Established in 1989, the Company specializes in the social, political, and cultural history of the Americas. Areas of concentration include Colonial America, the American Revolution and Federal period, American imprints of the 18th century; Afro-Americana, slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, the American South; law and economics, commerce, banking, trade, industry, canals, railroads, agriculture, urbanization; the American West; political campaigns and issues, presidential politics. Since 1993 David M. Lesser Fine Antiquarian Books LLC has been a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. The Company, located in New Haven's northern suburb of Woodbridge, is also a member of the Southern New England Antiquarian Booksellers. David M. Lesser is a member of the American Antiquarian Society, the Grolier Club, the Ephemera Society of America, and the Ancient Order of the Jackass. Susan E. Monarca, David's assistant, has been an associate member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America since 2020. We issue six printed catalogues annually. Visitors wishing to browse our stock of 10,000 titles are welcome to do so in person, by appointment.
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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE APPOINTED TO ENQUIRE WHETHER ANY, AND WHAT AMENDMENTS MAY BE NECESSARY IN THE ACT "TO ASCERTAIN AND FIX THE MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT OF THE UNITED STATES." 13TH JANUARY 1797. COMMITTED TO A COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE HOUSE, ON TUESDAY NEXT. PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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[Philadelphia : Ross? , 1797 (click for more details)THE OCTOBER CONTEST! SHALL FREE TRADE BE THE SETTLED POLICY OF THIS GOVERNMENT? ADDRESS DELIVERED BY HON. ALEXANDER K. McCLURE, OF FRANKLIN COUNTY, PA., AT THE WIGWAM, CORNER OF SIXTH AND BROWN STREETS, PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5TH. 1860
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[Philadelphia : King & Baird, Printers , 1860 (click for more details)A LITURGY FOR THE USE OF THE CHURCH AT KING'S CHAPEL IN BOSTON; COLLECTED PRINCIPALLY FROM THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. THIRD EDITION WITH ALTERATIONS AND ADDITIONS
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Boston : From the Press of the Christian Examiner , 1828 (click for more details)OBSERVATIONS OF A RANCHWOMAN IN NEW MEXICO
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London and New York : Macmillan and Co., Limited , 1898 (click for more details)THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW-YORK, BY THE GRACE OF GOD, FREE AND INDEPENDENT: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, GREETING: KNOW YE, THAT WE HAVE NOMINATED, CONSTITUTED AND APPOINTED, AND BY THESE PRESENTS DE NOMINATE, CONSTITUTE AND APPOINT OLIVER HEWLETT, DANIEL MOTT, THOMAS HEWLETT, MICAH OWEN, JOHN S. LOTT, JOHN SIMONSON, SILVANUS TITUS, DAVID R. F. JONES, JACOB S. JACKSON, NOAH MASON AND WILLIAM RIKER TO BE WRECKMASTERS IN AND FOR OUR COUNTY OF WUEENS AND WE DO HEREBY SUPERSEDE AND REMOVE FROM THE SAID OFFICE OF WRECKMASTER STEPHEN WOOD, EDMOND HICKS, DAVID MOTT, DANIEL BEDELL, NATHAN SEAMAN AND DANIEL RAYNOR WHO WERE APPOINTED MAY 27, 1823. . . WITNESS DE WITT CLINTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR, GENERAL AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF ALL THE MILITIA, AND ADMIRAL OF THE NAVY OF OUR SAID STATE, AT OUR CITY OF ALBANAY, THE 29TH DAY OF FEBRUARY, IN THE HEAR OF OUR LORD [1825] AND IN THE 49TH YEAR OF OUR INDEPENDENCE
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A CATALOGUE OF SIGNIFICANT AND UNUSUAL IMPRINTS RELATING TO AMERICA
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Catalogue 208, Rare Americana [January 2025]
A CATALOGUE OF SIGNIFICANT AND UNUSUAL IMPRINTS RELATING TO AMERICA