Set Reminder2022-02-26 12:00:002022-02-26 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Fine Books & Manuscripts https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/fine-books-manuscripts-21955 Our first book sale of the year features an array of items not seen on the market in over a century. Among the Americana lots crossing the block is one of the rarest and important Revolutionary War narratives, being Ethan Allen’s account of his captivity in British prisons printed in 1779.
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MITCHELL, Samuel Augustus (1792?1868). Illinois in 1837; A Sketch Descriptive of the Situation, Boundaries, Face of the Country? With a Letter on the Cultivation of the Prairies by the Hon. H. L. Ellsworth. Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, 1837. 8vo. Engraved folding map frontispiece outlined in color by Mitchell (some pale browning). Original quarter olive green cloth, printed drab paper over boards (spine toned with some fraying near crown, covers a bit rubbed, intermittent foxing). Provenance: Henry Rogers (signature on upper cover and front free endpaper). FIRST EDITION, second issue with ?Animals? corrected on title?page. Howes M?689.