Titles starting with N from Savoy Books

London (1952). Sm. 8vo, cloth w/ DJ. Pp. 159. With a glossary of English plant names.. ... more information

Emporia, Kansas: E. Lamborn, 1889. 8vo, orig. cloth. Pp. 188. Worn at extremities; a sound, very good copy. Sole edition of a rare amateur's guide to American flora and fauna. Mercer, apparently self-taught as a naturalist, was an occasional contributor to ornithological periodicals. OCLC records the Smitrhsonian copy only.. ... more information

London: John Chapman, 1849. 8vo, original cloth. Pp. 227 + ads dated January 1849. Trifle rubbed. A wood engraved portrait of Froude is pasted in at the rear. A very nice copy. First edition of this tortured narrative of self-examination and religious doubt. Infamous in its da y, the novel was suppressed and in one instnace burned in public. A scarce title, Wolff noted that his copy was the only one ever offered to him.. ... more information

Boston: Russell, Odiorne and Metcalf, 1835. Second edition, enlarged and improved. Pp. 418 [1]. Orig blind-stamped cloth, faded, rear soiled; some foxing within; a good, sound copy.. ... more information

Atlanta, Ga: Dixie Cook-Book Publishing Co., 1895. Thick 8vo, orig. green pictorial cloth. Pp. 1288; illus. Frontis. Some light wear and scuffing to cloth, clean within; a very good, tight copy of a cumbersome volume. Greatly enlarged edition. An encyclopedic cookbook which incorporates Mrs. Wilcox' popular Buckeye Cookbook with a great number Southern additions. Very scarce. See Browns' Culinary Americana 501, for an 1883 "Rev. Ed." of 688 pp. (but not this); no edition in Cagle & Sta... more information

Boston: Cross & Freeman, printers, [1852]. Broadside, 28 1/4 x 23 inches, untrimmed. Folded, a few small stains, narrw tear from blank Handsome exhibition poster, the text giving rules and regulations and the various divisions with premiums, set within a border of 25 woodcuts of fancy poultry and apparatus. ... more information

Chicago: W.B. Keen, Cooke & Co., 1876. 8vo, original green decorated cloth gilt. Pp. 334, 4. Frontis. + 45 plates. Very slight wear to extremities, a fine, bright copy. First edition. A novel of village life in coastal Maine. Wright III 3936. . ... more information

[New Haven:] Sidney's Press, 1810. 8vo, stitched title wrappers, pp. 16. Tide mark stain to first three leaves. With the contemporary ownership signature of Frances Julia Webster, the second daughter of Noah Webster, who with her father, her mother Rebecca and family are listed among the members. Also notable among the membership are eleven named men and women of color, some as early as 1758. . ... more information

Adrian: For the author, by A.W. Maddocks, 1843. 8vo, original boards, cloth spine. Pp. 216. Very light stain to first few leaves, perhaps wanting a printed label. First edition, an unusual imprint. Scarce series of lectures on electricity and magnetism by an early Michigan educator, dedicated to the people of that "young but brilliant star of the Union", and proceeds from which were to be "applied to the promotion of education within the peninsula". Imprints 43-757.. ... more information

Hartford: Ezra Strong, 1936. 12mo, illustrated paper boards, leather spine. Pp. vi, [7--126. Frontispiece and eleven small cuts in text. Wear to extremities, foxed. Interesting songster, with mix of old ballads, patriotic songs and others of American interest, e.g., "The Kentucky Hunters", "Connecticut" (a parody of "Mother"), the legal satire "Law! Law! Law!", and an early songster appearance of T. D. Rice's minstrel standard "Jim Crow". Imprints 39208.... more information

Folio, loosely laid in orig. printed wrappers, 4 leaves. With engraving "The Falls of the Sawkill", engraved by A. B. Durand after W. J. Bennet. A single issue, in as issued state, notably with the loose engraving still present, and rare thus. The printed wrappers are full of lists of agents, indexes of music and engravings in former numbers, and New York City ads. . ... more information

Philadelphia: A. Fiot, nd [ca. 1820's]. Folio, original printed boards, cloth spine. Pp. 68, entirely engraved. Full page illus. showing details of "The Double Movement Harp, Invented by Sebastian Erard." Binding worn and stained, foxed throughout, with running marginal stain. First American edition, unrecorded. Bochsa (1789-1856) was a noted harp virtuoso and composer of the time, a popularizer of the newly invented pedal harp, here explained in detail. He taught in London at the Royal Academ... more information

Albany: Daniel Steele, 1824. 12mo, modern full calf. Title leaf, [1], [ 5]-214, [2]. Some light stains & soiling, a few tears repaired; a sound copy. First edition of a very scarce, regionally specific, guide to the kitchen garden. The author begins by praising M'Mahon's American Gardener, but complains that it is not really adapted to the harsher climates. He recommends obtaining seed from the Shakers, "for they have very justly acquired the character of skilful and honest seedsmen."... more information

Albany:: Charles Van Benthuysen,, 1853. 8vo, printed wraps, stitched. Pp. 21. A fine copy. First edition of the founding publication .. ... more information

New York: Smith & Forman, 1814. 12mo, contemp. marbled boards, leather spine. Pp. 72. Woodcut on title. Light damp stain, front cover detached. A collection of 72 songs, including patriotic, naval, popular and sentimental ballads. Lowens 477: "One of 5 related imprints, of which this is undoubtedly the earliest." Imprints 32357.. ... more information

Average size 7 x 6 inches. Fine series of original pencil and crayon sketches, one watercolor and one tempera executed by Wolf during a journey through the Iberian peninsula to Morocco which resulted in his travel narrative, "Die Reise nach Tetuan. Das Erlebnis eines Malers," published in Stuttgart, 1925, illustrated by the author. A number of the sketches appear as illustrations in the book. All are informally matted, identified and signed by Wolf. A worn copy of the book in dust jacket is includ... more information

Oxford: Slatter and Rose, 1861. 8vo, orig. cloth gilt. Pp. 46. Some wear to cloth at spine, a bit shaken. A very good copy. Sole edition; a presentation copy, inscribed, lilkely in Tyerman's hand, "To James Morrell Esq. with John Pratt's respectful duty." With Morrell's engraved bookplate. A fascinating account of a long-lived itinerant herbalist, who collected plants for local druggists and the Society of Apothecaries, by which he supported a wife and seventeen children. "He was ... more information