![PANORAMIC PHOTOGRAPH OF THE NATIONAL MEDICAL ASSOCIATION'S 1934 ANNUAL CONVENTION]....](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM54506.jpg?v=1532533345)
[Nashville, Tn. 1934]. Black-and-white photograph, 7 1/2 x 28 inches. Mild surface wear and light creases. Very good. Rolled. A marvelous photographic record of the 39th annual convention of the National Medical Association, held at Nashville's Meharry Medical College in August 1934. The National Medical Association was created in 1895.....
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.
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.
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.....
[N.p. 1828]. 8pp. Folded half sheet. Some foxing. A very good, unsophisticated copy. Untrimmed and unopened. A scarce anti-Jackson pamphlet from the 1828 presidential campaign. According to the preface, the author, Dr. James L. Armstrong, is, "A gentleman of irreproachable character in the State of Tennessee, near the place where.....
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.....
New York and Washington. 1908. 88pp. Contemporary blue publisher's cloth, gilt. Top corner bumped, minor wear. Bookplate on front pastedown, ownership inscription on titlepage. Internally clean. Very good. A Neale book. History of the Battle of Franklin, Tennessee, written by a participant.
[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.....
![MANUSCRIPT ODE TO UNION VICTORY AT FORT DONELSON]. Battle of Fort Donelson](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM52350.jpg?v=1488345415)
[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 Feb. 16, 1862. Grant's dual victories at Fort Henry and Fort Donelson were the first major Union.....
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. 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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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-.....
[Various places, including Ohio, Kentucky, and Georgia, but mostly Tennessee. mostly 1861-1864]. Five cloth-bound manuscript ledgers, two printed books, and over 100 documents, letters, and related forms, either wholly manuscript, printed, or partially-printed. Some soiling and staining to bound volumes, some bindings partially perished. Typical folds, some edge wear and.....
[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.....
Washington. 1861-1862. Three volumes, with over three hundred individual imprints. Contemporary three-quarter roan and marbled boards, gilt leather labels. Wear to leather and edges, boards somewhat rubbed, front hinges loosening. Contemporary ownership inscriptions and binder's tickets on front endpapers of second and third volumes; later bookplate on front pastedown of.....
Knoxville. 1864. Two issues, [4]pp. each. Folio broadsheet. Folded, with a few slight separations along fold lines. Light tanning and foxing. Good. Two Civil War-era issues of William G. Brownlow's famed newspaper, the KNOXVILLE WHIG, dated March 12, 1864, and April 23, 1864. Brownlow began publishing the WHIG in Nashville.....
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.....
[Richmond? 1863]. Printed form, approximately 24 x 36 inches, completed in manuscript. Folded. Light wear and a few small separations along folds. Slightly wrinkled at right edge. Moderate tanning, scattered foxing. Still very good. A rare example of a Civil War muster roll for a Confederate unit. This roll is.....
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.....
