A GAZETTEER OF THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. Embellished with an Accurate Map of the State, and Several Other Engravings: by Abel Bowen by FARMER, John and Jacob B. Moore - 1823

Concord: Jacob B. Moore, 1823. Hbk full leather very worn and scuffed text block is stained discolored and foxed in varying proportions offered as a very early keepsake of the history of NH engraving show inter alia the State House, Dartmouth College, the Medical College Hanover, and a view of Portsmouth from the Shipyard but lacks the folding map overall a reasonably good working copy

1823 A conditionally very good+ example of this uncommon NH Gazetteer. First Edition, Printing & Issue complete with all 9 original Plates the folding map, & 1 smaller illustration on the title page. The large folding map of New Hampshire (from Phillip Carrigain's Map, 1816: In White Mountain history, the map is significant for incorporating the first illustrations of the mountains, in engravings by Abel Bowen after original drawings by James Kidder. (These were later reused several times, first in John Farmer and Jacob B. Moore’s 1823 A Gazetteer of the State of New-Hampshire.) They purport to be accurate, though the view of the mountains from Shelburne demonstrably is not, and the engraving of Crawford Notch is printed in mirror image.) is a correct uncolored first printing. Later printings were colored (likely) by the publisher and after-the-fact by owners and dealers in an attempt to make an already excellent map even more striking. I prefer the unadulterated state. Bound in the… Read More