Search Results: Titles starting with G from David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC

[Franklin County, Mississippi, 1832. Folio, 7.5" x 13". [4] pp, folded. Completely in ink manuscript, docketed on final page. Minor edgewear, old folds. The writing on either side of each leaf is visible from the other side, making the document difficult to read. Wax seal in interior blank margin of third page. Several small wormholes along one fold [several letters affected]. Signed on behalf of the plaintiff by an attorney with the surname of Stuart. Overall, Good+. Claibourn Read [1807-1845] and Thomas Lassiter [1772-1844] were related by marriage, Read having married Lassiter's daughter Nancy [1805-1865] in 1826. Duncan Magee [c.1799-1890] was the son of Willis Magee [1763-1827], one of the first settlers of Franklin County, and father of Judge Thomas A. Magee[1822-1891] after whom a cemetery was named in 1878. Gabriel Scott may have been related to the Magee family, as Duncan's mother was Asha Scott Magee.

Philadelphia: G.B. Zieber & Co., 1847. 312pp. Widely scattered foxing. Frontis with original tissue guard, plus six full-page plates. Plates toned. Front pastedown with old bookplate remnant. Original tan cloth, stamped in blind, spotted at upper forecorners, rebacked with portion of original spine laid down. Good+. This second edition is "considerably enlarged" [Graff] from the 1844 first. The final page contains a notice from the LUTHERAN OBSERVER, commending Green for being "engaged in developing the heartless cruelties of gambling, and the impositions and villanies [sic] practised by the 'sporting gentry' to the pecuniary and moral destruction of thousands of our country." "A reformed gambler's adventures among brother card-sharps, counterfeiters, etc., along the lower Mississippi, from Kentucky to Louisiana" [Howes]. Green "made a good thing out of being a reformed gambler" [Graff]. He was the authoritative early writer on gambling in America. His book discloses the many secrets of cheating… Read More

New York: Dick and Fitzgerald, 1864. [32], [16-advts.] pp, folding chart of playing board printed on orange paper. Original cloth flexible boards with gilt lettering [light soiling, minimal fraying at edges]. Light age toning of text. Very Good.

London: Smith Elder & Co., 1839. Folio, in original cloth binding, rebacked. Gilt-lettered title on front cover and spine. Folding frontis [in facsimile], plus 93 plates [plates 36 and 56 supplied in facsimile]. [10], 48, Plates 1-93 [printed on rectos only], [1 - engraved advertisement for John Thurston, Billiard Table Manufacturer] pp. Except as noted, Very Good. Kentfield was the King of Billiards in his day, contemporary observers noting his "extraordinary performances" and his revolutionary improvements to the game. [Broadfoot, Major W.: BILLIARDS, London: 1896, p.13, accessed at Google Books.] This is the first edition of his masterwork, printed because "all the works published on Billiards, twenty or thirty years ago, are now comparatively useless, in consequence of the many alterations and improvements that have been successively introduced, and which have so greatly contributed to the state of perfection to which this noble amusement has at length arrived." OCLC records only a few… Read More

[New Orleans]: Printed at E.C. Wharton's Steam Book and Job Printing, Bindery and Stereotype Office, 41 Camp Street, cor. Gravier, 1857. [2], 398, [2 blanks], 48, [2] pp. Original covers, with printed advertisements. Rebacked in cloth tape [portions of a few letters from the left extremity of the front cover are affected], but still slightly shaken. Text browned and moderately foxed. Good+. Front endpaper bearing inscription with rubberstamp: "To Round Table Club, Presented by T. P. THOMPSON, 1812 Calhoun St., NEW ORLEANS. June 20, 1909." Levee and street guides, index, in-text illustrations. The final 48 pages consist of local advertisements (many illustrated) printed on colored stock. Jumonville 2637. Spear 228. Thompson 629. OCLC 17832565 [5- U AL, DLC, UTX, HNOC, Tulane] as of October 2023.

