and the Abolition of Negro Apprenticeship, 1835-38," The English Historical Review 96 (1981) 560-576.. 30 cm; pages [181]-191. Disbound. Evenly toned. The British Parliament passed legislation in 1833 abolishing slavery in most of its colonies, but however well-intentioned, the law was ineffective. It created a new category of near-slavery, called apprenticeship, that was heavily abused and ... more information

London: Henry Fenwick, 1778. First Edition. 19cm; 151pages. Bound in recent half calf over marbled boards in period style, with six-panel spine decorated in blind and titled in gilt. A very rare treasure-chest of source material on Anglo-American relations in the years leading up to and into the Revolutionary War. In this compendium of communications between the Court of Common Council and George III, covering the years 1769-1778, one sees the London court's steadfast objections to trade restrictions p... more information

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

New York: George P. Putnam, 1849. First American edition. 20 cm; 244 pages, frontispiece, ads. Bound in original stamped cloth. Contents rather foxed, but sound and entire. ... more information

London: Harrison and Sons, 1891. First edition, inscribed by the author. Title continues: together with an account of some remains of the "disk worshippers": as also some funereal hieroglyphic inscriptions found at Memphis: accompanied also by a fac-simile and translation from a hieratic papyrus containing portions of the Book of the dead. 25cm; iv, 150, [2] pages, and [18] tinted folding lithograph plates. Bound in recent red quarter leather over red cloth, titled in gilt on spine. Inscribed... more information

Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum, 1978. First edition. Custom bound in black buckram. 2 volumes. 31cm; 143; 365 pages. Illustrated. ... more information

New York: Pantheon Books, 1949. Cloth. A sound reading copy, a bit dusty and rubbed at spine ends. Tiny abrasion in cloth on spine. ... more information

London: Egypt Exploration Fund, 1894. First Edition. 32cm; 39, 34 pages, and 27 plates (some folding, including map). "Appendix on Byzantine sculptures, by Professor T. Hayter Lewis, F.S.A. The tomb of Paheri at El Kab, by J.J. Tylor, F.S.A., and F. Ll. Griffith. Pub. by order of the committee." Original boards, shaken, hinges split, spine ends frayed, joints fraying. Yet sound. Fair condition overall. ... more information

New York: The Brooklyn Museum and the Viking Press, 1973. 27 cm; 231 pages, with numerous half tone and color illustrations. Sturdily hard-bound in later green buckram. Clean and unmarked. Catalog of an exhibition celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. ... more information

Albuquerque: Historical Society of New Mexico, 1953. 23 cm; [2],143,[1 blank] pages, and halftone frontispiece portrait. Yellow wraps. Wraps and edges a little dusty. ... more information

London: Printed for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, etc., 1791. 8vo (22 cm); [4], 270 pages. Bound in recent cloth. First appearance in English of the lively letters of Alciphron, the second-century Greek satirist. He presents the letters as if they were written by sailors, peasants, parasites and prostitutes, giving a vivid picture of popular culture in Athens. The letters from the prostitutes are especially interesting, not only for the clues they provide about the role of women in society, but for plots lifted ... more information

New Haven: From Sidney's hress. [sic] : For Increase Cooke & Co., 1803. First American Edition. 22 cm; xiii, [1], [15]-388, [4] pages. Bound in contemporary full tree calf, red leather label on spine, worn but entire. Ex library with release certification. Libary bookplate on pastedown and blind stamp on title page. Early ownership inscriptions include the name of Solomon G. Hitchcock, a 19th-century Connecticut clergyman and author of several pamphlets. Berkeley's defense of the Christian ... more information

Moscow: Izobrazitelínoe iskusstvo, 1980. Cloth. Monograph on the Russian painter. Text in Russian. Dust jacket chipped at crown. ... more information