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The American universal geography: or, A view of the present state of all the empires, kingdoms, states, and republicks in the known world, and of the United States of America in particular. : In two parts. : The first part treats of astronomical geography, and other useful preliminaries to the study of geography, in an enlarged and improved introduction--of the western or American continent--of its discovery--its aboriginal inhabitants, and when they came--its divisions--but more particularly of the United States of America, generally and individually--of their situation, extent, civil divisions, rivers, lakes, climate, mountains, soil, produce, natural history, commerce, manufactures, population, character, curiosities, waters, springs, mines and minerals, military strength, government, islands, history of the war, and succeeding events--closing with a view of the British, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and other dominions, on the continent and in the West-Indies. : The second part describes at large, and from the latest and best authorities, the present state, in respect to the above-mentioned particulars, of the eastern continent and its islands--as divided into Europe, Asia and Africa--and subdivided into empires, kingdoms and republicks. : To which are added, an improved catalogue of names of places, and their geographical situation, alphabetically arranged: an enlarged chronological table, of remarkable events from the creation to the present time: a list of ancient and modern learned and eminent men:--and a table of all the monies of the world, reduced to federal currency. : The whole comprehending a complete and improved system of modern geography, calculated for Americans. : Illustrated with six maps, and accompanied by a new and elegant general atlas of the world, containing (in a separate volume) sixty-three maps, and comprising all the new discoveries to the present time. / By Jedidiah Morse, D.D. F.A.A. S.H.S. Minister of the Congregational church in Charlestown. ; Part first. ; The introduction revised by Samuel Webber, A.M. Hollis Professor of Mathematicks and Natural Philosophy in the University at Cambridge. ; Published according to act of Congress.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 8933.
- Standardized Title:
- American universal geography
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Geography.
- United States--Description and travel.
- United States.
- North America--Description and travel.
- North America.
- South America--Description and travel.
- South America.
- Africa--Description and travel.
- Africa.
- Asia--Description and travel.
- Asia.
- Europe--Description and travel.
- Europe.
- Genre:
- Gazetteers.
- Maps.
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes : 6 maps. ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Fifth edition--corrected and improved.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston: : Printed by J.T. Buckingham, for Thomas & Andrews. Sold at their bookstore, no. 45 Newbury-Street; by said Thomas in Worcester; and by the principal booksellers in the United States., August, 1805.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Notes:
- The atlas called for in the title is Aaron Arrowsmith and Samuel Lewis's "A new and elegant general atlas" (Shaw & Shoemaker 8972). According to its title, it is "Intended to accompany the new improved edition of Morse's Geography, but equally well calculated to be used with any former edition, with his Gazetteer, or any other geographical work." Cataloged separately.
- Title and edition statement of v. 2 vary: The American universal geography ... Part second. Containing an improved geographical description of the eastern continent and islands. Published according to act of Congress. Fourth edition of this volume.
- World map in v. 1 signed: From Arrowsmith's map of the world. Some maps engraved by E.G Gridley, Thomas K. Marshall and John Scoles.
- Vol. 1: 6, [3], 18-864 p., [3] folded leaves of plates; v. 2: [5], 10-664 p., [3] folded leaves of plates.
- Errors in paging: v. 1, p. 579, 612 misnumbered 57, 12; v. 2, p. 629 misnumbered 628.
- "Addenda."--v. 1, p. [7].
- Includes indexes.
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 8933).
- Contains:
- Arrowsmith, Aaron, 1750-1823. New and elegant general atlas.
- Lewis, Samuel, 1753 or 1754-1822. New and elegant general atlas.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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