NEILL, Edward Duffield (1823-1893). The History of Minnesota from the Earliest French Explorations to the Present Time. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1858. FIRST EDITION.
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NEILL, Edward Duffield (1823-1893). The History of Minnesota from the Earliest French Explorations to the Present Time. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1858.
8vo. 4 engraved maps; (one folding). (toning and spotting, tape repairs). Contemporary brown cloth gilt (light chipping to spine ends, rubbed). Provenance: Hartford Young Men's Institute Library (library stamp); Dudley Bell Priester (1923-2017), Mississippi River collector and bibliographic (sold Bloomsbury, 19 November 2009, lot 102).
FIRST EDITION. Edward Duffield Neill was an early settler to the St. Paul region who would go on to become chancellor of the University of Minnesota and later founded Macalester College. Howes N-40.
Property from the Collection of Perry B. Hansen
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