A page from a MS. Horae of Franco-Flemish execution,
by Horae Beatae Mariae. Facsimile leaf.
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1900. 1 leaf. 250 x 330 mm. Image 175 x 220 mm. Color lithograph facsimile. Matted in archival board, protected by mylar overlay. Paper slightly yellowed.
Offered by Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio
Decorated leaf from a printed Book of Hours.
by Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis.
France?, Early 16th century. Very Good. Single octavo leaf H2 from an unidentified Book of Hours, 150 x 223 mm. Recto (Psalm 50) shows a large, elaborate woodcut of the Crucifixion, framed within a woodcut border populated with Biblical characters (a saint astride a dragon, Eve before the Tree of Knowledge, Mary instructing the archangel Gabriel, etc., but also a secular hunting scene with a horn-blowing hunter, a stag, a rabbit, and a barefoot servant. Large... Read More
Offered by Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio
In principio erat verbum. Page from a MS. Horae of French execution about 1490-1500.
by Horae Beatae Mariae. Facsimile leaf.
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1900. 1 leaf. 275 x 375 mm. Image 130 x 225 mm. Color lithograph facsimile. Loose as issued. Paper slightly yellowed.
Offered by Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio
Two pages from a Flemish Getiden Boek, executed probably at Ghent about 1490
by Horae Beatae Mariae. Flemish. Facsimile leaf.
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1900. 1 leaf. Two images. 275 x 375 mm. Image 265 x 210 mm. Color lithograph facsimile. Matted in archival board with mylar overlay. Paper slightly yellowed. A saint at prayer, facing 20 lines of Flemish text, both within elaborate naturalistic borders of birds, flowers and scrolls.
Offered by Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio
De universali methodo philosophandi : officioque philosophi liber singularis.
by Horatiis, Cesar de.
Rome: Arcangelo Casaletti, 1778. First edition. Good. 19 cm; xxviii, 184 pages. Woodcut device on title page. Woodcut initial and ornaments. Bound in contemporary half vellum over marbled boards, decorated on spine in gilt, with gilt-stamped title label. Covers worn. Antique library stamp on title page. Text bright and clean. A discourse on method, attempting to distinguish the functions of human reason and religion in philosophy.
Offered by Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio
Visit to the Great Oasis of the Libyan Desert;
by Hoskins, George Alexander (d. 1863 or 64).
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman,, 1837. First edition. References: Ibrahim-Hilmy i, 310; Kalfatovic 0338. Fine. 22 cm; xvi, 338 (i.e. 341) pages, map and 20 engraved plates (3 of them folding). Bound in recent half leather over marbled boards in period style. Marbled edges. Ownership inscription of W. Cushman of Watertown. Living in Luxor in 1836, Hoskins traveled with Robert Hay and Frederick Catherwood to the oases of... Read More
Offered by Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio
The Mississippi Bubble.
by Hough, Emerson.
Indianapolis: Bowen Merrill, 1902. First Edition. Good. Second state binding. Presentation bookplate to the Lilly Library, released and then inscribed to Canadian poet and bibliophile Lawrence Lande. Binding a little tired but condition is good over all.
Offered by Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio
A Shropshire Lad.
by Houseman, A. E.
London: Riccardi Press for the Medici Society, 1914. #598 of 1000 copies printed for Great Britain, printed on hand-made paper.. Very Good. 24 cm; viii pages, [1 leaf], 48 pages, [2 leaves]. Bound in vellum-covered boards, titled in gilt on upper board. Binding abraded in two spots on iupper board. Marbled endleaves discolored over paste. Boards a little splayed. Contents fine.
Offered by Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio
Nordenskiölds rejse omkring Asien og Europa.
by HOVGAARD, Andreas Peter (1853-1910).
Copenhagen: Forlagsbureauet i Kjøbenhavn, 1881. First edition. 23 cm; xlii, 356 pages, [24] tinted lithograph plates, numerous woodcut text illustrations, 3 color maps (2 folded). Text in Danish. Bound in original cloth stamped in gilt, silver, and black, with gold-and-silver lozenge of the global map on upper board; spine stamped in gilt with images of nautical and navigational instruments; lower board stamped in blind. Edges and joints worn thin, and spine faded in sunlight, but... Read More
Offered by Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio
Voyages of the "Columbia" to the Northwest Coast,1787-90 and 1790-93.
by Howay, Frederic W.
Boston: The Massachusetts Historical Society, 1941. First Edition. Cloth. Good. 25cm; 518 pages. Pages unopened. (Spine faded, cloth abraded on boards: binding sound and tight but in fair condition only; text fine.)
Offered by Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio
Anniversary catalogue, 1912-1982
by Howell, John (Firm).
San Francisco: John Howell -- Books, 1982. Original edition. About fine.. 27 cm; 188 pages; Illustrated.. In printed wraps with roundel of Howell's book reproduced on front wrap in blind. Price list and ticket of compliments laid in.
Offered by Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio
Americana.
by Howell, John (Firm).
San Francisco: John Howell -- Books, 1980. Original edition. Good+. 27 cm; 272, [4] pages; 546 entries. Illustrated.. In printed wraps with roundel of Howell's book reproduced on front wrap. Light stain on front wrap near top edge.
