Search Results: Journeys and Destinations from Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio

Ulaanbaatar: Admon for the Zanabazar Museum, 2014. First edition. soft cover. New. 30 cm; 80 pages, chiefly color and half-tone photo illustrations. Text and captions in Mongolian and English. Introductory material by Luboš Belka, Veronika Kapišovská, and Sampildondov Chuluun. Bound in photo illustrated wraps. OCLC locates no copies in its consortium. Catalogue of an exhibition at the Zanabazar Museum in Ulaanbaatar (and Prague's Dox Centre for Contemporary Art) of original color and black and white photographs made by Lumír Jisl, a Czechoslovak archaeologist and expert in Oriental art and material culture. Jisl studied Buddhist art in China, Tibet and mainly in Mongolia, where he led a successful archaeological expedition exploring prince Kultegin memorial in 1958. The catalogue reproduces all 108 of the pictures on exhibit, all taken during Jisl's three Mongolian journeys between 1957 to 1963. Includes a detailed description and analysis of his visual and textual materials and sources.… Read More

ca. 1880. Very Good. Two albumen-silver photographs on paper, mounted on board. Abydos: 256 x 214 mm. Signed and titled in plate. Lightly toned to sepia. Colossi: 285 x 225 mm, signed and titiled in plate. Remains of photo album linen hinge on left edge of board.

New York: George P. Putnam, 1849. First American edition. Good. 20 cm; 244 pages, frontispiece, ads. Bound in original stamped cloth. Contents rather foxed, but sound and entire.

Bathurst: National Cultural Council of Papua New Guinea, in association with Robert Brown & Associates, 1981. Cloth. Fine. 34 cm; 408 pages, mostly color photo illustrations. Stamped cloth in dust jacket. Photographic account of the Gogodala, a cultural group of about 10,000 people who dwell in the lagoons along the floodplain of the Aramia River north of the Fly River Delta in Papua New Guinea. Includes a catalogue of known objects and artifacts held in museums around the world.

Paris and London: Le Sycomore; Al Saqi , 1983. Cloth. Very Good. 34 cm; 265 pages and 176 plates, many in color. Bound in decorated cloth. No blemishes. Contents: Portrait of Egypts nature, soil, and climate, and of the various human races its population comprises -- Historical prolegomena : First period; The caliphs; From the conquest of `Amr to the Ayyubids--8th to 13th centuries -- Historical prolegomena : Second period; The Mamluks -- Historical prolegomena : Third period; From the conquest of Sultan Selim to the conquest of Bonaparte--16th to 18th centuries -- The government, mores, and customs of the Mamluks -- Description of the city of Cairo -- Religious architecture -- Civil architecture -- Military architecture -- Arts related to architecture -- Arts independent of architecture -- The origin, development, and decay of Arab architecture

Brussels: Arcade, 1972. First edition. Hard cover. Fine. 31 cm; 367 pages, including 180 plates photographed by Willy Kerr, most of them in color. Color plates mounted. 4 color maps. Bound in original cloth in dust jacket and slipcase. Printed "upon the initiative of the government of Zaire." Preface by J.D. Mobutu. Text in French. Extra shipping charges apply.

Paris: Galerie Kamer, 1966. First edition. Fine. 28 cm; [40] pages, illustrated with half-tone plates. Map on inner front cover. Bound in original wraps. Featuring indigenous arts of Polynesia, Indonesia, Melanesia, and Australia.

New York: New York Graphic Society, 1954. First edition; library withdrawal stamp of the Solomon Guggenheim Museum.. Boards. Good. 34 x 48 cm; 18 pages (including 5 fine-quality black and white photo illustrations) and 32 full-page color plates. Dust jacket illustrated in color. Dust jacket discolored, scuffed and taped. Inconspicuous library withdrawal stamp in upper right corner of front free endpaper, otherwise blank. Edges lightly tanned. Yet better than good.

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.

London: British Museum, 1976. Very Good . 25cm; 295 pages.

N. p.: British North Greenland Expedition, 1951. 20 x 32 cm; [3], 44 leaves mimeographed typescript 40 original silver-gelatin photographs, two color folding maps in pocket at rear, and two original prick-through tracings of marks from plane table sheets. Original customs declaration and shipping despatch note to the Danish vice-admiral A.H. Vedel, who is named in the acknowledgements preceding the text. Bound in original plain printed boards with cloth backstrip, faded at edges and stained on upper board. Lower hinge distressed. Text and photographs in fine condition. Official report of the advance party of the British North Greenland Expedition (1952-54), in which four men made a preliminary reconnaissance of the isolated Northeast coast of the island. The full party of 30 people would create a base camp the following year based on this preliminary exploration. In August of 1951, the R.A.F. Coastal Command flew Simpson and three companions by "flying boat" to the remote coast of Queen Louise… Read More

