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

Washington: [GPO], 1859. Acceptable. 30 cm; 120 text pags, and 28 full-page hand-colored lithograph plates of birds.Disbound, offered as a collection of plates. Plates clean and unblemished with very few exceptions. Disbound, offered as a collection of plates. Includes all 28 bird plates from the 12-volume Pacific Railroad Survey. (The plates were originally distributed over the three Zoology volumes of the survey, but were collected here at an early date.) Also present is the complete text of "Report upon birds collected on the survey" by A.L. Heermann. The fine plates are not signed, but artists on the expedition included Thomas Sinclair, Amiel W. Whipple, A.O.P. Nicholson, John Cassin, and others.

Torino: Giulio Einaudi editore, 1941 - XIX. First edition. Good. 20 cm; 148 pages. Printed wraps. Lacks illustrated outer cover. Early pencil scribbles erased from "collana" page. Year 1943 written in ink on "collana" page. Few stains on wraps, primarily on lower wrap. Few punctures in lower wrap. Light foxing on front blank. Text is very good. Acknowledging certain defects of condition of the covers, this is a very rare first edition of a major 20th-century author's first novel.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1929. First edition. Very Good. 31 cm; xvi, 77 pages, and 11 plates. Full color folded and linen-backed wall map, 41 x 70 cm. Cloth in dust jacket. Dust jacket darkened and splitting at folds; cloth and text about fine.

Paris: publisher not stated , 1915 ca. Good. 275 x 190 mm oblong. [1] leaf and [54] photogravures printed on card stock showing views of Paris, St. Cloud, Versailles, and Trianons during the years of transition from horse-drawn to motorized vehicles. Captions in French and English. Bound in blue cloth decorated with polychrome lozenge of a wind-powered sailing ship. All edges gilt. Upper covers a bit soiled and discolored, with some fraying along right edge. Owner's inscription in ink on front pastedown, "Paris France, January 31st 1919. U.S.S. New Mexico @ Brest." Sporadic notes in pencil on reverse of some images (e.g. "very fine paintings in long gallery" opposite a photo of the Louvre). 1913 was the last year of service for horse-drawn busses in Paris. This volume of photographs reproduced in fine photogravure must date from shortly thereafter. Motorized busses are visible, along with a few motorcars, but the majority of cabs are horse-drawn or, indeed, pulled by men. All the city's great… Read More

Paris: Louis Janet; printed by Jules Didot , [1827]. Boards. Fine. 18mo (14cm); vi, 212 pages, hand-colored engraved title page and 10 hand-colored engraved plates. Wove stock. About fine in original decorated boards (showing the Panthéon within a sculptural scroll surround) and original cardboard slipcase. Some shelf wear to slipcase, small blemish on upper board, and the stock has darkened slightly, else fine and extremely rare in such condition with slipcase present. References: Vicaire, 480; Quérard, 476; Bibliographie de la France, 7477; Bibliothéque de feu M. Louis Van Gobbelschroy #1460 ("Rare..."). A sweetly illustrated account of Paris during the Bourbon Restoration, when the Champs-Élysées was lined with saplings, and the Arc de Triomphe was unfinished. The engraved scenes charm with fine detail and attractive hand-coloring. The author and date of publication are not given, but bibliographers agreed early on to attribute the text to Charles Malo, the polymath who was Louis… Read More

Paris: Albin Michel, 1949. Wraps. Very Good. 393 p. Wraps. Unopened.

Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1910. Limited to 750 copies on Van Gelder. Very Good. 20 cm; 114 pages. In original blue paper-covered boards with paper label on spine printed in red and black. Protected in original publisher's slipcase. Dustwrapper not present. Slight discoloration to the blue boards and spine. Slipcase rough. Text about fine. Reference: Will Ransom, Selective Check Lists of Press Books, p. 195, #161.

New York: Hebrew Publishing Company, 1959. Good. 29cm; [160] pages, illustrated in color with lively border decorations, vignettes, and Hebrew calligraphy. Bound in blue velvet-nap cloth, with original dust jacket. Dust jacket discolored along spine, chipped at edges, and once torn and repaired on rear panel. Velvet uneven. From the search for Chometz to Chad Gadya, a very pleasing, richly illustrated and well-designed Haggadah.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1977. First edition. Good. 228 pages. Spiral bound paperback. Some highlighting in text.

