Rader, Jesse L. SOUTH OF FORTY FROM THE MISSISSIPPI TO THE RIO GRANDE: A BIBLIOGRAPHY. $80.
Cloth. Octavo. pp.xiii.336. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1947
This basic reference cites 3793 books on all aspects of the life of this region. For the purpose of this bibliography, the area undertaken is defined on the north from the fortieth parallel, on the west by the Rio Grande, on the south by the Gulf of Mexico, and on the east by the Mississippi. It is thus devoted to the southern portion of the Louisiana Purchase, including the great area of subsequent dispute, Texas. Before Rader, no previous attempt had been towards an exhaustive bibliography covering this region. Some four hundred years of a struggle between nations, of exploration, travel, and scientific discoveries, are described in these pages. The bibliography also provides a subject index. Rader provides full author title, pagination, size, and a list of other editions. A basic reference. Besterman 6349.

Charles Hercules Read, Sir; O. M. Dalton. Antiquities from The City Of Benin And From Other Parts Of West Africa In The British Museum. $95.00

Folio [11 X 16 inches] English Book 3 p. l., 61 p. illus., XXXII pl. London, British museum, sold by Longmans & Co. [etc.] , 1899. The impetus for the early study of art in Benin stemmed from the apparent inconsistency between the reported barbarism of Benin and its aesthetic accomplishments. Benin art confounded the degeneracy model by its sheer technical master. The first major catalogue of art in Benin was published in London in 1899. In that year British Museum staff members Sir Charles Hercules Read and Ormonde Maddock Dalton described the museum’s newly formed collection. This catalogue contains a selection of the more important items obtained by the British after a successful expedition sent to Benin to punish the natives for a massacre of an English mission in 1897.

Reid, James S. The Municipalities of The Roman Empire. $85.00

Hardbound. Octavo. Book xv, 548 p. Cambridge, University Press, 1913.

The author's purpose is to provide scholars with a survey of the Roman Empire, regarded in one of its most important aspects, that of a vast federation of commonwealths, retaining many characteristics of the so called "City-State." To this end, the author first surveys the different parts of the empire, beginning with Italy, showing the use made of the municipality in each. Then follows a chapter dealing with the internal organization of the municipalities, and the work concludes with a brief consideration of the decline of the municipalities, and its disastrous consequences for the empire. Indeed, it is to this decline that the author attributes the final ruin of the empire. Bookseller Inventory # 1278

Reisner, George Andrew. DEVELOPMENT OF THE EGYPTIAN TOMB DOWN TO THE ACCESSION OF CHEOPS. $125.00

Limited to 300 copies. Red Cloth. Quarto. xxvii, 428pp., 2 maps.

Reprint of the original 1936 edition. With 192 illustrations of the tomb plans and types. The two maps show the Royal Cemeteries of the Abydos and the Saqqara Cemetery. This book was the first volume in Reisner's planned series on the Giza Necropolis, volumes of which are still being newly published by Boston's Museum of Fine Arts at the present time. This book was first published in 1936 and has long been out of print. A cornerstone book for any studying of the Egyptian tomb and funerary practices in ancient Egypt.

Reisner, George Andrew HISTORY OF THE GIZA NECROPOLIS. VOLUME I. (ISBN: 1578981468) .$150.00

Martino Publishing & John Pye, Mansfield Centre CT & Brockton. 1996 Reprint of the original edition 1942. Limited to 300 copies. Red Cloth. Quarto. xlvii, 532pp. 75 b&w photographic plates. Facsimile edition of the first edition of 1942.

Illustrated with 325 b&w figures of which 5 are double-page and many are full-page. With six maps of the Giza Cemeteries on three sheets inserted in an envelope inside the rear cover. The 75 plates contain over 300 photographs of the site, tomb inscriptions and paintings and objects discovered. Among the later was one of the ealiest intact mummies. This mammoth book is the cornerstore volume in the series of Giza publications undertaken (and still forthcoming) by the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Chapters include the history of the Necropolis, its topography, ancient and modern research, cronology of the mastabas, construction, burial shfts, finished mastabas, and chapel decorations. One of the most important books weitten about the Giza Plauteau.

Reisner, George Andrew. MYCERINUS: The Temples of the Third Pyramid at Giza. $150.00

Martino Publishing & John Pye, Mansfield Centre, CT & Brockton 1995.