Cleveland, OH: W.J. Morgan, 1882. Oblong, 5" x 8.5". Engraved certificate surrounded by an ornamental border. Printed in different sizes and typesettings with a vignette of President Garfield in the center with a ribbon coming off each side with his dates of birth and death. Facsimiles of President Garfield's signature and those of the Committee. Light rubberstamp noting receipt, from the N.Y. State Central Committee. Light foxing, minor edgewear. Very Good.

Wellesley, Mass.: Mrs. E.M.F. Denton, Publisher, 1881. 12mo, original printed wrappers [chipped, tears, rear wrap detached], stitched. 45, [blank], [1], [blank] pp. Worn, Good or so. A bizarre rumination on William Lloyd Garrison and America. "The slaveholder heard of him, and trembled with rage as he cursed him; while the negro waiter behind his chair secretly blessed him." All the great men of American history are in Hell, as Garrison sees during his guided tour. 112 Eberstadt 153.

[Cincinnati]: Published by the Cincinnati Gazette Co., 1869. Original printed, illustrated and decorated wrappers, stitched. 120pp. Mild soiling of wrappers, Very Good. Pages 1-22 and 116-120 consist of advertisements, primarily for Cincinnati merchants. This rare pamphlet describes Cincinnati as a thriving, lively city. An Index, with a list of advertisers, is included. OCLC 647903125 [1- AAS] as of June 2019.

[Cincinnati]: Published by the Cincinnati Gazette Co., 1870. Original printed, illustrated and decorated wrappers, stitched. 108pp. One chip at a blank margin, Near Fine. Pages 1-12 consist of advertisements, primarily for Cincinnati merchants, followed by an enormous amount of information on a variety of matters. The Gazette celebrates the Republican Party, which "has now been in power ten years, and its record is one of which every citizen who voted with it may feel proud. It suppressed the rebellion which armed to destroy the Union; it abolished slavery, which was the cause of the big rebellion, and it put into practical operation the great principle of the Declaration of Independence in regard to the equality of MAN. As a result, the year 1871 dawns upon a nation-- a preserved Union-- where there are no slaves, and where all men have equal rights." OCLC 647903145 [1- AAS] as of May 2019.

Jacksonville [IL]: R. Goudy, 1834. viii, 376pp. Lightly age-toned, with a couple of margin rubberstamps, but a Very Good text in its original sheep, with a rather brittle and chipped spine, upper hinge starting, gilt-lettered morocco spine label. Byrd notes, "Much of the information for this work was gathered as a result of Peck's extensive travel over the state and from personal interviews with citizens familiar with their counties of residence." And "his descriptions and observations are almost entirely drawn from personal experience" [Graff]. FIRST EDITION. Byrd 191. Howes P170. Graff 3232. Buck 278.

Germantaun: Michael Billmeyer, 1800. pp [12], 564, [12]. Contemporary full leather [some rubbing] with raised spine bands and fore-edge clasp. Light tanning and foxing of text, Very Good. Evans 37496, 38615.

[Boston?, 1896. Narrow broadside, printed on card stock, title and text beneath a photo illustration of Civil War General Daniel Sickles, resplendent in his medal-decorated uniform. Very Good. Sickles, who lost a leg at Gettysburg, endorses Republican presidential candidate William McKinley. "I know Major McKinley very well. He is a man of rectitude and honor... I shall give a patriotic vote for my comrade, Major McKinley, believing that in so doing I am repeating what I did in '64, when, as a war Democrat, I voted for Lincoln and the Union.

Boston: Oliver Ditson & Co. 277 Washington St., 1861. 9-1/2" x 13-1/4." [6], [1 blank] pp. J.H. Bufford's Lithograph on title page, a color portrait of a seated Scott, in full military uniform under a canopy of the American flag. Light foxing, Very Good. Music only, no words, and probably printed in 1861. It was featured in 'Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature', August 10, 1861, page 152, as one of Oliver Ditson & Co.'s latest publications, and notes the richly colored, lifelike portrait of Scott. This item was also one of the titles featured in The Ladies' Repository, Vol. XXX, New Series, Vol. II, January 1862, page 340, under the heading "New Music." Box 82, Item 103, Levy Sheet Music Collection. OCLC records seven locations under two accession numbers as of November 2021.

