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[004912] . FREEDMEN'S BUREAU. 1866. ill. Tables. 1866. Size: Approx. 5 1/2" x 8 3/4". Disbound. American History. Very Good 39th Congress, 1st Session. House of Representatives. Ex. Doc. No. 70. Letter from the Secretary of War in Answer to A resolution of the House of March 8, transmitting a report, by the Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau, of all orders issued by him or any assistant commissioner. 403 pp. Includes 8 "papers": #1. Files of orders and circulars of assistant commissioners; #2. Files of Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, War Department; #3. Report of tour of inspection of Kentucky, by Mr. P.Bonesteel; #4. Report of bureau affairs in Edgefield district, South Carolina; #5. Report of General Fisk, relative to Tennessee and Kentucky, and bill relative to negro testimony; #6. Report of General Sprague, relative to Arkansas; #7. Letter of General Tillson, Georgia, concerning Sea Island; and #8. Reports of sub-assistants of affairs in Virginia. Numerous tables, including: 4 page detailed table of medical supplies for refugees and freedmen; Table listing all farms and town lots restored with their estimated value; Table with names of medical officers, hospitals, sick and wounded; and Financial statements of money received and disbursed in the Bureau. Disbound but intact. First page with small blemish/spot at bottom. Partial stamp from House of Representatives along top page ends. Otherwise document is clean and Very Good. Famous Americans in document: Andrew Johnson, President of the United States; Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War; Abraham Lincoln; E. Whittlesey, Colonel and Assistant Commissioner; Fred H. Beecher, Liet. and Acting Assistant Adjutant General; O.O. Howard, Major General, Commissioner- (Oliver Otis Howard, November 8, 1830-October 26, 1909, was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War); Thomas W Conway, Ass't Commissioner, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, &c.; J.S. Fullerton, Brevet Brigadier General Volunteers; Max Woodhull, Colonel,Assistant Adjutant-General; Clinton B. Fisk. Brigadier General, Assistant Commissioner; Davis Tillson, Brig. Gen. Vols. and A.A. Comm'r; Charles Mundee, Assistant Adjutant General; R. Saxton, Brevet Major General, Assistant Commissioner; Joseph K. Barnes, M.D. (July 21, 1817 – April 5, 1883) was an American physician and the Surgeon General of the United States Army during and after the American Civil War; and Wager Swayne (November 10, 1834-December 18, 1902) was a Union Army general during the American Civil War who received America's highest military decoration the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Siege of Corinth. $200.00

[004899] . Survey of French Broad River, Tennessee 1900. ill. Maps, Tables, Photograph. 1900. Size: Approx. 5 1/2" x 8 3/4". Disbound. Tennessee. Very Good 56th.Congress 1st.Session. House Of Representatives. Document No. 616. Letter from The Secretary of War with a Letter from the Chief of Engineers, Report of Survey of French Broad River, Tennessee. Copy of the reprot from Maj. Dan C. Kingman, Corps of Engineers, dated March 27, 1900 , of a survey of French Broad River, made by him in compliance with the provisions of the river and harbor act of March 3, 1899. " The survey covers that portion of the river below Leadvale, at the mouth of the Nolichucky, and includes the Little Pigeon River below Sevierville..." 34 pages plus 10 large foldout maps. Photograph of French Broad River, Seven Island Shoals, and 6 tables. Famous Americans in document: Elihu Root, Secretary of War; Major Dan C. Kingman of the United States Engineer Corps; and Henry M. Robert (May 2, 1837-May 11, 1923), author of Robert's Rules of Order. Disbound but intact. Very Good condition. Pages 30-31, small portion of text "stuck" together, otherwise interior is tight, clean and Very Good+. All maps are Very Good. $45.00

