THE ANNALS OF TENNESSEE TO THE END OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: COMPRISING ITS SETTLEMENT, AS THE WATAUGA ASSOCIATION, FROM 1769 TO 1777; A PART OF NORTH-CAROLINA, FROM 1777-1784; THE STATE OF FRANKLIN, FROM 1784 TO 1788; A PART OF NORTH-CAROLINA, FROM 1788-1790; THE TERRITORY OF THE U. STATES SOUTH OF THE OHIO, FROM 1790-1796; THE STATE OF TENNESSEE, FROM 1796 TO 1800

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1860. Second edition (originally published in Charleston and Philadelphia in 1853). Thick 8vo. xvi, 744, (36, publisher’s catalogue) pp. Illustrated, folding map, plan. Howes R-43. Larned 1809: "The author says that he had examined all the public records relating to his subject and had had many of the papers of leading pioneers in his hands. It is largely documentary, for there are many extracts from original records, but the groundwork is Haywood, whom he follows almost blindly at times." Original brown cloth, gilt spine title. Very good copy of a book ordinarily well-worn. (Inventory #: 37717) (truncated)