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

[np, 1864. 16pp, folded, caption title [as issued]. Toned, light spotting, Good+. An attack on the Democratic Party, which has become the party of treason, and its most prominent members. "Look at the record of Pendleton, second on the ticket..." "Look at Vallandigham who dictated the platform...These men only lacked the courage and audacity to nominate Jeff. Davis instead of McClellan." The pamphlet examines the record of treason and collaboration by the Democrats' leading lights. Sabin 12663. OCLC 15612581 [8] [as of 5/12]. Not in Bartlett.

[Cincinnati, 1876. Folio, 11-3/4" x 14-1/2." 8p. Caption title, as issued. Each page printed in three columns, each column separated by a rule. Minor wear, Very Good. Schurz, a German-American, whose advocacy was important in securing German immigrants to the Republican Party, had finished his term as U.S. Senator from Missouri when he gave this speech. With the election of Rutherford Hayes to the presidency in November, he would become Secretary of the Interior. Here he discusses the causes and consequences of the great Panic of 1873. The culprit, he says, was the government's "policy of currency inflation ... Not only the greenbacks, the national bank notes, and the fractional currency, but also the State bank circulation, the demand notes, the one and two year notes of 1863, and the compound notes." His Speech explores the Panic and the ongoing recovery. OCLC 29915534 [5- Columbia, WI Hist. Soc., Harvard, NW U, State Lib. of MA] as of September 2021.

New York: H.R. Robinson, 1837. Oblong 13-1/2" x 21". Light dusting, a couple of closed tears and shallow extremity chips to blank margins. Else Very Good. The Library of Congress entry: "A satire attributing the dire fiscal straits of the nation to Andrew Jackson's banking policies, with specific reference to recent bank failures in New Orleans, New York, and Philadelphia. The artist blames the 1837 panic on Jackson's and later Van Buren's efforts to limit currency and emphasize specie (or coinage) as the circulating medium in the American economy. Missouri senator Thomas Hart Benton's role as an ally of the administration and champion of coinage (in the cartoonist's parlance 'mint drops') is also attacked. In an eighteenth-century sickroom scene Uncle Sam, wearing a liberty cap, a stars-and-stripes dressing gown, and moccasins, slumps in a chair. In his hand is a paper reading 'Failures...' Nicholas Biddle arrives, with a trunk of 'Post Notes' and 'Bonds,' and is greeted by Brother Jonathan.… Read More

St. Louis: G.I. Jones and Company, 1877. [1-title], [1 blank], 42pp. Disbound, spine reinforced with paper tape. A few small chips to blank edges of outermost leaves. A few insignificant spots, else Very Good. The Coinage Act of 1873 took the country off the bimetallic standard under which gold and silver had both been legal tender since 1792. Populists and debtors sought the return of silver and bimetallism, in order to increase the money supply. Judge Gantt, who had been a Colonel in the Union Army during the War, undertakes a detailed and minute examination of Congress's constitutional power to coin money. He argues that the Coinage Act is unconstitutional, because only the States, not Congress, have power to declare what constitutes legal tender. Congress's only function "in respect of money, is to coin it and regulate the value of it and of foreign coin." OCLC 43330498 [6]. Not in Marke, Harv. Law Cat.

Near Petersburg, Va., 1864. Single leaf, 8" x 10." Entirely in ink manuscript. Signed by the three appraisers, all Confederate officers. ANNOTATED BY LEE IN HIS HANDWRITING ON VERSO IN INK: "10 Aug '64. Board of Appraisement of horses attached to Hdqrs." Followed by contemporary pencil notation: "Confederate value of "Traveller" & "Lucy." Old horizontal folds and light wear. Very Good. Traveller, of course, was Lee's horse. "In 1864, after the horse became truly famous, he was appraised at $4,600 Confederate" [online, "From War Horse To Saddle Horse." American Saddlebred Magazine, November/December 1998]. Lee's second most famous horse, "Lucy Long was a present to General Lee from General J.E.B. Stuart in 1862, when the former was conducting the Sharpsburg campaign. She was a low, easy moving, and quite sorrel mare. Continuing on...she was low, and easy to mount, and her gaits were easy. General Lee rode her quite constantly until toward the close of the war, when she was found to be in foal and… Read More

