A Statistical, Political, and Historical Account of the United States of North America; From the Period of their First Colonization to the Present Day (Three Volumes)
Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, 1819.
First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Three-volume set in contemporary marbled boards with leather corners, but lacking backstrip (spine) on all three volumes. Vol. I: lxiv, 552 pp.; Vol. II: xii, 571 pp.; Vol. III: xii, 588 pp. Complete with two folding maps: hand colored map of the United States in very good condition, but with one long tear repaired on the verso with archival tape; map of Washington, D.C. heavily foxed. Boards slightly wobbly but holding, bindings sound, minimal foxing. Old library stamp on each front pastedown and "For Reference" label on rear pastedowns. Sabin (101366): After the preliminary general account each state is taken up separately, with a brief list of works relating to it at the end of the several chapters. These are followed by chapters on the population, public lands and agriculture, manufactures, commerce, canals and roads, government, finance, education, religion, a summary of the political and military history of the country since 1800, and an account of the Indians. Howes W-99.
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