| Title | 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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| Published | Philadelphia : S. Augustus Mitchell, and Grigg and Elliot ; 1837.
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| Description | 143 p. : fold. col. map ; 22 cm.
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| General 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.
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| Subjects | Illinois.
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| Other Authors | Mitchell, S. Augustus (Samuel Augustus), 1792-1868.
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| Related Titles | A rambler in the West.
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| LC Card Number | 16-813 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: F 38 J M682I
mq130851: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 71308] |
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