Search Results: Authors starting with L from Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio

New York and London: Scribner & Welford; John C. Nimmo, 1885. First edition of this translation; limited to 200 copies in the US and 300 in Great Britain.. Acceptable. Octavo (23 cm); 3 preliminary leaves, [9]-31, v, [7]-494 pages. Engraved frontispiece portrait of La Bruyere, six additional engraved portraits by Benjamin Damman of Montaigne, Descartes, Le Brun, Louis XIV, William III, and Bossuet. Fifteen (of sixteen) vignette headpieces engraved on tissue by Valentine Foulquier and mounted at chapter titles (lacks "Of the Affections," apparently left out in manufacture and not caught by the quality control department). Bound in original quarter cream vellum over green cloth, stamped in gilt. Corners rubbed; upper joint splitting near crown; gilt images on vellum spine rubbed away. Google found the rave review that appeared in the Daily Telegraph when this book came out. Let the last line stand in for the entire review: "Six portraits specially etched by M. Damman, a series of lovely… Read More

Amsterdam: Chez Henry Desbordes, 1685. Nouvelle éd. enrichie de tailles-douces. . Leather. Very Good. 12mo (17cm); 2 volumes in one. Engraved frontispiece, 58 half-page etchings by Romeyn de Hooghe. Woodcut ornaments. Bound in contemporary dark green grained morocco, rebacked a hundred years ago. Original spine intact. Old repairs recently strengthened and reinforced. Marbled endleaves; gilt edges. Covers somewhat worn but sound and entire. First two guarded and expertly integrated into text block. Stock somewhat toned, but unblemished. References: Brunet III, 758; Landwehr Romeyn de Hooghe 62; Hofer, Baroque Book Illustration, #145; Hollstein IX, 591-648. First illustrated edition of La Fontaine's collection of naughty and bawdy tales in verse, first published in a somewhat different form and without illustrations in 1665. Romeyn de Hooghe's vivid engravings, which are as famous and iconic as the tales themselves, influenced book illustration in France and the Low Countries through the following… Read More

Paris: J.S. Chaudé, 1837. Fourth edition, considerably enlarged.. Very Good. 3 volumes octavo. xxviii, 672; [4], 704; [4], 580 pages, four double-page plates, and two hand-colored plates. In half green morocco over speckled boards. Shelf wear to extremities and joints. Laennec reports on his invention of the stethoscope and the advancements he made with it.

Washington: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1919. First edition. Fine. 26 cm; [viii], 182 pages. Frontispiece of a scene from "Saul" under tissue guard. Bound in original black-green cloth. Effectively as new, with only slight blemish to patina on lower board.

Montreal: The Lawrence Lande Foundation for Canadian Historical Research, McGill University, 1973. As New. 28 cm; 36 pages in stapled wraps. Facsimiles. Edition limited to 250 copies signed by Lande. Full bibliographical descriptions of 164 books, manuscripts and documents related to the establishment of the Moravian Church in Arctic North America.

Argenatori [i.e., Strasbourg]: Matthias Schürer, 1508. Very Good. Small folio (29 cm); [128] pages. Round roman type. In later (20th-century?) half vellum over marbled boards. Ochre-dyed edges. Minor shelf wear. Marginal ink annotations in contemporary hand, especially in the third book (allegorical reading of Aeneid). Adams L-125 The four dialogues that compose this book were the gateway to the Florentine Platonism that characterized the latter part of the 15th century. Written around 1470, they began circulating in manuscript (including a deluxe copy dedicated to Federico da Montefeltro) around 1473 and did not see print until 1480, in an edition now lost. There were only four more printings before the 20th century, the last in 1511. All are rare. Landino was engaged by the Medici to teach at the Studio, and later at the Platonic Academy, where his students and colleagues included Ficino, Leon Battista Alberti, Giuliano and Lorenzo de' Medici (all of whom appear as characters in… Read More

Venice: Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari, 1548-49. First edition. Very Good. Octavo (17cm); 161 [3] leaves (including final blank). Printer's device on title page and on verso of last leaf. Woodcut initial H on f.2 populated with racquetball players, and woodcut initial D on f.3 by the figure of a woman petting a boar. Italic and Roman type. Slight yellowing, light water stain to some lower outer corners. A very good copy in c.1750 polished vellum, gilt-lettered morocco label to spine. C16 underlining and marginalia. Occasional scattered foxing. References: Adams, L-562; Bongi I, 213-214; BM Italian, 376; Melzi II, 115. See also, Meredith K. Ray, "Writing Gender in Women’s Letter Collections of the Italian Renaissance" (Toronto, 2009); Serena Pezzini, "Dissimulazione e paradosso in Ortensio Lando," in "Italianistica" 31:1 (2002) pp. 67-83; Natalina Bellucci, "Lettere di molte valorose donne...e di alcune pettegolette, ovvero: di un libro di lettere di Ortensio Lando," in Quondam, ed., "Le… Read More

