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432 p, missing first pages, begins on introduction on page 13. Date estimated based on the inclusion of the tables. Secondary leather cover by early owner. Includes map of North America, missing world map. A good reading copy.

Boston: Thomas and Andrews, 1807. Eleventh edition. Leather bound. Poor. 12mo. 432 pages. Missing frontispiece map. Folding map of North America is present. Brown calf leather binding. Binding is in poor condition. Covers detached, title label missing on spine, and covers are dry, cracked and worn. The front end sheets are missing, rear end sheet detached, and pages 31, 32 torn at bottom with loss of about 3 to 4 lines of print. Toning to the contents. Map of North America in good condition with small split lower fold.

Boston: J.T. Buckingham, 1806 Book. Fair. Hardcover. Lacks both foldout maps. Significant age wear including toning, foxing, scuffs, soils, etc. "To which is added an improved chronological table of remarkable events, from the Creation to the present time"..

Boston: I. Thomas and E. T. Andrews, 1802 Title contd.: " Particular accounts of the United States of AMERICA, and of all the Kingdoms, States, and Republics in the known world, In regard to their boundaries, extent, rivers, lakes, mountains, productions, population, character, governments, trade, manufacturing, curiosities, history, &c. to which is added an improved chronological table of remarkable events, from the creation to the present time." Illustrated with a map of the world, amd a map of North America. Calculated particularly for the use and improvement of schools and academies in the United States of America. 12mo. 7" x 4 1/4". Full leather with red leather title label attached to spine stamped in gilt. 430 pages. Only 1/3 of world map laid-in. The fold-out of the North American map is missing. Some scattered foxing. Missing front board and last page of text otherwise in fair condition. A scarce early edition..

Boston, MA: Thomas & Andrews. FR/NO DUSTJACKET. 1811. 14th edition. Leather. Illustrated with a fragment of the map of the world and a full map of North America with ruff edges but complete. Second of this new abridgment. Appendix of United States Census. . 12mo., 363pp., Leather worn but tight to text; ownership markings; heavily foxed and stained; frontis fold-out map lacks section, other map torn; margin tears on several pages; missing ix-12; begins with Elements of Geography; as is .

Boston: Thomas & Andrews, 1816. Eighteenth Edition. Leather bound. Very good. 16mo (17 x 11 cm). 364 pp. Brown leather covers with green leather panel and gilt titles to spine. 1 cm chip to head of spine, wear to tail. Printed label of Robert M. Todd to front free endpaper with "Robert M Todds Book steal not this book for fear of shame........my property 1818" on next leaf. Printed by Ezra Lincoln Sept 1816. 1/2 of globe opposite title page, other map missing.

Boston, MA: Thomas & Andrews, 1811. Fourteenth Edition. Full Leather. Good+. Fourteenth Edition. Full Leather. Outstanding early copyright statement. Overall, a rather nice copy of this scarce volume, sadly largely sans maps. Moderate wear at head and heel of spine and corners, light shelf wear, majority of gilt at spine worn away, prior owner notations on endpages, light foxing throughout, several pages show closed tears, a few show missing material, fold out map of North America partially missing, world map missing, else tight and unmarred. Full leather boards, gilt lettering and decorative elements. 12mo. 363pp. Maps.

Boston, MA: Troy / Parker & Bliss. 1816. Leather. Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. . UNION S. GLASS-This smallish 8vo hardcover is in GOOD overall condition. Heavy foxing, PO inscription. 364pp. Solid binding. brown leather. .

Troy, New York: Parker and Bliss, Printers, 1814. Original Edition. Hardcover. Solid and tight with no extraneous marks but heavily foxed (but still readable). In florid script on ffep: Lydia Sanford's book, bought Jan'y 16, 1817.. Brown leather with red leather title label on spine; gilt lettering and 5 gilt bands. 360 pp. with folding frontis world map and 1 additional folding map (North America). "For the use of schools and academies in the United States of America." From the 16th Boston edition. Covers the elements of geograhpy and much more, including globes, the Harvest Moon, vapors and clouds, religions, divisions of time, tides, eclipses, measures, etc. Locations still include Indiana Territory, Mississippi Territory, and Spanish America, etc. as well as Prussia, Austrian Dominions, (no Finland), Hindoostan, Assam, Abyssinia, States of Barbary, and more obsolete political entities.

Boston: Thomas & Andrews. Good with no dust jacket; Boards splayed and worn, foxing, several small . waterstains and ink stains, penciled owner signatures on front pastedown . endpaper.. 1807. Eleventh Edition. Hardcover. Eleventh edition, corrected by the author. Full tree calf binding with maroon gilt-titled leather lettering piece on spine. Gilt ruling on spine. Two folding maps: a frontispiece world map (missing outer half) and a map of North America and the Caribbean islands. Howes M850 notes that this was the first American school geography and first American book describing the Western country. Sabin 50936. Interesting opinions and observations throughout the text, including description of indigenous people, mention of the venomous spit of South American llamas, Mexicos floating gardens, American birds, alligators, and other wildlife, as well as commentary about African countries on the Slave Coast to make some amends [which] could be made for past treachery to the natives. Morse is… Read More

Boston: By I. Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews, 1790.. v,322,iv pp. plus eight maps (one folding) engraved by Amos Doolittle. 12mo. Contemporary calf, gilt leather label, raised bands. Chipped at spine ends, moderate edge wear, hinges reinforced with white paper tape. Contemporary ownership signature on front free endpaper, some toning, occasional minor foxing. Still, a very good copy. In a half morocco and cloth clamshell box, spine gilt with raised bands. Second edition of the first American geography textbook. First printed in New Haven in 1784, this rather scarce second edition was printed in Boston by Isaiah Thomas. The original edition had only two maps; the present edition expands that number to eight, depicting a range of subjects around the globe. The most important map is the folding map of the United States, often missing in this book. It is one of the earliest maps of the young United States to be printed in America, and shows the westernmost states reaching the Mississippi River, and a… Read More