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

Boston: Houghton Mifflin/Riverside, 1958. First edition. Very Good. 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.

Prague: Argo, 2007. First edition. Cloth. Acceptable. 32 cm; 587 pages, including 606 figures, most of them in color. Text in Czech. Bound in original cloth (with portrait photo of Štyrský printed on cloth) and dust jacket. Dust jacket sliced along lower joint and credibly repaired . Exhibition catalogue of the work of Czech surrealist painter, poet, photographer, and graphic artist.

Leiden: S. et J. Luchtmans, 1809. Very Good. 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 questions of marriage, adultery, and the status of women in the ancient world.

ca1825 . Framed pen-and-ink portrait of an Eskimo--possibly a self-portrait--by "George" Niakungitok, with three annotations in German Kurrentschrift at the right. Drawing is 18 x 13 cm (total area with annotations: 19.5 x 24.5 cm) on larger laid paper, previously folded vertically in the center. In October 1820, Samuel Hadlock Jr. (1792-1829), a whaling captain from Maine, brought onboard his ship "Five Brothers" an Eskimo man from Labrador, and then picked up an Eskimo woman and child about 50 miles further down the coast. Hadlock was in Labrador to obtain a cargo of ice for the West Indies trade, but arranged with the families of the two young Eskimos to take them with him until the following summer. They were initially exhibited in New London, Connecticut, and by his uncle Epps Hadlock in New York and Philadelphia in early 1821 (See Hugh L. Dwelley, "Hadlock's Eskimos in New York," 1821). A recent widower, Samuel Hadlock then left his three children with his sister and sailed for Europe, where… Read More

New York: Christie's, 2000. Very Good. 28 cm; 92 pages, ads; many full-page color illustrations, one folding. Original gilt-stamped blue cloth in illustrated dust jacket. Dust jacket sun-bleached along spine, else fine. Sale catalogue of the auction at Christie's, New York, on 10 March 2000. The sale consisted of a single lot: Audubon's Birds of America. One of 119 complete copies known to exist. Copy originally owned by George Lane Fox (1793–1848) and subsequently by John Crichton-Stuart, 4th Marquess of Bute. It sold for $8,802,500, a record at the time.

New York: Museum of the City of New York, 1963. First edition. Wraps. Very Good. 28 cm; 63 pages, with one color and 61 half-tone plates. Color illustration on wraps. A bit worn. Features an interview with the artist by Ralph R. Miller.

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

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1846. First American edition. Very Good. Two volumes; small octavo (175 mm.). [6, blank], vii, [1, blank], 351, [7, blank]; [4, blank], 323, [12, ads] pages. Publisher's brown cloth, boards decoratively ruled in blind, front boards with gilt central "passing the torch" motif, rear boards with this motif in blind, spines lettered in gilt. Untrimmed copy showing light wear and aging. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of Darwin’s first published book and his own account of the Beagle’s voyage which describes his observations that ultimately laid the foundation to the publication of his major scientific work On the Origin of Species. “The voyage of the Beagle has been by far the most important event in my life, and has determined my whole career...I have always felt that I owe to the voyage the first real training or education of my mind; I was led to attend closely to several branches of natural history, and thus my powers of observation were improved” (Life and Letters, 1:61).… Read More

[New York]: American Research Center in Egypt, 1989. Very Good. 28 cm; 262 pages. Printed wraps.

[New York]: American Research Center in Egypt, 1987. Very Good. 28 cm; 166 pages. Printed wraps.

London: Printed for the [United] Brethren's Society for the Furtherance of the Gospel Among the Heathen by W. M'Dowall, 1814. First edition. 22cm; 83 pages, folding engraved map. Bound in recent polished calf ruled in gilt on both boards and tooled at each corner. A bit sun-drenched on spine. Reference: AB 8996. Fine condition. The son of a Warsaw baker, Benjamin Kohlmeister apprenticed as a cabinetmaker before wandering into the Moravian congregation at Dresden. In 1790, he was sent to Labrador where he served a 12-year residence at Okak, the Moravians' northernmost station. After a hiatus in Europe, he returned to Okak in 1810 with Georg Kmoch. Accompanied by 15 Inuit, the pair traveled north from the settlement to Cape Chidley , the Ungava Bay, and as far north as the Koksoak River scoping out sites for settlement. The volume offered here is the account of that voyage. In 1818, Kohlmeister became the general superintendent of the mission, headquartered at Nain.

Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, 1823. First edition. 22 cm; xliii, 472 pages, [6] leaves of plates : illustrations (some folded), 2 folded maps, plan. Bound in contemporary half calf over marbled boards, tooled in blind, titled in gilt on leather label. Marbled edges. Tissue guards. Armorial bookplate of Lord Blantyre (probably Robert Walter Stuart, 1777-1830). Some wear to edges and to joints, with light to moderate foxing. References: Arctic Bib 15614; Sabin 78171. William Scoresby, a multi-talented individual, was a commercial whaler, a scientist, and ultimately a religious cleric. In his commercial whaling endeavors, he set the pace for the British exploration of polar regions. In the 1822 whaling expedition to Greenland and Baffin Bay, he mapped about 400 miles of uncharted Greenland coast. The account is intended as a scientific report, describing weather conditions, optical illusions caused by ice and raking light, and Inuit dwellings and burials. In appendix is a list of rock… Read More

[New York]: American Research Center in Egypt, 1988. Very Good. 28 cm; 257 pages. Printed wraps.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1925. First edition. Very Good. 23 cm; 201 pages, and 10 halftone illustrations from photographs by the author. In original green cloth, no dust jacket. Travelogue based on Beebe's trip to Guyana (then British Guiana) and South America.

London: John Murray, 18. Original edition. Very Good. Octavo (23 cm); 4, cxcviii, 468 pages, fourteen folding maps and a folding elevation table. In original blue printed wraps. Pages unopened. Fading to spine with loss at head and heel, else a pristine copy! With articles on Markham's Abyssinian expedition, on Young's attempt to find Stanley, Bickmore in China, on the mountains of British Columbia by Waddington, on Lhasa and Nepal, on Frederick Whymper in the Yukon, on volcanic eruptions in Hawaii (then called the Sandwich Islands), and on Central Asia.

Cuildford: Genesis Publications in association with Australia & New Zealand Book Co., 1979. Limited to 500 copies signed by the author's grandson, G.P. Darwin.. Fine. 35 cm; 843 pages, 5 unnumbered leaves of plates, illustrations. In half polished black leather over green cloth, with red leather roundel on upper board within a stamped gilt lozenge; facsimile autograph in gilt on lower board. Spine in six compartments with red leather title label and gilt ornaments. All edges brightly gilt. Protected in publisher's slipcase of green cloth with cream-colored paper label. Effectively as new. Facsimile of Darwin's handwritten journal of the crucial voyage of the Beagle, with a preface by King Charles III (Prince Charles at the time), and an introduction by Richard Darwin Keynes.

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins press, 1935. Good. 25cm; 184 pages. Printed wraps. Shelf wear, with some damage at spine ends, yet sound and entire. Dust, pencil marks on upper wrap. Pages unopened. This dissertation on the sovereignty of Egypt and the Sudan in the wake of European colonialism was published in the Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science series, volume 53, no. 1.

Halifax [United Kingdom]: William Milner, 1847. Very good. 13 cm; 160 pages, engraved frontispiece of children studying a globe under parental supervision. Bound in original red cloth, stamped in blind on both boards with gilt vignette of two children on upper board.  Edges gilt. Condition: a bit worn yet sound and entire. Some fraying at spine ends. Owner's inscription on front endleaf. Plate somewhat soiled in margins. Anthology of verse intended to build moral character, such as Isaac Watts's severe "Duty to God and our Neighbors" and "The Advantages of Early Religion," beloved by children everywhere. Yet some liberality slips ithrough, such as Spenser's carpe diem, "gather the rose of love, whilst yet is time, While loving thou may'st loved be, without a crime.