THE OHIO GAZETTEER, OR TOPOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY; CONTAINING A DESCRIPTION OF THE SEVERAL COUNTIES, TOWNS, VILLAGES, SETTLEMENTS, ROADS, RIVERS, LAKES SPRINGS MINES, &c. IN THE STATE OF OHIO...Sixth edition, improved

Columbus [i.e. Chillicothe]: Published and sold by J. Kilbourn, 1819.. 176pp., including twenty in-text maps, plus two folding maps and a folding plan. 12mo. Contemporary calf-backed drab wrappers. Wrappers a bit stained, backstrip rubbed, chipped at head of spine. Later pencil inscription on copyright page, closed tear in lower gutter of first four leaves. Lightly tanned and foxed, foredge trimmed close. Overall very good. The first guide and gazetteer issued in Ohio, originally published in 1816 (two editions were issued that year) and annually thereafter, making this the sixth edition. The book contains information on the character and manners of the populace, religion, education, natural resources, climate trade and manufacturing, and government, and provides an alphabetized list of cities, towns, villages, rivers, streams and other places of geographic importance. Each county is illustrated by a woodcut map within the text. The folding plan shows the city of Columbus, with one of the folding maps showing Ross County and the then-capital city of Chillicothe, with hand-painted borders around the county townships. The folding map of the state found at the end of the preface has handcolored outlines for each county and is considered one of the earliest large format maps of the state. Only the second copy we have handled, and in attractive, original condition. HOWES K129. MORGAN, OHIO IMPRINTS 491. THOMSON 672.