[Haywood, John]:

$15,000 · Offered by William Reese Company · No longer available

THE CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE. By a Tennesseean. "The author, not shown on the title page, was Judge John Haywood. THE CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE is the rarest of Haywood's three well-known historical works. This book, title notwithstanding, is often called the first edition of his NATURAL AND ABORIGINAL HISTORY OF TENNESSEE. Much of the material which appears in the later work was contained in the earlier CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, and must be considered therefore as the earliest work printed within the state relative to the aboriginal history of the area. Copies of the CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE are virtually never offered for sale, and when they infrequently appear the price is justifiably considerable for this Tennessee Rarity, which has to date never been reprinted" - Allen, TENNESSEE RARITIES. "...Devoted largely to a study of Indian antiquities, attempts to prove that American Indians were of Caucasian descent....the rarest of Haywood's books" - Siebert Sale. The Siebert copy, which is the last copy to appear in auction records, sold for $9200 at his sale in 1999.

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