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Stock# 87413
Description

Pre-Fire Chicago Imprint

Rare early guidebook for Iowa settlers, first issued in 1855.

The work was published in Chicago by Keen & Lee and in Philadelphia by Charles Desilver.

The full title is:

 A Gazetteer for Citizens, and a Hand-book for Immigrants, embracing a full description of The State of Iowa: her agricultural, mineralogical, and geological character; her water courses, timber, lands, soil and climate; the various railroad lines being built and thos projected, with the distances on each; the number and condition of churches and schools in each country; population and business statistics of the most import cities and towns. Information for the Immigrant respecting the selection, entry, and cultivation of prairie soil, a list of post-offices in the state, Etc. Etc. With numerous Illustrations.  

 

Condition Description
Original blue cloth covers, Folding colored map. xv, 282pp. Some foxing, but a very good copy. Includes the ex-libris stamp of Pennsylvania Farm Museum of Lancaster, PA.