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

[Boston: Wright & Potter, 1861. 8pp. Loose sheets stapled. Lightly toned. Good+. Well ahead of Lincoln [and the rest of the country], Sumner defines the War's aim as the extirpation of slavery, the destruction of the Slave Power, and advancing the cause of freedom.

Philadelphia: Printed by A. Waldie, 1836. Stitched in original printed wrappers. 38, [2 blanks] pp. Light wrapper wear, minor scattered foxing. Very Good. Like William Penn, who with "fervour" urged "justice to the original proprietors of this country," America must adopt a "high and conscientious course toward the surviving remnant of the Indian race." Our treatment of them… Read more about this item

[Philadelphia: Francis Childs, 1796. Folio. 12 pages, including two large folding tables. Stitched, untrimmed. Minor dusting, Near Fine. Treasury Secretary Wolcott transmits to Congress a detailed, State-by-State and District-by-District record of the salary, fees, commissions, fines and penalties of each Customs Officer during the year 1795. Wolcott's predecessor, Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the Treasury, had resigned… Read more about this item

]Philadelphia: Printed by Childs and Swaine, 1791. Folio broadside, 7-1/2" x 11-3/8." Disbound along left edge. A few light fox spots in margin. Very Good. A significant and rare Act of the First Congress, extending to all clerks employed in the Treasury Department the prohibitions against conflicts of interest contained in the original statute. The Act also requires… Read more about this item

Manchester: The Manchester Union and Emancipation Society, 1863. The pamphlets are all disbound, and otherwise Very Good. 1. [Union and Emancipation Tracts, No. I.] THE AMERICAN WAR: SECESSION AND SLAVERY. A LECTURE BY SAMUEL POPE, ESQ., BARRISTER AT LAW, NORTHERN CIRCUIT; DELIVERED AT TUNSTALL, STAFFORDSHIRE. 16pp. Sabin 64121. 2. CHARACTER OF THE SOUTHERN STATES OF AMERICA. LETTER… Read more about this item

New York: Republic Printing and Publishing Company, 1872. 44pp, stitched in original printed wrappers [light wear], Good+ or so. A long poem attacking Horace Greeley, presidential candidate of anti-Grant Republicans and other voters, as a sorehead and spoiler. The former Republican, editor of the New York Tribune, has gotten into bed with the South, "those once conquered,… Read more about this item

[Windsor, VT: Printed by Hough and Spooner, 1787. Small folio. 16pp, with caption title, as issued. Disbound. Lower corner tear at leaf 3-4, affecting the printed margin side note. Good+. McCorison has supplied the imprint information. The Acts include the public support of Ministers; various county and taxation rules; public lands; education. McCorison 139. Evans 20828.

[Frankfort, 1824. 28pp, as issued, with caption title. Disbound with light to moderate foxing and a few light spots [not affecting legibility]. Good+. The pamphlet is signed in type by G. Robertson, Speaker of the House of Representatives; W.B. Blackburn, Speaker of the Senate pro tem.; and Governor Adair, who approved the Preamble and Resolutions on December 29,… Read more about this item

[Exeter, NH?: Fowle?, 1775. Broadside, trimmed near, but not touching, text. Oblong 6-1/4" x 4-7/8." Very Good. "The Receiver-General is directed to allow all Select Men Five per Cent, out of the Money they collect, as a Reward for their Service. Select Men are instructed to advise the Receiver-General of the names of any seller of "spirituous Liquors." … Read more about this item

[np, 1848. 64pp. Signed in type by Pillow at the end. A clean text. Disbound, else Very Good. President James K. Polk's former law partner, Pillow was one of a phalanx of Democratic political generals appointed in a doomed effort to draw attention from the Whig heroes Scott and Taylor. "It was the bane of Polk's presidency… Read more about this item

[NP: National Committee to Defend Dr. Du Bois and Associates in the Peace Information Center, 1951. Seven mimeographed leaves, printed on rectos only on legal-size paper, 8-1/2" x 14." Stapled at upper left corner. Occasional minor wear. "1951" written in pencil at bottom of first page. Very Good. This rare document defends Du Bois and his four… Read more about this item

Buffalo: Thomas & Lathrops, Publishers, 1856. Original printed salmon wrappers, stitched. Portrait frontis of Fillmore, with original tissue guard. 215, [1 blank] pp. Wrappers clipped at blank corners. Very Good. Miles attributes authorship to one Ivory Chamberlain. This is the campaign biography for former President Fillmore's 1856 run at the Presidency as a Know-Nothing, also printed in… Read more about this item

[St. Louis: Missouri Democrat Book and Job Office, 1860. 12pp, caption title [as issued], disbound. Good+. The German-American Schurz was important in securing the loyalty of German immigrants to the Republican Party and preventing Missouri's secession. This scarce Speech supports Abraham Lincoln's campaign for the Presidency. Schurz denounces the Slave Power for opposing "that perfect freedom of… Read more about this item

New York: Harry Van Tilzer Music Publishing Co., 1902. Folio, 10-7/8" x 13-7/8." 5, [1] pp. At head of title: "Paul Laurence Dunbar and Will Marion Cook's Latest & Greatest Success." Original printed and illustrated glossy title wrappers, with inks in red, green and black. Inner margins reinforced archivally; title illustrated with dancing black children, and old black man… Read more about this item

[Frankfort: Robinson, Pr., 1825. 37, [1 blank] pp, with caption title, as issued. Disbound and lightly foxed. Good+. Signed in type at the end, "Achilles Sneed, Frankfort, Ky. June, 1825." This is an interesting look at early Kentucky's Court Controversy, by an author uniquely positioned to write about it. "Achilles Sneed was the clerk of the Kentucky Court… Read more about this item

Washington, D.C.: Gibson Bros., 1886. Original printed wrappers [light corner chipping]. 64pp.Title page detached at inner margin. Stitched. Except as noted, Very Good. One of the great lawyers and constitutional scholars of his time, Curtis had earlier served as counsel to Dred Scott. The Apostle Snow, a ranking member in the Mormon Church, was convicted of three… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Printed by Bioren and Madan, 1796. 12mo. Two volumes, each with the half title. Volume I: xvi, [1], 22-362 pp. Volume II: viii, 400 pp. Light foxing. Bound in modern cloth, gilt-lettered spine titles and gilt spine bands. Very Good. With contemporary ownership signatures of Jonas Ingham and Alpheus Highland; The Enquiry "was one of the… Read more about this item

[Springfield?, 1860. Caption title, as issued. Disbound, else Very Good. This Illinois campaign document leads with the letter of Edward Bates, the old Missouri Know-Nothing, to Orville Browning, endorsing the Lincoln-Hamlin ticket, denouncing the "wanton and reckless" Democrats, asserting that "the national government has sovereign power over the Territories, and that it would be impolitic and unwise… Read more about this item

[np., 1872. 8pp. Disbound [loosened] with caption title, as issued. Good+. An anti-Greeley presidential campaign pamphlet. Running as a Liberal Republican in 1872 against Grant Administration corruption and incompetence, Greeley unfortunately had a detailed public record demonstrating a mercurial inconsistency on public issues. As this pamphlet says, "Sudden changes of opinion always excite distrust, unless they… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Published by William Cobbett, Opposite Christ-Church, 1798. 102, [2 blanks] pp. Inner margin reinforced. Title leaf lightly dusted, else a clean text. Except as noted, Very Good. Cobbett asserts that "the American press is become the most tame, the most humbled, the most abject upon the face of the earth." He promises that "my just resentment, though… Read more about this item