Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co 1903. Hardcover. Used-Very Good. Cloth no dj. A.C. McClurg & Co. 1913. 8vo. xx 378 pp. Potrait frontis. and 22 other illus. 8 of them full-page. Green pictorial cloth boards with gilt-stamped titles on front and spine. Faint staining and moderate overall edge wear to boards with light fraying at spine ends and corners. Light fading to spine titles. Expected age-toning to text block. Occasional light soiling along parge margins. Else clean and bright. Altogether quite sound. A.C. McClurg & Co hardcover
Chicago: A.C. McClurg 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. A history about an American military officer and surveyor from Virginia who became the highest-ranking Patriot military officer on the northwestern frontier during the Revolutionary War. He served as leader of the Virginia militia in Kentucky then part of Virginia throughout much of the war. He is best known for his captures of Kaskaskia in 1778 and Vincennes in 1779 during the Illinois campaign which greatly weakened British influence in the Northwest Territory then part of the British Province of Quebec and earned Clark the nickname of "Conqueror of the Old Northwest." Includes an 83-page history of the Blackhawk War with information about Blackhawk himself. A very well preserved copy in the original Frank Hazenplug green gilt binding with fort design clean and unmarked. Scarce. A.C. McClurg hardcover
New York: Antiquarian Press Ltd 1959. Hardcover. Good. 24 x 16 cm. Octavo. 7 volumes bound in cloth plus a clamshell containing 54 maps some in two parts and paperback booklet. Map number 1 in the atlas volume is missing other maps are present and in nice condition. Originally done in 1904-05. this reprint done in 1959. Limited to 750 sets of which this set is unnumbered. Ex-library set with stickers and stamps. Spines faded. Antiquarian Press Ltd hardcover
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