Five (5) Tennessee-related books including history, geology, and rare book of Tennessee poetry. 1st item: HISTORY OF MEMPHIS, by James. D. Davis, published by Hite, Crumpton & Kelly, Memphis, 1873. 1st edition, with John Overton lithograph frontispiece. Includes information concerning many notable Tennesseans including Andrew Jackson and Davy Crockett. 7 5/8" H x 5 3/8" W x 7/8" D. 2nd item: ANNALS OF TENNESSEE TO THE END OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, by J. G. M. Ramsey, published by Walker & James, Charleston, SC, 1853. 1st edition, leather-bound with marbled cover and fore edge. With facsimile replacement map of Tennessee. 8 7/8" H x 6" W x 2" D. 3rd item: GEOLOGY OF TENNESSEE, by James A. Safford, published by S.C. Mercer, Nashville, 1869. 1st edition, gilt leather-bound, without map of Tennessee. With inserted 7-page statement by Safford to the Tennessee General Assembly, published by S. C. Mercer, 1866. 9 1/8" H x 6 1/4" W x 1 7/8" D. 4th item: POEMS, by Sue Currie Taylor, published Brownsville, TN, 1923-34. Very rare book known in only this copy with 31 poems relating to family and general life in Tennessee, all by Taylor. &" H x 5" W x 1/8" D. 5th item: Notebook with marbled cover belonging to Henry McEwen Jones (d. 1898) of Chester County, Tennessee, dated 1856-65, with 45 handwritten pages of notes relating to surveying, measuring timber and plank, constructing casks, and other tasks, plus approximately 80 handwritten pages of records. 7 3/8" H x 6 1/4" x 7/16" D.

CONDITION: 1st item: Rebound, in excellent condition. 2nd item: Wear to exterior and damp staining to lower edge of some pages. 3rd item: Rebound, with slight staining to fore-edge. 4th item: Missing lower right corner of cover, some damp staining to cover. 5th item: Staining and losses to cover, interior wear commensurate with use.