BREESE, Sidney (1800-1878). Early History of Illinois. Chicago: E.B. Myers & Company, 1884. Publisher's brown cloth gilt. FIRST EDITION. Bradford 532. -- CRITCHELL, Robert S. (1844-1919) Recollections of a Fire Insurance Man. Chicago: By the Author, 1909. Publisher's blue cloth gilt. --  FLANDERS, Robert Bruce (1930-2021). Nauvoo: Kingdom on the Mississippi. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1965. --  LANDRUM, Carl A. (1915-2003) Quincy in the Civil War. Quincy: By the Author, 1966. Publisher's printed wraps. FIRST EDITION. -- LOVEJOY, Joseph C. (1805-1871) and LOVEJOY, Owen (1811-1864). Memoir of the Reverend Elijah P. Lovejoy. New York: John S. Taylor, 1838. Contemporary half calf. -- PERRIN, J. Nick. History of Illinois. Springfield: [The author], 1906. Publisher's buff cloth. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. -- REED, Charles Bert (1866-1940). Masters of the Wilderness. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1914. Publisher's brown cloth. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. -- And 46 others. Together, 53 works in 53 volumes, various 8vo and 4to sizes, condition generally fine. Provenance for the lot: Dudley Bell Priester (1923-2017), Mississippi River collector and bibliographer (sold Bloomsbury, 19 November 2009, lot 86). Complete list available on request.