Authors starting with D from Margolis & Moss

New-York: Printed for E. Bliss and E. White, 1821. 387 pages. Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches); contemporary leather backed blue boards; spine worn, front hinge cracked, boards rubbed. "Second American from the First London Editions, with additions and corrections by the author." "Francis Wright had faithfully recorded her travels in a series of long, self-consciously literary letters to a Glasgow friend... The results was VIEWS OF SOCIETY AND MANNERS IN AMERICA, one of the most celebrated tr... more information

Utica: Gardiner Tracy, 1837. 240 + 12 pages. 12mo (6 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches); contemproary calf; lightly rubbed. With an ink inscription dated 1840. In 1800 Nathan Daboll published his "Schoolmaster's Assistant." "It was the first book to make frequent use of the $ symbol. With minor revisions it continued to be published as late as the 1830's. ... more information

London: printed for T. Bickerton, 1721. 72 pages. 7 x 4 1/2 inches. Extracted; half-title and final leaf lightly soiled and chipped. First edition. ESTC T5917. ... more information

A linen backed, colored map, folding into leather covers (which are separated at the spine). The map has one small tear at a fold and some soiling in the slower right. Population of the state at this time (13 years after statehood) was 319,040. ... more information

Chicago: Rand McNally, 1891. 19 pages plus advertisements. With a large, colored map measuring 14 x 21 inches. Folding into brown printed wrappers, 6 3/4 x 4 1/4 inches. A fine, bright copy. Shown are the routes of the seven railroads crossing the state. ... more information

Troy: Nims and Knight, (1891). 182 pages. Attractively illustrated, including a few hand-colored plates. Folio (12 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches); full green morocco gilt, binding by Pfister Co. of New York; spine faded to brown. Second edition, first published in 1888. A fine biography of the celebrated English actress (c. 1714-1760) by this noted American dramatist and theatrical manager.<p>Laid in is an A.L.S. from "Daly's," April 9, 1886, to a Mr. Bell. "Please go through this additional ... more information

Boston: Russell & Cutler, Printers, 1808. 39 pages. Octavo, 9 x 5 1/2 inches. Self wrappers, string tied; uncut. A lovely copy. The late eighteenth century saw the first two Humane Societies in the United States, those of Massachusetts and Philadelphia. They were devoted to the cause of Life Saving from the sea or other waters. After Danforth's semi-scientific explanation of human life, there is an appendix with three testimonials about life saving at sea and under the ice. This is... more information

Esperies and Budapest, circa 1885. A portfolio of 30 albumen landscape photographs of the impressive Tatra mountains by Károly Divald. The images measure 6 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches ( 159 x 108 mm.) on stiff printed mounts, each captioned in Hungarian and German. Oblong quarto, 10 x 13 inches ( 254 x 108 mm.). Loose in a pictorial red portfolio; age toning to portfolio. The photographs illustrate the splendid snow covered peaks of the Tatra Mountain Range, its rushing waterfalls and streams and its sp... more information

(Mexico, Circa 1900. 33 unnumbered pages of lithographed music from manuscript. Octavo, 9 x 6 inches. Calf backed boards with leather labels; soiling to title page (probably the original cover). The author most likely is Marcelino Davalos (1871 - 1923), lawyer and politician, but also writer of poetry, plays and other literary properties. <p> <p> ... more information

Philadelphia: B. Davenport & Co., 1838. 518 pages. Illustrated with woodcut views and maps. 4to, contemporary calf; leather label; light wear. A new edition of this popular work, originally published in 1838. ... more information

Mexico: Editorial Cultura, 1937. 225 pages. 7 1/2 x 5 inches. Printed wrappers; lower front hinge starting. Signed by the author. A guide book to the region during it's golden period. ... more information

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1866. 43 pages. 8vo, flexible black cloth Davis represented Maryland in congress, first as a Know-Nothing and then as a Republican. Though an ardent Unionist, Davis strenuously opposed Lincoln and his program, especially protesting violations of habeas corpus and the plan for a moderate Southern reconstruction. ... more information

Boston: W. H. Baker, (1950). 157 pages. 8vo, green cloth with dust jacket First edition. Reminiscences of the years 1897-1949. Davis was an "American dramatist who as a young graduate fro Harvard, finding no market for his tragedies in verse, turned to more remunerative branches of the theater and wrote over a hundred ephemeral melodramas... Prompted, however, by Ibsen, and the new spirit abroad in the theater, he wrote in 1921 a sincere and moving play, "The Detour, " which was recognized a... more information

Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1849. 226 pages + 32 pages publishers catalog dated 1852. 9 x 5 1/2 inches. Black cloth, binding very worn, inner hinges starting, needs rebinding. With an appendix "containing a series of cases illustrative of a new and successful mode of treating lumbago ad other forms of chronic rheumatism, sciatica and other neurologic affections and certain forms of paralysis. ... more information

London: Printed and sold by W. Boreham, 1718. 71,[1] pages. 7 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches. Extracted; title soiled and coming loose. With ink signature and number on title. Only edition. The introduction and commentary are by Daniel Defoe, according to ESTC T30902. ... more information

Tacoma: Chas. F. Metsker, circa 1940. Large folding map measuring 24 1/2 x 23 inches. Folding into yellow pictorial folder, 7 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches. Map printed in blue. A detailed map, showing the northern most county in California, ... more information

Mexico: Herrero Hermanos Sucesores, 1928. 107 pages + index. Illustrated from photographs and with colored maps. 7 x 9 1/2 inches. Cloth backed printed boards. A fine copy. ... more information

Mexico: Herrero Hermanos Sucesores, 1944. 68 pages. With illustrations and brightly colored maps. 6 x 8 1/2 inches. Cloth backed pictorial boards. Fourteenth edition of this attractive school text. ... more information

Mexico: Herrero Hermanos, (1910). General Map + 29 state maps and one for the Federal District. Together 31 maps, printed in color. 10 x 7 1/4 inches. Red decorative cloth with gilt; inner hinges starting. A 1916 inscription is on the free end-paper. Daniel Delgadillo (1872 - 1933) was a prominent Mexican educator whose various text books were kept in print for decades. An attractive School atlas showing all roads and major cities. ... more information

(Paris, 1895). Issued in Nouv. Arch. Mus. D'Hist. Nat. Series 7,3. pages 83-118. This copy has been extra-illustrated with 22 engravings, lithographs, half-tones, and nine mounted albumen photographs, by an anonymous photographer, ranging from 6 to 41/4 inches ( 152 x 108 mm.) to 8 1/2 x 6 inches ( 165 x 152 mm.). Tall quarto, 12 x 9 1/2 inches ( 305 x 241 mm.). Calf-backed marble boards; edges lightly rubbed. The book is an anatomical study of the orangutan's skull and bone structure. Of spec... more information