![Danville, Illinois. Its Free Sites and its Cheap Coal for Manufacturers [wrapper title]. Illinois Danville.](/images/noimage.png)
[N. p., but Danville? n. p., ca. 1906]. First edition. Oblong folio, approx. 12-1/4 x 9 inches, original printed green wrappers, [40] pages. Numerous halftone views from photos, maps. With views of all the hallmarks of early 20th century industrial greatness, with plenty of views of mines and open pits... More
[Chicago? n. p.], December, 1847. First edition. 8vo, original wrappers bound into later full cloth, gilt lettering, 16 pages. An important step in the development of the Illinois Central Railroad, an early argument for the Chicago route for a railroad from Cairo to Galena, the financial (and even military) advantages... More
Foreston, Illinois: Published by J. M. Stevenson and H. Collings, 1859. First edition. 8vo, removed pamphlet (no wrappers), 124 pages. Printed by Henry R. Boss, Book and Job Printer, at the Advertiser Office in Polo, Illinois. An uncommon Ogle County imprint and Adventist-related publication, evangelism and debate from the early... More
![Where Shall We Educate Our Children? [caption title]. Illinois, Illinois Jacksonville.](/pictures/thumb/13813.jpg?v=1524605898)
[Jacksonville, Ill. n. p., 1874]. First edition? 8vo, unbound circular, [8] pages. Two large full-page woodcut views, one of the Young Ladies' Athenaeum, the other of the Conservatory of Music. A fine joint advertisement for five institutions for higher education--as the caption title goes on to ask, "Are some of... More
(Burlington, N. J. New Jersey Enterprise Book and Job Printing Establishment), [1875?]. Second separate edition. 8vo, original gilt-printed brown wrappers (lacks rear wrapper) bound into later plain wrappers, 38 pages. First published in Featherstonehaugh's Monthly American Journal of Geology and Natural Science in 1831 (with an offprint of 100 copies)... More
(Belleville, Illinois: Printed by B. H. Perryman and H. L. Davidson), 1855. First edition. 8vo, later half calf, marbled boards, gilt lettering, 600, xxiii, [1] pages. Lithograph frontispiece portrait. Perhaps the best firsthand account of the pioneer years of the state from an important early public figure. The imprint information... More
Belleville, Ill. Published by N. A. Randall, 1852. First edition. 12mo, original blue cloth, gilt lettering, 348 pages. Byrd notes that most of the titles by Reynolds were printed on a press in his own law office by compositors hired as needed; the charming if rough and ready presswork suggests... More
London: Printed for James Ridgway, 1822. First edition. 8vo, original blue sugar paper wrappers, [i]-xi, [1], [9]-76 pages, untrimmed. A particularly nice copy in the original condition, published after Flower’s split with Birkbeck, letters touting the myriad benefits of his Albion settlement in southern Illinois even as enthusiasm over the..... More
Philadelphia: Grigg & Elliot, 1837. Stated second edition. 12mo, original embossed purple cloth, printed green label to the upper board, xi, [1], 328 pages. Includes brief descriptions of the mounds and Native American antiquities of Illinois. Per Byrd 191 (describing the 1834 Jacksonville, Ill., first edition): “Much of the information... More
Peoria: Printed by Benjamin Foster, 1855. First edition. Original printed gray wrappers, 8.38 x 5.38 inches, 72 pages. “Capitalists are firmly united, and they have the support of every speculator that intends to be a capitalist. Capital supports all these Monopolies [land, slavery, alcohol, common law] for the sole purpose... More
La Clair, De Kalb Co., Illinois: June 8, 1854; and Cedar Lake [Lake Co., Indiana]: June 26, 1854. 2 letters in autograph ink of 2 pp. each, together on one bifolium sheet, 9.75 x 7.25 inches, approx. 410 & 630 words. Religious revivals and intimations of Civil War among early... More
