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BURNET, Jacob (1770–1853). Notes on the Early Settlement of the North Western Territory. Cincinnati: Derby, Bradley & Co., 1847. 8vo. FIRST EDITION. Engraved portrait frontispiece (Howes notes that this is not included in all copies). Publisher’s embossed black cloth rebacked in modern cloth, original spine laid down (board edges rubbed, title and frontispiece foxed, marginal foxing throughout). With errata slip. Provenance: contemporary ownership signature to front pastedown of Lawrence Yates Sherman with pencil notation to ffep. Howes B-997. Provenance: former owner, Lawrence Yates Sherman, was a United States senator from Illinois (1913–1921) and 28th lieutenant governor of Illinois (1905–1909).