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AN ABRIDGMENT OF THE AMERICAN GAZETTEER. Exhibiting, In Alphabetical Order, a Compendious Account of the States, Provinces, Counties, Cities, Towns, Villages, Rivers, Bays, Harbours, Gulfs, Sounds, Capes, Mountains, Forts, Indian Tribes & New Discoveries
de Morse, Jedidiah
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Boston, MA: Thomas and Andrews, 1798. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. Early edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 388 pages of text. Newly rebound in brown cloth with a maroon leather spine label. The title page and the fold-out map frontispiece was washed. Minor foxing to text. Early owner's ink inscription on the top of an interior page. Title continues "...on the American Continent, and its Appendant Islands; Particularly the West-Indies. Describing the Extent, Boundaries, Population, Government, Production, Commerce, Manufactures, Curiosities, &c of the several Countries, and of their important Civil Divisions, and the Longitude and Latitude, the Bearings and the Distances, from noted Places, of the Cities, Towns, and Villages. To which is Annexed an Accurate Table of all the Post-Offices in the United States." The folding map is titled "Map of North America from the Latest Discoveries 1798." Howes J842, a reprint of the 1797 expansion with the current title, which was expanded from the 1789 "American Geography", which was expanded from the 1784 "Geography Made Easy...", which was the first American school geography book..
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- Título
- AN ABRIDGMENT OF THE AMERICAN GAZETTEER. Exhibiting, In Alphabetical Order, a Compendious Account of the States, Provinces, Counties, Cities, Towns, Villages, Rivers, Bays, Harbours, Gulfs, Sounds, Capes, Mountains, Forts, Indian Tribes & New Discoveries
- Autor
- Morse, Jedidiah
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very good condition
- Edición
- Early edition
- Editorial
- Thomas and Andrews
- Lugar de publicación
- Boston, MA
- Fecha de publicación
- 1798
- Tamaño
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