Boston: Printed and Sold by Kneeland and Adams, next to the Treasurer's Office in Milk-Street, 1771. 24pp, but lacking the half title. Death's Head ornamentation on title page. Disbound and uniformly toned. Closed tear to title leaf [no loss] repaired; evidence of repair at outer margin]. Inner margin of title page and page 24 with old wrapper remnants. Good+. Shaw bludgeoned Edward East to death while both were inmates of the Springfield prison. This is the second of three editions of this title, all issuing in 1771; AAS does not own our edition. Reverend Baldwin scolds Mr. Shaw "for the sin of intemperance. Have you not hereby dishonoured God, and abused his bounty and goodness; wronged your own soul and body; wasted your substance; brought your self and family to poverty and distress?. . . You are verily guilty of the crying sin of MURDER." Evans 11974. ESTC W1508.[5- Yale, NYHS, Boston Public, Williams, Peabody-Essex].

Albany: Weed, Parsons and Company, 1864. [81]-96 pages, [as issued]. Each page printed in two columns. Disbound and lightly foxed, Good+. Emphasizing Lincoln's support among all lovers of the Union, regardless of Party, this campaign pamphlet paints the Democrats as treasonous followers of the Copperhead Congressman Clement Vallandigham. "The Vallandigham platform is merely an attempt of the Richmond authorities to run the blockade of Northern ballot boxes, Montgomery Constitution in hand." Not in Sabin, Monaghan, or Bartlett. OCLC records eleven locations as of July 2015, under two accession numbers.

Brooklyn: The Union Steam Presses, 1867. 48pp, stitched. Wrappers are absent, else Very Good. Silliman rebuts "intemperate, reckless and reiterated" remarks slandering the Company.

New York: D. Van Nostrand. London: Trubner & Co., 1863. 61, [3 blanks] pp. Disbound a bit roughly, else Very Good. Captain Hunt, of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, writes from New Haven in January 1863. This is a nutty article explaining "the scientific bases upon which our nationality has rested and must rest." Nationhood, he says, replicates the harmonious workings of the different components of the human body-- both have been designed by God to function as a whole. Secession thus is an assault on the laws of nature. A geological and geographical examination, conducted here, proves this.

4OTH Cong., 2d Sess.: HED277., 1868. 6, 2 pp. Disbound. Very Good.

4OTH Cong., 2d Sess.: HED208., 1868. 5pp. Disbound. Very Good.

New York: American Bureau of Mines, 1866. 44pp, stitched. Original printed wrappers [front wrapper detached but present]. Else Very Good. A Report, by Thomas Egleston on behalf of the American Bureau of Mines, on the topography of Omaha; the Platte and its tributaries and their valleys; the geology of the Nebraska Territory; bluffs, drifts, boulders, climate, soil, formation of the rolling prairie, agriculture, trees, fences, plantings, mill sites. "Nebraska must remain an agricultural country. For this it is destined by its geographical position, no less than its fertile soil and its climate." It will control the western market, "and the gold and silver of the mountains will be exchanged in this Territory for grain and stock." FIRST EDITION. BRE References Relating to the Union Pacific Railroad 49. Sabin 22054. Not in Eberstadt, Graff, Soliday, Decker.

Philadelphia, 1867. 95, [1 blank] pp. Original printed wrappers, stitched. Wraps and margins of early and late leaves with some spotting. Good+. "One of the earliest of personal narratives on the Pacific railroad. The object of the journey was to examine the condition of the road and make such scientific and industrial researches along the route as might be of advantage to the enterprise. Leland painstakingly records his experiences and impressions during this very interesting journey" [Eberstadt]. FIRST EDITION. Howes L246aa. 137 Eberstadt 363. Graff 2453. BRE 298. Pilling 2247.

