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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VALUATION OF DONNINGTON CASTLE PLANTATION. NEGROES, STOCK &C. TAKEN BY US THIS 21ST OF MAY 1789 AT THE REQUEST OF WILLIAM MITCHELL & GEORGE CUTHBERT ESQUIRES ATTORNIES TO SIR JOHN DALLING BAR'T
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New York : Currier & Ives , 1860 (click for more details)RECD OF MR. FLIKEN AND A.M. CREAGH EXECUTOR OF THAT LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF MILTON FORD DECD ON ACCOUNT OF AND IN PART OF MY WARD MILTON L. FORD ONE OF THE SHARERS IN THE ESTATE OF SAID FORD A SERTIN NEGRO MAN JOHN VALUED BY THE DIRECTION OF THE WILL AT THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS THE SAID MILTON L. FORD BEING A MINOR I HAVE RECD THE ABOVE SUM AS HIS GUARDIAN JANUARY THE 7TH 1854 | M.R. FOSTER- GUARDIAN
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[Kentucky? 1854 (click for more details)CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY FOR THE SECOND SESSION OF THE TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. COMPILED AND PRINTED FOR THE USE OF CONGRESS
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A CATALOGUE OF SIGNIFICANT AND UNUSUAL IMPRINTS RELATING TO AMERICA
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Catalogue 199, Rare Americana [November, 2023]
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