Recent Arrivals from David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC

[Washington, 1872. 8pp, caption title [as issued], disbound else Very Good. Wilson, Massachusetts Senator and Grant's Vice-Presidential running mate in this election, was a leading Republican. His Speech charges that, ever since 1832, "when William Lloyd Garrison and eleven other faithful and fearless men signed their names to the declaration that black men had a right to… Read more about this item

[Washington, 1864. 8pp. Untrimmed, lightly foxed. Caption title, as issued. Good+. A devastating anti-McClellan piece, charging that Little Mac allowed Pope's forces at Second Manassas "to be outnumbered, while the large and well appointed force of McClellan lay, during the three days' struggle, within marching distance, almost motionless"; and proving it with McClellan's own dispatches. FIRST… Read more about this item

Albany: Joel Munsell, Printer, 1850. Original printed wrappers, stitched, 30 pp. Light wear, Very Good. Reverend Smith was Pastor of this Rhinebeck church. "Though a slaveholder, he was above the sectional prejudices which that relation often produces in the greatest minds; though a soldier by profession, he was eminently a man of peace." Sabin 82388.

London: Ridgway, 1863. 58pp, disbound, else Very Good. Walker, the staunchly pro-Union Senator from Mississippi during the 1830's who had also been an advocate of Texan annexation and later became governor of the Kansas Territory, spent much of the War in Europe raising money for the Union cause. Here he shows that Jefferson Davis and his government… Read more about this item

[San Francisco: Tom Mooney Molders' Defense Committee, 1935. Broadsheet, 8-1/2" x 11". With photo images on recto of Mooney dated 1916 and 1935, "before frame-up, and after frame-up. Union label at bottom of recto. Verso with a full-page photo illustration of Mooney in his prison cell: "A CLASS WAR PRISONER FOR 19 YEARS ON JULY 27, 1935 THE VICTIM… Read more about this item

[New York], 1793. Five printed receipts completed in manuscript. Average size 2-1/2" x 3-1/2" to 3" x 4". All printed with decorative border and "New-York, Bowery, "179__/ C. Q. lb./ HAY" with variations of "from Mr./ For Mr. / At... " "J. & G. Coutant" at bottom of each receipt. Completed in ink manuscript with year, name, amounts and… Read more about this item

[New York], 1793. Five printed receipts completed in manuscript. Average size 2-1/2" x 3-1/2" to 3" x 4". All printed with decorative border and "New-York, Bowery, "179__/ C. Q. lb./ HAY" with variations of "from Mr./ For Mr. / At... " "J. & G. Coutant" at bottom of each receipt. Completed in ink manuscript with year, name, amounts and… Read more about this item

[New York], 1793. Five printed receipts completed in manuscript. Average size 2-1/2" x 3-1/2" to 3" x 4". All printed with decorative border and "New-York, Bowery, "179__/ C. Q. lb./ HAY" with variations of "from Mr./ For Mr. / At... " "J. & G. Coutant" at bottom of each receipt. Completed in ink manuscript with year, name, amounts and… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Sold at the Political Book-Store, 1796. 14pp, lacking the bookseller advertisement at page [15]. Else Very Good in modern half brown morocco with gilt-lettered spine title. Hopkins pours out his wrath upon his enemies, the Democrats, who are no longer fellow-countrymen but traitors. "By the time Lemuel Hopkins published The Guillotina, or, a Democratic Dirge… Read more about this item

[Philadelphia, 1780. 4pp, folded folio leaf. Caption title [as issued]. Old horizontal folds, with short separation along margins at one fold [no loss]. Rubberstamp in blank portion of page 4, releasing the document from HSP. Good+. Signed in type by William Bleckly, Clerk to the Meeting, on page 4. Reviews of the Meetings of Friends in America indicate… Read more about this item

Boston: Reprinted by T. Fleet, jun. for William T. Clap. . ., 1794. 12mo. 36pp. Disbound, else Very Good. Prefatory remarks "To the Public By a Citizen" explain that "every official information respecting the great national concerns of our Magnanimous Allies, the Citizens of the French Republic, must be highly interesting to Citizens of the United States of… Read more about this item

Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1822. 20pp. Partly uncut, lightly foxed. Bound in later quarter sheep and decorative cloth, with typed spine label. Good+. A defense of the United States from the charge that "the United States had, in a formal treaty, sanctioned the crime of attempting to starve the whole innocent population of another country." The reference is… Read more about this item

[Boston: [Printed by Adams and Nourse. Printers to the Honourable General Court., 1788. Folio. Pages 99-142, [14- Index], as issued. Original drab wrappers [some spotting and staining]. Text generally clean with scattered fox spots. Good+ to Very Good. Governor Hancock reports to the General Court on 27 February 1788, lauding the new Constitution and deploring "the obvious… Read more about this item

Boston: Printed by David Carlisle., 1807. 62pp. Disbound, blank inner margin of title and last leaf browned; blank outer margin of title leaf reinforced. Good+. Examining international law and the Chesapeake affair, Everett concludes that England's firing upon the Chesapeake and imprisoning its crew members-- alleged deserters from British ships-- was "piracy." Should England fail "to… Read more about this item

Windsor: Printed by George Hough and Alden Spooner, Printers to the General Assembly of Said State, 1787. Quarto. 171, [1 blank] pp [pp 101-104 misnumbered 102-105, as issued]. Endpapers are pale blue. Minor wear, Very Good plus in original sheep, with ribbed spine. Ownership signature of George M. Powers [1861-1938] of Morrisville, Vermont, Associate Justice and Chief Justice of… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: John Fenno, 1792. Folio. 228pp [last page numbered '224', as issued]. Original calf [short separations at upper and lower corners of front board; hinge starting], raised spine bands, gilt-lettered morocco spine label. A clean and bright text with only minor occasional foxing. Very Good plus. Inscribed in ink on front free endpaper: "The Speaker of the House of… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Printed for Mathew Carey, 1794. iv, [3], 8-22, [2-publ. advts.] pp; plus the rear plain wrapper, with contemporary signatures of Moses Hatch. Disbound with some loosening. The final advertising leaf, frequently absent, is present. Portions of some margins foxed. Good+. Humphreys, a Revolutionary hero and aide to George Washington, was also a diplomat, poet, and one… Read more about this item

[Towanda PA?, 1844. Folio broadside, 10-1/8" x 21." Printed in four columns, each column separated by a rule. Light to moderate foxing, light wear. Good+. Signed in type at the bottom by thirty disillusioned local Democrats. Towanda is the county seat of Bradford County, the residence of many of the signers, including Judge Edward Herrick, the first… Read more about this item

[Washington, 1860. 101, [3 blanks] pp. 36th Cong., 1st Sess. HED 76. Uncut and untrimmed. Bit of foxing. Near Fine. Lewis Cass, President Buchanan's Secretary of State, transmits documentation of the anti-Semitism of Swiss authorities. One Gootmann, an American citizen, was ordered "to quit the country, on the ground of his being an Israelite merchant." Much material on… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Printed for the Author, 1823. 40pp. A dramatic frontis illustration captioned, "the cruel catastrophe of MARY FINLEY." Disbound, uniformly toned, lightly spotted. Good+. The caption title at page [5] is: "The sorrowful life and cruel death of Mary Findley, (daughter of Major Hugh Middleton, Edgefield District, South Carolina.) Who, after giving a handsome fortune to a most depraved… Read more about this item