AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE STATE OF IOWA, BEING A COMPLETE CIVIL, POLITICAL, AND MILITARY HISTORY OF THE STATE, FROM ITS EXPLORATION DOWN TO 1875.
by TUTTLE, CHARLES R. AND DURRIE, DANIEL S
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- General Moderate Wear./No Jacket.
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: Richard S. Peale, 1876. Gilt vignette front cover. Rebacked with original spine laid-down. Some rippling of cloth on rear panel. Damp-stain to several preliminary pages and top of free-edge, does not carry into the text pages. Full-page illustrations of famous Iowans through the volume. 48 chapters with material on early history, local Indian tribes, explorationgovernment and courts, boundary difficulties, crime, various governors and their administrations, Iowa in the Civil War, schools. Last two chapters are sketches of the counties in Iowa and biographical sketches of leading men in Iowa past and present (1876). 732pp. Laid-in is a Peale's Railroad and Township map of Iowa, Chicago, 1876. It is fragile, but without paper loss, and has been repaired with archival tape, intact for the entire State, but probably lacking one fold to the east. It had been tipped-in to the book, but was removed by us for repair and is now simply laid-in.. First Edition.. Blue Cloth.. General Moderate Wear./No Jacket.. Thick Octavo.
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- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012455
- Title
- AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE STATE OF IOWA, BEING A COMPLETE CIVIL, POLITICAL, AND MILITARY HISTORY OF THE STATE, FROM ITS EXPLORATION DOWN TO 1875.
- Author
- TUTTLE, CHARLES R. AND DURRIE, DANIEL S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - General Moderate Wear.
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket.
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Publisher
- Richard S. Peale
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1876
- Size
- Thick Octavo
- Keywords
- Iowa, Military History
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Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
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