Authors starting with L from Savoy Books

New York:: C.M. Saxton,, 1853. 8vo, original cloth, leather spine, gilt. Pp, xii, [13]-367 + ads. Top one inch of spine missing, foxed; a sound copy. First American edition, a publisher's presentation copy, faintly inscribed in pencil "To the editor of the Independent with the respects of the Pub. Price $ 1.25." Allen's editorial additions are substantial, with copious critical notes on almost every topic that contrast English and American climate, practice and taste.. ... more information

Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1854. 8vo, orig. red patterned cloth, spine gilt. Pp. 384 + pub. cat. Moderate wear at extremities, a very good copy. With the early ticket and stamp of Epes Ellery's antiquarian book store in San Francisco. First Am. ed, same year as English first. A novel by a prominent dissenter, "evidently a record of the author's personal experience." - DNB. . ... more information

Baltimore: John D. Toy, 1839. 8vo, plain later wrappers. Pp. 32. minor foxing, very good. First ed. Brief overview of European and American horticultural history, the need for a botanic garden, and a charge to the women to establish a national flower. AI 56789.. ... more information

Sacramenta: State Office, 1890. 8vo, removed; pp. 19, illustrated. 5 folding plates at rear, one of them colored. (2 plates detached.) Published by the State Board of Horticulture. Good only.. ... more information

Boston: Printed by Edward Oliver for the author [1812.] 12mo, original illustrated wrappers, stitched. 14 leaves, including wrappers,untrimmed. Edges worn, a very good copy. The first and only number of a scarce almanac, with handsome woodcuts of clipper ship and eagle on front wrappers. Drake 3747.. ... more information

New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1888. 8vo, maroon cloth. Pp. viii, 143 + ads. 5 plates bearing ten mounted samples of heliographic prints. Top of spine chipped, else very good. First edition. Includes samples of blue prints, cyanotypes, carbon, uranium, and potash prints. . ... more information

London: J. Hughes, 1757. Large 4t o, early ruled calf (front board detached). Pp. xvi, 450, [3]. Fine engraved frontispiece portrait. Apart from an unfortunate (but not too large) library stamp smack in the middle of the title page, and some insignificant marginal worming, a fine copy, needing rebinding, of this handsomely printed work. First edition, edited posthumously from the author's ms. notes by his son Thomas. The period covered is from the end of the 17th century, up to about 1715. Lisle's ... more information

Philadelphia: Lewis D. Belair, 1823. 12mo, contemp. full tree calf, spine in ruled gilt compartments enclosing urn ornament, green morocco label. Pp. vi, [7]-124, [2]. Minor wear, lightly foxed throughout. First ed., by a self-described "physician and practitioner of midwifery in Philadelphia." A pretty copy of an American diagnostic guide, with emphasis on early symptomatic detection. With an interesting list of various trades and their related ailments. Imprints 13127.. ... more information

1878, (Jacques.) LOVELL, Albert A. Memorial of George Jaques, comprising selectio ns from his journals and a biographical sketch. Worcester: Privately printe d, 1878. 8vo, disbound. Pp. 90. Frontispiece portrait. Blindstamp on title. $ 32.50 Only edition, one of 75 copies. With the orginal prospectus tipped in.. ... more information

Lausanne: Andre Gonin, 1950. Folio, unbound sheets as issued, within original limp wrappers; housed in the original vellum-backed portfolio. 20 color lithographs by Lurcat, with original tissue guards. No. 126 of a total edition of 250 copies, printed on Rives paper, signed by artist and publisher. Minor soiling to portfolio; a fine copy.. Illus. by Lurcat, Jean.. ... more information

Ithaca: Published by the Author, 1876. 8vo, orig cloth; pp. 426, illus. Rubbed, but a good copy.. ... more information

New York: Moore, Shissler, & Co. nd. (1873.) Oblong 8vo, orig. printed boards, cloth spine. Pp. 89, with gaps in pagination. Boards rubbed to near illegibility, loose in binding. A clean copy within. A scarce and odd production, consisting of vocal songs both sacred and secular, the majority with music composed by Le Sears, as well as dance tunes, by Sears, his family relations and others. Many bear local dedications, e.g. Sears' "Trenton Waltz. Dedicated to Sarah L. Roberts of Trenton, N.J.&qu... more information

London: Grant and Griffith, 1854. 8vo, orig. cloth, gilt. Pp. viii, 446; a.e.g. With 8 hand-colored plates by James Andrews. Spine faded, worn, lacks front free endpaper.. ... more information

New York, 1921. 8vo, cloth. Pp. 618. Fifth Edition. Bitting, p. 281. Good copy.. ... more information

New York:: Harper & Brothers,, 1841. 2 vols. 8vo, original cloth. Pp. 253; 293. Engraved extra-title and emblematic frontis. Spines faded, light foxing. A very good set. First edition. A scathing attack on Britain's social inequities and a widely-read and controversial book in its time, written while Lester was a delegate to the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London. He visited Thomas Campbell, who arranged a meeting with Dickens, the subject of a long and sympathetic chapter. A decent set, each v... more information

Concord, N.H.: : Daniel Coolidge,, 1813. 12mo, early marbled boards, leather spine, morocco label. Pp. 142; woodcut on t.p. Boards rubbed, lacking front flyleaf. A very good, sound copy. Third edition, first published in 1809. A standard work of its time. Livingston was among the first to import merinoes into the US, and was largely responsible for the subsequent "merino-mania". Imprints 28966; Rink 1612.. ... more information

New York: Harper & Brothers,, 1850. 8vo, original cloth. Pp. 257. Extremities of spine worn, scattered foxing. A sound copy. First edition, a presentation copy inscribed by Loomis to his Yale associate and fellow astronomer John Brocklesby. Loomis' important astronomical observations were numerous, and his texts were authoritative on both sides of the Atlantic.. ... more information

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1857. 8vo, original cloth, gilt spine. Pp. 264. First edition. A near fine copy.. ... more information