NEW GAZETTEER, OR GEOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF NORTH AMERICA AND THE WEST INDIES
by DAVENPORT, Bishop
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- good
- first
- Condition
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Baltimore, Providence: George M'Dowell & Son / Hutchens & Shepard, 1832. First edition. 8vo. Good. 2 hand-colored folding maps. 8vo, 471 pages, full contemporary calf, rebacked with new leather but the original leather spine label, water stain in gutter and at fore-edge, foxing, inscriptions at the front for the Hollisters, including John Fletcher Hollister, Kendall County, Illinois, 1842: he was a founder of Plano, Illinois; another is Wesley Hollister in 1834. Tears in maps repaired with archival paper tape.
"The New Gazetteer contains a several page description of each state, statistical tables partly from the census of 1830; and lists of steamboat and canal routes and principal roads -BUCK, 252." Includes description of all the States, Counties, Cities, Towns, Forts, Seas, Harbors, Rivers, Lakes, Canals, Railroads. The two fold-out, HAND-COLORED MAPS: North America, and, the United States are by the Finleys of Philadelphia, and have paper repairs. With mulitple wood engravings, profiles, state coats-of-arms, and a full-page plate of the Rail-Road Engine, the " Daedalus ", with carriage cars.
"The New Gazetteer contains a several page description of each state, statistical tables partly from the census of 1830; and lists of steamboat and canal routes and principal roads -BUCK, 252." Includes description of all the States, Counties, Cities, Towns, Forts, Seas, Harbors, Rivers, Lakes, Canals, Railroads. The two fold-out, HAND-COLORED MAPS: North America, and, the United States are by the Finleys of Philadelphia, and have paper repairs. With mulitple wood engravings, profiles, state coats-of-arms, and a full-page plate of the Rail-Road Engine, the " Daedalus ", with carriage cars.
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- Bookseller
- Thomas J. Joyce And Company
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- DEMO004322I
- Title
- NEW GAZETTEER, OR GEOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF NORTH AMERICA AND THE WEST INDIES
- Author
- DAVENPORT, Bishop
- Illustrator
- 2 hand-colored folding maps
- Format/Binding
- 8vo
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- George M'Dowell & Son / Hutchens & Shepard
- Place of Publication
- Baltimore, Providence
- Date Published
- 1832
- Keywords
- Illinois, Kendall county, John Fletcher Hollister, north america, wesley hollister, west indies,
- Bookseller catalogs
- REFERENCE / Handbooks & Manuals;
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Thomas J. Joyce And Company
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Chicago, Illinois
About Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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