Mar 22, 2007 - Sale 2108

Sale 2108 - Lot 196

Price Realized: $ 480
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
MELISH, JOHN. A Geographical Description of the United States, with the Contiguous British and Spanish Possessions. 5 engraved maps (1 hand-colored). 8vo, publisher's 1/2 roan; wormhole along gutter through most of volume, growing worse toward end and affecting a few scattered words of text and the margin of the folding map; bookplate on the front pastedown (Albert Insinger). With the errata slip tipped to the front free endpaper as issued. Philadelphia: John Melish, 1816

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first edition. Howes M490.