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

[Peoria, Illinois, 1847. Broadside, 8-1/2" x 10-1/4", illustrated in the center with a sketch of an Arabian oasis, with trees, angels, a horse, and a loving couple. Light edge wear and toning. Else Very Good. Signed at the end in typescript by Farrell. A rare Peoria broadside. It describes the curative powers of the Arabian Liniment for soreness and swelling of the breast, pain and weakness in the back and joints, sprains, paralysis or loss of power in the limbs, etc. "It penetrates the flesh to the bone." Moreover, it "effectually and speedily cures most of the diseases of horses..." Hiram G. Farrell began his career in 1836 as a clerk in his brother's Peoria drugstore; he was fourteen years old. The two would have a falling-out: each advertised the Arabian Liniment, and claimed the other's was inferior. H.G. retired in 1903 at the age of 80, "a shrewd and industrious druggist" who "made a fortune from Farrell's Arabian Liniment" [Bogard, 'Peoria's Pioneer Druggists, the Farrells, and Farrell's… Read More

[Peoria, Illinois, 185-?]. Broadside, 6-5/8" x 5", illustrated in the center with a sketch of an Arabian oasis, with trees, angels, a horse, and a loving couple. Light edge wear and toning. Else Very Good. Signed at the end in typescript by Farrell. A rare Peoria item. We have recited its contents in full. [offered with] H.G. FARRELL'S CELEBRATED ARABIAN LINIMENT. MANUFACTURED ONLY BY H.G. FARRELL, SOLE INVENTOR AND PROPRIETOR, AND WHOLESALE DRUGGIST, NO. 17, MAIN STREET, PEORIA, ILL. Broadside accounting sheet for Farrell's distributors. 7-3/4" x 9-3/4", with the usual illustration. Light wear, printed on pale blue paper. Very Good. The second item warns of spurious imitations: "Do not touch any other, or you will get a spurious article! Look WELL, OR YOU WILL BE DECEIVED! BEWARE PARTICULARLY OF A NEW COUNTERFEIT which has just made its appearance, called W.B. FARRELL'S Arabian Liniment, and is called by this impostor the 'Original.' Remember that the ONLY GENUINE always has the letters H.G.… Read More

[Philadelphia, 1825. Caption title [as issued], Disbound, 4pp. Foxed, Good+. [bound with] VII.- EIGHTH SERIES. ALEXANDER HAMILTON'S POLITICAL ECONOMY. Caption title [as issued], pp [5]-8 [as issued]. Good+. Recorded separately by American Imprints, but continuously paginated, the pamphlets express Carey's well-articulated arguments for protectionism and against free trade. "The substitution of foreign for domestic manufactures is a transfer of the advantages of machinery to foreign nations." FIRST EDITION. AI 19961 [1], 19962 [1].

1823. II [4pp], IV [7, 1 blank pp], V [8pp], VI [8pp]. [bound with] HAMILTON- NO. VII. (SECOND EDITION) [8pp]. [bound with] HAMILTON- THIRD SERIES, NOS. I-II [16pp, paginated continuously]. [bound with] MESSRS. GALES & SEATON. 4pp [bound with] FOURTH SERIES, NOS. I-II [each 4pp]. [Philadelphia? 1823?]. Each with caption title [as issued]. Disbound, partly untrimmed. Scattered fox and dustsoil, Good+ or so. America's leading protectionist pamphleteer argues against free trade in each of these publications, which were evidently separately issued. AI 12060 [4th Series], 12062 [Messrs. Gales], 12067 [New Series], 12068 [3d Series]. Sabin 10889n. Not in Eberstadt or Decker.

[Philadelphia, 1825. Caption title [as issued], Disbound, 7pp. Foxed, Good+. A fact-filled argument for protectionism, sarcastically rebutting English pretensions to free trade. FIRST EDITION. AI 19964 [1].

[Philadelphia, 1825. Caption title [as issued], Disbound, 4pp. Foxed, Good+. "The important effects which the encouragement of manufactures would have produced in increasing the population and power of the country, by alluring to our shores hosts of manufacturers and artisans from the old world, to enrich us with their capitals, and impart to us the advantages of their skill and their talents." FIRST EDITION. AI 19963 [1].