[Hartford?, 1860. 20pp. Caption title [as issued], disbound. Scattered foxing, light vertical fold, Good+. The Democratic State Central Committee urges support of a national Democrat for the presidency in this crucial election which would split the Democrats into Northern and Southern branches. Eaton denounces Lincoln, Seward, and Connecticut Republicans for "John Brown Republicanism" and warns that a Republican presidency will destroy the Union. Slavery was "the most vexed and disturbing issue which presented itself" to the Founders. Their compromise was effected "by utterly ignoring the moral view of the question, regarding only its political character." Americans must follow the same course today. But the "Brown Republican Party" is flouting that wise decision. The prime example is Lincoln's House Divided speech, which he gave in the 1858 Senate campaign when he "was most essentially flogged by Senator Douglas." Sabin [after] 21746. Not in Monaghan, LCP, Bartlett.

New York: Baker & Godwin, Printers, 1865. 24pp, stitched. Light dustsoil front and back, light scattered tan, light institutional stamp, some wear to edges, else clean and Very Good. An argument for the election of the New York Union [Republican] State ticket, headed by General Francis Barlow for Governor, a man "like Grant." The gallant war record of each of the candidates is reviewed. FIRST EDITION. Not in Sabin, LCP.

Boston: Printed and published by Charles Gaylord, 1840. 356pp, frontispiece engraving and 13 dramatic, attractive plate engravings [appears to be lacking one engraving]. Original illustrated paper-covered boards, cloth spine. The first gathering of text partly loosened and fastened to the text block with an old pin. Light tan and light scattered foxing. Good+. St. Clair believed that shocking crimes should be exploited to dissuade youth from becoming criminals; the Preface makes clear that St. Clair greatly enjoyed feeding the public's interest in lurid crimes. The Preface notes the propensity to "take pleasure in the sight or relation of human sin and suffering." St. Clair writes about those robbers, pirates, murderers, madmen, and others, who have been "eminent in their professions... people will indulge in reading such matter, whether this volume is published or not and it is certainly better that it should be presented in the least exceptionable form possible." More than forty notorious… Read More

Philadelphia: Sherman, 1863. 12mo. Original printed blue wrappers, with title stamped in gilt on front cover. Stitched, 36pp. Near Fine. An explanation of the Commission's mission, with correspondence from President Lincoln, War Secretary Stanton, and Navy Secretary Welles to George Stuart, its Chairman. Major General Meade also contributes a letter, as do others engaged in the conflict. The Commission explains its work. Bartlett 5252.

[Washington], 1838. 25th Cong., 2d Sess. HED351. 23, 821pp. Disbound, first 23 pages browned, first page tattered with loss of final two lines of text. Overall, Good+. An enormous compendium of information on Mexican-U.S. relations from 1828-1838. Subjects include extradition of fugitives from Texas; correspondence concerning some Tennessee murderers who fled there; claims by U.S. citizens against Mexico for seizure of property on ships docked in Texas ports; military expeditions by U.S. citizens into Texas; U.S. efforts to remain neutral in Texas's War for Independence, despite overwhelming American support for Texas; disputes over Americans' westward migration into Texas and other Mexican territory; the murder of American prisoners at Tampico for allegedly taking up arms against Texas; Gaines's expedition to the Nacogdoches, breaching American neutrality in the Texas-Mexico war. This item can't be beat for a comprehensive study of U.S.-Mexico relations, and Texas Question frictions. Streeter… Read More

[Washington, D.C., 1825. Printed broadside, 8" x 13.5". Light toning, untrimmed [minor edgewear], old folds [couple of pinholes at junctions, but not affecting any text]. Very Good. This rare broadside announcement of a patent issued to Samuel Lane, of Maine, is signed in type by President John Quincy Adams, Secretary of State Henry Clay, and Attorney General William Wirt. It contains a complete Description, "in the words of the said Samuel Lane himself," of his improvements to the corn-shelling machine. In 1828 Lane was the first to receive a patent for a combine. One of the witnesses to Lane's Description was William Blagrove, probably the first full-time Patent Agent in Washington DC, appointed in 1819. Not located on OCLC, AAS Catalog, American Imprints.

New York: New York City Directory, 1854. 147, [1 blank] pp. Stitched in original printed blue wrappers [closed tear to front wrap, chip to blank rear wrap]. Scattered light foxing, about Very Good. With tables of postage within the U.S., and to Canada and other foreign countries; directions to postmasters; list of distributing offices; and an exhaustive list of post offices and postmasters in the United States. Sabin 72466n. OCLC 2608447 [8], 163148379 [1].