(MINNESOTA) John Locke Scripps The Undeveloped Northern Port

Sale 2633 - Lot 125

Price Realized: $ 812

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Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900

(MINNESOTA.) John Locke Scripps. The Undeveloped Northern Portion of the American Continent. 20 pages. 8vo, original printed front wrapper, detached with moderate wear and lacking rear wrapper; vertical fold, moderate foxing, minor wear, early pencil editing notes (perhaps by the author for republication?). Chicago: Democratic Press Steam Printing House, 1856

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A lecture given at Bell's Commercial College, attacking the Hudson's Bay Company's monopolistic activities and lauding the undeveloped area around Lake Superior and Lake of the Woods, and western Canada to the Pacific, all of which Scripps views as ripe for settlement and trade with Chicago. Byrd 2537; Chicago Ante-Fire Imprints 221; Graff 3717 (with plain wrappers); Howes S248 ("aa"); Sabin 78485. None traced at auction since a copy brought $200 at the 1969 Streeter sale, VII:3721.