Buffalo: Commercial Advertiser Steam Press, 1859. 8pp + folding map, 'Great Northern Route from Buffalo and Niagara Falls Between East and West.' Original printed wrappers [lower blank forecorner clipped, small closed margin tear without loss]. Stitched, Very Good. This little booklet describes the "delightful route" and the cities along the way. Toronto, Quebec, Montreal, and other towns and cities receive the author's attention. Schedules and routes traveled by the Company are advertised. Sabin records a Niagara Falls publication in 1856 with this title, and an 1858 Buffalo printing with this title. OCLC 1007630478 [1- Canada Lib. & Arch.] as of April 2020.

[New York, 1945. 4to. iv, 343, [1 blank] pp. Profusely illustrated. Bound in original cloth [minor wear], gilt - lettered spine and cover title. Very Good. The book was written "by staff members of the Naval Damage Control Training Center, Philadelphia, with the assistance of the Bureau of Ships and the Naval Training School (Damage Control), San Francisco.

St. Louis, MO: Niedner, Menning & Co., 1873. 15pp. Original blue printed wrappers [light toning, minor wear to spine, wraps partly detached], stitched. Text lightly tanned, else quite clean. Very Good. Benecke was President of the Chariton County Board of Immigration. His handbook, issued for German immigrants, of whom Missouri had many, describes the advantages of Chariton County. The County was settled in the 1820's and 1830's by pioneers from the Upper South-- particularly Kentucky and Tennessee. They brought their slaves with them; the area of Missouri in which they settled became known as Little Dixie. The German migration to Missouri before the Civil War was primarily to St. Louis and environs, which became an anti-slavery stronghold. With the death of slavery, Chariton County, like many places in the New South, sought to revitalize its institutions with immigrants, industry, and development. OCLC records a number of facsimiles, including Kirtas Technologies reproductions, but evidently very… Read More

N. Currier, 1837. Van Buren seated at center in red chair in front of green draped column, his right hand is grasping arm of chair, his left holding a book on table, on which rests a quill pen. 13-1/2" x 17-3/4", matted in a gilt wood frame. Very Good.

New York: Currier & Ives, 152 Nassau St., 1865. Folio broadside, 13" x 19". Lithograph bust portrait printed in black and white and hand-colored expertly. Johnson wears a dark jacket and vest with a white button-down collared shirt and dark bow tie. Light toning and dusting, minor wear at corners, a few very small spots. A few closed tears [none enter portrait, two through imprint with no loss, several archival tape repairs on verso]. Else Very Good. An evidently unrecorded variant of Gale 0232 and Conningham 0218 [at the National Portrait Gallery] in which Johnson, with a slightly different facial expression, has a button partly showing from under the left of his lapel.

25th Cong., 2nd Sess. HD226. [Washington, 1838. 8pp, large folding map of the Harbor. Disbound, else Very Good.

Pittsburgh: Printed by W.S. Haven, 1866. viii, [9]-182pp. Bound in publisher's black blindstamped cloth with gilt title on front board [some extremity wear, rear inner hinge cracked, lacks rear endpapers]. Scattered foxing, first few pages damped. Narrow tears at blank outer margins of pages 141-144. Good+. Johann Rapp founded the Harmony Society, a Christian theosophy and pietist society, in Germany in 1785. Persecuted by the Lutheran Church and the government, he moved the group to the United States in 1803. Rapp's followers were called Harmonists or Rappites. They settled in Pennsylvania for a time, relocated to Indiana for several years, and eventually resettled in Pennsylvania in a town they named Economy after the idea of Divine Economy. Rapp led the commune, with all property held in common and celibacy required. Eventually, as seems inevitable for Utopian societies, arguments erupted, schisms followed, and the Society splintered. This book gives a detailed history of the Society, its… Read More

