The Washington guide
Subtitle: containing an account of the District of Columbia; its capture by the British, in 1814; abstract of the general laws of the corporation ... list of the officers of the corporation ... city post office; rates of postage; and departure and arrival of stages and steamboats; judiciary; list of banks and directors, in Washington and Georgetown; diplomatic and consular agents residing in Washington; botany of the District of Columbia.
Contributors: Brereton, John A.; Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress); John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: S. A. Elliot
Published: 1822
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 138
Subjects: Washington (D.C.) -- Guidebooks
Genres: Guidebooks.
Notes: Bound in cover 16 cm.
Compiler's name appears on verso of t.-p.
First edition.
"Account of the capture of the city of Washington, by the British ... published in 1816, by an anonimous writer, signed Spectator [John Armstrong?]": p. 26-51.
"Botany of the District of Columbia [by J. A. Brereton]": p. 123-138.