Titles starting with J from Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio

Boston: Houghton Mifflin/Riverside, 1958. First edition. 153 p. Cloth in dust jacket (jacket designed by the master calligrapher Ismar David). VG/VG.. A brainy mid-century drama based on the Book of Job. ... more information

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1964. 34 cm; 295 pages. Illustrated. Cloth in dust jacket, VG/G, with chips and frays at edges of dust jacket. First trade edition. ... more information

1907 . 26 cm; 1 text page and 26 double leaves, each page illustrated with original silkscreen floral designs with saturated colors applied by pochoir (a stencil process). Bound in traditional "fukuro toji" fashion. Lacks title, lacks upper wrap. Date taken from author's introductory remark on text page. In spite of missing title, all illustrations are fresh and bright. ... more information

Paris: Gallimard / Bibliotèque de la Pléiade, 1987. 18 cm; 1503 pages. Silk signet. Leather in printed slip case, protected in mylar. Edited by Pierre Clarac and Yves Sandre. ... more information

Leiden: S. et J. Luchtmans, 1809. 4to (28 cm); [2] leaves, [42], 318, [2] pages. Bound in recent quarter cowhide over marbled paper boards in 18th-century style, with raised bands and leather label. Some pages browned. Unopened. See Sandys, II, 461. Professor of Greek at the University of Leiden over a period of 22 years, Luzac was killed in 1807 when a barge full of gunpowder exploded without warning. This treatise "on the adultery of Socrates" marks the advance of classical scholarship into qu... more information

Montreal: The Lawrence Lande Foundation for Canadian Historical Research, McLennan Library, McGill University, 1987. 26 cm; lvi, 263 pages, including illustrations, facsimiles and maps, some folding. Printed in a limited edition of 100 copies on Archivart paper and bound in blue simulated leather with device stamped in gilt on top board by Pierre Ouvrard. Signed by Lande. As new. Bibliographical descriptions of 393 manuscripts, documents and books illustrating the roots of modern commerce in North America,... more information

Montreal: The Lawrence Lande Foundation for Canadian Historical Research, McLennan Library, McGill University, 1988. 26 cm; xxi, 197 pages, including illustrations, facsimiles and maps, some folding. Printed in a limited edition of 100 copies on Archivart paper and bound in blue simulated leather with device stamped in gilt on top board by Pierre Ouvrard. Signed by Lande. As new. Bibliographical descriptions of 293 manuscripts, documents and books illustrating the roots of modern commerce in North America,... more information

Montreal: The Lawrence Lande Foundation for Canadian Historical Research, McLennan Library, McGill University, 1989. 26 cm; xlii, 183 pages, including illustrations, facsimiles and maps, some folding. Printed in a limited edition of 100 copies on Tweedweave paper and bound in blue simulated leather with device stamped in gilt on top board by Pierre Ouvrard. Signed by Lande. As new. Bibliographical descriptions of 293 manuscripts, documents and books illustrating the roots of modern commerce in North Americ... more information

Montreal: [Alfred Van Peteghem], 1980. 2 vols. 28 cm. 36, [1], 28 pages, including facsimiles. Wraps. One of 150 numbered copies printed on Strathmore Pastelle and signed by Lande. Complete bibliographical descriptions of 63 books, manuscripts and documents from the collection of the Canadian bibliophile Lawrence M. Lande, all relating to the John Law and the development of modern trade and commerce. Introduction by scholar-bookseller Israel Ehrlich. ... more information

Paris: Editions DenoÎl, 1938. Illustrated Wraps. 23cm; 243 pages. Text in French. Front joint tender. Well-researched biography of John Law in his later years. ... more information

Montreal: Lawrence Lande Foundation for Canadian Historical Research, McLennan Library, McGill University, 1986. 29cm; xxiv, 203 pages, facsimile illustrations of manuscripts, documents and maps. Annotated catalogue of a portion of Lawrence Lande's John Law collection, consisting of books, documents, manuscripts and maps related to the financial development of North America in the 17th and 18th century. Lande (d. 1999), the most prominent Canadian bibliophile of his day, created a vast and far-reachi... more information

Paris: Sfelt, 1950. 23 cm; 298 pages. Bound in original pictorial wraps. Unopened and untrimmed. Shelf wear only. Wraps a little dusty. ... more information

New York: Praeger, 1971. 25 cm; 275 pages. Illustrated. Cloth in dust jacket, G/G, with light pale dampstain in lower right margin of text. ... more information