Books and Manuscripts

Scott, Joseph
The United States Gazetteer: Containing an Authentic description of the Several States...
Philadelphia: F. and R. Bailey, 1795. First edition. 12mo. vi, (iv, errata and blank), (292) pp. Illustrated with an engraved folding frontispiece map and 19 engraved folding maps (one with hand-coloring). Full contemporary sheep, rebacked, red morocco spine label, stamped in gilt, boards rubbed and scratched, corners rubbed; upper corner of title trimmed; tissue repairs to separations to frontispiece map; contemporary ownership signature at top of A1; light offsetting from maps on to text. Howes S-237; Sabin 78331; Evans 29476; Clark III:123; Wheat & Brun 125; Reese, The Federal Hundred 54

First edition of the first gazetteer published in the United States, containing detailed maps of Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, New Jersey, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, as well as some of the earliest maps of the Western frontier, and a large folding map of the United States.