Historic Mackinac. The Historical, Picturesque And Legendary Features Of The Mackinac Country. Illustrated From Sketches, Drawings, Maps And Photographs, With An Original Map Of Mackinac Island, Made Especially For This Work. In Two Volumes

EDWIN O. WOOD

Publication: The Macmillan Company, 1918, New York, 1918

First edition. Two volumes. Volume I: Original blue cloth, decorations and titles in gold gilt on the front cover and spine, [20], 697 pp., top edges gilt, frontispiece (color flags of France, England, and the U. S. which have floated over the Mackinac Country), acknowledgments, foreword, illustrated, plates, portraits, maps, appendix, chronology. Contains an original map of Mackinac Island made especially for this work. Volume II: Original blue cloth, decorations and titles in gold gilt on the front cover and spine, [18] 773 [blank] pp., [2], plus 4 pages of advertising, top edges gilt, frontispiece (color picture of Dwightwood Spring), foreword, illustrated, plates, portraits, bibliography, index. Includes a narrative history of the region as well as selections from the writings of many early explorers and later travelers, with much on the Indians and the fur trade. Volume II includes an extensive bibliography as well as a list of Indian names and a catalogue of native plants. Corners lightly bumped, but overall a clean, bright set in near fine condition.