The Minnesota Handbook, for 1856-57. With a New and Accurate Map.
Boston: John P. Jewett and Company, 1857. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Green blind-ruled cloth with gilt lettering. viii, 159pp, (1p). Large hand-colored foldout frontispiece map. Very good. Spine a bit age toned, with bit of roughness at head and tail; both endpapers are expert contemporary replacements; text block lightly age toned; "School Library / District No 4 / Cornwall" inked on inner flyleaf, else no ex-library markings; map is complete and overall attractive, with discreet archival mends on verso. Item #48082
A tight and decent first edition of this important early guidebook, with intriguing J.H. Colton map showing this state pre-statehood, when it extended westward all the way to the Missouri River and included much of North and South Dakota. GRAFF 3189. HOWES P 85. WAGNER-CAMP 293a.
Price: $195.00