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Summer Auction 2017 - August 5 7/15/2017 LOT #
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damage on surface, largest 1/4" spot, top left. Toning around edges of paper. Toning, water damage, largest 1/8" spot, top right en verso. 3rd item: Toning, water damage on surface, largest 1", top left. Toning, water damage, largest 1/4" spot, top center en verso. 4th item: Toning around edges of paper. Tears along top edge of paper. 300.00 - 400.00 755
4 19th cent. TN & KY Maps Four (4) 19th century Tennessee and Kentucky maps. 1st item: "Tennessee" by Thomas G. Bradford, engraved by George W. Boynton, published by American Stationer's Co., Boston, 1838. From "A Comprehensive Atlas, Geographical, Historical & Commercial" by Thomas G. Bradford. Copper plate engraving with hand coloring of Tennessee depicting towns and roads, county lines, names of counties, rivers, and mountains. Title and scale of miles, lower right. "Longitude West from Washington", centered above map, "Longitude West from Greenwich", centered below map. Map surrounded by scale notations and triple line border. Image - 7 3/4" H x 10" W. Sheet - 8 1/8" H x 10 1/2" W. 2nd item: "Kentucky and Tennessee" map by Thomas Illman after David H. Burr, published by D. S. Stone, New York, 1834. From "A New Universal Atlas" by David H. Burr. Copper 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 triple line border. Image - 10 3/8" H x 12 5/8" W. Sheet - 12 1/4" H x 15" W. 3rd item: "Johnson's Tennessee and Kentucky" map, compiled, drawn, and engraved under the supervision of J.H. Colton and A.J. Johnson, published by Johnson and Ward, New York, 1866. From "Johnson's New Illustrated (Steel Plate) Family Atlas, With Physical Geography, And With Descriptions Geographical, Statistical, And Historical..." by Richard Swainson Fisher, M.D. Steel plate engraving with hand coloring of Tennessee and Kentucky depicting towns, roads, county lines, names of counties, rivers, mountains, and railroads. Features uncolored two vignettes, one titled "State House Nashville", top left, and one titled "Entrance to Mammoth Cave", bottom right. Title and scale of miles, top left corner. "Longitude West from
Greenwich", centered above map, "Longitude West from Washington", centered below map. Map surrounded by scale notations and fretwork border. "Historical and Statistical View of the United States" text pages en verso. Image - 17" H x 22 3/4" W. Sheet - 18 1/8" H x 26 1/2" W. 4th item: "Kentucky and Tennessee" by Samuel Augustus Mitchell, Jr., published by William M. Bradley and Brother, 1886, from "Bradley's Atlas of the World" by William M. Bradley. 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 border. Image - 13 1/2" H x 20 3/4" W. Sheet 19 1/8" H x 12 5/8" W. Condition: 1st item: Sheet has been cut down. Minute foxing spots, 1" area of water damage, visible en verso. 2nd item: Image plate printed off center. Toning lines around image. Toning around edges of paper. Water damage spots scattered on surface, largest 1/4" area, bottom left corner. Water damage visible en verso. 3rd item: Pages separated at middle seam. Toning around edges of paper. Minute foxing spots scattered on surface. Tears on right edges of paper, largest 1" area, lower right corner. Foxing spots visible en verso. 4th item: Slight toning around edges of paper. Paper tear, 2 3/4" top center. 250.00 350.00 756
Large Sawyers and McBee Family Archive, 1820-1907, Large Sawyers and McBee Family Archive, Tennessee and Kentucky, 1820-1907, 100 plus items. Mostly letters, promissory notes, and receipts. 1st-10th items: Ten letters to and from the Sawyers and McBee families, 1820-1907. Letter from Alex Crawford, Fayette County, IN, to his cousin, William Sawyers, Knoxville, TN, April 27, 1820, writing about a school in his county that: enable[s] every grade of life to read the scriptures...[including] the negroes...No slave is received into the school without a permit from their masters; about 50 or so blacks attend. Letter from Sarah Crawford, Fayette County, KY, to her cousin, Josiah Sawyers, Knoxville, TN, May 29, 1820. Letter from Sarah Crawford, Fayette County, KY, to her cousin, Josiah Sawyers, Knoxville, TN, November 20, 1820. Letter from Ruthy Peterson, Fayette County, KY, to William