Stillwater Minn. 1930. First Edition. Softcover. Very good pamphlet copy; wrappers slightly edge-dulled. Pages tanned as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Stillwater, Minn. paperback
St. Paul: State Board of Immigration 1878. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 88pp; small railway map in text; large folding map of Minnesota shows towns county lines railroads post offices &c. detached from binding and laid in. Bound in printed green wrappers; lower tip chipped from cover no text loss. 8.5" x 5.5" Promotes immigration to Minnesota by settlers and farmers: "To Laboring Men to Landless Men to All Men of moderate means and men of wealth who will accept homes in a beautiful and prosperous country." Eberstadt 105:216. State Board of Immigration unknown
St. Paul MN: State of Minnesota by the Pioneer Press Companyh 1890. First edition. Hardcover. Fair. 4to; xii 844 pages half morocco lacks most of the lower 3 inches of the spine with a small sale stamp on blank leaf. <br/><br/>An extensive history which incorporates the names of 26717 men on the rosters herein. That was from a state population in 1860 of fewer than 175000 persons. " Eicher 918. State of Minnesota by the Pioneer Press Companyh hardcover
St. Paul Minnesota: Girart Hewitt 1867. Fifth Edition. Softcover. Very Good. pp: 36 8 full-page ads. The ads are by: Winona & St. Peter Railroad selling "250000 acres of the finest farming lands in the northwest"; Hastins & Dakota Railway offering Actual Settlers Only portions of a 1280000-acre land grant; Milwaukee & Saint Paul Railway best route to the northwest and with a fine line of steamers; Minnesota Valley Rail Road Company with a land grant of 1200000 acres; North Western Union Packet Co. with splendid steamers on the Upper Mississippi; Lake Superior & Mississippi Railroad offering lands to Immigrants and Settlers; Minnesota Central Railway serving tourists; and Southern Minnesota Rail Road Company offering 40000 acres of land at $3 to $8 per acre. Bound in printed tan wrappers state seal on cover. 8.5" x 5.5". Spine faded. Howes U.S.iana H455. Eberstadt 127:282. Girart Hewitt unknown
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