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Peck, J.M. A GAZETTEER OF ILLINOIS.
Philadelphia Grigg & Elliot 1837 Second edition Boards worn with chipping at spine, cover label worn, front paste-down roughed up, flyleaf with small section from upper section torn out, flyleaf with large words in brown ink which has run, contents all clean and sound
12mo. xi, 328p. Bound in original boards with paper cover label
"Peck was well-equipped to compile a gazetteer of Illinois, for he traveled over most of the state. His descriptions and observations are almost entirely drawn from personal experience." Graff 3232. Howes P170; Sabin 59483; Byrd 191
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145.00 USD
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Siebert, Frank T. THE FRANK T. SIEBERT LIBRARY OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN AND THE AMERICAN FRONTIER.
New York Sotheby's 1999 Auction sale catalogues for May and October, 1999. 1080 lots. Fine.
Two volumes. Illustrated. 4to. Gilt-titled maroon cloth with mounted photo plates on covers.
Arguably the most important Americana collection at auction in many, many years. Includes Canada, the Northeast, the South, Trans-Aapplachia, the Mississippi Valley, thePlains and Rockies, the West and Southwest, especially Texas, and includes Indian captivities, Indian treaties, Indian deeds, Indian language books, western overland narratives, Jesuit relations, etc., including many border books and printings on frontier and mission hand presses. An important reference.
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65.00 USD
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Smith, Jennie. RAMBLINGS IN BEULAH LAND, A CONTINUATION OF EXPERIENCES IN THE LIFE OF JENNIE SMITH.
Philadelphia Garrigues Brothers 1886, 1888 First edition Both volumes with paper separation to joint at frontispiece, the covers remarkably bright. No. 1 with ORIGINAL DUST JACKET with chips at spine extremes and corners. No jacket on No. 2.
Two volumes. 158p, 1 leaf ads; 158p, 1 leaf ads. No. 1 with engraved portrait frontispiece, No. 2 with frontispiece of Jennie Smith's home in Mountain Lake Park, MD. Bound in original publisher's blind stamped ribbed brown cloth with gilt spine titles and small gilt cover vignette
Quite scarce.
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700.00 USD
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[Chruch, Elihu Dwight] Cole, George Watson. A CATALOGUE OF BOOKS RELATING TO THE DISCOVERY AND EARLY HISTORY OF NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA FORMING A PART OF THE LIBRARY OF E. D. CHURCH.
New York Peter Smith 1051 Reprint of the 1907 first edition Spines mildly faded, else fine
Five volumes. Illustrated. Tan cloth with black spine titles.
"A monumental work which includes 1,385 entries of books about America, arranged chronologically by date of publication from the earliest period to 1884, with author and title index. Gives for each book: full title, collation, and important historical and bibliographical annotations, with notes of differences in copies and locations of copies in some 50 public and private libraries. Gives many facsimile reproductions of title pages, colophons, etc. The Church collection is now part of the Huntington Library, Huntington, Calif." (Sheehy, DB3).
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275.00 USD
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