Villages in the Illinois Country, a Table of the Distances between Fort Pitt and the Mouth of the Ohio, all engraved upon
Copper. And an Appendix, containing Mr. Patrick Kennedy’s Journal up the Illinois River, and a correct List of the different
Nations and Tribes of Indians, with the Number of Fighting Men, &c.
London: Printed for the Author, and sold by
J. Almon,
1778.
E163 .H96
First Edition. First issue. 8vo. 36 leaves, 2 folded engraved plans by J. Cheevers, 1 folded engraved table; with the misprint
ln for
in in the title, and the list of errata on the last page.
Sabin 34054.
Field 744.
Thomson,
A Bibliography of Ohio,
625.
Bound in blue buckram by the Library of Congress.
In January 1784 Jefferson made a list of errors in Hutchins’s large folded map, which he headed:
Hutchins’s map of Miss(
~i
)
pi.
errors in the engraved plate
His draft of errors in the engraved plate, written on 2 pages, is in the Jefferson Papers in the Library of Congress. The
original, with a letter, was evidently sent to Hutchins, who wrote to Jefferson from Philadelphia on February 11 a long letter
dealing with the material of his pamphlet and beginning: “Your favor of the 24th of last month I was honored with the 9th instant.--I embrace the first opportunity of tendering you
my thanks for your friendly communication respecting the error you discovered in my Pamphlet. How to account for so egregious
a blunder in calculation, I am really at a loss, as a moments reflection on the subject would have set me right. Should any
other mistake appear to you on your further perusal of that small performance, your favouring me with it, will be esteemed
an additional mark of your friendship. I am collecting materials to enable me to furnish a more particular account of that
valuable country to the Westward, which I purpose doing, by re-publishing the present Pamphlet, after correcting its errors,
with the addition of every useful information that I shall be able to acquire; any hints furnished by my friends for the promotion
of this work, will be thankfully received . . .”
Thomas Hutchins, 1730-1789, Geographer to the United States and engineer. The Preface is dated from London, Nov. 1, 1778. This book has been
issued in facsimile by F. C. Hicks, with a biographical and bibliographical introduction.
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Doct
r. Franklin’s argument of an Indian with a Swedish missionary &c.
ii.
The American Magazine, or a Monthly View of the Political State of the British Colonies: For March, 1741. (To be continued
Monthly). Containing . . .
Philadelphia: Printed and sold by
Andrew Bradford [
1741]. Price
One Shilling Pennsylvania Currency, or
Eight Pence Sterling.
AP2 .A2 A3
8vo. 22 leaves, printed in double columns, woodcut at the head of the text; Erata
[
sic
--
Ed.
] list on back of title.
Sabin 1139.
Evans 4664.
Hildeburn 688.
Not in Ford.
Not in Field.
Bound in half morocco by the Library of Congress in 1910.
This is the first magazine published in the American Colonies, and was projected and edited by John Webbe. The Prospectus appeared in the
Weekly Mercury
for Nov. 6, 1740. The first number was to have been issued in March 1741, but was put back to February 13, in order to precede
Franklin’s
General Magazine
, of which the first number appeared on February 16.
The title of the third article in the American Magazine reads:
The Religion of the Indian Natives of America.
This article is not attributed to Franklin by any of the bibliographers.
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