Minnesota and it’s Resources To Which are Appended Camp-Fire Sketches or Notes of a Trip from St. Paul to Pembina and Selkirk Settlement on the Red River of the North

Bond, J. Wesley. Minnesota and it’s Resources To Which are Appended Camp-Fire Sketches or Notes of a Trip from St. Paul to Pembina and Selkirk Settlement on the Red River of the North. Chicago: Keen & Lee, 1857. First edition. Octavo. 412pp., [6] plates, 1 folding map. Original blind-stamped decorative blue cloth, illustration and lettering in gilt on spine. Frontispiece lithograph with tissue guard, St. Paul in 1853. Lithograph of Falls of St. Anthony with decorative frame on first title page. Illustrated with four additional lithographs of Minnesota land and city scapes. Inscription on front free endpaper. Contains map of Minnesota, in color, at rear, 1:240,000. Three pages of publishing advertisements on faint yellow pages at front. Contains few library stamps and markings, library pocket with card on inside back cover. Light wear along edges and light rubbing of covers. Good+ condition. Hardcover. (53940) $95