PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM OF HENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS:
by Henry County, Illinois
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: Biographical Publishing Company, 1885. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Quarto, 834 pages, bottom marginal tears to pages 513-522 (which had special interest to the prior owner), curios brown, powdery stains to some central pages, original covers, rebacked in 1959 with brown buckram with the original spine laid down. Surprisingly Rare.
[ Buck 845 - citing only 1 location ] An excellent "mug book". Chock-a-block with portraits - including several women!! This work has been reprinted in this modern era, but the reprints do not do justice to these portraits of ancestors. Note: the first white settler in this county was a physician - but he had no one to dose! Includes a full-page lithograph portrait of Wa-bo-kies-shiek, or White Cloud, the Prophet of the Winnebagoes: the portrait faces his biography.
[ Buck 845 - citing only 1 location ] An excellent "mug book". Chock-a-block with portraits - including several women!! This work has been reprinted in this modern era, but the reprints do not do justice to these portraits of ancestors. Note: the first white settler in this county was a physician - but he had no one to dose! Includes a full-page lithograph portrait of Wa-bo-kies-shiek, or White Cloud, the Prophet of the Winnebagoes: the portrait faces his biography.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Thomas J. Joyce And Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 230490
- Title
- PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM OF HENRY COUNTY, ILLINOIS:
- Author
- Henry County, Illinois
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Biographical Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1885
- Keywords
- henry county, illinois, Geneseo, Galva, plymouth rock hen, giantess, americana,
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About the Seller
Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Biblio member since 2005
Chicago, Illinois
About Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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- Quarto
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- Rebacked
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- First Edition
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