[002920] . U.S. COMMISSION OF FISH AND FISHERIES, COMMISSIONER'S REPORT: Part XXIV. Ending June 30,1898.. ill. Tables, Plates, Fold-outs, Photographs. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1899. Size: Approx. 5 3/4" x 9 1/4". Brown Cloth. Ichthyology. Very Good Contents:Report of Commissioner.Report on the Propagation and Distribution of Food-fishes. by W.de C. Ravenel. Report upon the Inquiry respecting Food-Fishes and the Fishing-grounds. by Hugh M. Smith.; Report of the Division of Statistics and Methods of the Fisheries. by C.H. Townsend. APPENDICES: Report on Mackerel Investigations in 1897. by J. Percy Moore.; Report on Fishes obtained by the Steamer Albatross in the vicinity of Santa Catalina Island and Monterey Bay. by Charles H. Gilbert.; Notes on the Extent and Condition of the Alewife Fisheries of the United States in 1896 by Hugh M. Smith.; Report on the Oyster Beds of Louisiana. by H. F. Moore.; The Shad Fisheries of the Atlantic Coast of the United States. by Charles H. Stevenson.; List of Fishes collected at the Revillagigedo Archipelago and Neighboring Islands. by David Starr Jordan and R.C, Mcgregor.; Report on Investigations by the U.S. Fish Commission in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas in 1897 by Barton W. Evermann. List of Publications of the U.S. Fish Commission available for Distribution March 1, 1899.; Report on the Exhibit of the U.S. Fish Commission at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition in 1897. by W.de C. Ravenel. 350 pp. including Index. 35 plates. Brown cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. Ex. mus paper label at base. Two minor scratches/rubbings on front cover, otherwise exterior is VG+. ex. mus stamp and numbers on front free endpaper. Otherwise interior is clean, tight and in VG+ condition. $80.00

[003194] Davis, Theodore R. (artist). THE REBEL ASSAULT ON FORT SAUNDERS - THE FIGHT OVER THE DITCH. ill. Theodore R. Davis. NY: Harper's Weekly, 1864. Disbound. Civil War. Very Good + Original pages from HARPER'S WEEKLY, 1864. Theodore Davis, well-known for his Civil War subjects, was HARPER'S WEEKLY's "special artist". Double-page, 16"x23", woodcut by Davis, hand colored, depicting scene from "The Rebel Assault on Fort Saunders." Text describing the event is on back of engraving. The article doesn't mention Tennessee as the state, but refers to Battle at Knoxville then about the battle at Fort Saunders. There was a Fort Saunder's Battle in Tennessee. Therefore believe Tennessee is where it took place. Davis' depiction of the assault shows a bloody scene, with soldiers attacking the enemy with bayonets and hand-axe. Emotion-charged. Except for tiny tear at top edge of blank margin, a VG+ copy. (It has been folded in half and preserved in plastic "sleeve".) $95.00

[004375] House of Representatives. SUGG FORT. ill. Tables. 1875. Size: Approx. 5 3/4" x 9". Disbound. Tennessee. Very Good+ House of Representatives. 43D Congress, 2d Session. Report No. 316. " Sugg Fort, of the county of Robertson, in the State of Tennessee, claims that from December, 1862, to May, 1863, 2,791 barrels of flour, of the value of $8.50 per barrel, were taken from his mills...by the soldiers of United States Army, and the same were used for supplies for the Army. Mr. Fort, the claimant, say that the flour was taken from his mill by the forces of the Government of the United States at his request, that the same might not fall into the hands of the officers of the confederate government." 150 pp. Includes Appendix A and B. Plus Index with page indentations of different reports by individuals. Famous Americans in document: J. Allen Barber, U.S. Representative from Wisconsin; A. Herr Smith Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania; W.S. Holman, of Indiana; W. W. Belknap, Secretary of War; B. H. Bristow, Secretary of the Treasury; Thomas A. Kercheval, Mayor of Nashville; Jno C. Brown, Governor of Tennessee; and A.M. Gangewer, Acting Auditor. Disbound but intact. Very Good. $70.00

[004253] House of Representatives. LITTLE PIGEON RIVER, TENNESSEE. 1891. Size: Approx. 6 " x 9 ". Disbound. Tennessee. Very Good- LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF WAR Transmitting, With a letter form the Chief of Engineers, a report on the examination of Little Pigeon River, Tennessee. 3 pp. Includes "Prelimary Examination of Little Pigeon River, Tennessee, from Mouth to Sevierville." Famous Americans in document: Redfield Proctor, Secretary of War; and Thomas Lincoln Casey, Brig. Gen. Chief of Engineers. disbound. Pages loose, but in Very Good condition. No foxing. $18.50

