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

Boston: Printed for West and Greenleaf, no. 56, and John West, no. 75, Cornhill, from the press of John Russell, 1800. xii, 228pp. Bound in original sheep [rubbed] with gilt lettered spine [rubbed, spinehead chipped]. Front endpaper loose, long horizontal closed tear at pp. 145-146 [no text loss]. Small pinhole at pp. 87-88 [loss of 2 or 3 letters]. A bit of foxing, Good+. The first three printings issued from London in 1799. Evans 38973.

Harrisonburg [VA]: Published by Davidson & Bourne., 1814. Original sheep [tight binding, some rubbing]. Gilt spine rules, gilt-lettered spine title on red morocco label. [2], iii, [1 blank], 265, [1- binder's instructions]. Lightly foxed, Very Good. The first American edition of this novel, originally printed in London in 1799, issued from Boston in 1800. An attractive, early Shenandoah Valley imprint, the book is an attack on the radicalism of the French Revolution, mob rule, and notions of the noble savage and the natural equality of men. Haynes 20469. AI 33562 [5].

San Francisco: Spear & Cq [sic], 1869. Original printed wrappers, stitched, 18pp. Near Fine. The West Coast's first medical school was established in 1858 at the University of the Pacific, a Methodist Episcopal college in Santa Clara, California. It opened for business in 1859. The driving force behind its creation was Dr. Samuel Cooper. Levi Cooper Lane, Cooper's nephew, joined its faculty in 1861. After Toland Medical College opened in 1864, the University of the Pacific's medical school closed its doors and Dr. Lane joined the Toland faculty. He became a pioneer in American medical education, and wrote the first American textbook on surgery of the head and neck. OCLC locates five copies of this pamphlet, under two accession numbers. Not in Drury or Cowan.

Tuscaloosa: Marmaduke J. Slade, Printer, 1837. 52pp, disbound and lightly foxed. Good+. A Vermont-born educator, Woods sojourned for nearly a decade in the South, first at Transylvania University in Kentucky (where Jefferson Davis went to school) and then as President of the University at Tuscaloosa. After this valedictory he returned North. Ellison 306. Sabin 105121. AI 48600. Not in Owen.

Boston, 1762. 118pp. Half title present but detached. Disbound. Else Very Good. This is a seminal work, not only in Chauncy's long repertoire of publications, but also in Colonial Americans' struggle to prevent domination by the Episcopal Church and to nurture their own democratic religious institutions. As DAB notes, "Chauncy devoted nine years to contending against Episcopal claims, beginning with his Dudleian Lecture of 1762 [this piece]..." Here he tells his audience, "You are, by this time, at no loss to know the design of the present discourse; that it is to vindicate the New-England churches in their method of ordination..." Unlike the church in England, where people "scarce know what it is to have pastors of their own chusing...the New-England churches, blessed be God, possess and exercise the right of electing their pastors in the most ample manner of any in the whole christian world. May they ever 'stand fast in this liberty'...!" FIRST EDITION. Evans 9089. Sabin 12331. ESTC W29647.

Norwich [CT]: Thomas Hubbard, 1795. Contemporary calf [rubbed and chipped, but tightly bound]. 22, 240pp. Scattered light spotting, Good+. The title says it all. This is the first American edition of a useful work on trade secrets, containing hundreds of articles on the array of arts and trades. It originally issued from London in 1775. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Evans 29243. Lowenstein 10. Rink 155. Trumbull 1543.

Boston: J. Bumstead's Printing Office, 1798. 12mo. xxiv, [25]-264 pp. Contemporary calf [rubbed and lightly chipped, joints cracked but holding], gilt lettered red spine label [spine ends chipped]. Scattered foxing, light age toning, a few closed tears [no text loss]. Good+. . The title says it all. This is the third American edition of a useful work on trade secrets, containing hundreds of articles on the array of arts and trades. THIRD AMERICAN EDITION. Evans 34913. Rink 157. NAIP W028501 [9].

Boston: I Thomas and E.T. Andrews, 1794. v, [4], 10-223, [1- errata] pp. Bound in later cloth, with light institutional marks. Text clean except for old rubberstamp on one page. Else Very Good. This is the first of four 18th century American editions. Evans 27017.

[Washington, 1848. 8pp, caption title (as issued). Folded folio leaf, untrimmed. Rubberstamp at blank upper margin. Good+. Supposedly angered at his Party's failure to nominate him as its candidate in 1844, Van Buren bolted to the new Free Soil Party in 1848, a precursor of the Republicans. This document exposes Van Buren's doughface past: Until now, "no man had been more obsequious to the South, or more subservient to slavery, than Martin Van Buren." The record is reviewed, in exquisite detail, to show Van Buren's support of slavery. His convenient turnabout is mere hypocrisy. Free Soil material is significant because it presages the dissolution of the Democratic Party, the rise of the Republicans, and the crisis of the Union. FIRST EDITION. Wise & Cronin 113. Not in Dumond or Work.

