THE LONDON MAGAZINE OR GENTLEMAN'S MONTHLY INTELLIGENCER, published February 1760, containing the fold out map by Thomas Kitchen, "engraved from an Indian draught" and entitled A NEW MAP OF THE CHEROKEE NATION WITH THE NAMES OF THE TOWNS AND RIVERS THEY ARE SITUATED ON. Features western North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, Northern Alabama, and Northern […]

VIEW OF NASHVILLE FROM ROCK CASTLE, SEAT OF DR. OVERTON, early engraved view of Nashville, Tennessee, flanked by views of The University of Nashville (1826-1909) and The Tennessee Penitentiary (which opened in 1831), vignettes cut from the very scarce 1833 map of Nashville by J.P. Ayres, published by Doolittle and Munson (we can find no […]

Four (4) items total, 3 unframed maps and 1 book excerpt. 1st item: Joseph Scott: THE SOUTHWEST TERRITORY, Scott's Gazetteer, Phila. 1795, showing the Mero district, Nashville, Knoxville, Clarksville and other Tennessee locations such as Ross's Iron Works and the South Boundary Military Reservation; Kentucky to the North and Georgia to the South. The area […]

Two (2) early East Tennessee hand drawn plats, including one signed by Archibald Roane (1759/60-1819), Tennessee's second governor. 1st item: Land survey with hand colored lines showing boundaries between land owned by Henry Wilkes or Wilker, a "Mr. McCall," and Elizabeth Armstrong, surveyed by John McClellan and dated October 3, 1808. Countersigned by Archibald Roane, […]

A series of drafts related to the 1834 revision of the TN State Constitution (adopted 1835) with hand written notes, presumably used during the Constitutional Convention. Includes: 1) Printed copy of the 1796 Constitution, unmarked except for occasional check marks, bound with string, 16 pages. Probably printed 1834. 2) Two page printed document on the […]

Archive of mostly Kentucky related documents, including legal documents related to early Jefferson County settler Richard Chenoweth (who lost several family members and whose wife was scalped in the notorious Chenoweth Massacre of 1789), plus documents bearing signatures of KY Governor John Adair and Mississippi Governor Tilghman M. Tucker, along with numerous other documents, about […]

Two (2) Kentucky documents signed by Governors Isaac Shelby and John Breathitt. 1st item: Isaac Shelby (1750-1826) signed land grant, dated 1794, granting James Akins 640 acres on Goose Creek in "the district set aside for officers". Matted together with an illustration (possibly from Harper's Weekly) of Shelby's home, "Traveller's Rest," and portrait of Shelby, […]

Three (3) Andrew Johnson documents. 1st item: Military appointment commission document with steel engraved stamp signature for President Andrew Johnson, hand signed by Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton, conferring the rank of Brevet Lieutenant Colonel to James E. Harrison "for gallant and meritorious services during the Maryland Campaign" dated August 5, 1866. Housed in […]

Five (5) Tennessee land documents, signed by Governors Cannon, Carroll, Campbell, Aaron Brown, and Neil Brown. 1st item: Land grant for 4 1/2 acres in Perry County to Nathan Ward, dated 1836 and signed by Governor Newton Cannon, countersigned by Luke Lea, secretary. Very good condition with light toning, some small separations at fold lines, […]

Three (3) historic figure prints. 1st item: Stipple engraving of Andrew Jackson by J.H. Bufford for Pendleton's Lithography, after an 1830 painting by Ralph E.W. Earl, titled GENERAL ANDREW JACKSON AT THE HERMITAGE. Depicts Jackson wearing spectacles and standing beside a tree with his hat and walking stick in hand. In the background is a […]