Columbus: Published by I.N. Whiting [Printed at the Straight-Out Harrison and Tyler Office], 1840. 3-1/2" x 5-1/2". 105, [3 Index] pp. Bound in printed paper over boards and quarter sheep [some rubbing, dulling, and spotting], the front board illustrated with a log cabin and American flag; the rear cover advertising 'The Life of General Harrison,' with illustration of the Screaming Eagle and the Campaign song, 'Go it Harrison,/ Come it Tyler,/ And we'll burst/ Van Buren's biler.' Title page repeats the front board illustration. Endpapers lightly foxed. A clean text with light uniform tanning. Except as noted, Very Good. "In these times of feeling and patriotic action, the merry Harrisonian Log Cabin Songs have rushed through the country. Every body is singing them, and every body but the sour and crabbed Locofocos, is delighted with their simplicity and spirit. It is to meet the wants of the Harrison boys-- to furnish them all with a plentiful supply of these patriotic and pithy songs, that this… Read More

Boston, 1865. viii, 57pp. Disbound roughly, original printed front wrapper [chipped, loose]. Else Good+. Bemis denounces Britain's diplomatic support for the Confederacy, defending the right of the North to impose its naval blockade and calling the South's secession an illegal rebellion. I Harv. Law Cat. 150. Bartlett 393.

[np, 1876. 32pp, disbound, caption title [as isssued]. Good+, but lacking the wrappers [which probably include title and imprint]. With words and music for a variety of campaign and patriotic songs, rallying the Republican forces for the 1876 presidential election. OCLC 18310840 [4].

[Columbus, Ohio, 1863. Broadsheet, 8" x 10", ordering a Descriptive List of Pay and Clothing for Wm. Harris, 44th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, who is awaiting discharge papers. Completed in manuscript, it is dated May 15, 1863, and signed by order of Brig. Genl. Mason. The verso is a printed letter from Assistant Adjutant General Samuel Breck to Capt. Albert Dod, 15th U.S. Infantry, Columbus, Ohio, regarding eligibility for final statements and descriptive lists.

Fayetteville [NC], 1863. Broadside, 7" x 7." Tanned and lightly worn, Very Good. With Pillow's secretarial signature as "Brig. Gen. C.S.A. and Chief of Bureau," reflecting his demotion after having been charged with abandoning his post at Fort Donelson in early 1862. Also manuscript signature, 'H.C. Lockhart,' assistant adjutant general. Docketed on verso in manuscript: "List of absentees will be furnished by colonel. By order of Brig Genl Pillow, Chief of Bureau. H.C. Lockhart AAGenl." A very rare Confederate imprint, responding to the Confederacy's Conscription Act of 1862, which aroused much opposition from the new polity purportedly devoted to State Rights and individual liberty. Not located in Parrish, Crandall, Hummel, or any other bibliography. However, OCLC 747346518 [1] records a copy at the Boston Athenaeum, the only location which we have discovered despite diligent investigation.

[17], [1 blank] pp, entirely in neat ink manuscript on ruled paper. Bound at the top margin in pink ribbon. Very Good. This is General Smith's Report [perhaps his retained copy] on recent cavalry operations made at the direction of Generals Grant and Sherman. Addressed to "Brig Gen. John A. Rawlings, Chief of Staff, Military Div. of the Miss.," it is a gloomy narrative of a very unpleasant event in Smith's-- and the Union's-- life. "For Major General William T. Sherman's Meridian Campaign in February 1864, he led a large cavalry force from Tennessee south toward Meridian, Mississippi. Known as the Sooy Smith Expedition, it failed miserably, angering Sherman and bringing embarrassment to himself. He had been beaten back in engagements at West Point and Okolona, Mississippi, by an inferior force under Major General Nathan B. Forrest" ['Find a Grave' article on Smith online]. Smith advises, "I have the honor to submit the following report of recent Cavalry operations made by the direction of Major… Read More

Jackson, Miss., 1869. Eleven Special Orders, May 6-8, 10, 12-18, 1869. Each 2-4 pages. Special Orders Nos. 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103. Several manuscript emendations. Each signed in type and manuscript at the end by William Atwood, Aide-de-Camp and Acting Assistant Adjutant General. Light wear, light spotting, Very Good. Mississippi's Reconstruction occurred under military rule. As evidenced by these Special Orders, the military authorities appointed and removed Justices of the Peace, members of the Board of Police, Marshals, Constables, District Attorneys, Clerks, County Treasurers, Mayors, and other officers normally elected by the people or appointed by civil authorities. Not located on OCLC as of March 2024.