The History And Geography
Of The Mississippi Valley. To Which Is
Appended A Condensed Physical Geography Of The Atlantic United
States, And The Whole American Continent. Third Edition. ... In
Two Volumes. E. W. Flint/Carter, Hendee, and Co.
Cincinnati/Boston. 1833. Thick 8vo, both volumes in one. Tables.
Orig. calf. foxed. I.D.#00149.
Monette, John W., M.D.
History Of The Discovery And Settlement Of The Valley Of The
Mississippi, By The Three Great European Powers, Spain, France
And Great Britain, And The Subsequent Occupation, Settlement, And
Extension Of Civil Government By The United States, Until The Year
1846. By John W. Monette, M.D. ...In Two Volumes. Harper &
Brothers... New York. 1848. 2 vols. 8vo. 3 fine hand col. maps (2
fold and double-pg.), plans of forts in text, few illus. Full
polished calf, wide bands, all edges gilt. Hinges rubbed, spine
labels lacking, internally a very clean set. Howes M722. Second
printing. I.D.#02197.
Milburn, William Henry. The
Pioneers, Preachers And People Of The Mississippi Valley. By
William Henry Milburn... Derby & Jackson. New York. 1860. 8vo,465
p. Brown pebbled cloth. Front hinge cracked, fly leaf gone.
Foxing. On eve of THE WAR. I.D.#00150.
Foster, J.W. The Mississippi
Valley: Its Physical Geography, Including Sketches Of The
Topography, Botany, Climate, Geology, And Mineral Resources; And
Of The Progress Of Development In Population And Material Wealth.
By J.W. Foster, LL.D. ... Illustrated By Maps And Sections. S.C.
Griggs and Co./Trubner & Co. Chicago/London. 1869. Large 8vo,
xvi,443 p. maps, tables. Orange pebbled cloth. First edition.
Pre-fire imprint printed in Chicago by Church, Goodman and
Donnelley. Ex-library with bookplate and stamps carefully removed,
inner hinge strengthened with brown adhesive tape. Interior very
clean and well preserved. After the fire, Foster published another
scarce book, "Pre-historic races of the United States."
I.D.#00148.
Foster, J.W. The Mississippi
Valley: Its Physical Geography, Including Sketches Of The
Topography, Botany, Climate, Geology, And Mineral Resources; And
Of The Progress Of Development In Population And Material Wealth.
By J.W. Foster, LL.D. ... Illustrated By Maps And Sections. S.C.
Griggs and Co./Trubner & Co. Chicago/London. 1869. Large 8vo,
xvi,443 p. maps, tables. Another issue in green pebbled cloth.
First edition. Pre-fire imprint printed in Chicago by Church,
Goodman and Donnelley. Gathering 14-15 bound before Gathering 12
out of sequence. Interior very clean and well preserved.
I.D.#06091.
Walker, C. B. The Mississippi
Valley, And Prehistoric Events: Giving An Account Of The Great
Valley; Of Its Vegetable And Animal Life; Of Its First
Inhabitants, The Mound Builders, Its Mineral Treasures And
Agricultural Developments. All From Authentic Sources. By C.B.
Walker. R.T. Root. Burlington, Iowa. 1880. Thick 8vo, 784 p. sepia
views, plates, illus. Original legal calf, neatly rebacked, new
endpapers. An amazing piece of pioneer erudition! Not in Howes. I.D.#06093.
Newport News & Mississippi Co.
Ohio Valley Ry. The Mississippi Valley Route Between Louisville
And Memphis, Cincinnati And Memphis, Evansville And Memphis,
St.Louis And Memphis, Chicago And Memphis. Fast Limited
Trains. Pullman Buffet Sleepers... Geo. F. Cram. Chicago. ©1892.
From: The Columbian World’s Fair Atlas. Libby Prison national war
museum, Chicago, advertising on reverse. I.D.#08240.
Another copy of I.D.#08240.
Couple small tears at bottom. I.D.#09211.
Wilson, Samuel, Jr. Colonial
Fortifications And Military Architecture In The Mississippi
Valley. Offprint from: McDermott, ed. The French in the
Mississippi Valley. University of Illinois Press. Urbana. 1965.
pp. 103-122. Wraps. I.D.#01700.
Lewis, Henry. The Valley Of
The Mississippi Illustrated. By Henry Lewis. Translated From
The German By A. Hermina Poatgieter. Edited With An Introduction
And Notes By Bertha L. Heilbron. Minnesota Historical Society. St.
Paul. c1967. Large 8vo, xix,423+ p. Col. plates, cuts. endpaper
maps. Cloth, d.j. Limited to 2000 copies. As new copy. A handsome
new reprinting of Lewis’s Das illustrirte Mississippithal, 1850’s. I.D.#01824. |
