How can you exclude a search term in an SQLite fulltext search?

I am using DB Browser for SQLite. The documentation for SQLite's fts3 says "FTS is primarily designed to support Boolean full-text queries". I built a virtual table using fts4 and successfully executed a few WHERE ... MATCH queries. But the following attempts give errors:

SELECT id FROM histsearch WHERE id MATCH ("-1456" IN BOOLEAN MODE);
SELECT id FROM histsearch WHERE NOT EXIST id MATCH ("1457");

Is the problem in DB Browser or in SQLite? How else can I write this query so it will work?