$1,000
Estimate: $1,200 - $1,800
Auction: February 18, 2021 10:00:00 AM EDT
Philadelphia: F. and R. Bailey, 1795. First edition. 12mo. vi, (288) pp. Illustrated with 19 engraved folding maps. Contemporary brown mottled calf, black morroco spine label, stamped in blind and in gilt, front and rear boards detached, boards and extremities rubbed and worn, spine ends chipped; all edges trimmed; large folding map at front worn with various separations along folds; scattered light spotting and offsetting to text and plates; book-plate on rear paste-down. Evans 29476; Howes S-237; Sabin 78331.
First edition of the first gazetteer published in the United States, containing detailed maps of Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, New Jersey, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, as well as one of the earliest maps of the Western frontier, and a large folding map of the United States.