IOWA AS IT IS IN 1855; A Gazetteer for Citizens, and a Hand-book for Immigrants, embracing a full description of The State of Iowa: her agricultural, mineralogical, and geological character; her water courses, timber lands, soil and climate; the various railroad lines being built and those projected, with the distances on each; the number and condition of churches and schools in each county; population and business statistics of the most important cities and towns. Information for the Immigrant respecting the selection, entry, and cultivation of prairie soil; a list of unentered lands in the state & c. With numerous illustrations

Author: PARKER, N Howe
Title: IOWA AS IT IS IN 1855; A Gazetteer for Citizens, and a Hand-book for Immigrants, embracing a full description of The State of Iowa: her agricultural, mineralogical, and geological character; her water courses, timber lands, soil and climate; the various railroad lines being built and those projected, with the distances on each; the number and condition of churches and schools in each county; population and business statistics of the most important cities and towns. Information for the Immigrant respecting the selection, entry, and cultivation of prairie soil; a list of unentered lands in the state & c. With numerous illustrations
Publication: Chicago: Keen and Lee, 1855

Description: First edition. Illustrated with engravings. 19 cm. xv, (2), 18 - 264pp. Front pastedown and endpapers print ads for Keen & Lee's wholesale book store and stationers. Original brown cloth, scattered foxing. Lacks map, which is not uncommon, perhaps not issued with all. Howes P-83.

Seller ID: 67889

Subject: Americana



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