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Description and travel, History, Portraits, Early works to 1800, Zoology, Treaties, Portraits, caricatures, Foreign relationsPeople
William Penn (1644-1718), George Washington (1732-1799), William Winterbotham (1763-1829), Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)Places
America, United States, West IndiesTimes
Early works to 1800, To 1810Showing 3 featured editions. View all 3 editions?
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Re-issue of Winterbotham's A geographical, commercial, and philosophical view ... (Evans 29912) with new preliminaries in v. 1-2 and the addition of a subscription list and directions to the binder in v. 4.
Plates engraved by William Rollinson, John Scoles, Elkanah Tisdale and Benjamin Tanner.
Edition statement transposed; precedes "In four volumes." on title page.
Signatures: v. 1, piþ́ A-Uþ́ Wþ́ Z-4Eþ́ 4Fþ́(-4F4); v. 2, [A]℗ø B-3Qþ́ 3Rþ́(-3R4) (3R3 verso blank); v. 3, [A]℗ø B-3Uþ́ (3U4 verso blank; 3C2 missigned 3C3); v. 4, [A]℗ø B-3Tþ́ 3U℗ø 3X-3Yþ́ [3Z]℗ø ([3Z]2 verso blank; 3M2 missigned 3K2)
Vol. 1: vi, [2], 590 p., [2] leaves of plates; v. 2: [4], 493, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates; v. 3: [4], 519, [1] p., [6] leaves of plates; v. 4: [4], 516, [20] p., [16] leaves of plates.
Errors in paging: v. 3, p. 48, 191, 236 and 296 misnumbered 28, 192, 218 and 294; v. 4, p. 295-296 and 318 misnumbered 285, 297 and 218.
"An atlas of twenty folio maps accompanies the work with a cover title: The atlas for Winterbotham's History of America,--which was also issued separately by the publisher, as 'The American atlas.'"--Evans. The atlas is recorded as Evans 31078 and Bristol B9088 (Shipton & Mooney 47413)
"Subscribers names."--v. 4, p. [525-533]
"Directions to the binder."--v. 4, p. [535]
Evans 31647.
Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 31647)
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