A topographical description of the western territory of North America containing a succinct account of its soil, climate, natural history, population, agriculture, manners, and customs, with an ample description of the several divisions into which that country is partitioned : to which are added, the discovery, settlement, and present state of Kentucky, and an essay towards the topography, and nat...
[4], xvi, 433, [23] pages, [4] folded leaves of plates illustrations, maps 22 cm (8vo)
Type:
Early works to 1800
History
Place:
United States
Genesee Region (N.Y.)
Genesee River Valley (Pa. and N.Y.)
Kentucky
Mississippi River Valley
Ohio River Valley
Date:
1793
To 1803
To 1795
Notes:
First edition, London, 1792
"Report of the Secretary of State to the President of the United States, of the quantity and situation of the lands not claimed by the Indians, nor granted to, nor claimed by any citizens, within the territory of the United States ... Nov. 10, 1791": pages [417]-433, with separate title page
Filson work has separate title page with imprint of 1784
Page 433 misprinted as 17
Includes index
Errata: page [21], 4th page group
"Directions to the binder": page [21], 4th page group
Publisher's advertisements: pages [22]-[23], 4th page group
Signatures [A]² a⁸ B-2F⁸ 2G⁴
SCNHRB has two copies
SCNHRB copies both have Map of the western territory bound-in at end
SCNHRB c. 1 (39088015715857) with pencilled occasional pencilled ms. markings
SCNHRB c. 1 half bound in red sheepskin and marbled paper boards, title in gilt on spine, marbled endpapers; uncut
SCNHRB c. 2 (39088015715899) blind-stamped on title page: Bureau of American Ethnology Library. Stamped [acc. no.] 10441
SCNHRB c. 2 bound in recent green cloth, printed paper spine label
