Search Results: The Classical Tradition from Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio

Paris: Mamert Pattison, at the press of Robert Estienne, 1585. Very Good. Octavo (17 cm); [10], 302, [10] pages. Estienne device on title page. Foliated woodcut initial and ornamental headpiece at beginning. In c17 polished calf, double-ruled in gilt on boards; five raised bands on spine, with gilt floral tools in the compartments. All edges gilt. A fine copy with some wear to corners and joins of binding; a few scattered underscorings and marginalia in an early hand. References: Schreiber, 258; Renouard, Estienne, 186:2; see also Gilbert Highet, Juvenal the Satirist, pages 207-208. First appearance of Pierre Pithou's edition of Juvenal and Persius, based on the discovery of a 9th-century manuscript in the Benedictine abbey of Lorsch. The manuscript was turned up in the course of the Humanist program of hunting and recovering early monastic copies of classical texts, and it was awarded to Pithou (1539-1596) in his capacity as one of the ablest classicists of his time. In addition to the text… Read More

London: Egypt Exploration Fund, 1902-03. First edition. Good. 32 cm; 2 volumes (of three); 60 pages and 80 plates; 58 pages and 64 plates. Bound in original printed boards with cloth spine. Boards and spine somewhat worn and text block somewhat shaken in binding. Upper hinge of volume II split but holding.

London: Egypt Exploration Fund, 1902. First edition. Good. 32 cm; 60 pages and 80 plates. Extra illustrated with photograph tipped in on front blank, and ink tracing on onion skin laid in showing "detail from arch leading to inner hall of tomb of Qen Amen," signed in March 1903 with the initials T.M. Bound in original printed boards with cloth spine. Boards and spine somewhat worn and text block somewhat shaken in binding.

London: Egypt Exploration Fund, 1894. First Edition. Poor. 32cm; 39, 34 pages, and 27 plates (some folding, including map). "Appendix on Byzantine sculptures, by Professor T. Hayter Lewis, F.S.A. The tomb of Paheri at El Kab, by J.J. Tylor, F.S.A., and F. Ll. Griffith. Pub. by order of the committee." Original boards, shaken, hinges split, spine ends frayed, joints fraying. Yet sound. Fair condition overall.

New York: The Brooklyn Museum, 1965. First edition?. Good. 29 cm; 110 pages, illustrated. Bound in original cloth, no dust jacket (as issued). Covers scuffed and marked a bit, contents clean and very good. Copyright line inked out by hand on copyright page.

Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum, 1968. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. 29cm; xv, 114 pages. Illustrated catalogue of Egyptian glass held in the Brooklyn Museum Department of Ancient Art. Fine in original glassine.

Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1968. Very Good. 22 cm; 94 pages, including 70 plates. Color frontispiece. Wraps

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1929. First edition. Very Good. 28 cm; xlvi, 488 pages, 16 plates (frontispiece in color), and 640 halftone illustrations. Bound in original cloth with stamped roundel on upper board. Very light wear only; pages evenly toned.

London: The Scholartis Press, 1929. Limited. Cloth. Very Good . 27cm. Text in Greek and English. Edition limited to 500 copies. Very light foxing on half title. Bookplate of Geroge Gordon Ladds.

Newcastle upon Tyne: The Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1999. Wraps. Very Good. With articles on Celtic, Roman and Medieval Britain.

Newcastle uopn Tyne: The Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1998. Wraps. Very Good. With articles on Roman and Celtic Britain.

Venice: [Giovanni Tacuino] Ioannis Taciuni de Tridino, 1516. Very good with faults as described.. Folio. [14 ], 168 leaves. 35 column-wide woodcut vignettes in text, numerous woodcut decorated letters. Signatures: a\8 b\6 A-EE\6. Title in gothic type; main text printed in large roman type, surrounded on three sides by commentary in smaller roman type; marginal notes in small roman type. Index on preliminary leaves. Bound in circa c19 re-used plain vellum, with older manuscript text scraped away, discernable but illegible. Title page guarded on inner margin, with two paper repairs on verso; manuscript notes in contemporary hand on blank verso of b6, about half washed away and offset onto A1r. Light water stain in early quires. A1 repaired on verso. Interlinear manuscript notes in contemporary hand in first quire only. Burn hole in C4. Paper repair to verso of D3, Woodcut on T1 inked over but clearly visible. Restorations on the lower corners of numerous leaves with slight loss of text… Read More

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

New York: Saint Martin's Press, LLC, 1981. Cloth. Very Good. Bottom edge of dust jacket bumped.

Boston: Beacon Press, 1947. Cloth. Very Good. Bookplate (?) removed from rear blanks.

London: George A. Harrap, 1931. Cloth stamped with image of Cleopatra. Very Good. Translated by Huntley Patterson. 25cm; 325 pages and 32 half-tone plates. No dust jacket.

New York: Viking Press, 1937. Book Club. Cloth. Good .

London: Bradbury, Evans & Co, 1852. Boards. Good. 308 pages, pictorial title page and 10 hand-colored steel engraved plates by John Leech. 100 wood engraved illustrations in text. Bound in 19th-century half green calf over marbled boards. Marbled edges and endpapers. Binding rubbed away at edges and extremities. Child's pencil marks on rear blank.

Paris: Didot, 1812. Second edition. Bound in contemporary mottled pink paper-covered boards, worn. . Very Good. 31cm; xiii, [i], 85 pages. Title and text in French and Italian on facing pages. Bridgewater arms stamped in red on both title pages; Egerton arms stamped in red at head of appendix (a survey of critcism on Comus). A 16-page genealogy in French of the Bridgewater family dated 1810 bound in, stamped with Bridgewater arms. Scattered light foxing only. The British eccentric Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (1756-1829) commissioned this translation into French and Italian of Milton's Comus in part to honor his own ancestor, John Egerton, who was present at the first performance of it. First issued in 1806, Egerton chose to reprint the corrected text with the celebrated firm of Didot. A third issue of the Italian text was printed later the same year.

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University, 1946. Fine. Offprint from the Bulletin of the History of Medicine 20 (1946), pages 601-610, specially bound in decorated paper-covered (wooden?) boards with crushed morocco backstrip with author's name lettered in gilt on upper flap of the backstrip. Abstracted profile portrait of a man wearing Egyptian headgear on upper board.