Titles starting with L from Garrett Scott, Bookseller (ABAA)

Paris:: Michel Levy Freres,, 1862. First edition, an ex-library copy with their bookplate and occasional scattered embossed stamp and penciled notation.. Some rubbing, browning and wear; a good, sound copy.. 8vo, early full buckram, morocco label, viii, 356 pages. An analysis of the economic and political situation in both the North and the South in relation to Europe. Sabin 26725: "Written with great ability in defence of the North. ... more information

Paris:: G.Masson,, 1888. Stated third edition; the first appeared in 1886.. Wrappers somewhat soiled; some minor wear; a very good copy.. 8vo, original printed blue wrappers, [343] pages. A few gatherings unopened. ... more information

Paris:: Gauthier-Villars,, [n. d.].. First edition?. Cheap paper browning a bit; some minor wear; a very good copy.. 12mo, original flexible blue cloth, 194, [2] pages, 16 pages ads. On using beets in industrial alcohol production; statistics on production and prices here run through 1901. With information on beet varieties, production hints, production of silage, etc. Small later bookseller's ticket on the front free paste-down. ... more information

Barcelona:: Sobs. de López Robert y Compa.,, 1934.. First edition.. Somewhat browned; a very good copy.. 8vo, original printed wrappers, 396, [1] pages, unopened. The separately published second part of this late work from the Bolivian historian and man of letters Arguesas, with much on political ferment in South America. Small neat stamp of a La Paz bookseller on the title page. ... more information

8vo, original printed pictorial yellow wrappers, 32 pages. Illus. The study of water-witchery and dowsing placed on a semi-scientific footing. OCLC and CCFr each note only copies at BNF & Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, though the Library of Congress copyright catalogue (whence cometh M. Larvaron's given name) would suggest a copy was sent to DLC.... more information

Paris:: P. Mongie aîné,, 1812.. First edition.. Some light soiling and wear; a very good copy.. 8vo, removed (lacks wrappers), 78 pages. An anonymous satire on French literary figures (including some dramatic figures) in Alexandrines, owing an obvious debt to the Dunciad. Includes the half-title. Unattributed in Brunet and all the expected places. CCFr notes three copies at BNF and a copy at the municipal library of Besançon, to which OCLC adds Cambridge University. ... more information

Siena:: Per gli Eredi di Francesco Quinza,, 1811. First edition thus.. Early ink title on spine and notation on front wrapper; rather worn, with some old creases; a little light scattered foxing. A very good copy.. 12mo, original blue wrappers, [iv] + 192 pages. A series of erotic and romantic tales in the manner of Boccaccio from this 16th century Siennese author, giving an early look at Siennese parlor games and generally known as La Giornata della Novelle dei Novizi. "La litterature siennoise du X... more information

[At the foot of the text:] Buenos Aires:: Imprenta de Alvarez,, [1822].. First edition.. A few light old folds, some soiling on the verso, a few small spots; a very good copy.. Single sheet folio handbill printed recto and verso, approx. 12.5 x 8 inches, untrimmed. Signed in type at the foot of the text F. M. C., this rare political piece dates from the secular anti-clerical reforms of Ravadiva's republican government, which managed to dissolve the religious orders and abolished the tithe. This handbi... more information

Cuzco:: Tipografia de "El Comercio,, 1906. First edition.. Wrappers spotted and worn; some dust-soiling and light spotting to the outer edges of the leaves; a good, sound copy. OCLC notes two copies (both at Cal).. 8vo, original printed wrappers, 25 pages, printed in double columns. Political controversy regarding the hostile reception afforded to the Peruvian Senator Orihuela, evidently relating to his advocacy for construction of a railway along a particular route; to judge from the four letters fr... more information

Auburn, N.Y.:: J. C. Derby and Company,, 1848. A later printing of this gift book anthology.. Cloth a little sunned and worn; a little staining in the endpapers; a very good copy.. 16mo, original gilt pictorial blind-stamped brown cloth, 126 pages. Color lithograph floral frontispiece. With poetical extracts from Bryant, Brainerd, Fitz-Greene Halleck, Elizabeth Barrett, etc. etc. Early Detroit penciled ownership signature to the front free endpaper. ... more information

