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186462919Des Moines: F. W. Palmer State Printer 1864. 8vo pp. iv 118 2; fine copy in original tan printed wrappers. Includes an act to authorize the teaching of German or other language in the common schools; an act prohibiting the exclusion of the Bible from the schools of the state; and an act relative to the introduction of Webster's Dictionaries into the common schools of this state. Three in OCLC: Grinnell Harvard and Boulder. F. W. Palmer, State Printer unknown
188240917Brattleboro Vt. :: D. Leonard Printer. 1882. Hardcover. Hardcover with moderate to heavy soil and edgewear to dark-red cloth covers. Hinges sound uncracked but with two-inch splits at upper and lower ends of title page; tad shaken. Pages tight with occasional markings in pencil smudges dime-size old ink splotch on page 355 text still discernable . No DJ. Foldout map of grantees present and in very good condition; illustrated; 525 pages. ; . D. Leonard, Printer, hardcover
188124269St. Louis: Gilbert Book Co 1881. Hardcover. Good. 8vo x 17-133 pp with frontis portrait of Roberts with 8 chromolithograph plates and 5 lithograph maps 4 of which are hand-colored in original publisher's cloth. Boards show considerable insect nibbling and some soiling and p. 131/132 was detached at some time and reinserted backwards Otherwise internally sound and clean with all plates and maps in nice condition. Roberts was the 17th Governor of Texas and this promotional book about the state was published while he was still in office. Clark Travels in the New South I:185: "Roberts.had traveled over the state as a lawyer 1841-60 and after the war had settled down and taught law. This is a worth-while account somewhat historical and somewhat exaggerated of the the resources and advantages of Texas by one who was familiar with the state." Howes R-344. Gilbert Book Co hardcover
