Nine (9) Books related to early America. 1st item: Three Years Travels Through the Interior Parts of North America, For More than Five Thousand Miles by Captain Jonathan Carver, 1796. Published by Key and Simpson, Philadelphia. Octavo, 360 pages including appendix, 20 pages of list of subscribers, hardbound in modern black cloth with gilt lettering to spine, modern brown end papers. 8 1/8" H x 5" W x 1 1/2" D. 2nd item: Travels in America, 1st American Edition, by Thomas Ashe, Esq., 1808. Printed for William Sawyer and Company by Edmund M. Blunt, London. Octavo, 366 pages including appendix, hardbound in brown leather with gilt lettering to spine, pencil inscriptions from previous owner, front and back end paper, inside of back cover, ex libris bookplate, inside front cover. 7 1/4" H x 4 3/8" W x 1 3/8" D. 3rd item: Works of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin, A New Edition Revised and Enlarged, written by Himself, 1810. Published by Henry W. Gibbs, printed by James St. John, Easton. Octavo, 274 pages, hardbound in brown leather with gilt lettering to spine, ink inscriptions from previous owners, earliest dated 1816, front end papers and title page, ex libris label, inside of front cover. 7" H x 4 5/8" W x 1 1/4" D. 4th item: Speeches on the Passage of the Bill for the Removal of the Indians Delivered in the Congress of the United States, April and May 1830. Published by Perkins and Marvin, Boston, Jonathan Leavitt, New York. Octavo, 304 pages, hardbound in modern three-quarter brown leather and marbled-paper with gilt lettering to spine, two Mercantile Libraries Association, New York stamps, title page, with additional notation, last page, pencil inscriptions from previous owner, modern front end paper. 7 3/4" H x 4 7/8" W x 1 1/8" D. 5th item: American Military Biography; Containing the Lives and Characters of the Officers of the Revolution, 1831. Published for B. Crosby, printed at the Chronicle Office, Cincinnati. Octavo, 615 pages with one page index, engraved Capture of Burgoyne frontispiece, hardbound in modern tooled brown leather with gilt borders to covers and remains of original gilt lettering to spine, marbleized end papers, ex libris bookplate, inside of front cover, pencil inscriptions from previous owner, back of front end paper, back of frontispiece, index page, back end papers, marbleized edges of pages. 8 7/8" H x 5 3/4" W x 2 3/8" D. 6th item: Remarks Made on A Tour to Prairie du Chien by Caleb Atwater, 1831. Published by Isaac N. Whiting, Columbus. Octavo, 296 pages without title page, hardbound in modern tooled brown leather with gilt lettering to cover. 7 3/8" H x 4 3/4" W x 1 1/8" D. 7th item: Biographical Memoir of Daniel Boone by Timothy Flint, 1846. Published by George Conclin, Cincinnati. Octavo, 252 pages, with engraved frontispiece of Boone and 9 illustrations, hardbound in tooled brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine, pencil and ink inscriptions from previous owners, front end papers. 7 5/8" H x 4 3/4" W x 3/4" D. 8th item: Indians of America, published by H. C. Peck and Theodore Bliss, Philadelphia, circa 1862-1877. 16mo, 160 pages with 37 steel engraved illustrations, frontispiece, and title page, hardbound in tooled red cloth with gilt pictorial covers and gilt lettering to spine, gilt edged paper. 3 1/4" H x 2 3/4" W x 1/2" D. 9th item: The Chickasaw Nation: A Short Sketch of a Noble People, First Edition, by James H. Malone, souvenir of Memphis centenary celebration, May 19-24, 1919. Octavo, 175 pages, hardbound in green cloth with brown lettering to spine, TLS from author to Bishop Thomas F. Gailor, dated May 30, 1919, pasted to inside of front cover. 10 12" H x 7" W x 7/8" D. Provenance: The estate of Dr. Benjamin H. Caldwell, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: 1st item: Modern covers in good condition with buckling to cloth, inside of covers, and brown end papers, corners slightly bumped. Pages in overall good condition with wrinkling, foxing spots, toning, etc. to be expected from age. 2nd item: Overall good condition with shelf wear, scuffs, scratches, areas of loss, largest 7 1/4", to covers, cracks, to spine, corners bumped. Majority of pages with dampstaining, foxing spots, tears, largest 1 3/4" x 1 3/4", etc. to be expected from age. Pencil inscriptions from previous owner, front and back end paper, inside of back cover. Ex libris bookplate, inside of front cover. 3rd item: Overall good condition with shelf wear, scuffs, scratches, areas of loss, largest 3", to covers, cracks, to spine, corners bumped. Majority of pages with dampstaining, foxing spots, tears, largest 1 3/4" x 1 3/4", etc. to be expected from age. Ink inscriptions from previous owners, earliest dated 1816, front end papers and title page. Ex libris bookplate, inside of front cover. 4th item: Modern covers in good condition, corners slightly bumped. Majority of pages with dampstaining, foxing spots, toning/toning impressions, acid burn, areas of old tape repair, including perimeter of title page. Two Mercantile Libraries Association, New York stamps, title page, with additional notation, last page. Pencil inscriptions from previous owner, modern front end paper. 5th item: Modern covers in good condition with scuffs, scratches, cracks, minute areas of loss, to covers and spine, corners bumped. Majority of pages with dampstaining, foxing spots, toning/toning impressions, acid burn, tears. Frontispieces affected by foxing spots, dampstaining, 1/2" tear. Ex libris bookplate, inside of front cover. Pencil inscriptions from previous owner, back of front end paper, back of frontispiece, index page, back end papers. 6th item: Modern covers in good condition, corners slightly bumped. Pages in overall good condition with wrinkling, foxing spots, toning, etc. to be expected from age. Title page is not included. 7th item: Overall good condition with shelf wear, scuffs, areas of loss, peeling, largest 3/4" x 3/4", to covers and spine, corners bumped. Majority of pages with dampstaining, foxing spots, toning/toning impressions, acid burn, etc. Engraved illustrations collated. Pencil and ink inscriptions from previous owners, front end papers. 8th item: Overall good condition with shelf wear, scuffs, to covers, cracks, largest 1/2", to spine, corners bumped. Majority of pages with dampstaining, toning/toning impressions, acid burn, foxing spots, etc., including illustrations. 37 illustrations are collated. 8 illustrations and text pages are not present. Pages are mostly separated from spine. 9th item: Overall good condition with normal shelf wear, corners bumped. Pages in overall good condition with light toning, foxing spots. TLS in good condition.