A / Compendious System / Of / Universal Geography, / Designed For Schools / Compiled / From The Latest And Most Distinguished / European And American / Travellers, Voyagers And Geog- / Raphers

Parish, Elijah

Published by Thomas & Whipple; Newburyport, Ma; 213 pp.; ; Good; nc/nd (1807), 1807

_____The first edition of this gazetteer of the the world. _____ ._____The bulk of the work concerns the United States and Territories and foreign colonies in North & South America. _____ The Mississippi Territory extends from Tennessee to the Mississippi River to West Florida which is still a Spanish Province._____ . _____ Louisiana reaches from the Gulf to the northern reaches. _____ California, a province of Mexico, is described as ". yet in the possession of the savages excepting a small town near the Cape of St. Lucar.". _____ The remainder reviews the rest of the world. _____ The Sandwich Islands, the primary of which is "Owhyhee", are occupied by natives whose "._noses are always flatted at the point, probably from the mode of their saluting one another, which is by pressing their noses together.". _____ "They seem to be mild and affectionate, but profess a bloody religion.". _____ The section on Africa is limited to coastal countries._____The Far East is nearly as mysterious. _____ The contemporary binding is literally boards, covered with gray paper (very chipped) and a leather spine._____ . _____ This first edition contained no maps._____ ._____They would be added to the second edition in 1808. _____ Sabin=58599 _____. Seller Inventory # 19767

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Title: A / Compendious System / Of / Universal ...
Publisher: Thomas & Whipple; Newburyport, Ma; 213 pp.; ; Good; nc/nd (1807)
Publication Date: 1807
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good