1995 Reprint of the original first edition (Harvard University Press 1931). Limited to 300 copies. Hardbound. Cloth Maroon buckram 9x12 inches. Quarto. xxi, 292pp., 79 b&w plates, 12 plans. New Copy. With the 12 plans which were issued loose in an envelope in 1931, bound in at the end. One of the most significant books on Pyramid Temples and on the Old Kingdom. Certainly the only significant book on the 4th dynasty Pharaoh Menkere, or Mycerinus. The first edition was limited to only 500 copies and has become elusive and expensive title.

Reisner, George Andrew. A HISTORY OF THE GIZA NECROPOLIS. VOL. II. THE TOMB OF HETEP-HERES THE MOTHER OF CHEOPS. A STUDY OF EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION IN THE OLD KINGDOM. US$ 165.00

1999. Hardbound. Limited to 300 copies. Handsome reprint of the 1955 Harvard University Press edition. Completed and revised by William Stevenson Smith; xxv, 107 pps of text followed by 147 figures as drawings on 22 pages, followed by 55 pages of b/w photographs (multiple images on all pages).

Reisner, George Andrew.The Hearst medical papyrus; hieratic text in 17 facsimile plates in collotype, with introduction and vocabulary. $95.00

Large Folio. 9 X 12 inches. Hardcover. Book 4 p. l., 48 p. XVII facsimile illustrations. Leipzig, J.C. Hinrichs, 1905.

Facsimile of the first edition of 1905. When Reisner met Mrs. Phoebe Hearst, mother of Willim Randolph, it was a turning point in his career. She funded his excavations in Egypt on behalf of the University of California, from 1867-1905. Reisner acqu ired this medical papyrus in 1901, which he named in her honor. It dates from the first have of the second millennium B.C. and is written in hieratic script. The ailments for which cures were offered range from "a tooth which falls out" and "a remed y for treatment of the lung" to bites by human beings.

Reisner, George Andrew. Models of Ships & Boats. $150.00

Folio [9 X 12 inches]. xxviii, 171 p., xxxiii leaves of plates: ill; Le Caire : Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1913. This rare book begins with an introduction that considers the construction, rigging, furniture, decoration and manningof ancient Egyptian craft. The main body of the text considers hundreds of models of Egyptian craft and details of same. An exemplary study of the boat models found in Egyptian tombs, in turn the starting point in any investigation of the design and construction of real boats and ships in ancient Egypt. Chapters on Egyptian Wooden River Boats, the Papyrus Raft, Wooden Boats, Funeral Barks, Private Sun Barks and more. Illustrations include 389 figures in text and. & 33 plates.

Reisner, G. AMULETS $125.00
A.Large Folio. Hardcover. 2 p. 1., 198 p. illus., xxv pl. Cairo: Imprimerie de L'Institute Francais D'Archeologie Orientale, 1907.

Large Folio. Hardcover. 2 p. 1., 198 p. illus., xxv pl. Cairo: Imprimerie de L'Institute Francais D'Archeologie Orientale, 1907 Reisner wrote two sections for the important Catalogue General of the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. The first, Amulets,appeared in 1907. His second part of the Egyptian catalog, Models of Ships and Boats, was published in 1913. Important catalogue of the amulets in the collection of the Cairo Museum. Circa 500 amulets are illustrated and circa 1200 are described.Rare.

Renouard, Philippe. LES MARQUES TYPOGRAPHIQUES PARISIENNES DES XVE ET XVI SIÈCLES. $65.00
Cloth. Oversized Octavo. viii, [1], 64, [2], 65-144 p., 1 l., 145-381 pp. Profusely illustrated. Paris: Champion, 1926-1928,

This is one of the very few reference books on Parisian printer's marks. Included are 1142 illustrations of various marks from both printers and booksellers. The arrangement of the material is alphabetical by printer and/or bookseller. Renouard covers the 15th and 16th centuries.
This title is quite scarce. No our knowledge it has not previously been reprinted.

Reuss. Bibliotheca Novi Testamenti Graeci.

Reprint .Octavo. Latin. vii, 314 p. Brunsvigae, apud C. A. Scwetschke et filium, 1872. $85.00

This is a standard bibliography on the printing ofthe New Testament in Greek. This work offers an investigation of more than 580 printed texts of the New Testament from the Complutensian Polyglot [1514] to the Edition of A. Hahn [1861]. Extremely scarce on the market. Besterman 779.

