An historical, geographical, commercial, and philosophical view of the United States of America, and of the European settlements in America and the West-Indies : By W. Winterbotham. In four volumes. ...

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Winterbotham, William, 1763-1829
Corporate Author: Gale (Firm)
Other Authors: Scoles, John, 1772?-1853 (Engraver), Rollinson, William, 1762-1842 (Engraver), Tanner, Benjamin, 1775-1848 (Engraver), Tisdale, Elkanah, 1768-1835 (Engraver), Tiebout, John, 1772?-1826 (Printer), O'Brien, Edward, -1799 (Printer)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Edition:The first American edition, with additions and corrections.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Item Description:Re-issue of Winterbotham's A geographical, commercial, and philosophical view .. (Evans 29912) with new preliminaries in volume 1-2 and the addition of a subscription list and directions to the binder in volume 4.
Plates engraved by William Rollinson, John Scoles, Elkanah Tisdale and Benjamin Tanner.
Edition statement transposed; precedes "In four volumes." on title page.
Volume 1: vi, [2], 590 pages, [2] leaves of plates; volume 2: [4], 493, [1] pages, [2] leaves of plates; volume 3: [4], 519, [1] pages, [6] leaves of plates; volume 4: [4], 516, [20] pages, [16] leaves of plates. .
Errors in paging: volume 3, pages 48, 191, 236 and 296 misnumbered 28, 192, 218 and 294; volume 4, pages 295-296 and 318 misnumbered 285, 297 and 218.
"An atlas of twenty folio maps accompanies the work with a cover title: The atlas for Winterbotham's History of America,--which was also issued separately by the publisher, as 'The American atlas."'--Evans. The atlas is recorded as Evans 31078 and Bristol B9088 (Shipton and Mooney 47413).
"Subscribers names."--volume 4, pages [525-533]. .
"Directions to the binder."--volume 4, pages [535]. .
Reproduction of original from Boston Public Library.
Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (4 volumes) : illustrations, plans, portraits ;
Place of Publication:United States -- New York -- New York.