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The American atlas : containing the following maps. --Viz.-- 1. North-America 2. South-America 3. United States 4. New-Hampshire 5. Province of Maine 6. Massachusetts 7. Vermont 8. Rhode-Island 9. Connecticut 10. New-York 11. New-Jersey 12. Pennsylvania 13. Delaware and Maryland 14. Virginia 15. Kentucky, with the adjoining territories 16. North-Carolina 17. South-Carolina 18. Georgia 19. Tennessee 20. West-Indies.

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Publication InfoNew-York : Published by John Reid, bookseller and stationer, no. 106, Water-Street, 1796.
Description2 unnumbered pagesleaves, 21 unnumbered pagesleaves of plates : illustrations, maps, plan ; 2⁰.
Supplemental Content Full text online
Subject(s)
America--Maps.
North America--Maps.
South America--Maps.
United States--Maps.
West Indies--Maps.
Washington (D.C.)--Maps.
Other author/creatorEllicott, Andrew, 1754-1820, author.
Other author/creatorEllicott, Andrew, 1754-1820.
Other author/creatorReid, John, 1764?-1828, publisher.
Other author/creatorSmith, Charles, 1768-1808, publisher.
Other author/creatorWayland, Levi, -1795 publisher.
Other author/creatorScoles, John, 1772?-1853 engraver.
Other author/creatorTanner, Benjamin, 1775-1848 engraver.
Other author/creatorRoberts, John, 1768-1803, engraver.
Other author/creatorAnderson, Alexander, 1775-1870 engraver.
Other author/creatorMartin, David engraver.
Other author/creatorRollinson, William, 1762-1842, engraver.
Other author/creatorWinterbotham, William, 1763-1829. Historical, geographical, commercial, and philosophical view of the United States.
General noteCover title, on printed label: The atlas for Winterbotham's History of America. 1796.
General note"A separate issue of the atlas, originally designed to accompany Winterbotham's Historical view of the United States [Evans 31647]."--Evans.
General noteMaps engraved by John Scoles, Benjamin Tanner, John Roberts, Alexander Anderson, David Martin, and William Rollinson.
General noteTwo settings of type of the title page noted. In one, the word "viz." is set in Roman type; in the other, it is set in italic, and the period is omitted. The ornaments vary.
General noteSome copies include a "Plan for the City of Washington .. Pollinson sculpt. N. York Publish'd by I. Reid L. Wayland and C. Smith 1795," atttributed to Andrew Ellicott (Bristol B9088).
General noteAlso issued with: An historical, geographical, commercial, and philosophical view of the United States of America..(Evans 31647).
General noteReproduction of original from Boston Public Library.
References Evans, 31078
References English Short Title Catalog, W11547.
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
Genre/formAtlases (Geographic) 1796.
Other titleAtlas for Winterbotham's History of America.

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