Riccardi, Pietro. BIBLIOTECA MATEMATICA ITALIANA DALLA ORIGINE DELLA STAMPA AI PRIMI ANNI DEL SECOLO XIX. $150.
Cloth. Large Octavo. pp.xxx.coll.656 + 480.54 pp. [iv]. 156 +pp.xxiii.312 +pp.iii-vi. Coll. 106.
Modena: Societa Tipografica, 1870-1893 & 1928
Renaissance Italian artists and merchants influenced the mathematics of the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance in several ways. In the 15th century a group of Tuscan artists, including Filippo Brunelleschi, LeonBattista Alberti, and Leonardo da Vinci, incorporated linear perspective into their practice and teaching, about a century before the subject was treated formally by mathematicians. Italian maestro d'abbaco tried, albeit unsuccessfully, to solve nontrivial cubic equations. In fact, the first general solution was found by Scipione Del Ferro at the beginning of the 16th century and rediscovered by Niccolò Tartaglia several years later. The solution was published by Girolamo Cardano in his Ars Magna in 1545, together with Lodovico Ferrari's solution of the quartic equation. By 1380 an algebraic symbolism had been developed in Italy in which letters were used for the unknown, for its square, and for constants. Riccardi's work remains a standard work on the subject of Italian mathematical literature from the beginning of printing to the 1800s. In it are included 15,000 descriptions of books printed on the subject. The arrangement is alphabetical. Included are full title, collations, cross references to other standard works and valuable annotations. The annotations are quite useful, and discuss such issues as rarity and number of editions. Included are all the mathematical works of Galileo. Our reprint includes the corrections and additions undertaken by the Royal Academy of Science in 1928. A standard work. Besterman 3727.

Ricci, James V. The Vaginal Speculum and Its Modifications Throughout The Ages.
Hardbound. Oversized Octavo.English. 55 p., [28] leaves of plates : ill. 1949.

The vaginal speculum is an instrument in a contested technology. As the oldest instrument in the technology of obstetric surveillance and diagnosis, the vaginal speculum provoked serious debates about the propriety and power of looking at women's bodies. Contemporary devices, such as the ultrasound machine and the electronic fetal monitor, continue to engender debates about looking. The vaginal speculum (katopter) was known in Antiquity. The instrument fell in disuse during the Middle-ages notwithstanding the fact that Abulcasis had conceived improved speculae in the 10th century. Obstetrical use (embryotomy) of the speculum matricis was deleted from the 17th century on. The speculum vaginae was "rediscovered" in 1801. This is one of the few works on the subject and is profusely illustrated. Bookseller Inventory # 1254

Ricci, Seymour de. Catalogue d'une Collection Unique des Editions Originales de Ronsard. $65.00

Quarto. Hardcover. 208 pages. Maggs: London, 1927. New Copy. Pierre de Ronsard (1524 -1585) was a French poet and "prince of poets" (as h is own generation in France called him). He was one of the stars of the Pleiade, French humanists who were inspired by classical culture, but sought to create a distinct French literature. His poetry is wonderfully musical, sensuous, pagan and rom antic. Although a cleric in minor orders, he was constantly celebrating the beauties and sorrows of various loves. He was patronized by Charles IX and wrote pieces for some of Catherine de' Medici's court pageants, but he was much more than a roya l apologist. The 1927 Catalogue of Maggs is compiled and annotated by Seymour De Ricci and includes 95 important early printed works by Ronsard. Richly illustrated with copious annotations and comments.

Rickmers, Willi Rickmer. The Duab of Turkestan; A Physiographic Sketch and Account of Some Travels, by W. Rickmer Rickmers. $125.00

Large Octavo. Hardcover. xv, [1], 563, [1] p. front., illus., fold. plans, fold. maps, diagrams. Cambridge, The University press, 1913.

