TENNESSEE IMPRINTS 1791 - 1875.
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.
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DROPPED STITCHES IN TENNESSEE HISTORY.
Nashville. 1897. [6],152pp. plus plates. Frontis. Original front printed wrapper bound into modern cloth. Very good. Prints some little-known facts about early Tennessee history, by a native of the state. Contains a good deal of material on Andrew Jackson.
THE PRACTICAL MONITOR, FOR THE PRESERVATION OF HEALTH, AND THE PREVENTION OF DISEASES.
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.....
DELINEATIONS OF AMERICAN SCENERY AND MANNERS [binding title, extracted from ORNITHOLOGICAL BIOGRAPHY].
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.....
![Item #WRCAM52350 [MANUSCRIPT ODE TO UNION VICTORY AT FORT DONELSON]. Battle of Fort Donelson](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCAM52350.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1593711836)
[MANUSCRIPT ODE TO UNION VICTORY AT FORT DONELSON].
[Tennessee? 1862?]. [4]pp. on a single folded sheet. Previously folded. Light staining at gutter. Very good. An exultant encomium to Union forces under U.S. Grant and their victory at Fort Donelson, Tennessee on February 16, 1862. Grant's dual victories at Fort Henry and Fort Donelson were the first major Union.....
SPEECH OF MR. BENTON, OF MISSOURI, ON THE BILL TO SEPARATE THE GOVERNMENT FROM THE BANKS.
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.....
ADDRESS OF EX-GOV. AARON V. BROWN, BEFORE THE DEMOCRATIC ASSOCIATION OF NASHVILLE, JUNE 24, 1856.
Nashville. 1856. 22pp. Stitched, as issued. Lacking wrappers. Light chipping at outer corners, not affecting text. Dust soiling, light tanning and foxing. Good. An animated speech against the Republican and Know-Nothing Parties delivered by staunch Democrat Aaron Venable Brown, a former state governor and congressional representative, before a Nashville party.....
[CIVIL WAR DIARY OF PELEG T. BROWN, A UNION ORDERLY IN THE 20th CONNECTICUT VOLUNTEER INFANTRY, PROVIDING AN EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF THE MILITARY CAMPAIGNS IN ALABAMA, TENNESSEE AND GEORGIA DURING 1864, INCLUDING THE SIEGE OF ATLANTA AND SHERMAN'S MARCH TO THE SEA].
[Various places in Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia, as described below. 1864]. [203] leaves (written in ink and pencil - approximately 15,000 words). A Valentine and clipped poem tipped to the front paste down (see below), obituary clipping laid in at rear. [8] leaves of printed preliminary material (title page, stamp.....
HELPS TO THE STUDY OF PRESBYTERIANISM OR, AN UNSOPHISTICATED EXPOSITION OF CALVINISM, WITH HOPKINSIAN MODIFICATIONS AND POLICY, WITH A VIEW TO A MORE EASY INTERPRETATION OF THE SAME....
Knoxville. 1834. 299pp. Original calf-backed paper boards, spine gilt. Hinges started, boards rubbed, edges and corners worn. Toned, with moderate foxing. Good plus. An early work by William Brownlow, later editor of the TENNESSEE WHIG, and then Governor and Senator for the state. During this period of his life, Brownlow.....
MESSAGE AND INAUGURAL ADDRESS OF GOV. WM. G. BROWNLOW, TO THE SENATE & HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF TENNESSEE. SESSION OF 1865.
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.....
[ACCOUNT LEDGER FOR THE CANTON, ABERDEEN & NASHVILLE RAILROAD, AND ITS SUCCESSOR, THE ILLINOIS CENTRAL, SPANNING OVER SIXTY YEARS, FROM ITS INCEPTION IN THE 1880s UNTIL THE 1940s].
[N.p., likely Chicago. 1882-1944]. 190pp. Folio. Contemporary black pebbled cloth boards with later red leather corners and backstrip, gilt title on front board. Endpapers renewed. Minor rubbing and soiling to boards. Light thumb-soiling to text. Very good. An extensive and informative company ledger listing the assets, properties, profits, losses, and.....
THE WORLD'S WONDER, OR FREEMASONRY UNMASKED. TO WHICH IS ADDED A KEY TO THE PHI BETA KAPPA ORANGEMEN AND ODD FELLOWS SOCIETY.
Madisonville, Tn. 1835. 286,[1]pp., plus twenty-four leaves of illustrations. Original half calf and boards. Joints cracked, rear board nearly detached. Boards rubbed, edges worn. Tanning and foxing. Good. A detailed and exuberant exposé of Freemasonry, with extensive details of facts and rituals, and numerous, highly entertaining illustrations of Masonic ritual.....
A COMPILATION OF THE STATUTES OF TENNESSEE, OF A GENERAL AND PERMANENT NATURE, FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE GOVERNMENT TO THE PRESENT TIME....
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.....
EARLY BIOGRAPHY, TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES OF REV. JAMES CHAMPLIN, WHO WAS BORN BLIND; WITH A DESCRIPTION OF THE DIFFERENT COUNTIES THROUGH WHICH HE TRAVELED IN AMERICA....
