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.
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- Language(s)
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English
- Published
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Philadelphia : Published by S. Augustus Mitchell, and by Grigg & Elliott, no. 9, N. Fourth Street, 1837.
- Note
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"The publisher is probably the author. It was got up mainly to promote the sale of Illinois lands then owned by John Grigg of Philadelphia."--Sabin, Bibl. amer., v. 9, no. 34260.
Cover-title: Illinois in 1837: with a map. Another edition, with same t.-p., published with cover-title: Illinois in 1837 & 8 ... Philadelphia, 1838.
- Physical Description
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viii, 9-143, [9] p., [1] leaf of plates :
front. (fold. map) ;
22 cm.
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