The book deals with that portion of Russian Turkestan lying between the Oxus and the Jaxartes rivers and including the two cities of Bokhara and Samarkand and a portion of the Pamirs. The author calls it a physiographic sketch and an account of some travels. There are 207 maps, diagrams and photographs. The half-tones are excellent, some of them are remarkable. Only in the perfectly clear atmosphere of the arid lands could such photographs be secured. The sketch maps and diagrams are very effective, unusually so. The author is modest and his narrative is not lumbered up with inane details such as travelers too often impose upon readers of their books. The author's delicate touches of humor, his picturesque language in description, his knowledge of. physiography and climatology, and his familiarity with the literature of his subject, all contribute materially to the excellence of the book. The descriptions of the people—nomads, city dwellers of Bokhara and Samarkand, native officials, and mountain tribes—are interesting reading and bespeak the keen observer and experienced traveler. Much attention is given to physiographic processes and features, but the splendid half tones tell the story better than words. The record of the peculiar action of the weathering agents and of the glaciers is a distinct contribution to physiographic science. In the appendix, the author enters into a discussion of a number of unsettled questions, such as, the number of glacial epochs represented by the morainic deposits in the Pamirs, the value of the evidences of supposed climatic changes in Turkestan in historic times, and the relation of forests to rainfall, but reaches no very definite conclusions.

Ridgeway, Sir William. The Origin of Metallic Currency And Weight Standards. $85.00

Octavo. English xii, 417 p. : ill. ; Cambridge : University Press, 1892

Ridgeway's work was among the first to suggest that standards of weight and currency arise unconsciously and spontaneously from the everyday usages of primitive peoples; and that peoples employ for the purpose whatever furnishes near at hand; and that resemblances are due largely to the similarity of situation and need.

Mr. Ridgeway will deserve the deserved repute of having been the pioneer in a new and fertile field of research---from review article in Political Science Quarterly, March 1894.

Ristow, W. W. GUIDE TO THE HISTORY OF CARTOGRAPHY: AN ANNOTATED LIST OF REFERENCES ON THE HISTORY OF MAPS & MAPMAKING. $30.

Cloth, 8vo., iv, 96pp. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1973. ISBN 1-57898-035-6.
This is the revised version of a work originally entitled A Guide to Historical Cartography (1st ed., 1954; 2nd ed., 1960, revised 1962), compiled by W.W. Ristow & Clara A. Le Gear. Greatly expanded, this edition lists 423 items on the history of maps & mapmaking. It includes 19th and 20th century references (almost entirely monographs), as well as earlier periods. Sheehy Cl 274.

Rivers. W. H. R.  THE HISTORY OF MELANESIAN SOCIETY.             $150

Octavo. Two volumes bound in One. Hardcover. 2 v. illus. maps (1 fold). 1028 pages.  Cambridge, University Press,  1914.

 Rivers considered this to be his finest work.  The two volume work begins with Rivers’s critical comments on his own methodology and an appeal for finer methods of inquiry.  Rivers attempts both a survey of existing data, and, from his own researches in the region, to reconstruct a historical account, with the help of a diffusionist theory, of the complex of Melanesian Islands. 
The volumes are full of sensitive insights and cover a very wide range of subjects and materials.  They are also interesting in showing traces of functional approaches to culture later to be refined by Malinowski.
The sections on communialism and communism in Melanesia point towards Rivers’s later interests in socialism.  Rivers is a careful scholar, meticulous in detail and eminent in his clarity especially with regard to terminology.  Contains oversized folding color map in rear.

Rivington, Charles Robert; Edward Arber. A Transcript of The Registers of The Company Of Stationers Of London; 1554-1640, A.D.

Hardbound, cloth. Octavo & Quarto. Five volumes bound in three. Circa 3100 pages. London, Priv. Print., Birmingham, 1875-1894.

The Stationers' Company has in its possession copyright registers from 1554 to 1842. The entries up to 1640 have been published in A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London 1554-1660 ed. E Arber The Stationers' Company, which was founded in the fifteenth century to protect and regulate the London book trade, contains Court Book registers, records of the English Stock Company, and pension and apprentice register books, as well as "Entry Books of Copies." The Entry Books are of especial interest to scholars, since they record the names of authors and titles of books presented to the Company for printing. Inventory # 1269

Rodenberg, Julius. Deutsche Pressen, Eine Bibliographie & Supplement 1925-1930. $125.00

Hardbound. Cloth. Octavo. German. Two volumes bound in one. 614 p. [53] leaves of plates (3 fold.) ill. m. Zürich, Amalthea: 1925 & 1931.

