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An historical, geographical, commercial, and philosophical view of the United States of America, and of the European settlements in America and the West-Indies [electronic resource] : By W. Winterbotham. In four volumes. ...
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Winterbotham, William, 1763-1829.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Zoology--America.
- Zoology.
- America--Description and travel.
- America.
- America--History.
- United States--Description and travel.
- United States.
- United States--History.
- West Indies--Description and travel.
- West Indies.
- West Indies--History.
- Washington, George, 1732-1799--Portraits.
- Washington, George.
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790--Portraits.
- Franklin, Benjamin.
- Winterbotham, William, 1763-1829--Portraits.
- Winterbotham, William.
- Penn, William, 1644-1718--Portraits.
- Penn, William.
- Genre:
- Subscribers' lists.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (4 v. ) ill., plans, ports. ;
- Edition:
- The first American edition, with additions and corrections.
- Other Title:
- Historical, geographical, commercial, and philosophical view of the United States of America, and of the European settlements in America and the West-Indies
- Historical, geographical, commercial, and philosophical view of the United States ...
- Place of Publication:
- New-York : Printed by Tiebout and O'Brien, for John Reid, bookseller and stationer, no. 106, Water-Street, 1796.
- Notes:
- Re-issue of Winterbotham's A geographical, commercial, and philosophical view .. (Evans 29912) with new preliminaries in v. 1-2 and the addition of a subscription list and directions to the binder in v. 4.
- Plates engraved by William Rollinson, John Scoles, Elkanah Tisdale and Benjamin Tanner.
- Edition statement transposed; precedes "In four volumes." on title page.
- Vol. 1: vi, [2], 590 p., [2] leaves of plates; v. 2: [4], 493, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates; v. 3: [4], 519, [1] p., [6] leaves of plates; v. 4: [4], 516, [20] p., [16] leaves of plates.
- Errors in paging: v. 3, p. 48, 191, 236 and 296 misnumbered 28, 192, 218 and 294; v. 4, p. 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 & Mooney 47413).
- "Subscribers names."--v. 4, p. [525-533].
- "Directions to the binder."--v. 4, p. [535].
- Reproduction of original from Boston Public Library.
- Cited in:
- Evans, 31647
- Goldsmiths', 16562
- English Short Title Catalog, W12698.
- OCLC:
- 510980546
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