NOTES ON A JOURNEY IN AMERICA, FROM THE COAST OF VIRGINIA TO THE TERRITORY OF ILLINOIS.: With Proposals For the Establishment of a Colony of English.
by BIRKBECK, Morris
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Philadelphia: M. Carey & Son, 1819. Second edition revised & corrected. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, 189 pages, contemporary full tree calf, leather spine label. Ex libris Col. Charles L. . Robinson, who was President of both the Colt Patent Arms Co., and The Gatling Gun Company.
"This is the first of the long list of books relating to the English settlement in Illinois. In it Birkbeck tells of a land-hunting expedition into southeastern Illinois and of a visit to Shawneetown. He was a keen observer and a good writer and the book is a valuable contribution to our knowledge of frontier people and conditions -Buck, 95." [Howes B468; c.f. Graff 304]. Printed by Asher Miner, Doylestown, May, 1819.
"This is the first of the long list of books relating to the English settlement in Illinois. In it Birkbeck tells of a land-hunting expedition into southeastern Illinois and of a visit to Shawneetown. He was a keen observer and a good writer and the book is a valuable contribution to our knowledge of frontier people and conditions -Buck, 95." [Howes B468; c.f. Graff 304]. Printed by Asher Miner, Doylestown, May, 1819.
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- Thomas J. Joyce And Company (US)
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- Title
- NOTES ON A JOURNEY IN AMERICA, FROM THE COAST OF VIRGINIA TO THE TERRITORY OF ILLINOIS.
- Author
- BIRKBECK, Morris
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second edition revised & corrected
- Publisher
- M. Carey & Son
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1819
- Keywords
- illinois, pioneer Illinois, Charles Leonard Frost Robinson, Asher Miner, biography, americana, travel,
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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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