Paris: Maurice Darantiere, 1948. Very Good. Imperfect text, offered as a binding. 29 cm; 48 of 55 pages, including title page, justification page (in duplicate), series page (#18 of 165), dedication page, frontispiece illustration, and pages 15-55. Illustrated by Hermine David (1886-1970). Text sheets bound in boards fashioned by Léon Gruel (1841-1923), considered one of the greatest book artists of the French Third Republic. Full crushed brown morocco with borders ruled in black on both boards; raised bands; gilt-filleted turn-ins with gold and black inner border, gold moiré doublures and free endleaves. Stamped "ex. libris Albert Dubosc" along lower edge of turn-in. Preserved in slip-case which may or may not be original. Some slight wear to upper joint; minor touch-ups applied to spine. Else fine. Remboîtage (that is, a newer book bound in an older binding) of an imperfect copy of Charles Perrault's classic tale in a prestige binding dating from the turn of the century. Léon Gruel… Read More

London: A. and C. Black, 1909 . Very good. 20 cm; viii, 87 pages, color frontispiece, and eleven other color plates, ads. Bound in blindstamped green cloth with color plate applied. Endleaves yellowed, but little other wear and no blemish to covers or text. Old bookplate. Intended for juvenile readers.

[Vicenza?]: Il Comitato di Pubblica Istruzione, [1797]. Original edition. Very Good. Octavo (18 cm); 16 pages. In red and green lattice-patterned woodblock-printed paper wraps. In 1797, the Republic of Venice fell to the French. Beginning in April of that year, the city of Vicenza and the surrounding Euganean hills were under Napoleon's French military rule for only 8 months before it was ceded to the Austrians. This poem celebrates Napoleon and the liberation of Vicenza from the doges of Venice, coupling it to the French day of liberation (14 July, known as 26 Messidoro under the short-lived Republican calendar). Among the verses: "See us insulting the Venetian lion. We're not afraid anymore. And he bites his own lips, quavering helplessly in anger." The French "Comité de l'Instruction Publique" was dedicated to the removal of Church doctrine from public education.

Lucca: Tipografia Ducale, 1825. Original edition. Fine. Octavo (20 cm); 8 pages. In stiff green marbled-paper wraps. Epithalamion by the celebrated improvisational poet, Teresa Bandettini, who packed theaters and thrilled audiences with her spontaneous verses accompanied by dance. The marriage--between the 62-year-old Prince Maximilian of Saxony and the 23-year-old Maria Luisa Carlotta--took place in Lucca by proxy without the bride being present! (They had a second ceremony in person in Dresden later that year.) Max had been Luisa Carlotta's uncle by marriage. Anyway, the important thing here is the poetry of Teresa Bandettini, who had returned to her native Lucca after a career on the road as an improvvisatrice. The poem is a hymn to Hymen, the Greek deity associated with marriage and, of course, the wedding night.

Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1969. Wraps. Very Good. lvi, 282 p. Wraps, unopened.

New York and London: Grune and Stratton, Inc., 1958. Very Good. 36 p. printed on sage green paper, with gift slip laid in. Number 391 of an unspecified edition. Black cloth with brown paper wrappers. A "spiritual" approach to medical thinking.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1961. Cloth. Very Good. 24cm; 318 pages. Illustrated. Translated from the Swedish by Richard E. Oldenberg.

Baltimore: Williams and WIlkins, 1951. Second edition. Good. 24 cm; 1116 pages. Clothbound. Some wear at crown and heel, but still in good, sturdy condition.

Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1957. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good . 239 pages. Closed tear at top edge of dust jacket, otherwise fresh. Robert Graves's translation of the great Silver Latin epic. Cover illsutration by Milton Glaser (best known, perhaps, for the "I love New York" logo and the rainbow-haired silhouette poster of Bob Dylan).

Paris: J. Barbou, 1767. Very Good. 12mo (16 cm); x, 441, [2], [1 blank] pages. Engraved frontispiece by Gravelot of Caesar crossing the Rubicon. Woodcut ornaments. Bound in contemporary tan calf with gilt border; spine tooled in gilt; leather label. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. References: Schweiger, 565; Cohen-De Ricci 661. Handsome Barbou edition of the great silver epic on the Roman civil war between Caesar and Pompey. Dante placed Lucan among the five greatest classical poets; Shelley preferred him to Virgil. This edition includes the 1640 "continuation" of the Pharsalia by the English poet Thomas May, and the Civil War fragment by Petronius.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1927. First edition. Very Good. 23 cm; 248 pages, and 60 halftone illustrations from photographs by the author.. Pictorial endpapers. In original blue cloth, no dust jacket. Travelogue based on Beebe's trip to Southeast Asia, Borneo, and Tibet to study pheasants.