and
eminent men--and a table of all the monies of the world, reduced to the federal
currency. The whole comprehending a complete and improved system of modern
geography. Calculated for Americans. Illustrated with ten maps. By Jedidiah
Morse, D.D. minister of the congregation in Charlestown. Published according to
act of Congress. Part II. Containing an improved geographical description of
the Eastern Continent and islands.
Second edition of this volume. Printed at
Boston, by
Isaiah Thomas and
Ebenezer T. Andrews. Sold at their Bookstore,
Faust’s Statue, No. 45, Newbury-Street; by said
Thomas, in
Worcester; by
S.
Campbell
, in
New York; by
M. Carey, in
Philadelphia; by
Thomas, Andrews and
Butler
, in
Baltimore; and by other Booksellers in different parts of the
United
States
.
June, 1796.
8vo. 348 leaves, 10 folded engraved maps. No copy was
seen for examination; the copy in the Library of Congress has disappeared from
the shelves.
Sabin
50926.
Evans 30823.
Jedidiah
Morse
, 1761-1826, Congregational minister, the “father of American
Geography.” The first edition of
The
American Geography
(the word
Universal was added to the later editions), was
published in Elizabeth Town by Shepard Kollock. The work was published in a
number of editions, and abridgments and translations appeared in many European
languages.
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Morse’s American gazetteer
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 125, no. 159, as
above.
MORSE,
Jedidiah.
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, and
other Islands appendant to the Continent, and those newly discovered in the
Pacific Ocean . . . 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 Massachusetts Historical Society. Illustrated with seven new and
neat Maps. Published according to Act of Congress.
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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.M84
First Edition. 8vo. 314
leaves with signatures [ ]
4, A-L, [M]-[Y]
4, [Z]
2, [Aa]
4, M-Z, Aa-Zz, Aaa-Qqq
4, in 24 letter alphabets, 7 folded engraved
maps, namely, A New Map of North America shewing all the New Dis-
