Search Results: Authors starting with H from David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC

New Orleans, 1864. 8" x 10." Printed broadsheet [several type fonts and styles], completed in manuscript. Old folds for recording and filing. Very Good plus. Haden [also spelled Hayden, on the verso] pledges his allegiance to the United States, and signs with his mark on 25 March 1864 at Fort Pike, Louisiana. A physician certifies him as "free from all bodily defects and mental infirmity." Lieutenant Charles Boothby, of the 1st Regiment of New Orleans Volunteers, certifies that Haden was "entirely sober when enlisted." He was mustered into 'D' Company of the Louisiana Union First New Orleans Infantry, and discharged in April 1865. Hamilton Haden [born c.1837-1840 in Alabama] was the son of William M. and Mary [McGowan] Haden of Mississippi. Oddly, Haden served with the Confederacy before his Union enlistment. In May 1861, he enlisted as a private with Captain John P. McGowan's Company, 14th Regiment Mississippi Volunteers, Confederate; McGowan was his cousin. The entire company surrendered at Fort… Read More

[Roswell]: Printed for Private Circulation, 1908. 113pp. Original stiff printed tan paper wrappers. Punch holes in blank inner margin. Inner margin of front wrapper partially split. Discreet rubberstamp at blank corner of inner rear wrapper. Very Good. "Defense of his gubernatorial conduct, with a discussion of mining and timber-land frauds" [Howes]. Theodore Roosevelt appointed Hagerman territorial governor of New Mexico in 1906. He spent a year fighting powerful local political interests, in an effort to stamp out corruption. President Roosevelt withdrew his support for Hagerman and asked him to resign. Hagerman left office in 1907. FIRST EDITION. Howes H12. Not in Graff, Eberstadt, Soliday, Decker.

Boston: Printed by David Clapp, 1863. 16pp, stitched. Light wear, old institutional stamps, Good+. White supremacy "is directly antagonistic to the truly catholic aim of Christianity." The Founders of the Nation believed, in "general," in "voluntary, gradual emancipation, in connection with the opening of new fields of action for the freedmen within the territories of our colonies in Africa." Now "God's voice," speaking through Abraham Lincoln in the "thunder" of guns, rightly demands "Immediate Emancipation by the War-power." Brave deeds of Negro soldiers are recounted. Sabin 29530n. LCP 4451. Not in Work, Blockson. 226 NUC 0028507 [7].

New York: Printed by E. Conrad, 4 Frankfort-Street, 1822. 52pp. Disbound with light scattered foxing. Title page with some spotting. Good+. Charles Glidden Haines (1793 - 1825), attorney and author, became Governor Clinton's private secretary. Admitted to the New York bar in 1821, he wrote political pamphlets, newspaper articles, and published the United States Law Journal during 1822-1823. Haines was co-counsel with Henry Clay at the Supreme Court in Ogden v. Saunders, a case involving the constitutionality of New York state bankruptcy laws. Governor Clinton appointed him adjutant general for the state in 1825, but Haines died in New York City before taking office. Congress had passed its first and only Bankruptcy Act in 1800, but repealed it in 1803. The 1800 law had authorized creditors to place the debtor in bankruptcy and seize his assets. Unlike later bankruptcy laws, it had not allowed debtors to choose bankruptcy. Congress's power was based on the Constitution's grant of authority to… Read More

Philadelphia: Stewart & Cochran, 1794. [40] pp, as issued. Stitched, corners turned, mild spotting and a bit of wear. Good+. This is a particularly interesting Almanac. Its story of the London Plague must have especially intrigued the beleaguered citizens of Philadelphia. It is followed by a dramatic "account of the Yellow Fever, Prevalent in Philadelphia in the year 1793," in nine pages. Cures for "the Stone," dropsy, and corns are also offered, as well as tables of Roads and other information. Evans 27080. Drake 10371.

Concord: Printed by Jacob B. Moore, 1826. 20pp, sewn, untrimmed, a bit of margin chipping and light foxing. Old institutional blindstamp, about Very Good. The author defends the Adams administration, doomed almost from the beginning by the fierce contest for the Presidency and the charge that Henry Clay made a 'corrupt bargain' to become Secretary of State in exchange for throwing his support to Adams. He praises Adams's "scrupulous reverence of the Constitution." FIRST EDITION. Sabin 29659. AI 24778.

London: Printed for W. Rogers; Benj. Tooke; and D. Midwinter and T. Leigh, 1704. [1], [1 blank], 364 pp. Bound in original Cambridge-style binding [minor wear, hinges split but holding, a few cracks in text block], gilt-lettered red morocco spine label, raised spine bands. Each of five sections has its own title page. Front pastedown and front endpaper glued at gutter (old repair), top fore-corner of title page clipped [no text loss]. A funeral poem to the memory of George, Marquiss of Hallifax," by Elkanah Settle, pp. 345-364. Text quite clean. Very Good. This is a collection of writings by the Marquis of Halifax, first collected and posthumously published in 1700. Offered here is the second edition. With bookplate of Sir John Rolt (1804 - 1871), Lord Justice, Member of Parliament, and Attorney General. ESTC T102252.

Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Carey, 1829. Two volumes, each bound in contemporary three quarter blue paper over cloth. Spines shorn, hinges weak, rear cover of volume 1 detached but present. vi, [5]-322; iv, [9]-339, [1 blank] pp. Rear free endpaper of volume 2 torn. Light scattered foxing. Except as noted, Very Good. A captain in the Royal Navy, Hall traveled to North America in 1828. He visited Quebec, Pennsylvania, New York, the New England states, New Orleans, the Mississippi and Ohio River valleys. In his southern route, Hall describes visits to various plantations, Creek Indian ceremonies, slavery, other customs. Hall's snooty attitude toward things American annoyed his former colonials. Clark acknowledges that Hall "was not pleased with the South...[H]e found difficulty in adjusting himself to the democratic manners and rude accommodations that he found in the United States, both North and South. Nevertheless, he was a clear and forceful writer, and his work contains many excellent descriptions… Read More

Philadelphia: Edward C. Biddle, 1836. Welch's engraving of Peale's portrait of Harrison is the frontis. 323pp, with scattered foxing, front board loose. Good+. Miles also notes a Philadelphia printing this year by Key & Biddle. American Imprints does not record this printing, listing only Key & Biddle's. The Memoir treats Harrison's service to the Nation as Secretary of the Northwest Territory, Governor of Indiana, at the Battle of Tippecanoe, and in the War of 1812. Miles 61. Howes H75. BAL 6940. AI 37863 [5] [Key & Biddle].

Washington, 1837. [4]pp, entirely in ink manuscript, on a folio sheet, folded for mailing, addressed on integral blank leaf to Shaw. Postal cancel from Washington, with Free Frank notation signed by Hall. Wax seal hole not affecting any text. Very Good. Joseph Hall was a Jacksonian Congressman from Camden, Maine during the 23d and 24th Congresses [1833- March 1837]. Hall's term in Congress ended with the close of Jackson's presidency. His letter to Shaw expresses frustration at recent election totals in Maine-- "The votes of several of the towns are unaccountable to me." Hall discusses the pending contempt proceedings against Reuben Whitney, who refused to appear before a congressional committee in response to a subpoena. "It will be a troublesome case, and take up much of the balance of the Session." Whitney "was the man who more than any other became identified with pet banking," under which the federal government would place its deposits in various state, or "pet," banks. Whitney's association… Read More

New York: Ross & Tousey, 1862. 38pp, disbound, a few fox marks. Good+. A thorough and detailed attack on Greeley's political positions, particularly his view that the 'erring sister' slave states should be permitted to depart from the Union in peace. Sabin 29712.

[np, 1840. 18pp, disbound, caption title, clean text. Very Good. Woolsey, "master of the steam boat Providence," was prosecuted for violating an 1838 federal statute "to provide for the better security of the lives of passengers on board of vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam." Woolsey had tried to make it from Providence to New York during a gale, and was deemed to have exercised bad judgment. The United States claimed authority to enact the statute by virtue of the Constitution's Commerce Clause, granting to Congress the power to regulate interstate commerce. Hall argued that this power did not permit Congress to intrude in areas regulated by the States under their inherent powers to provide for the health and safety of their citizens. "State inspection laws, health laws and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a state, are not within the powers granted to Congress." The issues raised important questions about the intersection of State and Federal authority but, as the… Read More

[Nashua?, 1866. 24pp, stitched. Original printed title wrappers [as issued] with sketch of a scene at Hall's factory. Near Fine. Hall began his business in Nashua in the early 1860's. He claimed to have gotten his secret formula from a poor Italian sailor. He was an imaginative advertiser, selling trade cards, key chains, and other items touting his "entirely new scientific discovery, combining many of the most powerful and restorative agents in the vegetable kingdom." This pamphlet explains the science of hair and the restorative powers of his elixir. OCLC records a number of institutional copies under several accession numbers.

[New York, 1865. 16pp. 'Campaign Document No. 3' at head of title. A folded elephant folio sheet, untrimmed and uncut. Advertisement for The N.Y. Printing Company at page 16. Lightly worn, with gum label and small institutional rubberstamp. Else Very Good. The rare record of a Tammany Hall meeting of "respectable and earnest" Democrats hoping for victory in the upcoming State elections. They seek "restoration of this government as it formerly was, and to give the States what belonged to them, and what does belong to them by the Federal Constitution." The rally wholeheartedly supports President Andrew Johnson's policy of returning the former Rebel States to full legal equality as quickly as possible, with no more quibbling about civil rights and Negro suffrage. Tammany's leader, 'Honest John' Kelly, Sheriff of New York and known for qualities having little to do with honesty, chaired the Meeting. OCLC 4816151 [2- Hamilton, U IL], 247138084 [1- IN State Lib.] as of October 2021.

