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8 Tennessee Military & Survey Maps
8 Tennessee Military & Survey Maps
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Assorted TN Military & Survey Maps, 8 items total. 1st item: "Survey of Cumberland River. Letter from the Secretary of War transmitting a report of the survey of the Cumberland river. February 24, 1835", Doc. No. 171., 23rd Congress, 2nd Session, House of Representatives War Department, printed by Gales and Seaton, Washington, D.C., 24 pages with 10 maps, 1835. Card stock bound book with survey maps and text describing the maps and the land about which they represent. 9" H x 5 1/2" W. 2nd item: "Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee" Census Map, detailing the Population in the Aggregate, 1800-1880, the Population by Sex, Nativity, and Race at Census of 1880, and the Financial Condition of the city, circa 1880. Partial text regarding the Donelson Party and the founding of Nashville en verso. 7 1/4" H x 9" W. 3rd item: "Triangulation and Reconnaissance in Tennessee", No. 27, United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Report for 1880 and 1881. Depicts the State of Tennessee, extending from Knoxville to Nashville, with parts of Kentucky and Virginia with towns and cities, roads, rivers, and mountains. Title and scales of miles, lower right. Map surrounded by coordinate lines and double line border. Image - 9 7/8" H x 16" W. Sheet - 11" H x 19" W. 4th item: "Plat of a Part of the Town of Fort Pickering", by C. Baumgantner, Surveyor and Draughtsman, published by the U. S. Department of the Navy, Washington, D.C., 1843. Originally Bound in Serial Set, Vol. 439, H.doc. 2/7. Depicts Fort Pickering, surveyed and platted for the use of the Commissioners appointed to survey the Harbor of Memphis along the Mississippi River, with a view to its adaptation for a Naval Depot and Dock Yard. Depths are shown by soundings, soundings are shown in fathoms, relief is shown by form lines. Title, lower left, scale, top right, compass rose, lower right. Map surrounded by multi line border. Image - 10 1/8" H x 22" W. Sheet - 12 5/8" H x 24" W. 5th item: "Map of the Scene of Operations of the Army of the Cumberland in Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama..." drawn by Walter A. Lane, published by J. F. Brown Publishing Company, New York, 1884. From "The Soldier in Our Civil War", Vol. II, edited by Paul F. Mottelay. Depicts the States of Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia with significant Civil War locations labeled, including battles, towns and cities, roads, rivers, mountains, and railroads. Text page en verso. Title, centered below map, scale of miles, lower left, compass rose, lower right. Map surrounded by line border. Mounted to matte. Image - 11 1/2" H x 9 1/2" W. Sheet - 16" H x 11" W. Matte - 18 5/8" H x 14 3/4" W. 6th item: "Defenses of Nashville, Tenn." Map, part of "Topographical Sketch of Fortress Rosecrans near Murfreesborough, Tenn.", Plate CXII, surveyed under the supervision of Brig. Gen. J. St. Clair Morton, U.S.A. by John Rziha, Capt. 19th U.S. Infty., lithographed with printed color by Julius Bien & Company, published by the U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1895. From "Atlas to Accompany the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 1861-1865". Depicts the grid plan of the City of Nashville with significant locations labeled, including the Capitol building, various forts, roads, rivers, mountains, and railroads. Title, top right. Map surrounded by line border. Image - 8 1/8" H x 9 1/4" W. Sheet - 9 1/2" H x 10 3/8" W. 7th item: Kentucky and Tennessee Map, from "History of the Great Rebellion" by Thomas P. Kettell, published by L. Stebbins and F. A. Howe, Hartford Ad Cincinnati, 1866. Engraved map with coloring of Kentucky and Tennessee depicting cities and towns, forts, roads, rivers, and mountains. Text page from Chapter XXV, page 399 en verso. Scale of miles, lower right. Map surrounded by double line border. Mounted to matte. Image - 3 7/8" H x 6 3/4" W. Sheet - 5" H x 8 1/4" W. Matte - 10 1/2" H x 13 1/4" W. 8th item: Reprint of "Battle of Nashville" Map, from "Battles and Leaders of The Civil War", published by The Century Company, circa 1884-1888. Depicts the grid plan of the City of Nashville with significant locations labeled, various forts, roads, rivers, mountains, and railroads. Title, top right, scale of miles, lower left. Image - 6 1/2" H x 4 1/4" W. Sheet - 9 1/8" H x 5 3/4" W. All items mid/late 19th century. (Additional high-resolution photos are available at www.caseantiques.com)
Condition
1st item: Toning around edges of front and back covers. Minute foxing spots on maps and title page and back pages. Paper tears, largest 1 5/8" top left of front cover. 2nd item: Toning around left and right edges of sheet. 3rd item: Few minute foxing spots on surface sheet. Series of paper tears, top center edge of sheet. Paper tears, lower left corner and 1/2" lower center of sheet crease. 4th item: Foxing spots, largest 1/2" lower right, on surface of sheet. Bends, tears to paper, largest 1/2" center left, on edges of sheet. Toning spots visible en verso. 5th item: Slight toning around edges of sheet. Minute toning spot, center left edge of sheet. 6th item: Two lines of toning extend from top center of image to bottom center, on surface of sheet. Thin line of toning extends from top left to lower left visible en verso. 7th item: Foxing and water damage on top, left, and right edges of sheet. Foxing and water damage visible en verso. 8th item: Slight toning around edges of map.
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