Columbus, Oh. 1842. 192pp. Original half cloth. Hinges cracked. Stained and foxed. Near good. Champlin was no more than twenty-one years old when he published this autobiography. He had already been licensed as a "public exhorter" in the Methodist Church, and his work is full of religious admonitions and warnings.....
A PLAIN WORK ON BAPTISM; EMBRACING A SERIES OF CHAPTERS....
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.....
LETTRES SUR L'AMÉRIQUE DU NORD.
Paris. 1837. [4],xvi,439; [4]504pp., plus folding map. Two volumes. Contemporary red half calf and marbled boards, spines gilt. Corners rubbed. Unopened. Near fine. Fourth edition, augmented and corrected. Chevalier, later a well-known economist, went to America to study public works for the French government. He spent two years in America.....
SOCIETY, MANNERS AND POLITICS IN THE UNITED STATES: BEING A SERIES OF LETTERS ON NORTH AMERICA.
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-known.....
HEAD-QUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, MURFREESBORO, TENN., MARCH 8th, 1863. CIRCULAR.
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.....
AN ADDRESS OF HENRY CLAY, TO THE PUBLIC; CONTAINING CERTAIN TESTIMONY IN REFUTATION OF THE CHARGES AGAINST HIM, MADE BY GEN. ANDREW JACKSON, TOUCHING THE LAST PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
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.....
AN ADDRESS ON THE CHARACTER AND SERVICES OF DE WITT CLINTON, DELIVERED AT NASHVILLE, MARCH 11, 1828, AT THE REQUEST OF THE GRAND CHAPTER OF TENNESSEE.
Nashville. 1828. 20pp. Dbd. Minor foxing. Very good. A laudatory eulogy for the recently-deceased DeWitt Clinton by his fellow Masons in Nashville. Clinton was a prominent New York politician who served as mayor of New York City, the sixth governor of New York, and also as a United States Senator.....
OFFICIAL REPORTS OF BATTLES, EMBRACING THE DEFENCE OF VICKSBURG, BY MAJOR GENERAL EARL VAN DORN, AND THE ATTACK UPON BATON ROUGE, BY MAJOR GENEAL [sic] BRECKINRIDGE.
Richmond. 1863. 170pp. Later stitching. Titlepage heavily foxed, some wear. Light foxing to text, some light dampstaining. Wear to final leaf. Good. A rare official report concerning the important battles for control of the Mississippi, and printing official battle reports by Confederate officers covering operations at Vicksburg; Baton Rouge; Corinth;.....
![Item #WRCAM57423 PROSPECTUS, FOR A NATIONAL GALLERY OF PAINTINGS. [with:] [AUTOGRAPH LETTER,...](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCAM57423.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1648579445)
PROSPECTUS, FOR A NATIONAL GALLERY OF PAINTINGS. [with:] [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, UNSIGNED, FROM SOUTHERN ARTIST GEORGE E. COOKE REGARDING HIS PLAN TO ESTABLISH A NATIONAL GALLERY IN NEW ORLEANS].
New Orleans. [1844]. [1]p. printed prospectus, plus [2]pp. autograph letter, signed, written on recto and verso of prospectus, letter dated at May 28, 1844 at Athens, Georgia. Old folds, slight separations at edges and corners of folds (no loss of text). Uneven tanning. About very good overall. A detailed and.....
SCENES AND ADVENTURES IN THE ARMY: OR, ROMANCE OF MILITARY LIFE.
Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1859. 432pp. Original green patterned cloth, gilt-stamped spine. Front hinge cracked. Slight foxing. Overall very good. From the library of Guy Littell, with his bookplate on the front pastedown. Second issue, probably the same sheets as the first of 1857, with a cancel title and Cooke's.....
THE LITTLE OSAGE CAPTIVE, AN AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE.
Boston. 1822. 108pp. Lacks view of Brainerd plate. Frontis. 16mo. Contemporary calf-backed boards, gilt title on spine. Spine ends worn, edges rubbed. Tanned, some foxing. A good copy. "The little Osage captive was rescued by missionaries from amongst the Cherokees, and given the name of Lydia Carter" - Ayer. The.....
COL. CROCKETT'S EXPLOITS AND ADVENTURES IN TEXAS: WHEREIN IS CONTAINED A FULL ACCOUNT OF HIS JOURNEY FROM TENNESSEE TO THE RED RIVER AND NATCHITOCHES, AND THENCE ACROSS TEXAS TO SAN ANTONIO; INCLUDING MANY HAIR-BREADTH ESCAPES; TOGETHER WITH A TOPOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL, AND POLITICAL VIEW OF TEXAS.
London. 1837. vii,152pp. Contemporary pebbled cloth, printed label. Some dampstaining to boards. Contemporary ownership inscription on first text leaf. Scattered light foxing. Very good. First English edition of this entertaining version of Crockett's adventures. Howes attributes this work to Richard Penn Smith. "Ingenious pseudo-autobiography, purportedly printed from the manuscript found.....