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. Vol. I[-IV].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Winterbotham, William, 1763-1829 24586

Language:

English

Physical Description:

4 v. : ill., plans, ports. ; 8°.

Edition:

The first American edition, with additions and corrections.

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].

Local Notes:

Library copy: ?ill.; ?atlas

HSP in LCP.

Cited in:

Evans 31647, Goldsmiths' 16562