HAYWOOD, JOHN. 1762-1826. The Natural and Aboriginal History or
Tennessee, up to the First Settlements therein by the White
People in the year 1768. Nashville: Printed by George Wilson,
1823. 8vo (209 x 119 mm). viii, 390, liv pp. Half-title. Period
calf, morocco lettering piece. Custom green quarter morocco
slipcase. Moderate browning and foxing and a little dampstain,
lacking front free endpaper, a couple of penciled corrections
within text, early repair at head of spine, corners worn. FIRST
EDITION OF THE FIRST SUBSTANTIAL HISTORY OF TENNESSEE and "a
volume of much rarity" (Sabin). Haywood, born in North Carolina
and a Tennessee land-owner and lawyer, is considered the pioneer
of Tennessee historians. In the present work he has compiled a
large amount of archeological and ethnographic data,
particularly as pertaining to the Natchez, Cherokees and
Chickasaws. "He does not favor the hypothesis of great antiquity
in the Indian nations of America, but describes with great care
the relics of the race which once