[Washington, 1852. 8pp Caption title [as issued], folded folio sheet Light spotting, untrimmed and generously margined, Very Good The Kentucky Democrat reviews the roster of Democratic and Whig presidential candidates He defends the honor of his fellow Kentuckian, William O Butler; and pays his respects to Senator Cass of Michigan. "It is our custom in the State of Kentucky to defend and honor all our worthy public men." Breckinridge pronounces President Fillmore unfit for his office: he favors abolishing the slave trade. Included here are Resolutions of the Kentucky Democratic Convention, adopted at Frankfort, January 8, 1852, declaring support for a government of strictly construed, enumerated powers; denying any power in the government to interfere with slavery, or to prohibit slave owners from settling with their slaves in the Territories; and commending their favorite son, Butler, as the Democratic nominee for the presidency. FIRST EDITION. Sabin 7671n. OCLC records nine locations as of… Read More

[New York, 1831. 31, [1] pp. Disbound, foxed, Good+. Caption title [as issued]. A report on the status of the iron and steel industries, and a call for their protection by federal tariff legislation. AI 7164 [4].

[Washington, 1874. 4pp, folded. Caption title [as issued]. Two smalls slits as inside margin appear to be from previous binding. Clean. Very Good. Three acts of Congress are published: to establish a pontoon railway-bridge across the Mississippi River at Prairie due Chien, and a similar bridge at or near Clinton, Iowa; to reduce the area of the military reservation of Fort Sanders; and to grant a condemned cannon to Prescott Post No. One for erection of a monument at Providence.

[Washington?]: Daily News Job Office, 1861. Broadside, printed in two columns with ornamental border, on pink paper. 8 3/4" x 13." Light wear, trimmed to border, Very Good. A bizarre broadside, evidently printed in several locales, all of them rare. George Washington appears to General McClellan in a vivid dream. The apparition admonishes, "There will be no more Bull Run affairs." A great future is predicted for the United States. Not in Bartlett, Nevins, Eberstadt, Decker, Sabin. OCLC records about ten institutional locations as of April 2024.

Houston, 1864. 12mo, 60pp, later plain wrappers. Top margin occasionally trimmed close, but no text loss. Very Good. Among other Statutes, this Confederate Session [November-December 1863] defines treason, sedition, and disloyalty to the State of Texas or to the Confederacy. "Any act, the tendency of which is to give aid and comfort to the public enemy, committed with intent to aid his operations..." is proscribed, including any writing or speech to that effect. FIRST EDITION. P&W 4183. Winkler 1243.

Philadelphia: Griffith & Simon, 114 North Third Street. King & Baird, Printers, No. 9 George St., 1847. Square 8vo. [36] pp, as issued, stitched in original printed and illustrated wrappers. The wrapper title is: THE GENERAL TAYLOR OR, "ROUGH AND READY" ALMANAC, FOR 1848. Tanned uniformly. Very Good. A scarce almanac, which Miles recorded with the asterisk notation that he had not seen a copy. The text lauds the gallantry of General Taylor and his troops on the battlefields of Palo Alto, Resaca de la Palma, Monterey, and Buena Vista. Drake 12586. Miles 225. OCLC records six locations under several accession numbers as of February 2022.

[New York?, 1894. 16pp. 3" x 6." Disbound, loosening, else Very Good. General Morgan insists that, though he served in the Union Army during the Civil War, his Southern ancestry and affections have always been "awakened in behalf of the South." Despite Dr. Cambrell's assertions, he and his colleagues are qualified "to write intelligently in reference to the status of the negroes of the South." Morgan himself had under his command more than 5,000 Negro soldiers. In 1893 he became "corresponding secretary of the American Baptist Home Mission Society...Under his skilful promotion, schools for thousands of negro men and women were established and equipped." DAB.