Venice: Gabriel GIolito de' Ferrari, 1552. First edition. Very Good. Octavo (16 cm); 318 [2] pages. Woodcut device on title page and on last page. Woodcut initials. Bound in recent vellum in period style, yapp edges, titled in ink on spine. Early 20th-century bibliographical note bound in. Marginal annotations in contemporary hand. Leaf a ii, the dedicatory letter, present in two states, the cancel addressed to Johann Jakob Fugger closing with Lando's name, and the original leaf addressed to Christoph Mielich and not signed, as usual. Small perforation in the cancel, affecting a word. Occasional light stains, darker on last leaf. References: Bongi I, 368; Melzi II, 391; BM Italian, 377 (1556 ed.); Fontanini, II, 117. The title promises four sets of "questions and their solutions," and indeed that was the plan. Lando wrote Q&A on four topics: medical questions (including dietary and aging functions), ethical questions, questions about religion, and questions about love and sex. It was the… Read More

Helsingfors: Commission of the Antell Collection, 1933. First edition. Very Good. 32 cm; 146 pages; map, 74 text illustrations, and 32 b/w plates. Text in English, summaries and additional title page and introductory materials in Finnish. Bound in original printed wraps, spine slightly faded, but condition is essentially fine. Descriptive study of material and photographs of the Kiwai people of Papua New Guinea. Landtman lived among Kiwai-speaking people for two years (1910-12), during which time he collected objects while studying social structures and belief systems there.

Chicago: Printed for Private Circulation, 1900. One of 100 copies on hand made paper. About fine.. 21 cm; 17, [3] pages. In plain blue paper-covered boards with printed paper title label inlaid in upper board. Interesting capitals and tail-piece by McBirney. Boards somewhat discolored but otherwise a fine copy. Colophon: "Here ends 'Notes and Names in Books' by Andrew Lang, with decorations designed by Day McBirney. Printed for Henry Kidder Gilbert, in Chicago, but not sold by any one.

New York: D.D. Merrill, 1893. Second printing. Good. 20 cm; 2 volumes. xxvi, 426; xiii, [3], 485 pages. Illustrated with 15 wood-engraved plates; title-page vignettes. Bound in original blue cloth illustrated in red on the front covers and spines, lettered in gilt, top edges gilt. Binding a bit tired and shelf-worn at extremities, but sound and entire. Gift inscription on front free endpapers "For Pennock Pusey from his friends the Author and Thomas Cochran." Light foxing. Howes L-78.

Paris: Valade, 1775. First edition. Octavo (20 cm); 2 preliminary leaves, 355 pages. Half title present. Woodcut and typographic ornaments in text. Many gatherings unopened. Untrimmed. Bound in handsome mottled leather with early owner's arms stamped in gilt on both boards. Rebacked, hinges reinforced. Very good condition, very handsome book. Book-length discourse on the goddess of love, winner of the St. Martin prize awarded by the Royal Academie in 1775.

New York: Dial Press, 1977. First Edition. 1/4 Cloth Over Boards. Very Good . Spine sun tanned.

Ottawa: Graphic Publishers Ltd, 1931. First edition. Very Good. 25 cm; 311 pages and 10 half-tone plates. Maps on lining papers. In original blue pebbled cloth with yellow title label on spine. Blue dye faded in places, especially along lower portion of spine; some slight wear to corners; slight crease on lower board. Internally fine. Dedicated to Vilhjalmur Stefansson, this volume is a perceptive and informed chronicle of a journey across the Canadian Arctic into Alaska.

London: [C. Heydinger], 1744. 22 cm; [41]-118 pages. Bound in recent half buckram over marbled boards, titled on spine. Marginal comments and underlines in contemporary hand. Blindstamp of the Library of the American Museum of Natural History on title page. In 1743, a group of 14 Russians sailed into the North Sea on a hunting expedition to the Svalbard Archipelago. When the bad weather hit, four men went ashore to reconnoiter the possibilities for shelter there. Meanwhile, the ship was lost, leaving the four to fend onshore. Six years passed before another ship happened by and the four sailors were rescued. They returned to some celebrity, and they were interviewed intensively by Pierre Le Roy, a French Huguenot academic resident in St. Petersburg. Their account was published in German at Riga and Mietau, 1760, and was translated into English by the publisher C. Heydinger "at the desire of several members of the Royal Society," as the title page tells us. The story, and the story of how… Read More

London: Longmans, Green, 1865. Very Good. 2 vols. 8vo (23 cm). Bound by Rivière and Son in full tree calf with gilt-tooled border; paneled spine decorated in gilt. Leather labels. Worn at extremities; volume 1 spine chipped, lacks label. Old sticker marks on top boards. Very light scattered foxing at first and last leaves. A nice copy of the Irish historian's classic work.

Cambridge: The Psychedelic Review, 1963. First edition. Very Good. 23 cm; 260 pages. Printed wraps, slightly discolored with a nick on the joint. Else fine. The second number of the quarterly journal of psychedelic experience led by the school of Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert, and their peers. Includes articles on botanical sources of New World narcotics, and on the treatment of alcoholism with psychedelic drugs.

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

ca. 1880. Good. Three albumen-silver photographs on paper, mounted on board. Dendera: 210 x 275 mm. Signed and titled in plate. Lightly toned to sepia. On verso: two photographs of bas relief figures of Isis, not signed, each image 115 x 235 mm.

ca. 1880. Good. Albumen-silver photograph on paper, 210 x 275 mm. Signed and titled in plate. Lightly toned to sepia. Mounted on board, with travelogue notes in English in ink on board dated 1895.