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Illinois in 1837 : a sketch descriptive of the situation, boundaries, face of the country, prominent districts, prairies, rivers, minerals, animals, agricultural productions, public lands, plans of internal improvement, manufacturers, &c., of the state of Illinois ; also, suggestions to emigrants, sketches of the counties, cities, and principal towns in the state ; together with a letter on the cultiviation of the prairies, by the Hon. H.L. Ellsworth ; to which are annexed the letters from a rambler in the West.

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Illinois in 1837 : a sketch descriptive of the situation, boundaries, face of the country, prominent districts, prairies, rivers, minerals, animals, agricultural productions, public lands, plans of internal improvement, manufacturers, &c., of the state of Illinois ; also, suggestions to emigrants, sketches of the counties, cities, and principal towns in the state ; together with a letter on the cultiviation of the prairies, by the Hon. H.L. Ellsworth ; to which are annexed the letters from a rambler in the West.
Publication
  • Philadelphia : S. Augustus Mitchell : Grigg & Elliot, 1837.
  • ©1837

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Additional Authors
  • Grigg, John
  • Mitchell, S. Augustus (Samuel Augustus), 1792-1868
  • Fagan, J. (John)
  • Young, J. H. (James Hamilton)
  • Ellsworth, Henry Leavitt, 1791-1858.
  • Grigg & Elliot, publisher.
Description
143 pages, 9 unnumbered pages : folded color map; 22 cm
Uniform Title
Mitchell's map of Illinois.
Subject
  • Travel
  • Illinois > Description and travel
  • Illinois > Maps
  • Illinois
Genre/Form
  • Maps.
  • Publishers' catalogs.
  • Cartes géographiques.
Note
  • Cover title: Illinois in 1837 & 8: with a map. Containing, also, the emigrant's guide to the West ... Philadelphia, 1838.
  • "The publisher is probably the author. It was got up mainly to promote the sale of Illinois lands then owned by John Grigg of Philadelphia."--:Sabin, Bibl. Amer. v. 9, no. 34260.
  • Another edition published in 1837 without cover-title.
LCCN
16000813
OCLC
  • ocm13851700
  • 13851700
  • SCSB-354669
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library