Titles starting with D from Savoy Books

Wien: Logos Verlag., 1925. Tall 8vo, gilt cloth (gilding faded); pp. 38 + 143 photographic plates and 8 pp. line drawings.Very good.. ... more information

London: F. Westley and A. H. Davis, 1834. 24mo, orig. blue-green patterned cloth, paper label. Pp. 96. Spine rubbed at extremities; a very good copy. First edition of an oration celebrating the abolition of slavery in England. "The substance of this little volume was delivered by the Author, at Ranelagh Chapel, before the associated inisters and churches in the Chelsea and Pimlico district of the metropolis." Touches on the history of the movement, the work of Sharp, Wilberforce, and Clarkson, the... more information

Paris: J.B. Bailliére, 1853. Large 8vo, later boards, cloth spine, with original printed wrapper mounted on front. Pp. 97. One corner bumped, occ. foxing. Sole edition, a presentation copy inscribed by Jordan to fellow botanist and author Paul Antoine Sagot. With extensive later marginal notations in pencil. . ... more information

London: L.Upcott Gill, 1883. 8vo, heavily stamped decorated cloth. Pp. x, 214 + ad leaf, printed in maroon ink on blue-gray and terracotta colored paper; illus. A fine copy. Attractively produced guide to painting on textiles, pottery and porcelain, paper, vellum and leather, glass and wood, stone and metal. ... more information

Berlin und Leipzig: Fr. Thiel, 1885. 8vo, orig gilt and color-stamped cloth. Pp. xii, 224, 3 illus. A very nice copy.. ... more information

New York: Frank A. Munsey & Company, 1894. 2 vols, 16mo, original cloth. Pp. 503 (consecutive pagination). Inner hinge of Vol. 1 starting, 1 signature loose; otherwise very good bright copies. First edition. Wright III 3882. Scarce.. ... more information

Salisbury: Collins and Johnson, 1776. [bound with] Conjectures on the Mysterious Monument of Ancient Art, Stonehenge, on Salisbury Plain, by the most eminent writers, ancient and modern, on thet stupendous fabric. To which is added. A history of the Druids, the supposed architect of Stonehenge. A new edition, improved. Salisbury: J. Easton, 1819. 2 vols. in 1. 12mo, early full polished calf, morocco label. PP. 100 + ad leaf, with full page illus.; pp. 82, frontis. Calf rubbed at extremities, hinges tender, ... more information

Philadelphia: 1869. 8vo, original cloth. Pp. 175, a.e.g. Frontispiece folding map of North Africa and 4 facsimiles. Minor interior stain, a very nice copy. One of several variant printings. Not published, and likely printed for specific rather than general circulation. Sabin 58848.. ... more information

The illustrations designed by R. Seymour, and engraved by Evans and Welch. Second edition. London: Lupton Relfe, 1830. 12mo, printed wrappers. Pp. 4, 67 + 4 pp ads. 4 plates. Minor wear and stains, a very good copy. Second edition, with four prefatory pages not in the first edition. One of a number of parodies and imitations elicited by the publication of Southey and Coleridge's The Devil's Walk (1830). Wise Bib. of S. T. Coleridge, 72.iii.. ... more information

(Business History.) Manuscript Articles of Agreement of F. W. Devoe & Co. October 1st, 1869. Folio, 17 pp; remnants of ribbon ties. Tax stamps affixed to each page. Folded, small piece missing at fold, with loss of a few letters. The original partnership agreement between Frederic W. Devoe and four principals for establishing a business in "maufacturing, importing and dealing in paints, oils, etc.", signed by all. With origins back to 1754, the Devoe Company was the first American paint manufa... more information

New York, 1821. 8vo, original blue paper wrappers, stitched. Pp. 72, uncut. Foxed; a very good copy. A fundamental explication of Swedenborg's writings, first published in America in 1795. With a contemporary inscription, "Wm. Z. Ripley, Presented him by Doct. Shurtleff of Boston", probably Dr. Benjamin Shurtleff, father of Nathaniel Shurtleff, antiquary and thrice-mayor of Boston. Imprints 5008.  . ... more information

Montreal: Chez Bibaud et Richer, 1857. 12mo, 3/4 morocco, marbled boards. Pp. 368 + errata leaf. A nice copy. First edition, by the prolific Canadian historian. Scarce. Sabin 5149.. ... more information

Stuttgart: J. G. Cotta'schen, 1891. 8vo, ornamented cloth. pp. 259 + ads; illus. With 150 mounted samples of dyed cotton. Cover damp-stained at bottom, else very good. . ... more information

Wien: Logos Verlag, 1925. Tall 8vo, gilt cloth; pp. 26, (6)pp., 63 photographic plates. Minor wear to covers; very good.. ... more information

Philadelphia: Printed on the Hawthorn Press, 1867. Large 4to, loose sheets laid into printed wrappers, as issued. Half-title, title, pp. [8]. First edition of Sargent's translation. "Edition: Fifty-five copies. Privately printed by J. P. Norris." There seems to have been a fashion during the Civil War decade for translating this 13th century hymn, generally attributed to Thomas of Celano. We have noted four separate versions, for the most part printed on private presses in small runs. James P... more information

Dijon: Carion, 1829. 8vo, printed wraps. Pp. 108. A bedside anthology of poetical tales which includes the title prose essay of 13 pp., on the virtues of wine as the source of poetry and music, a consolation to old age and melancholy, etc. The author concludes with the observation that "vous ne trouverez jamais un temps plus favorabl e pour approvissioner vos caveaux de ces bon vins de Nuits, de Beaune, de V olnay et de Meursault." The title identifies the author as a notary connected with the ac... more information

Boston:: John Folsom, 1795. 8vo, original blue paper boards, paper spine. Pp. vi, [7]-186, uncut. Early academic bookplate. Tidemarks on boards, otherwise a fine, fresh copy in original state. One of two Boston printings of 1795, the other a duodecimo with "First American Edition" on the title page. Evans 29596. . ... more information

Nuremberg: Johann Zieger, 1711. 4to, early speckled paste-paper boards. Pp. ii, 334, [12]. Engraved frontispiece and 18, some folding. Binding rubbed, spine chipped at top; inner hinge split but cords intact; lightly browned, occasional stains within, but mostly a reasonable wide-margined copy. Later German edition of Browne's Brief Account of Some Travels in Divers Parts of Europe (1685), with handsome engraved plates.. ... more information

4to, printed cloth. Pp. 16 + 15 plates bearing over 200 dyed silk samples. Lacking several samples. Good-very good. . ... more information

Paris: Firmen Didot, 1804. 2 vols, 8vo. Contemp. tree calf, morocco labels, spine gilt in compartments. Pp. vii, 478; 378, (1, errata) + ad leaf; 2 folding engraved plates. Extremities of spine worn, one vol with spine chipped; still and attractive, sound set. Second edition, corrected and enlarged; first published in 1791. An important systematic analysis by the noted chemist and statesman, revised in connection with his son.. ... more information