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Lot 88
[AMERICANA] FARRAR, MAURICE. Five Years in Minnesota. Sketches of Life in a Western State.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1880. First and only edition. Publisher's gilt and black stamped green cloth. 7.5 x 5 inches; xiv, 269, [1], 32 pp.; publisher's ads bound at end. Shelf wear, fading and staining to cloth, rear hinge starting, early ownership inscription on half-title.
A promotional book encouraging English settlement to Minnesota, a place unaffected by the agricultural depression in contemporary Britain and Ireland. Farrar describes an "English colony" in the town of Fairmont, discusses everyday life in the state, weighs the pros and cons of emigration, and ends with appendix of practical information for a newly arrived farmer.
C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
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