The Traveller's Directory, Or A Pocket Companion: Shewing The Course Of The Main Road Philadelphia To New York, And From Philadelphia To Washington. . From Actual Survey
Published by Mathew Carey, 1802
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.Sequitur Books
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[Carey's Traveller's Atlas: A Guidebook for the New Nation] Contemporary tree calf, rebacked with renewed spine. 38 engraved maps on 22 leaves. Dampstaining, staining. Chip missing from corner margin of map 10/11. Map sheet 21/22 restored, with some loss to original at inner margin. Final map of Washington City in facsimile. Early signature and stamp of John M. Miller. According to David Rumsey: "The second American road book, after Colles. The maps are better engraved than Colles, in a style closer to the English road books of John Cary. Descriptive text precedes the maps, describing the routes and places of interest. Smither engraved one map, I. Draper, two. The rest by Harrison & Shallus." Rumsey 2646. Refs: Streeter 3969; Howes M778; Sabin 50436; Walsh p78; P1327. This guide was made at a time when Philadelphia was the principal city in America.
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Traveller's Directory, Or A Pocket Companion: Shewing The Course Of The Main Road Philadelphia To New York, And From Philadelphia To Washington. . From Actual Survey
- Author
- S S Moore; T W Jones; Francis Shallus; William Harrison; James Smither
- Publisher
- Mathew Carey
- Publication year
- 1802
- Condition
- Fair
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- First Edition.
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- American History and Politics
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