Titles starting with V from Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio

Praha (Prague): Odeon, 1928. First edition. 20 cm; 196 pages. Bound in full cloth with panel design in red and gilt on upper board by Karel Teige. Shaken in binding, splitting at crown and heel. Some gilding worn away from upper board. Cover design by avant-garde artist Karel Teige. After welcoming the Soviet army as liberators, Teige was silenced by the Communist government in 1948. In 1951 he died of a heart attack, said to be a result of a ferocious Soviet press campaign against him as a 'Trotsk... more information

London: T. Nelson & Sons, 1867. First edition. 17 cm; 224 pages, including many full-page and in-text wood-engraved illustrations. Bound in green cloth stamped in gilt, with gilt image of obelisk on spine. Pencil notes on endleaves. Slightly shaken, but sound and entire. ... more information

London, 24 May 1995. 157 lots. Lavishly illustrated. Wraps. Minor wear. Exemplary descriptions. ... more information

London, 3 April 1996. 264 lots. Lavishly illustrated. Wraps. Minor wear. Exemplary descriptions. ... more information

New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1966. First Edition. First edition. Cloth in dust jacket, VG/VG-, with minor wear only (small abrasion on front pastedown). Front flap of dust jacket lacking. Warmly inscribed by the author to photographer Louise Burnett "with my sincere thanks for your great help on the Suffern photosÖ." (Some of Burnett's photos illustrate the text; she is also acknowledged in the author's preface.) Laid in are two Autograph letters, signed: 1) ALs, May 12, ... more information

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1976. 32 cm; 125 pages and 23 plates. Cloth in dust jacket. Dust jacket stained, but cloth and contents unblemished. ... more information

Praha (Prague): Klub Socialisticke Kultury, 1947. 23 cm; 116, [2] pages. Printed wraps designed by Karel Teige. Wraps beginning to separate from text block at spine; digits penned in ink in corner of upper wrap, and small abrasion to wrap on spine. Text unmarked and unblemished. First edition in Czech of the French philosopher's 1942 essay on the principles of democracy. Cover design by avant-garde artist Karel Teige. After welcoming the Soviet army as liberators, Teige was silenced by the Communi... more information

New York: Newsweek, 1973. First Edition. Padded leatherette. 4to. 172 pages, with many photographic illustrations. Published in the Newsweek Book Division "Wonders of Man" series. Informative text. ... more information

Paris: Perrin, 1914. 21 cm; 412 pages. Original printed wraps. Shelf-worn, well-read copy, yet sound and entire. Old signature erased from title page. ... more information

Paris: Pierre Charron, 1972. 136 p. cloth in d.j. "Collection Les Geants ... more information

Bassano: Remondini, 1795. 16cm; 298 pages. Bound in original publisher's boards. Boards worn with worm trails present at joints and extending to first two leaves of text. Text somewhat shaken in binding. A few leaves are dog-eared, but text is generally clean. Book bears several manuscript ownership marks of Carlo de Herra (fl. 1800-1850). De Herra apparently owned the book in his youth, and claimed it by writing his name on the upper board (dated 1791), and on all three edges of the text block.... more information

Munich: Kˆsek-Verlag, 1966. Cloth. ... more information

Milano: Tipografia Guglielmini (on cover: Giuseppe Marghieri), 1858. First edition. 22 cm; xxiii, 550 pages. Original printed wraps. Unopened. Two-inch (5 cm) fray at joint of upper wrap. Pages lightly toned. History of the turbulent end of the 18th century, published posthumously. ... more information

[Paris]: 20 February, 1586. 213 x 342 mm; 2 leaves (second leaf blank). Text in humanist chancery hand, signed on verso of first leaf. Rare autograph of an early North American settler, Viceroy of New France and founder of the fish and fur establishment at Ile de Sable in 1598. The French King Henry IV granted La Roche de Mesgouez the title of viceroy of New France, with the rights to govern the country and, eventually, letters patent granting him a monopoly on the North American fur trade. After two fa... more information

Brest: 10 April, 1689. 190 x 285 mm; woodcut arms of France in upper margin. Boldly signed by d'Estrées, and countersigned by his secretary, Lalanne. Jean comte d'Estrees, Vice-Admiral of France and Viceroy of America, here orders to have the roads repaired in the village of Ploudiry, near Brest, in order to lubricate the military supply lines. ... more information

Brest: 10 April, 1689. Reference: Lande, John Law: The Evolution of his System, # 109. 190 x0285 mm; one leaf broadside. Signed by Estrées and countersigned by his secretary, Lalanne. Woodcut arms of France in upper margin, trimmed close. The document orders the mayors of Brest and the surrounding townships to have the roads repaired, so that nothing would hinder supplies getting through to the military. D'Estrées was vice-admiral and Marshal of France, and viceroy of New France. ... more information

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, n.d. [1918?]. 34 cm; 32 pages, including 24 chromolithograph maps. Original printed wraps, frayed at edges and splitting at fold. Three-staple manufacture. Atlas of the Great War, with color maps showing the distribution of languages of Europe and nationalities in the Balkans; a map of the Western Front showing the lines of German advance, the Hindenburg Line, and the Armistice Line; focus maps of the Franco-German frontier and the Austro-Italian frontier; maps of A... more information

Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1967. 20 cm; xxiv, 129 pages. Printed wraps, unopened. Series: Les classiques de l'histoire de France au Moyen Age. Text in Latin and French. ... more information

New York: D.D. Merrill, 1893. Second printing. 20 cm; 2 volumes. xxvi, 426; xiii, [3], 485 pages. Illustrated with 15 wood-engraved plates; title-page vignettes. Bound in original blue cloth illustrated in red on the front covers and spines, lettered in gilt, top edges gilt. Binding a bit tired and shelf-worn at extremities, but sound and entire. Gift inscription on front free endpapers "For Pennock Pusey from his friends the Author and Thomas Cochran." Light foxing. Howes L-78. ... more information

Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1853. First American edition. 19cm; 2 volumes. 216, 218 pages. Original brown cloth with blindstamped decoration. Ex-library, with shelf mark laquered on spine, bookplate, and no other library marks. Very good reading copy. Reference: Ibrahim-Hilmy II, 204 (London edition). ... more information