Kings Handbook of the United States 1891 by M F Sweetser; Moses King - 1891-01-01

BENJAMIN BLOM, INC.. Unknown Binding. Very Good. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Ex-Library copy with typical library marks and stamps. Dust jacket missing. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Covers are in good condition. Interior pages are clean and free of markings. Binding is tight. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Buffalo, N.Y.: Moses King Corporation, 1891. Grey Cloth Hardcover with ornate pictorial cover 939 pages + index, Over twenty-six hundred engravings and illustrations, fifty one Colored Maps Previous owner's inscription and stamp on front endpaper, clipped, hinges reglued. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Cover.

Buffalo, NY: Moses King Corporation, 1892. Octavo. 939 pages including over 2600 illustrations, portraits and 51 colored maps. Although they had not yet become states, this book has chapters on Arizona; the Apache State; Indian Territory (later to become Oklahoma) and New Mexico; the Sunshine State. There are fifty-one colored maps and over twenty-six hundred illustrations. The one on Indian Territory covers the major tribes located there with small images of the Cherokee Female Seminary, the Choctaw Meeting House and others. Arizona has many images (though it was still a territory not a state) and also Alaska where it shows the largest income from seal skins, codfish, salmon, and finally in the smallest amount gold. It was another five years before the Alaskan gold rush would come and it would not be organized as a territory until 1912. (Hawaii, of course, was not a territory until 1898). Bound in dark brown morocco lettered and stamped in gilt, spine lettering gitl, scenic endpapers, all… Read More