Still a standard bibliography on Printing in Germany. The original edition covers up to 1925 and describes 2500 works. The supplement, published in 1931, covers up to 1931. In all 3000 works are described. Bookseller Inventory # 1281

Rosenbach Company. THE SEA: Books and Manuscripts on the Art of Navigation, Geography, Naval History, Shipbuilding, Voyages, Shipwrecks, Mathematics, Including Atlases, Maps and Charts. $50.00

Cloth. Oversized Octavo. pp.xi, 224. New York & Philadelphia: The Rosenbach Company, 1938
In 1938, the famed Rosenbach Company put together an extraordinary catalogue of books and manuscripts on the Sea. This landmark collection described 837 items pertaining to all aspects of maritime history.
Included is the first English book on Magnets, as well as two of the most famous Elizabethan works on the astrolabe, the first book to mention a ship's log and line, one of the earliest books written on the use of the sun dial, the first book to bear the name of New England on its title page, the first work to deal with specific diseases in America, the first English book to mention the settlement of the Swedes in America, the first work on navigation and shipbuilding in the New World, the first book on practical navigation to be printed in what is now the United States and many other landmark books.
All books and manuscripts are described in detail, and most have useful annotations as well. Remains a standard work to this day.

Rosenthal, Jacques. BIBLIOTHECA MAGICA ET PNEUMATICA/CAT. 31-35 OCCULT SCIENCES/FOLKLORE. $85.
8vo. Cloth. 680, [4]pp. Munich, [1907]. ISBN 1-888262-31-1.
Archer Taylor, in Book Catalogues: Their Varieties & Uses makes mention of only two dealer catalogues as important reference works. "The Bibliotheca Magica et Pneumatica, issued by the firm of Jacques Rosenthal in Munich, lists 8,875 books that are particularly difficult to identify. It is rightly praised as a standard bibliography of occultism & magic."

Rostovtzeff, Michael Ivanovitch . Iranians & Greeks in South Russia. $95.00

Quarto. xv, [1], 260 p. front., illus. (incl. plans), plates, fold. map. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1922

As a dissenter from Bolshevism after the Russian Revolution, he fled to England. After teaching at Oxford for only two years, he moved to Madison, Wisconsin, in the United States in 1920, were he taught at the University of Wisconsin. While at Wisconsin, he wrote one of the most important works of intercultural history of antiquity, Iranians and Greeks in South Russia, 1922. The work examines the Scythians and their interchange with the Greeks. His courses ranged as far afield as Russian architectural history and his mid-western undergraduates, unable to pronounce his named, referred to him as "Rough Stuff" a reference to his high standards as much as his ethnicity. In 1925 he was appointed Sterling Professor of Ancient History and Archaeology at Yale University. His best-known work, The Social and Economic History of the Roman Empire appeared in 1926.

Rumball-Petre, Edwin, A.R. AMERICA'S FIRST BIBLES; WITH A CENSUS OF 555 EXTANT BIBLES. $60.
Hardbound. Cloth. Octavo. Illustrated Frontispiece, xi, 184pp. Portland, Maine: The Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1940.
This work is a most useful reference that is also a history of the printing of the Bible in America. There is a wealth of bibliographical information provided. Chapters include "America's First Bible in a European Language," "Census of the First Saur Bible," "First Bible Printed on American Paper," "First Bible Printed with American Type," "First Bible printed in America in the English Language," "Rarest Bible and its Printer," "Bibles Associated with the Mayflower and George Washington," and "Importing Europe's First Bibles for America". You can even find information about the first Bible in America translated by a women, the first Hebrew Bible, the First Septuagint in English, and so on. The information provided is not easily found elsewhere. To our knowledge this bibliography has not been previously reprinted. Originally printed by the Southworth-Anthoensen Press.

Rumball-Petre, Edwin A.R. RARE BIBLES: AN INTRODUCTION FOR COLLECTORS AND A DESCRIPTIVE CHECKLIST. $45.
Cloth. Octavo. pp.55. New York, Philip C. Duschnes, 1954. Second edition.
This useful bibliography is a guided tour of Rare editions of the Bible. Rumball-Petre has selected 378 rare bibles and has explained to the reader why they are rare or important. Rumball-Petre also provides annotations, along with an introductory essay and a list of bibliographical references for the collector. We are reprinting the second and revised edition of this work. The first edition appeared in 1938. This second edition was published by Philip Duschnes in 1954. Besterman 762.

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