Boston: Printed by Rogers and Fowle, in Queen-Street, 1748. 27, [1 blank] pp. Disbound, with the half title. Light scattered foxing. Very Good. Bound in modern half black cloth and marbled paper over boards. Owner's rubberstamp on front pastedown. One of several sermons printed during 1748 on this fire, which destroyed public records and "other useful and valuable Writings." Prentice offers an unusually interesting explanation of the "Injustice and Unrighteousness" which caused the fire. The cause is "an uncertain and sinking Paper-Medium which circulating through the Land, doth I fear, spread Injustice...and sadly corrupt and endanger the whole Political Body." For "Men, finding the Currency sinking, and having no Way to right themselves therefor, but by altering and adjusting the Prices of Things, to what they suppose to be the Decrease, of the Value of the Bills, and so being left at Liberty to judge and determine their own Cause...are apt, in every Advance, to rise too high, in their… Read More

[England], 1735. Elephant folio, 24-1/2" x 30-1/2". Completely in ink manuscript on stiff vellum, some words written in larger lettering or bolder print. Bottom edge folded up and held with five red wax seals and vellum strips. Strip of three embossed blue Sixpence Royal tax stamps at left edge, "Colony to Saml Clarke" in manuscript directly beneath it. The names of Joseph Lodge, Elizabeth Lodge, Jonathan Pickering, Ann Pickering, and John Hamblins written along the bottom edge between the seals. Docketed on verso: "The 9th October 1735/ Joseph Lodge & wife/ Jonathan Pickering/ To John Hamblin/ Joseph Rust." Old folds, light spotting and dustsoiling of verso, recto quite clean. Beautiful document. Near Fine. This appears to be a deed from England as Wortham Hall, Hopton, Botesdale and Thelnetham, are all of Suffolk County, England. Joseph Lodge [1693-1759] lived and died in Needham, Norfolk County, England. Elizabeth his wife [1699-1739] died in Norfolk as well.

Columbus: Ohio Statesman, 1868. Large 8vo, stitched, 19pp. Persistent light dampstain to lower portion, else Very Good. An expose of the Radical Republicans' financial turpitude in the United States Congress. FIRST EDITION. 359 NUC 0174081 [4].

New York, 1829. 16pp. Stitched, scattered foxing, light wear. Good+. The 'Old Citizen' defends President John Quincy Adams several days before the reins of power passed to his successor and bitter rival, Andrew Jackson. Harrison Gray Otis, William Sullivan, Henry Cabot, and nine other Massachusetts Federalists recently attacked President Adams for a pamphlet Adams had written "more than twenty years ago," criticizing New England Federalists for their excessive attachment to England, their desire to secure "a dissolution of the Union," and for opposing the acquisition of Louisiana. Calling Otis et al "Monarchists in the East", 'Old Citizen' excoriates them for their views on Louisiana, their opposition to the 1808 Embargo, and the War of 1812. "The present attack on J.Q. Adams, is now seen to be a MERE SPECK in the magnitude of their designs against their country's honour." Their absurd preference "(to suit present purposes)" for "supreme power in the States"-- which he calls "the mania of state… Read More

[Washington: C.W. Fenton, 1848. Caption title [as issued], disbound, 16pp. Light soil and wear, Good+. At head of title: "PLEASE CIRCULATE." A Whig argument against executive tyranny, alleged to be the practice of Democratic Presidents, particularly Andrew Jackson. Lewis Cass, the Democratic presidential candidate, will exercise the veto power promiscuously, thus destroying "the very first principle of our Republican System- THE RIGHT OF THE MAJORITY TO GOVERN." Because "every minority government is in principle a despotism...that should be enough to excite in every American freeman an intense jealousy of the Veto power, and an unyielding and sleepless opposition to its improper exercise." Drake, originally from Cincinnati but who became a United States Senator from Missouri, reviews the history of the veto, in England and America, particularly under Jackson. The Whig candidate, Zachary Taylor, will defend majority rule, and assure government of the people. FIRST EDITION. Sabin 20817. Not in… Read More

Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin, 1780. 16pp, disbound a bit roughly. Toned, a few contemporary manuscript corrections. Good+. With the signature at the head of the title, 'Revd Solomon Williams Northampton.' With a brief sketch of Madam Trumbull's life. Evans 17000. Trumbull 1432.

Hamburg: B.S. Berendsohn, 1849. 32pp, stitched into contemporary plain pale green wrappers. Bit of light extremity wear, Very Good. "One of the most remarkable 'imaginary voyages' since Defoe." Howes. The first edition was published in London earlier in the same year, under the title, 'Four Months Among the Goldfinders of California.' This is one of two German translations, the other from Leipzig. Of this printing OCLC locates four institutional copies. Howes V134. Cowan 75. Graff 4494 [London printing].

Philadelphia: Crukshank, 1780. 76pp, disbound, else Very Good. Evans 16812. Hildeburn 4013.

Philadelphia: Published by J. Conrad & Co...., 1804. xxviii, 446 pp, with the half title, plus Map of North America and two plates. Lacking the second map, scattered spotting. Bound in original sheep [hinges starting but still firm]. Good. Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney [1757-1820], French Philosophe and historian, "spent three years in the United States, ardently engaged in collecting facts for his work, principally relating to the state and manners of the Indians, and the climate" [Field]. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Howes V141. BAL 1508. Field 1610.

Glasgow: Robert and Thomas Duncan, 1770. Attractive original calf, with raised spine bands [light wear]. 407, [1 blank] pp. Rear free endpaper torn, contemporary ownership signature of Thomas Manning. Scattered light foxing, modern bookplate, Very Good. ESTC T74880.

Charleston: Letter-Press of E.C. Councell, 119 East Bay, 1850. 16pp, disbound. Light foxing starting at edges, else clean. Very Good. Dedicating his Discourse to Governor Seabrook of South Carolina, Reverend Barnwell denounces the Compromise of 1850, champions South Carolina's secessionist cause, and gives free rein to his fire-eating Southern nationalism. He warns of the "covert, but decided menace on the part of those in authority, to prohibit, by force, the exercise of her unquestionable right, to resume the powers delegated to the General Government, and secede from the Union, if she sees fit." The "General Government is a Usurper"; it holds together Sections lacking in empathy. Exhibit A is the North's failure to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act. The North will "use the whole power of the Government for its own aggrandizement, and the destruction of an institution which we believe to be of vital importance to our welfare." Convinced of "the righteousness of our cause," he argues, "to take away… Read More