London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, in the Poultry, 1775. [12],464pp., plus folding map. Half title. Quarto. Contemporary speckled calf, spine tooled in gilt, raised bands, gilt morocco label. Minor edge wear. Armorial bookplate of the Honorable George Baillie (1664-1738), Scottish Lord of the Treasury affixed to front pastedown.....

Knoxville. 1987. Unpaginated. Original brown cloth, stamped in gilt. Near fine. Allen's definitive bibliography of Tennessee imprints. A must-have for any collector on the subject.

Knoxville, Tn. 1831. pp.xxii,253,v. Contemporary sheep. Spine perishing, boards chipped and scuffed, front board nearly detached. Moderate tanning and foxing, heavy in places. Good. First edition of this early Tennessee medical manual. With treatments given for a host of maladies, including tooth-aches, prickly heat, gun shot wounds, water in the.....

Edinburgh: Adam Black, 1831-1835. Various paginations. Modern three-quarter brown morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Light shelf wear. Bookplate on front pastedown. Some unobtrusive ink underlining on titlepage. Minor foxing and age-toning. Very good. These extracts from ORNITHOLOGICAL BIOGRAPHY pull together in one volume all sixty of the short travel.....

[1866]. Albumen photograph from a negative taken in 1864 or 1866, 10 5/8 x 14 1/16 inches, on period card mount, 18 x 21 3/4 inches. Captioned in pencil in the lower margin, later label on verso. Very good. Matted. This image was used by Barnard in his PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEWS.....

Nashville. 1838. 36pp. Dbd. Benton's signature on titlepage. Light scattered foxing. Very good plus. A speech given by Senator Thomas Benton of Missouri, to the United States Senate regarding the separation of the government from the National Bank. The divorce of government from the banks was an issue which Benton.....

Nashville. 1865. 23pp. Original printed wrappers. Some dust soiling to wraps, else very good. William G. Brownlow, who worked in his early life as a Methodist minister, was one of the most important and controversial southern anti-secessionists. Previously the editor of the TENNESSEE WHIG and later the KNOXVILLE WHIG (the.....

Nashville. 1836. v,808,cviii pp. Contemporary calf, boards blind ruled, gilt spine labels, edges dyed yellow. Hinges cracked but holding, spine ends and edges worn, boards rubbed. Contemporary and later ownership inscriptions in front endpapers and titlepage. Tanned, light dampstaining and foxing. Good. An uncommon and extensive anthology of Tennessee laws.....

Nashville. 1850. 215pp. 12mo. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt leather label. Front hinge cracked, spine and edges somewhat worn. Contemporary and slightly later presentation inscriptions on front free endpaper, later bookplate on front pastedown. Tanning, faint scattered foxing. Good plus. A scarce series of essays on the subject of baptism and.....

Boston: Weeks, Jordan and Company, 1839. iv,467,[1]pp. Original cloth, stamped in blind, gilt title on spine. Spine ends a bit chipped, small gouge in front cover. Scattered foxing. Withal, just about very good. First American edition, translated from the third Paris edition of the previous year. Chevalier, later a well-.....

[Memphis, Tn. Aug. 16, [ 1861]. Broadside, 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches. Mild toning and edge wear, minor expert tape reinforcements on verso. Very good. A very rare broadside extra of the MEMPHIS AVALANCHE, containing a telegraph dispatch from Richmond via New Orleans announcing a Confederate victory in the.....

Murfreesboro, Tn. March 8, 1863. Small broadsheet, 8 x 5 inches. Light tanning and dust soiling, a couple of marginal fox marks. About very good. Gen. William Rosencrans, commander of the Union Army of the Cumberland in 1863, asks that the multiplicity of orders and the resulting variations thereof be.....

Washington: Printed by Peter Force, 1827. 61pp. Dbd. Faint institutional duplicate stamp on titlepage. Light foxing and dust soiling. About very good. The first edition of a spirited self-defense of his record by Henry Clay prior to the 1828 presidential election. Clay feared the damage done to his reputation by.....