CIVIL WAR - TENNESSEE] Group of Civil War era Tennessee imprints, 1860-1866 , seven volumes in 20th century cloth, comprising Public [...Private] Acts of the State of Tennessee. Nashville: Eastman, 1860. Two parts in one; Public Acts ... for the year 1861; Public Acts ... Extra Session ... April 1861; Public Acts ... for the years 1861-62, original wrappers bound-in; Acts ... for the year 1865; Acts ... for the years 1865-66; Acts and Resolutions ... July 1866. Stamps, various stains, not fully collated and sold as is; Together with a thick leather bound sammelband of Acts of the State of Tennessee, 1871-81. Contemporary calf, housed in cloth case. A note laid-in describes this as the copy belonged to James Davis Porter, stamp to verso of title, the binding worn with the spine cracked vertically. The last state to secede from the Union, Tennessee is second only to Virginia in the number of Civil War battles fought on its soil; further, Unionist East Tennessee attempted to secede from Confederate West Tennessee and was occupied by Confederate troops in 1861. Thus, all Confederate imprints from the state are rare and very little was printed in Nashville in 1863 and 1864. The Extra Session from April 1861 (Crandall 2139) contains pro-secession arguments. The lot eight volumes. C The New York City Bar Association
CIVIL WAR - TENNESSEE] Group of Civil War era Tennessee imprints, 1860-1866 , seven volumes in 20th century cloth, comprising Public [...Private] Acts of the State of Tennessee. Nashville: Eastman, 1860. Two parts in one; Public Acts ... for the year 1861; Public Acts ... Extra Session ... April 1861; Public Acts ... for the years 1861-62, original wrappers bound-in; Acts ... for the year 1865; Acts ... for the years 1865-66; Acts and Resolutions ... July 1866. Stamps, various stains, not fully collated and sold as is; Together with a thick leather bound sammelband of Acts of the State of Tennessee, 1871-81. Contemporary calf, housed in cloth case. A note laid-in describes this as the copy belonged to James Davis Porter, stamp to verso of title, the binding worn with the spine cracked vertically. The last state to secede from the Union, Tennessee is second only to Virginia in the number of Civil War battles fought on its soil; further, Unionist East Tennessee attempted to secede from Confederate West Tennessee and was occupied by Confederate troops in 1861. Thus, all Confederate imprints from the state are rare and very little was printed in Nashville in 1863 and 1864. The Extra Session from April 1861 (Crandall 2139) contains pro-secession arguments. The lot eight volumes. C The New York City Bar Association
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