Valley of the Upper Wabash, Indiana
by ELLSWORTH, Henry William
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Bryn Mawr,, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
1838. ELLSWORTH, Henry William. Valley of the Upper Wabash, Indiana, with Hints on Its Agricultural Advantages: Plan of a Dwelling, Estimates of Cultivation, and Notices of Labor-Saving Machines. New York: Pratt, Robinson, and Co., 1838. 1st ed. xii,175pp. Folding map frontis., two folding plates, folding plan. Orig. cloth, gilt-lettered leather spine label. Some wear to spine, minor chipping to label, former owners' names on front free endpaper, map supplied in facsimile, faint scattered foxing, else a very good copy. HOWES E-128. Buck 324: "Considerable information on transportation, routes, etc." Streeter Sale 1417: "One of the great prairie immigration pamphlets, very informative from the point of view of the beginning of agriculture on the prairies." The plates show Hussey's Reaping Machine and Page's Ditching and Banking Machine, the plate shows a blueprint for a farmhouse with bank and ditch.
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- Bookseller
- George S. MacManus Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 63659
- Title
- Valley of the Upper Wabash, Indiana
- Author
- ELLSWORTH, Henry William
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Date Published
- 1838
- Keywords
- INXX, AGRICULTURE, HOWESX, FINE/GEN AM
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George S. MacManus Company
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Bryn Mawr,, Pennsylvania
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