[002914] Smithsonian Annual Report. Proceedings of the United States National Museum Volume 51. ill. Plates, Figures, Tables. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1917. Green Cloth. Good Contents: CALIFORNIA LAND SHELLS by Paul Bartsch. HETEROPTEROUS HEMIPTERS by E. Bergroth..COCCINELLID LARVAE by Adam Boving. KOREAN SORCERRESS, by I.M. Casanowicz. FOSSIL INSECTS by T.D.A. Cockerell, NEW SPECIES OF FORAMINIFERA FROM PHILIPPINE ...by Joseph Cushman. INVERTEBRATE FAUNA OF FLINT RIVER, GEORGIA, and MOLLUSKS...by William Healey Dall. DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW LEPIDOPTERA, MEXICO by Harrison.Dyar.JAPANESE MACROUROID FISHES, collected by ALBATROSS 1906 by Charles Henry Gilbert. NORTH AMERICAN CHALCIDOID by A.A. Girault.ROTATIORIAN GENERA LEPADELLA AND LOPHOCHARIS...by Harry L. Harring. EXTINCT MAMMALS...TEXAS by Oliver P. Hay. PARASITIC ISOPOD CRUSTACEANS by W.P.Hays. LOWER JURASSIC FLORA, ALASKA by F. H. Knowlton. RED SPIDERS by E.A. McGregor. MOLLUSKS FROM CHOCTAWHATCHEE MARL, by Wendell C. Mansfield. PHILIPPINE ELEGANT TITMOUSE...by Edgar Alexander Mearns. METEORIC STONE FROM FLORIDA, IRON METEORITE FROM COOKEVILLE, TENNESSEE and METEORIC IRONS FROM GEORGIA by George Merrill. WEEVILS by W. Dwight Pierce. WHITE FLIES by A.L. Quaintance and A.C. Baker. NEW ALASKAN MOLLUSK by Victor Sterki. MUSCOID FLIES by Charles Townsend. FOSSIL PLANTS FROM PENNSYLVANIA and NOTES ON ALUNITE, PSILOMELANITE AND TITANITE by Edgar T. Wherry and NEW BRACHIOPODS...MAINE by Henry Shaler Williams. 675 pps. Index. Plates, Figures and Tables. Green cloth with gilt lettering and design. Front cover has small scratches ? (silverfish?). Water stains to spine and top gutter with waviness to touch. Doesn't go through to interior. Otherwise covers intact and Good. Ex-lib.bookplate on front endpaper with numbers.. Otherwise interior is tight, clean and Very Good+. $45.00

[004654] Thomas, Cyrus. CATALOGUE OF PREHISTORIC WORKS EAST OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. ill. Plates, Maps. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1891. Size: Approx. 6 " x 9 1/2". Paper Wraps. Ethnology. Covers Poor. Interior Good+ Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of Ethnology: J.W. Powell, Director. Signed on front cover "With Compliments of the Author". "Special efforts were made to locate definitely all ancient works, mounds, graves, pictographs, etc., including those to which only imcomplete and casual reference had been made by earlier travelers and writers. All the material thus obtained has been incorporated in the present volume." State by State, County by County list of "finds" for those states east of the Rocky Mountains. 16 states with Archeologic Maps. They are: Alabama; Arkansas (2-one of the state and another of Poinsett County, Arkansas); Florida (2-one of the state and another of Le Baron's map of Putnam, Volusia and Orange Counties, Florida); Georgia; Kentucky and Tennessee; Michigan; Missouri; New York; North Carolina; Ohio (2-one of the state and another of Butler County, Ohio); and Wisconsin (2-one of the state and another of Crawford County, Wisconsin). Includes a large foldout map, 15"x17" of the Distribution of Mounds in Eastern United States. 246 pp. String-tied. Missing back cover. Front cover detached and missing most of bottom half. Soiled. ex.mus. numbers. Cover is Poor. Top edges uncut. Side and bottom page edges untrimmed. Interior is tight, clean and Very Good. Scarce. $175.00

[003979] Wilson, Charles B and H. Walton Clark. The Mussels of The Cumberland River and Its Tributaries.. ill. Tables, Plate (Photographs). Washington: Government Printing Office, 1914. Size: Approx. 6 " x 9 1/4". Stiff Covers. Biology. Very Good- Department of Commerce, Bureau of Fisheries, Document No. 781. 63 pp. Numberous tables. ex.mus. stamp and numbers on front cover. Tiny tear at top/base of spine, otherwise exterior is VG+. ex-mus. stamp on title page, otherwise interior is tight, clean and VG+. $12.50