Albany: Hoffman, White and Visscher, 1841. 12pp, disbound, lightly foxed and lightly worn. Printed in double columns. Good+. Attorney General Hall excoriates Morris for entering the house of one Pierce-- without a warrant -- and seizing private papers "having apparent on their face no connection with the offence" which Morris was hearing in his capacity as magistrate. "The magistrate has no more right to make the search, than the constable has to make the warrant," says Hall. Tracing the history of the right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures, he states, "For such a cause, Kings have been dragged from their thrones to a scaffold, amidst the plaudits and devout thanksgiving of freemen." FIRST EDITION. AI 41-3789 [3- NN, NjR, NSmb]. Sabin 29864. OCLC 559853358 [2 at the British Library] as of January 2020. Not in Cohen.

Chicago: Printed at the office of the Chicago American, Corner of Lake and South water-Streets., 1839. 8pp, folded but spine loosened. Some dusting and mild toning, untrimmed, generously margined with some blank margin tears. Good+. McMurtrie originally called this rare Sermon "the first work of a literary character printed in Chicago." His later edition renders it probably the second such work. "St. James was the first Episcopal church in Chicago. The church building was opened for worship on Easter Sunday, 1837. Hallam came to Chicago in 1834 as a missionary of the Domestic Board of Missions of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He was the first rector of St. James Parish and served for a short time as rector of Trinity Parish when it was organized in 1841-42. He resigned and returned east in 1843" [Byrd]. Page [3] prints a letter from, among others, John Kinzie and Isaac Arnold, requesting "a copy for publication." Byrd 452. McMurtrie 23. OCLC 16076311 [2- Lincoln Library, Newberry] as of… Read More

Boston: Beals & Greene, 1848. Large 8vo. 71, [1 blank pp. Stitched in original printed wrappers [lightly dusted]. A clean text. Near Fine. Rhode Island authorities, acting under a decree of martial law, arrested Martin Luther, a shoemaker, for acting as moderator of the Warren Town meeting, which was held under the People's Constitution. Luther argued that the declaration of martial law was void because it had been enacted under the charter government, which had been supplanted by the People's Constitution pursuant to a vote of the citizenry. Thus the issue for decision became the legitimacy of the government under the People's Constitution. Hallett, the Jacksonian Democrat, argued for its validity and opposed Daniel Webster in the Supreme Court. Both advocates were at their best in this searching exploration of the nature of sovereignty and the derivation of the legitimacy of government. FIRST EDITION. VII DAB 155. I Harv. Law Cat. 854. Bartlett p.144. BEAL 12001. Sabin 29889.

[np, 1856. 8pp, stitched, light wear and folds. Caption title [as issued]. Very Good. Inscribed in ink on title page, 'With respects of B.F. Hallett.' During the 1850s Hallett-- in his early years a Jacksonian reformer and advocate of Indian rights-- was "a 'Doughface' steering by Southern charts" [DAB]. This scarce pamphlet arraigns Senator Henry Wilson of Massachusetts and the Republican-Northern Whig position that Congress should prohibit slavery in the Kansas Territory. Although Hallett agrees Congress has constitutional power to enact such a ban, he advocates Popular Sovereignty and denounces the "Free-Soil falsehood." Not in Sabin, Decker, LCP, or Eberstadt. OCLC 24818415 [4] as of February 2021.

Washington, 1831. 15pp, uncut and untrimmed, partly loosened. Tanned, some dampstaining to top corner, light scattered foxing. Good. The anonymous Hambden lends qualified support to President Jackson's assertion that Congress may constitutionally levy a protective tariff in order to foster the development of domestic industry. He scolds the South's devotion to free trade, "which can no more exist as a general principle than universal and perpetual peace." He counsels that we "adhere to the Union as the rock of our safety," a warning unheeded by South Carolina when, soon thereafter, it sought to nullify the operation of the tariff within its borders. Sabin 29932. 136 Eberstadt 330. AI 7419 [4].

Austin: Printed by John Marshall & Co., State Printers, 1857. 32pp, disbound. Persistent spot to bottom blank margin of pages 13-32. Good+. This scarce pamphlet reviews Hamilton's extremely interesting and unusual career. He became Governor of South Carolina during the Nullification Crisis. As a staunch, indeed "almost fanatical" [DAB] anti-tariff man, he had sought to put into practice Calhoun's Doctrine of Interposition ever since passage of the hated Tariff of 1828. Earlier, as "intendant" of Charleston, he had put down the Denmark Vesey Rebellion. Hamilton became an enthusiast for Texan independence, was offered command of its army in 1835, and secured its recognition by France and the Netherlands. He moved to Texas in 1855, having received a large land grant. In 1857, Hamilton was a passenger on the steamship Opelousas, traveling from New Orleans to Galveston. There was a collision in the Gulf of Mexico. "Hamilton gave his life preserver to a woman for her child. His right arm was injured and… Read More