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1919. First edition. 29 cm; 251 pages, XXXV plates (some folded, including 6 maps in rear pocket). LACKS TITLE PAGE. Freshly bound in sturdy buckram, titled in gilt on spine. Professional paper of the U. S. Geological Survey. Leffingwell led the science staff in the 1901 Baldwin-Ziegler Polar Expedition, which failed in its attempt to reach the North Pole. On this expedition, he became friends with Danish explorer Ejnar Mikkelsen. Subsequently, the two raised funds for their own expedition. Leffingwell's father, who had become wealthy from his ownership of a fruit ranch in California, contributed $5000, and Mikkelsen raised a comparable amount in England and New York. Their venture became the Anglo-American Polar Expedition of 1906–1908 which aimed to explore the Beaufort Sea. At that time, many experts believed than an undiscovered land mass lay in this region, since such a mass could account for observed patterns of arctic currents and tides. The… Read More

Venice, 1785. Good. Two engraved maps on folded sheets 300 x 285 mm. Map plates 195 x 255 mm and 225 x 240 mm. Titles within cartouches. 2 leaves comprising the Horn and the Southeast Coast. Removed from a 1785 Italian edition of Jean la Harpe's "Abrigé de l'histoire générale des voyages." Usual folds

Venice, 1785. Good. Engraved map on folded sheet 388 x 312 mm. Title within cartouche. Removed from a 1785 Italian edition of Jean la Harpe's "Abrigé de l'histoire générale des voyages." Usual folds.

Boston: Privately printed by Daniel B. Updike, Merrymount Press, 1933. First edition. 25 cm; vii, 184 pages. Title printed in red and black. Pagination includes about 50 pages numbered and with running title "Gifts Supplementing the Collection," but otherwise blank. Bound in original dark blue cloth stamped in gilt with image of polar compass points. Edition limited to 110 copies. Fine condition. The Joseph T. Tower, Jr., Collection is the result of years of interested effort by the late Joseph T. Tower, Jr. (of the Class of 1921 of Harvard), whose special hobby was the collecting of old and rare books and pamphlets relating to exploration in the Northern Polar regions and adjacent areas in North America. When his Collection had become valuable he decided to give it to Harvard University for the Library of the Geographical Institute and at the time of his death in 1931 he was keenly interested in acquiring additional volumes to make his intended gift more valuable. After his death his plan to… Read More

London: Great Western Railway, 1926. 1/4 Cloth Over Boards. Fair. 4to. 74 photo halftones; 4 brightly silkscreened plates of heraldric crests; folded map of Great Western Railway routes in special pocket. Book is rather slack, shaken, faded, soiled, rubbed and bumped, but overall sound and entire.

Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1922-27. First edition. Very Good. 3 volumes. 27 cm. Text in German. Bound in original gray wraps. Spines tanned brown; volume two has a small chip missing from spine. Paper joints are tender, but the text is unblemished. While individual volumes can be found, the three-volume set is virtually unobtainable. Part of the massive catalogue of the Royal Dutch Museum of Ethnography, devoted to the Indonesian island of Celebes (modern Sulawesi). Volume 1 covers South Celebes (now South Sulawesi), volume 2 covers Southeast, East and Middle Celebes (modern Southeast and Central Sulawesi), and volume 3 is devoted to North Celebes and the Talaud Islands.

Paris and Copenhagen: A. Morancé, etc. , 1935-38. First edition, inscribed.. About fine, while dust jackets are good to very good.. 4 volumes, 29 cm. Each volume warmly inscribed by Kjersmeier to Guillaume de Hondt, distinguished 20th century collector of African and Oceanic art, who contributed materially to the work. Volume 1: Afrique occidentale française (41 pages and 64 photo halftone plates; erratum slip tipped in at end); volume 2: Guinée portugaise, Sierra-Leone, Libéria, Côte d'Or, Togo, Dahomey et Nigéria (30 pages and 58 photo halftone plates); volume 3: Congo belge (42 pages and 56 plates); volume 4: Cameroun, Afrique équatoriale française, Angola, Tanganyika, Rhodésie (29 pages and 42 plates). All four volumes bound in printed boards with original illustrated dust jackets. Dust jackets somewhat tanned along spines, with slight fraying at heads and tails; volume 2 dust jacket splitting along joint; all volumes otherwise remarkably fresh and well-preserved. One of the… Read More

Prague: Fotograficky Obzor; Ceskoslovenskych Svaz Klubu Fotografu Amateru, 1931-1940, 1946. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 11 volumes (of 13 published); 28 cm. Lacks volumes for 1941 and 1949. 704 black-and-white photographs reproduced in photogravure, plus introductory text pages and ads in each volume. Bound in original cloth and paper-covered boards; first six volumes with avant-garde cover designs by Karel Teige. Vols. IX and X, published under occupation, bear the alternative title "Ceska fotografie." Most volumes in very good condition, with discoloration on the spines of the paper-covered (wartime) volumes; few corners bumped and minor blemishes present. 1931 volume a bit shaken, with foxing present on first leaves. While professional Czech photographers between the wars made their livings from portraits and souvenir books, the amateurs pushed the limits of photography as an art. The greatest of these, Sudek, Krupka, Drtikol, Styrsky, and Ruzicka, exhibited with the "Amateur… Read More