(TRAVEL) Melish John Travels in the United States of America

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(TRAVEL.) Melish, John. Travels in the United States of America. 8 maps, 2 folding tables. xxii, [2], 444; ix, 492 pages. 2 volumes. 8vo, contemporary marbled calf, first volume rebacked with original backstrip laid down, minor wear; closed tears to first map, intermittent foxing, moderate dampstaining, second volume lacking front flyleaf and rear free endpaper; early owner's signatures on first title page. Philadelphia, 1812

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first edition. An Scottish merchant's travels from 1805 to 1811, with extensive sections on Georgia, New England, the District of Columbia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Canada, and western New York. A long conversation with President Jefferson is recorded on pages I:201-6. The maps in this volume were Melish's first venture into cartography; his later 1816 map of the United States remains a cornerstone. "Probably the widest known of early British travelers in America. . . . One of the most accurate and faithful records written in the first part of the nineteenth century"--Clark, Old South, II:159; Howes M496 ("aa"); Hubach, pages 43-44; Sabin 47436; TPL 878.