The American gazetteer : 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.
Author/creator |
Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826 |
Other author/creator | Bradley, Abraham, -1838, cartographer. |
Other author/creator | Hill, Samuel, approximately 1766-1804, engraver. |
Other author/creator | Callender, Benjamin, 1773-1856, engraver. |
Format | Book and Microform |
Publication Info | 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. |
Description | viii, 620 unnumbered pages, 7 unnumbered folded leaves of plates : 7 maps ; 22 cm (8vo) |
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Series | Early American imprints. First series ; no. 32509 Early American imprints. First series ; no. 32509. ^A478749 |
General note | 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 who 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. |
General note | Signatures: pi⁴ A-L⁴ (M 1)-(Y 1)⁴ (Z 1)² (2A 1)⁴ M-3Q⁴ (3Q4 verso blank). Twenty-four letter alphabet, including W, used throughout. "The binder is requested to note that sigs. (M 1) to (AA 1) precede sig. M, and that sig. (Z 1) is a quarter sheet."--p. [619]. |
General note | Printed in two columns. |
General note | Errata note, p. [619]. |
References | Evans 32509 |
Reproduction note | Joyner- Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 32509). |
Genre/form | Gazetteers. |
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Joyner | NC Microfiche | MICROFICHE AM35E NO. 32509 | ✔ Available |