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Four (4) Maps of Kentucky and Tennessee and one (1) Civil War era full-page illustration from HARPER'S WEEKLY, 5 items total. 1st item: MAP OF THE STATES OF KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE, by John H. Hinton, engraved and printed by Fenner Sears and Company, published by Issac T. Hinton and Simpkin and Marshall, London, 1831. From THE HISTORY AND TOPOGRAPHY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA by John H. Hinton. Steel plate engraving with hand coloring of Kentucky and Tennessee depicting towns and roads, county lines, names of counties, rivers, mountains, and a notation on the location of the "Cherokee Indians", lower right of state of Tennessee. Title and scales of miles, top left. "Longitude West from Washington", centered above map, "Longitude West from Greenwich", centered below map. Map surrounded by scale notations and triple line border. Encapsulated (not laminated) in a plastic archival sleeve and mounted to a mat. Image: 9 1/4" H x 15" W. Sheet: 11" H x 17" W. Mat: 17 1/8" H x 23 1/8" W. 2nd item: TENNESSEE AND KENTUCKY Map by Thomas G. Bradford, engraved by George W. Boynton, published by William D. Ticknor, Boston, 1835. From A COMPREHENSIVE ATLAS, GEOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL & COMMERCIAL by Thomas G. Bradford. Copperplate engraving with hand-colored outlines of Tennessee and Kentucky depicting towns and roads including Murfreesboro as the Tennessee state capital, county lines, names of counties, rivers, mountains, and a notation on the location of the "Cherokee Indians," lower right of state of Tennessee. Title and scale of miles, top left. "Longitude West from Washington," centered below map, "Longitude West from London," centered below map. Map surrounded by scale notations and triple line border. Encapsulated (not laminated) in a plastic archival sleeve. Image: 7 3/8" H x 9 7/8" W. Plate: 9" H x 11 1/2" W. Sheet: 10 3/8" H x 13 1/8" W. Sleeve: 11" H x 13 7/8" W. 3rd item: COUNTY MAP OF KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE, published by Samuel Augustus Mitchell, Jr., Philadelphia, 1860. From MITCHELL'S NEW GENERAL ATLAS by Samuel Augustus Mitchell, Jr. Steel plate engraving with hand coloring of Kentucky and Tennessee depicting towns and roads, county lines, names of counties, rivers, and mountains. Title and scale of miles, top left. "Longitude West from Greenwich", centered above map, "Longitude West from Washington", centered below map. Map surrounded by scale notations and decorative floral border. Encapsulated (not laminated) in a plastic archival sleeve. Image: 9" H x 11 5/8" W. Sheet: 12 3/8" H x 15 1/2" W. Sleeve: 13 3/8" H x 16 3/4" W. 4th item: WAR MAP OF KENTUCKY, SHOWING THE PRESENT FIELD OF OPERATIONS IN THAT STATE, published in HARPER'S WEEKLY, October 4, 1862, p. 630. Lithographed map with later hand coloring depicting all of Kentucky and most of Tennessee depicting towns and roads, names of counties, rivers, and other points of interest identified, inset map of "Louisville and Vicinity," top left. Text page with illustrations, en verso. Mounted under archival plastic to a mat. Image: 9 1/4" H x 13 7/8" W. Sheet: 10 3/4" H x 15 3/4" W. Mat: 13 3/4" H x 17 7/8" W. Note: This map is very similar to a map that was previously published in Harper's Weekly on February 8, 1862, except that markers for Union and Confederate camps (and some of the Confederate camps named) have been removed. 5th item: THE WAR IN KENTUCKY–IN AND ABOUT PADUCAH, sketched by J. C. Beard and Bill Travis, published in HARPER'S WEEKLY, October 26, 1861, p. 684. Lithographed page with later hand coloring depicting five Civil War scenes of Paducah, Kentucky, including "[John Charles] Fremont's Fleet of 13 Steamers and 125 Barges off New Albany at the Fall of the Ohio." Text page, en verso. Mounted under archival plastic to a mat. Sheet: 10" H x 14 3/4" W. Mat: 13" H x 16 1/4" W. Condition: All items in overall good condition with toning/acid burn, scattered minute foxing spots. Pencil inscriptions, en verso. All with David Lloyd Swift labels indicating that the items were professionally cleaned and deacidified, 1st-3rd items encapsulated, circa 1987-1996. 1st item: Creases, largest 10 3/4". Edges of sheet lined with white archival tape, visible en verso. 3rd item: Minute areas of loss to sheet and 7/8" x 1 7/8" piece of white archival tape, visible lower left en verso.