This book contains two separate bilbliographies of books which were contained in libraries of Michigan pioneer luminaries Gabriel Richard and John Monteith. Richard and Monteith "worked with Judge Augustus Woodward to establish a university for the Michigan Territory. Woodward named it the Catholepistemiad or University of Michigania and appointed Monteith, a Presbyterian as president and Richard, a Sulpician missionary as vice president. Both libraries were theologically oriented but contained many other books." The bibliographies are accompanied by essays describing each man, their book collections and their relationship to intellectual development in pioneer Michigan. Contains an index in the rear. Original white cloth publisher's covers with gilt spine lettering. This is a nice clean, tight and unmarked book with no interior or exterior markings, no previous owner names and no bookplates. The white pictorial dust jacket is lightly smudged on the rear panel with a few light stray marks to the front panel, else it is has no chips, tears, or creases. The dust jacket is now in a protective, removable, acetate cover. ; frontis illustration; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 298 pages.

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Title: Intellectual Life on the Michigan Frontier: The Libraries of Gabriel Richard and John Monteith
Publisher: Bentley Historical Library, Ann Arbor
Publication Date: 1985
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good+
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-

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