[Rarebooks] For Sale: A German Settlement in Missouri

[Norman Kane]

BEK, WILLIAM G.   THE GERMAN SETTLEMENT SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA AND 
ITS COLONY HERMANN, MISSOURI.   Phila: Americana Germanica Press, 
1907.  First edition.  Tall 8vo, original cloth stamped in blind and 
gilt, xi, 171, [1] pages, an excellent copy with a signed inscription 
by Bek.  Frontispiece and illustrations, facsimiles, &c. (This 
settlement on the Missouri River, which aimed to be a typical German 
town, was begun in the late 1830's.)    $95.00
(Trade Discount 10 %)


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