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.
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.....
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.....
[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.....
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.....
[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.....
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.....
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.....
[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.....
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 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.....
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.....
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.....
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;.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....