BILL, Ledyard (1835-1907). Minnesota: Its Character and Climate. New York: Wood & Holbrook, 1871. Publisher's brown cloth gilt. -- BISHOP, Harriet (1817-1883). Floral Home or, First Years of Minnesota. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman, and Company, 1857. Publisher's brown cloth. -- BLEGEN, Theodore (1891-1969). The Land Lies Open. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1949. Publisher's pictorial cloth; dust jacket. -- MATTSON, Hans (1832-1893). The Story of an Emigrant. Saint Paul: D.D. Merrill Company, 1891. Publisher's red cloth. --  O'BRIEN, Frank George (1843-1920). Minnesota Pioneer Sketches. Minneapolis: The Housekeeper Press, 1904. Publisher's red cloth gilt. -- OLIPHANT, Laurence (1829-1888). Minnesota and the Far West. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1855. Publisher's brown cloth gilt. Howes O-64. -- SEYMOUR, E.S. Sketches of Minnesota, the New England of the West. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1850. Publisher's brown cloth gilt. -- And 33 others. Together, 40 works in 43 volumes, various 8vo and 4to sizes, condition generally fine. Provenance for the lot: Dudley Bell Priester (1923-2017), Mississippi River collector and bibliographer (sold Bloomsbury, 19 November 2009, lot 91). Complete list available on request.