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[ILLINOIS]. BREESE, Sidney (1800–1878). The Early History of Illinois, from its Discovery by the French in 1673, Until its Cession to Great Britain in 1763, Including the Narrative of Marquette’s Discovery of the Mississippi. Edited by Thomas Hoyne. Chicago: E.B. Myers & Company, 1884.
Royal 8vo. Portrait frontispiece, 3 large folding maps. Original cloth gilt (spine sunned with some rubbing at ends). FIRST EDITION. An important early history of the Illinois region before statehood in 1818. Howes B–743.