(Lake County Center:: Western Reserve Historical Society,, 1941).. First edition.. Somewhat soiled and a bit worn; a very good copy.. 8vo, original pictorial wrappers, 100 pages. Illus. Small ink date stamp, Jul 1941, at the head of the front wrapper and title page. ... more information

Sandusky:: Stephens Printing Company,, (1941).. First edition, wrappers issue.. Wrappers somewhat foxed and a little worn; a very good copy.. 8vo, original pictorial wrappers, 129 pages. 10 inserted plates, one folding map. Midget City in Milan merits a photo but no mention in the historical sketch of the town. ... more information

San Francisco:: A. Roman & Co.,, 1878. First edition.. Just slightly worn; a very good copy.. 12mo, original decorated green cloth, gilt lettering. A collection of verse from a Sonoma, California author, published "on the occasion of the Author's twentieth birth-day." In a presentation copy we handled about five years ago, the author referred to these verses as "youthful atrocities," and though this sober assessment rings somewhat true there are several pieces of California int... more information

8vo, original printed brown wrappers, liii, [3], 79 pages. Plates, illus. An account of the peace negotiations between Nicaragua Liberal and Conservative parties in the wake of the civil unrest following a coup in late 1925 by General Emiliano Chamorro. The negotiations were held aboard the United States naval cruiser Denver in Corinto and proved unsuccessful, which allowed President Coolidge to send in the marines to protect American industrial interests and kept the civil war bubbling along through the 19... more information

London:: Printed for Henry Brome,, 1679. First edition.. Aside from the split, a very good copy.. Folio, unbound bifolium (split and detached along the spine), [ii], 2 pages. The last words of an English Catholic martyr (since canonized in 1970), here published in the wake of the Popish Plot hysteria as evidence of an ongoing conspiracy of Catholics to subvert the British monarchy dating back to the Revolution. ... more information

(Boston:: William A. Barnes,, 1898.). First edition, an ex-library copy with their small embossed stamp to the upper corner of the last few leaves.. Front wrapper a bit soiled, chipped and loose; some general light wear; a good, sound copy.. 8vo, removed (retaining original front wrapper), 95 pages. 11 plates. The Boston healer and hypnotist includes dialogues and case studies of his wonderful powers, suggesting that with a few lessons at his hands you too can possess these powers. Barnes also suggests th... more information

Newcastle:: Hernaman & Perring, Journal-Office, Pilgrim Street,, [ca. 1830?].. Some light soiling and wear; in very good condition. Not found on OCLC.. Broadside, 12-3/4 x 9-1/2 inches. A satirical verse attack in four stanzas: "Oh good Lord! are we all to be bored / To death by that juvenile 'Orator Ord?' / He preaches long speeches, / Bewails and beseeches, / While the Radicals suck up his blarney like leeches:-- / ALL the Tories, God help them, will surely be floored / By the logic of ... more information

New York:: H. De Marsan,, [n. d.].. One edge browned; a little worn; in very good condition.. Broadside, 10 x 6-5/8 inches. De Marsan clown border. My story, yes, c'est AMOUREUSE." Three verses. Wolf 1230. ... more information

Alexandria [Virginia]:: Printed at the Sou: Churchman Office,, 1843.. First edition.. Somewhat foxed; lacks wrappers; a bit soiled and worn; a very good copy.. 8vo, removed, 56 pages. Tipped-in errata slip. The low-church bishop includes the expected flings against the Church of Rome. American Imprints 43-3413. ... more information

Cincinnati:: Elms Street Printing Company,, 1875. First edition.. Some light vertical creasing; some dust-soiling; a very good copy. OCLC notes three locations.. 8vo, original printed wrappers (lacks rear wrapper), 28 pages. An argument on the benefits of lay evangelism, with special reference to the successes of D. L. Moody, originally presented to the Presbyterian Ministerial Association of Cincinnati; the topic evidently engendered some dissension in the ranks of the Association and earlier publication... more information