(ILLINOIS) Reynolds John Sketches of the Country on the Nort

Sale 2391 - Lot 178

Price Realized: $ 938

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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200

(ILLINOIS.) Reynolds, John. Sketches of the Country on the Northern Route from Belleville, Illinois, to the City of New York. 264 pages. 12mo, publisher's cloth, minor wear, bound upside-down; intermittent foxing, later inked notes on pages 116-7, corners torn on 32:3-4 with loss of page numbers; early owner's signature on rear free endpaper, later owner's address tag on flyleaf, later bookseller's tag on front pastedown. (MRS) Belleville, IL, 1854

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Consists mostly of travels in Illinois by the ex-governor, undertaken with his wife after the adjournment of the state's General Assembly. Buck 510; Byrd 2173; Graff 3481; Howes R238 ("b"); Sabin 70422; one other copy known at auction since 1984 (Swann sale, 26 October 1995, lot 315).