Fine Books and Manuscripts

Includes: Alvord, John W. et al. Report to Board of Trustees upon the Disposal of the Sewage of the North Shore Sanitary District of Illinois. Lake County: Board of Engineers, 1916. Original leatherette binding is worn. First edition; Soper, George A. et al. A Report to the Chicago Real Estate Board of the Disposal of the Sewage and Protection of the Water Supply of Chicago, Illinois. Chicago: CREB, 1915. Original cloth binding is lightly worn. Ex-library. First edition; Anthony, Elliott. Sanitation and Navigation. Chicago: Chicago Legal News, 1891. Original cloth binding is stained and worn. First edition. Presentation copy by author. Some pages lightly stainedl; Hill, Charles Shattuck. The Chicago Main Drainage Channel. New York: Engineering News Publishing Co., 1896. 4to, original cloth binding. Illustrated with folding plans. Minor shelfwear; Reports of the Board of Trustees of the Illinois and Michigan Canal, for the Years 1847 & 1848. Springfield IL: 1849. Rebound in cloth. First edition; Egan, A.J. Illinois State Board of Health. Advance Notes of the Sanitary Investigations of the Illinois River and its Tributaries. Springfield IL: Phillips

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