Authors starting with G from Savoy Books

2 pp folio, with integral address leaf. Blanks pieces missing from address leaf, otherwise fine. A long and urgent letter, seeking a loan to finance the continuation of Gales and Seaton's important journal "The National Intelligencer," following the finacial hardships imposed by the cancellation of their long-standing printing contract for the Congressional record. "We cherish the belief that, relieved for a time from connection with Congress, and bending our undivided attention to the N... more information

Paris: Bachelier, 1826. 4to, early marbled boards, green morocco spine, ornamented in gilt. Pp. 264 + 12 pp. publisher's catalogue of mathematical books; uncut. 25 folding plates. Binding scuffed, worn at extremities; moderate general foxing within. A very good, sound copy. Second edition, corrected and enlarged; first published in 1822 as L'art du Fontenier Fondeur. Extensive treatise on finding and drilling artesian wells, with numerous plates of drilling apparatus.. ... more information

London: For T. Becket, 1775. 4to, removed. Pp. [vi], 40. Wanting half-title. Final leaf dusty; very good. First edition. Two short musicals, Garrick's last original productions at the Theatre Royal, from which he retired the following year. . ... more information

Boston: T.H. Carter [1837.] 8vo, orig. printed boards; rebacked, with new endpapers. Pp. 140. Frontis; illus. Boards rubbe, foxed; a very good, sound copy. First number of this annual compendium of gardening, cookery, housekeeping and literature, illustrated with appealing Bewick-style genre cuts by the noted Boston engraver Nicholas Devereaux. The series continued until 1843. Scarce.. ... more information

Ann Arbor: Printed by Davis & Cole, 1856. 12mo, orig. red cloth. Extremities of spine worn, foxed. An Ann Arbor imprint by an Ann Arbor resident, first published in 1853 in New York. A graphic temperance novel, set in Vermont, upstate New York and Michigan, with a strong feminine reform element. See Wright 1345.. ... more information

Saginaw, MI: Seeman & Peters (1910). 12mo, , cloth gilt. Pp. 54, illus. With ruled blank pages at rear, 18 pp of which bear manuscript "Standard Sewing Machine Instructions," with a mounted sample of hems & tuckings, and 13 pp. on millinery. Very good. Third edition.. ... more information

An account of a collection of plants made by Charles Wright in an expedition from Texas to El Pas o, New Mexico in the summer and autumn of 1849. Parts I & II [all]. [Washington, D.C.:] The Smithsonian Institution, [1852-53]. Folio, modern half speckled calf antique, morocco label, spine ruled in gilt. Pp. 146, 119; 14 uncolored litho plates, after Isaac Sprague. A few leaves mildly wrinkled, el se a fine copy in a handsome modern binding. First editions, issued as "Smithsonian Contributions to Kno... more information

New York: Macmillan, 1932. 8vo, cloth; pp. xviii, 271, profusely illus with b&w photos. Spine and top edge of cover faded; a very good copy.. ... more information

Paris:: Bernard Brunet, 1752. 2vols. Thick 4to, full early mottled calf, morocco labels, raised bands, gilt compartments. Important body of French conservation laws, with much on hunting and fishing. Some marginal staining to titles; a fine, fresh set. . ... more information

New York: St. Martin's, (1962). 8vo, cloth; pp. 160, illus with color and b&w photos. Fine copy.. ... more information

London: for j. Robson, 1768. 12mo, modern half-calf, marbled boards, morocco label. Pp. iv, 5, 249, [12]. Moderatedly browned, sm. piece chipped from upper margin of title; a very good, nicely bound copy. First edition of a classic early treatise on the subject. Gilpin is remembered as the foremost theoritician of the picturesque movement that dominated landscape architecture and the arts. BLC; Halkett & Laing.  . ... more information

Extra series Nos. 68, 69. New York: April, 1843. Folio, original pictorial wrappers, stitched. Pp. 66, untrimmed. Text in double columns; illus. Wrappers, frayed and dusty, some light staining within. The first appearance of a pioneering work , according to the preface "the first chapters on Hierology that have ever issued from an American press", prepared from a series of lectures delivered the previous year, and not published in book form until 1850. Gliddon was British-born, and served as U. S... more information

Hartford: Case, Lockwood & Brainard, 1879. 8vo, cloth; pp. 249. Reading copy only.. ... more information

New York: Eaton & Mains, (1906.) 12mo, pictorial stiff wrappers. Pp. 337, numerous photo and other illus; folding map. Minor wear, a very good copy. First edition. Interesting mission-based study of European immigration, with chapters on immigration trends, national characteristics, legislation, labor and sweatshops, etc., with illustrations of Ellis Island scenes, children of various nationalities, tenement life, etc. The folding map shows immigration patterns with statistics. . ... more information

New York: Brentano's, 1915. 8vo, orig. boards, cloth spine, paper label. Pp. 175, uncut. Presentation copy, with a long inscription from the author on fly-leaf. A near fine copy.. ... more information