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Lot 168

[ILLINOIS]. MITCHELL, Samuel Augustus (1792?1868). Illinois...

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[ILLINOIS]. MITCHELL, Samuel Augustus (1792?1868). Illinois in 1837; A Sketch Descriptive of the Situation, Boundaries, Face of the Country? With a Letter on the Cultivation of the Prairies by the Hon. H. L. Ellsworth. Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, 1837. 8vo. Engraved folding map frontispiece outlined in color by Mitchell. Original quarter cloth, printed drab paper over boards (spine gently sunned, some spotting or light rubbing to boards). FIRST EDITION, second issue with ?Animals? corrected on title?page. Howes M?689.