ILLINOIS IN 1837; A SKETCH DESCRIPTIVE OF THE SITUATION, BOUNDARIES, FACE OF THE COUNTRY, PROMINENT DISTRICTS, PRAIRIES, RIVERS, MINERALS, ANIMALS, AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIONS, PUBLIC LANDS, PLANS OF INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT, MANUFACTURES, &C., OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS; ALSO, SUGGESTIONS TO EMIGRANTS, SKETCHES OF THE COUNTIES, CITIES, AND PRINCIPAL TOWNS IN THE STATE; TOGETHER WITH A LETTER ON THE CULTIVATION OF THE PRAIRIES BY THE HON. H. L. ELLSWORTH; TO WHICH ARE ANNEXED THE LETTERS FROM A RAMBLER IN THE WEST

by Mitchell, S. Augustus

First edition, second issue, with "animals" spelled co

Price: $600.00

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Bookseller: Austin's Antiquarian Books
Seller Inventory #: 10641
Format: Octavo,
Book condition: Internally very good. Map clean and crisp. Some abrasion to spine and rear board at lower left. Ink smudge at top left rear boar
Illustrator: Large folding map hand-colored in outline (dated 1838).
Edition: First edition, second issue, with "animals" spelled co
Publisher: S. Augustus Mitchell,
Place: Philadelphia:
Date published: 1837.

Book Description

Philadelphia: : S. Augustus Mitchell, , 1837. . First edition, second issue, with "animals" spelled correctly on title page.. Octavo,. Internally very good. Map clean and crisp. Some abrasion to spine and rear board at lower left. Ink smudge at top left rear board.. Large folding map hand-colored in outline (dated 1838). . original quarter green cloth and printed paper covered boards. American Imprints 44893; Buck 313; Decker 30:191; Graff 2840; Howes M-689; Sabin 32460. ÒThe publisher is probably the author. It was got up mainly to promote the sale of Illinois Lands then owned by John Grigg, of Philadelphia.Ó Sabin.

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