The history and topography of the United States of North America
Subtitle: brought down from the earliest period ...
By: by John Howard Hinton, A.M., assisted by several literary gentlemen in England and America ; with additions and corrections, by Samuel L. Knapp, Esq., and a continuation to the present time, by John O. Choules, D.D.
Contributors: Knapp, Samuel L. 1783-1838.; Choules, John Overton, 1801-1856.; Billings, Hammatt, 1818-1874.; Warren, Asa Coolidge, 1819-1904.; Croome, William, 1790-1860.; Archer, James, fl. 1835-1860.
Edition: Third edition ; illustrated with numerous engravings.
Publisher: Printed and published by Samuel Walker
Published: 1851
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 43
Subjects: United States -- History -- 1783-1815.; United States -- History -- 1815-1861.; United States -- Description and travel.; United States -- Geography.
Other titles: History and topography of the United States; History of America
Notes: "Comprising political and biographical history, geography, geology, mineralogy, zoology, and botany; agriculture, manufactures, and commerce; laws, manners, customs, and religion; with a topographical description of the cities, towns, sea-ports, public edifices, canals, &c. &c."
Vol. 1: added title page, engraved, signed: H. Billings, del., A.C. Warren, sc.
Vol. 2: added title page signed: drawn by William Croome, engraved by James Archer.
Dedicated to Washington Irving, "with admiration of his talents, high esteem for his character, and gratitude for his encouragement and aid in this undertaking."
Printed in columns.
Has index.
LC copy incomplete: frontispiece wanting in each vol. Has [3] leaves laid in: [1] leaf (28 cm.) from a book with two reproductions of drawings of New York City by de Saison, captions in French; [2] 19th-cent. lithographed book illustration (25 cm.): Hallowed be Thy name"; [3] scrap of lined paper (15 cm.) with religious poem in longhand, in pencil.
Gift; William Boswell; 2001; (DLC/PP-2112:063).