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VERY EARLY MINNESOTA IMPRINT
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(MINNESOTA.) [Ramsey, Alexander.]
Discours du Gouverneur du
Territoire de Minnesota.
14 pages. 8vo, stitched; minor dampstaining, minor soiling;
unopened.
St. Paul, MN: James M. Goodhue, 1849
[1,200/1,800]
One of the very first Minnesota imprints. 1849 was the first year of printing in the new territory.
Other than newspapers and broadsides, only 10 pamphlets were produced, none of them
bearing dates any earlier than 1 September 1849. This speech was delivered on 4 September.
Only two other 1849 Minnesota imprints have appeared at auction since 1980. Check-List of
Minnesota Imprints 9; 2 copies in WorldCat.
WITH
—two other early Minnesota items:
Botschaft des Gouverneurs von Minnesota an die Gesetzgebende Versammlung. [St. Louis,
MO, 1853] * Sketch of St. Anthony and Minneapolis, Minnesota Territory. Illustrated, in
original printed wrappers; front wrapper and frontispiece torn. St. Anthony, MN: William
Wales, 1857.
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(MINNESOTA.) [Munson, A.D.]
The Minnesota Messenger, Containing
Sketches of the Rise and Progress of Minnesota.
74 (of 78) pages. 8vo, original
printed front wrapper, worn, under a later plain wrapper; lacking final 2 leaves, final blank,
and rear wrapper, embossed notarial seals on the first two leaves, early pencil inscription on
front wrapper.
St. Paul, MN, 1855
[600/900]
No copies known at auction since the 1967 Streeter sale, III:1966. Graff 2934; Howes
M648 (“b”); Minnesota Historical Records Survey 92; Sabin 49283.
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(MISSISSIPPI.) Wells, James M.
The Chisholm Massacre: A Picture of
“Home Rule” in Mississippi.
9 plates. 8vo, publisher’s cloth, minor wear; internally
clean.
Chicago, 1877
[250/350]
The story of a judge who was murdered, along with his family, for standing up to the Ku Klux
Klan. One of the illustrations depicts a lynching. Work, Negro Bibliography, page 376.
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