The American gazetteer, [electronic resource] : exhibiting, in alphabetical order, a much more full and accurate account, than has been given, of the states, provinces, counties, cities, towns, villages, rivers, bays, harbours, gulfs, sounds, capes, mountains, forts, Indian tribes, & new discoveries, on the American continent, also of the West-India Islands ... with a particular description of the Georgia Western Territory ... The whole comprising upwards of seven thousand distinct articles. Collected and compiled from the best authorities, and arranged with great care, by, and under the direction of, Jedidiah Morse, D.D. Author of the American universal geography--Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences--and member of the Masssachusetts Historical Society. Illustrated with seven new and neat maps. Published according to act of Congress.
1797
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The American gazetteer, [electronic resource] : exhibiting, in alphabetical order, a much more full and accurate account, than has been given, of the states, provinces, counties, cities, towns, villages, rivers, bays, harbours, gulfs, sounds, capes, mountains, forts, Indian tribes, & new discoveries, on the American continent, also of the West-India Islands ... with a particular description of the Georgia Western Territory ... The whole comprising upwards of seven thousand distinct articles. Collected and compiled from the best authorities, and arranged with great care, by, and under the direction of, Jedidiah Morse, D.D. Author of the American universal geography--Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences--and member of the Masssachusetts Historical Society. Illustrated with seven new and neat maps. Published according to act of Congress.
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Printed in Boston : at the presses of S. Hall, and Thomas & Andrews, and sold by E. Larkin, and the other booksellers in Boston; by Gaine & Ten Eyck, and S. Campbell, New-York; M. Carey, and W. Young, Philadelphia; by Messrs. Websters, and Thomas, Andrews & Pennyman, Albany; and Thomas, Andrews & Butler, Baltimore, 1797.
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United States -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
United States -- New York -- New York.
United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
United States -- New York -- New York.
United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
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English
Description
viii, [620] p., [7] folded leaves of plates : 7 maps ; 8⁰.
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Maps engraved by Samuel Hill and Benjamin Callender. The maps of the northern and southern parts of the United States are by Abraham Bradley, Jun. "The map of the Georgia Western Territory, not being received in season to accompany some of the copies first delivered; those wh may receive the work without it, may have a copy of the map, after the first of July next, by calling on Mr. Ebenezer Larkin, Cornhill. Boston." --verso of title page.
Printed in two columns.
Errata note, p. [619].
Reproduction of original from British Library.
Printed in two columns.
Errata note, p. [619].
Reproduction of original from British Library.
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Evans, 32509
English Short Title Catalog, W38516.
English Short Title Catalog, W38516.
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
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