[Rarebooks] FS: First American description of the West

Bob Petrilla petrillabooks at gmail.com
Sun Oct 7 18:15:44 EDT 2012


GEOGRAPHY MADE EASY:  being an Abridgment of the American Universal
Geography, by Jedidiah Morse.

Published at Boston by Thomas & Andrews, 1807.

11th Edition. 432pp; *lacking* the map of the world and the map of North
America.  Bound in full calf with red leather spine label. 7" x 4.25"  Good
condition.

American Imprints #13144.  Howes, U.S.iana, 842: "First American school
geography and first American book describing the western country."

First published in 1794. This edition corrected by the author. The text,
including the first American description of the west, is complete.

$75.00

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