Titles starting with O from Savoy Books

London: J. Wilcox, 1743. 12mo, contemp.calf, rebacked. Pp. [xx], 184. With 6 fold engraved plates of music. Rubbed, rear hinge tender but secure, tear to one plate, no loss; a very good copy. An important source in the history and performance of vocal technique, first published in 1723. Tosi was a singer who travelled widely, and spent time in England. BLC.. ... 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

New York: Harper & Brothers, (1950). 8vo, orig. cloth; pp. xiv, 338, photo. frontis. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed, "To Larry Lewis in memory of a happy hunting trip in Sonora in Feb. 1950. WIlliam O. Douglas May 25, 1950." Spine discolored; otherwise very good.. ... more information

London: J. Wright, for Lawton Gilliver, 1735. folio, disbound. Pp. 16, (1). Wanting half-title, but with the final leaf of ads. Title dusty but a nice copy. First edition, the issue without the misprint in the title. Foxon P917.. ... more information

Boston: James R, Osgood and Company, 1873. 8vo, orig gilt cloth; pp. 268. First edition. BAL 8282. Very good - fine.. ... more information

Kansas city, MO: John A. Heilmann, 1892. 8vo, orig cloth. Pp. 211. Slightly warped; cracked at gutter, otherwise a decent copy. First Edition. Howes 573.. ... more information

Boston:: Ricahrdson, Lord and Holbrook, 1831. Translated for the American edition. 12mo, paste-paper wraps. Pp. 99. Front wrap a little chipped, hinge tender. Sole edition of this American translation. A brief notice by the translator is signed "W. B. F." and dated July 4, 1831. Imprints 6046, Yale only. . ... more information

[Edinburgh:] 1788. 12mo, 19th c. 1/2 morocco, marbled boards. xx, 120; half-title. Corner and top of spine a little chipped; a little dusty within but a fine copy, uncut and unopened. Sole edition, "privately printed by D. Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, from letters to Lord Stair."--DNB. Wide-ranging political and social pronouncements by the pugnaceous wife of the great English military hero.. ... more information

New York: George Putnam, 1850. 8vo, orig. blue-green stamped cloth. Pp. xii, 273. A fine copy. First edition. A series of amiable essays on such topics as New England philosophy, art and artists, the gold fever, the profession of literature, lyric poetry, music, etc. "A man of independent financial means, Tuckerman had ample opportunity to indulge his love of meditation and study... Representing the easy, romantic scholarship of the forties and fifties in America, he readily passed in his day for a man... 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

Portland: From the Press E. A. Jenks, 1800. 8vo, removed. Pp. 20. Browned; very good. First edition inscribed by the printer "E. A. Jenks to Samuel May." A rhapsodic discourse, with a broad overview of music history, with specific attention to Handel and Corelli, arguments for allowing instrumental music in church worship and encoraging music in the home, and the establishment of musical societies. Evans 37366. . ... more information

Philadelphia: Styner & Cist,, 1780. 4to, original plain wraps, stitched. Pp. 27, uncut. Fine. Only edition. Matlack's address is devoted to the encouragement of agricultural improvements, more specific than usual for this sort of speech, with reference to the benefits of manuring, the Hessian fly infestation, silk raising, and the steel blade plow. Sabin 46868; Evans 16867; Rink 456.. ... more information

Derby:: Thomas Richardson, (c. 1840.) 12mo, original printed wrappers, stitched. Pp. 24. Folding colored frontis. Minor marginal wear, near fine. Interesting provincial chapbook guide for reading cards, tea leaves, fingernails, physiognomy, etc. The book originated in the early part of the century, under the title The Little Gipsey Girl or Universal Fortune Teller. All editions are scarce. With a handsome folding frontispice of the gypsy queen performing a reading, vividly colored. BLC; NUC , 3 copies (ICN,... more information

New York: American Book Company, n.d. (1910). 8vo, cloth; pp. 352, profusely illus. in text. Good.. ... more information

London: for the author, 1733. 2 vols. 8vo, old full calf. Vol I: pp. [xv], 114, [2]; 50 numbered leaves + 6 pp. of engraved music. Vol II: pp. [2], 110, [2]; 50 numbered leaves + 4 pp engraved music. Titles printed in red & black; ornamental head and tail pieces. Bindings worn, front cover of Vol. I nearly detached. Generally clean within, with a few minor marginal tears. Second edition, greatly enlarged, of the first collection of Scottish songs with music. It was first published in 1725 in a folio edi... more information

eutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft, n.d. (c. 1965.) Oblong folio. Commentary, photos and 10 full-page plates of the artist's works, all but one in color. Includes a long-playing record in fine condition. Two tears and some wrinkling to dust jacket. The book itself is in very fine state. Uncommon.. ... more information

Philadephia:: The Farmer Company,, 1893. 8vo, cloth (a little discolored and soiled). Pp. 367, sparsely illus. Bottom of spine chipped, but a good, sound copy. First edition.. ... more information

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. 8vo, color pictorial cloth; pp. xxxi, 550, profusely illustrated with full-page photos, and textual drawings. Arranged according to genera and species, and well indexed. Aside from a small amount of spotting at lower edge of cover, a fine copy.. ... more information

Pasadena: 1947. 8vo, patterned boards, cloth spine. Pp. 245. Colored frontis; line drawings in margins. A little rubbed. First edition, privately printed by Ward Ritchie in an edition of a thousand copies. Includes history of plant names, indexes of flowers, herbs and roses, with their old names, and a bibliography of books on old-fashioned plants.. ... more information