Offered by Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio
Catalogue #209. Incunabula:
by H. P. Kraus.
New York: H. P. Kraus, n.d. [later 1990s]. First edition. 200 pages. Price list laid in. Original wraps. Richly illustrated. Printed at the Stinehour Press, designed by Jerry Kelly and Kit Curry. Very good, with shelf-wear only.
Offered by Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio
The Catawba Nation.
by Hudson, Charles M.
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1970. Very Good. 22cm; x, 142 pages. Yellow wraps. Wraps somewhat dusty, with a small surface abrasion on upper wrap. University of Georgia Monographs, No. 18.
Offered by Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio
Bibliographie du Père Louis Hennepin
by Hugolin Lemay, R. P.
Montreal, 1937. Original edition. Good. xxvii, 236 pages illustrations 24 cm. Paperback. Cover waterstained. Contents clean, sewing good and tight.
Offered by Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio
The Measurement of the Discharge of the Nile through the Sluices of the Aswan Dam
by Hurst, H. E., and D. A. F. Watt.
Cairo: Government Press; Ministyry of Public Works, Physical Department, 1928. First edition. Good. 28 cm; iv pages, 1 leaf, 44 pages, 1 leaf, and 4 plates Bound in original printed boards, with cloth backstrip. Covers worn and rather discolored at edges. Contents clean.
Offered by Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio
Kopman.
by Ignatoff, David (1885-1954); Benjamin Kopman.
New York: E. Weyhe, 1930. First edition. 26 cm; 1 preliminary leaf, 5-11, [1] pages illustrations, 22 plates on 11 leaves. Bound in original illuistrated wraps. Wraps a bit discolored toward the edges, which are somewhat frayed, with some watermarks toward the bottom edge. Contents unblemished. The original printing is now rare.
Offered by Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio
Il Bacco in Toscana di Francesco Redi e la poesia ditirambica.
by Imbert, Gaetano; Francesco Redi.
Città di Castello: S. Lapi, 1890. First edition. Very Good. 20 cm; 213 pages and folding table. Original printed wraps. Inscribed by the author on upper wrap to Fausto Lusinio, the scholar of Oriental languages at the University of Florence who edited the Hebrew and Arabic texts of Averroes. Classic study of Francesco Redi's text, with an appendix of Redi's unpublished poetry.
Offered by Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio
Memoirs relative to Egypt
by [Institut d'Egypte (1798-1801); Institut de France].
London: R. Phillips , 1800. First English language edition. Reference: Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature, #17852.1.. Good. Octavo (22 cm); viii, 459 pages, and 2 folding maps. Lacks Q 7 and 8 (blanks?), as Goldsmiths', Google's, and every examined copy. Bound in nineteenth-century red half calf over marbled boards, tooled in gilt on spine, by J. Larkins. Upper board detached. Binding scuffed and dampstained. Dampstain in lower quarter of frontispiece, first and last leaves, and... Read More
Offered by Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio
Prater Violet.
by Isherwood, Christopher.
London: Methuen & Co., 1946. First British edition. Good. 19 cm; 103 pages. Original purple cloth in illustrated dust jacket. Owner's name on front blank. Dust jacket a little chipped at spine ends and sunned along spine. A well read copy, still in better-than-good condition in original dress.
Offered by Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio
L'Espace et la nouvelle: Flaubert, Huysmans, Ionesco, Sartre, Camus.
by Issacharoff, Michael.
Paris: Jose Corti, 1976. Wraps. Very Good. 120 p. unopened.
Offered by Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio
Il mazzinianesimo nel Mezzogiorno e nella Terra d'Otranto:
by Istituto per la storia del Risorgimento Italiano.
Brindisi: Istituto per la storia del Risorgimento, 2011. Original edition. Paperback. About fine.. 23 cm; 316 pages, illustrated. Printed wraps.
Offered by Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio
L'opera di Antonio Galateo nella tradizione manoscritta: catalogo.
by Iurilli, Antonio.
Napoli: Istituto nazionale di studi sul rinascimento meridionale, 1990. Original edition. Very Good. 21 cm; 248 pages and two plates. Facsimiles. Wraps. Exhaustive catalogue of known manuscripts of Antonio de Ferraris, known as "Galateo," the poet and philosopher from Salento.
Offered by Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio
Russian drug index.
by Jablonski, Stanley.
Bethesda: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, 1967. Second edition. Very Good. 28 cm; iii, 384 pages. Illustrated. Bound in original wraps. Spine somewhat tanned and opened, but very good used condition. Comprehensive account of Russian pharmaceuticals and remedies.
Offered by Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio
The introduction of reindeer into Alaska, volume 2 [with] Government Printing Office extracts from Senate records containing texts of volumes 1 and 2
by JACKSON, Sheldon.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1893. First edition. Hard cover. Very Good. Octavo (24 cm); 36, 39 pages, text illustrations, 5 half-tone plates and folding map. Half morocco over marbled paper boards, with ownership ink stamp of career diplomat Reed Paige Clark (1878-1958). Autograph of Reed Paige Clark on title page of second title. Very good condition. Volume two of the annual report on the introduction of domestic reindeer into Alaska, bound together with the... Read More
Offered by Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio