STARVED ROCK A Historical Sketch
Published by Free Trader Printing House, Ottawa, IL, 1895
- First Edition
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.Thomas J. Joyce And Company
AbeBooks seller since March 25, 2011
Condition: Used - Very good
US$ 75.00
Quantity: 1 available
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Octavo, 84, [vii] pages, variant tan calendared pictorial wrappers: the final pages have advertisements for King & Hamilton corn shellers, and a dentist, a detective agency, and others (with the appearance that two final leaves were excised). Also an ad for Shabbona Headache Capsules on the inside front cover. This is Osman's first "little sketch" "to bring together in one place such authenticated facts relating to Starved Rock, scattered through. With photogravures, map, also modern history, and relics located at the site. many volumes, as may assist in giving the Rock its proper perspective on the canvas of western and our national history, as well as interest the thousands of strangers who annually visit this beautiful and interesting spot." - Preface. Sketches and photogravures. LAID IN is a trifold brochure for the Starved Rock Hotel and Cottages, "The most beautiful spot between the Allegheny and Rocky Mountains". Osman was the son of an Ottawa, Illinois newspaper editor.
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- STARVED ROCK A Historical Sketch
- Author
- OSMAN, Eaton G
- Publisher
- Free Trader Printing House, Ottawa, IL
- Publication year
- 1895
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- stapled wrappers
- Illustrator
- photos, map
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- exploration, History, illinois, missionaries, native americans
Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since March 25, 2011
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Joyce And Company, established 1975, works out of an office near Chicago's Loop. There are usually 15-20,000 books on-site and available for browsing. Mr. Joyce was a founding partner of the former Chicago Rare Book Center, of Chicago and Evanston, Illinois. Proprietor Tom Joyce appeared regularly as the book appraiser on "The Appraisal Fair", seen on Home And Garden Television, HGTV. We still do appraisals on a wide variety of subjects, from literature to history, fine books, children's, presses, theology, law, medicine, maps, autographs. These topics are reflected in our inventory, and much more, including Sherlockiana. In addition to regional institutions nearby Chicago and Illinois, we have been able to place rare materials with the American Antiquarian Society, The Library of Congress, The Bodleian Library, Harvard and Yale Universities, the Presidential Libraries of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, et cetera. …
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