Search Results: Titles starting with B from Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio

Amsterdam: Jan Rieuwertsz, 1677. Very Good. Quarto (21 cm); [40], 614, [34], 112, [8] pages. Woodcut device on title page; tail-pieces; initials. Woodcut diagrams and illustrations in text. Text mostly in Latin, some translated from Dutch, and some in Hebrew. Contents: I. Ethica, more geometrico demonstrata -- II. Politica -- III. De emendatione intellectus -- IV. Epistolae, & ad eas responsiones -- V. Compendium grammatices linguae Hebraeae. Full golden brown calf tooled in blind with border rules and panel rules enclosing small tooled fleurons, larger vegetal ornaments at corners of panel extending out toward the edges. Subtly rebacked. Speckled edges. Old ownership inscription on title page of "T. Lynford," possibly Thomas Lynford (d. 1724), a British divine once canon of Westminster Abbey. Title page slightly browned at edges, but otherwise an unmarred copy in excellent condition! Reference: Norman, 1988; see also PMM 153 ("The 'Opera posthuma' ... have served, then and since, ...… Read More

London: Chatto and Windus, 1890. First edition. Cloth. Fine. 20 cm; 137 pages. Bound in blue cloth. Bookplate of Canadian bibliophile Lawrence M. Lande. Ace condition.

Portland, Maine: Southworth Press for the Armor and Arms Club of New York City, 1933. First edition. 31 cm; 270 pages, frontispiece, and 63 plates. #243 of an edition of 250 copies. Bound in cloth stamped in gilt with the crest of the Arms and Armor Club of New York City. Fine.

Wichita: The Goldsmith-Woolard Co., 1909. 130th Thousand. Very Good.  25 cm; 62 pages and facsimile illustration. Bound in original chromolithograph pictorial wraps. Tattered remains of original glassine protective wraps. About fine.

Basel and Zurich: Georg & Co; Gebrûder Fretz, 1920. First edition. Very Good. Quarto. vi, 128 pages. 24 tables, 28 color lithographic plates, 8 text figures (one folding). In vellum-covered boards with original printed wraps mounted. Old institutional blind stamp and ink stamp on front free endpaper.

Christiana (i.e., Oslo): Jacob Dybwad, 1907. First edition. Wrappers. Fine. 27 cm; 92 pages and 12 plates. Original printed wraps. Pristine.

Zaltbommel: Europese Bibliotheek, 1972. Very Good. 15 x 21 cm; [2], [156] pages, each page with black-and-white half-tone illustration. Bound in original blue cloth with mounted half-tone on upper board. Title in Flemish and French on upper board. Spine faded to gray. Reproduces 156 postcards depicting life in the region from the last decade of the nineteenth century and through the 1920s.

London and Philadelphia: W. Heinemann and J. B. Lippincott, 1907. First edition. Good. 24cm; 271 pages, and 60 color plates with letterpress tissue guards. Original blue decorated cloth, sound and entire, yet somewhite tired. Some mild scattered foxing to text pages only. Kalfatovic, 1046.

Paterson and New York: Pageant Books, 1961. Facsimile edition, limited to 1000 copies, of which this is #79.. Fine. 2 volumes folio (48 cm in slipcase). Facsimile printed on rag paper produced for this edition; all pages lithographed, and illuminated pages printed "by sheet-fed gravure." Bound by hand in sturdy full morocco, stamped with Gutenberg's initials on upper boards, titled in gilt on spine. All edges gilt. Marbled endleaves. Protected in original clamshell boxes. Some tenderness to inner hinges of boxes, else about fine. Extra shipping charges will apply at cost. Colophon: "The first Gutenberg facsimile ever printed in the United States and only the second in the world. The reproduction derives from the Insel Verlag edition [1913-14] which was based on the copy in the Koniglichen Bibliothek in Berlin and the copy in the Standischen Landesbibliothek in Fulda, considered by authorities to be the most beautifully illuminated of the 47 copies known to exist ... Limited to 1000 numbered… Read More

Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz, 1974. Fine. 31 cm; 179 pages. Printed wraps.

New York: Burt Franklin, 1973. Reprint. Very Good. 19 cm; 272 pages. Bound in red cloth. No dust jacket. Very light shelf wear only, else unblemished. Reprint of the 1907 edition, of which only volume 1 was published.

London and Emmaus: Rodale Press, 1954. Very Good. 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.

Leipzig: Insel, 1956. Very Good. Oblong 185 x 120 mm; 64, [4] pages, chiefly cartoon illustrations. Text in black letter. Bound in original decorated paper-covered boards with paper title label.

Florence: Le Monnier, 1861. Second edition, corrected and expanded.. Good +. 16 cm; 61, [3] pages. In later marbled boards in conventional style. Boards good plus; text trimmed close at fore-edge, not affecting text. In a tradition with deep roots in Mediterranean culture, and more recently in the successful careers of performing poets of the turn of the century, Giannina Milli took to the stage reciting improvised poetry to audience suggestions. The principal themes of her inspiration were patriotism, revolution against occupying powers, and the unification of Italy. She was deeply involved in the intellectual life of the nation, as shown by her thousands of surviving letters (at the National Library of Florence) and photographs.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1864. First edition. Very Good. 2 volumes. 22 cm; 608, 600 pages. In original red leather over marbled boards, marble endleaves. Top edge gilt. Leather a bit weak, with wear and some loss at joints. Gilt stamped decoration on spine faded. Shelf wear. Shelf mark on paper label on spines, and in pencil on title pages. Residue of old bookplates present. No institutional marks.

Glens Falls: Adirondack Mountain Club, 1978. Good. 210 pages. Old tape mark on front cover.

Edinburgh and London: Oliver & Boyd, 1963-68. First edition. Very Good. 4 volumes, 28 cm. Volume 1: The Canary Islands and the Salvages; Volume 2: Madeira, the Desertas, and the Porto Santo Islands; Volume 3: the Azores; Volume 4: The Cape Verde Islands. Cloth in illustrated dust jackets, all volumes fine or nearly fine (slight tear in dust jackets of first two volumes).

Edinburgh and London: Oliver and Boyd, 1958. Very Good. 28 cm; lxix, 384 pages. Illustrated with plates by Roland Green and D.M. Reid-Henry, text figures and folding map. Publisher's dark green cloth, gilt title to spine. Matching textured dust wrapper with plate illustration to front. Minor edge wear to dust jacket only. About fine.

Austin: University of Texas Pess, 1989. First edition. Hard cover. Fine.

Austin: University of Texas Pess, 1989, 1994. First edition. Hard cover. Fine. 2 volumes. 26 cm; 516; 814 pages, 83 color plates by Tudor; maps on endleaves and in text. Cloth in dust jackets. This copy inscribed by Guy Tudor in volume 1 to fellow illustrator John Yrizarry, "with best wishes to the prince of Sterling Forest." The artists John Yrizarry and Guy Tudor had a long and fertile friendship, of which this inscription is a relic. Extra shipping charges for this set will be applied at cost.