A book of the United States : exhibiting its geography, divisions, constitution and government, institutions, agriculture, commerce, manufactures, religion, education, population, natural curiosities, railroads, canals, public buildings, manners and customs, fine arts, antiquities, literature, mineralogy, botany, geology, natural history, productions, &c., &c., &c. : and presenting a view of the republic generally and of the individual states / edited by Grenville Mellen.
Author/creator |
Mellen, Grenville, 1799-1841 |
Other author/creator | Hills, James H., approximately 1814- |
Format | Electronic and Book |
Publication Info | New-York : H.F. Sumner & Co., 1839 (Boston : Stereotyped by Shepard, Oliver & Co., Martinson & Co., printers) |
Description | vi, [13]-824 pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm. |
Supplemental Content | Gale, Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500-1926 |
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Series | Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926 Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926. UNAUTHORIZED |
Local note | Travel; Science; Early Republic; Antebellum. |
Local note | 2009A658200. |
General note | Title-vignette. |
General note | Front. has ports. of the first seven presidents, signed: J.H. Hills sc. |
General note | "Appendix."--P. 817-824, printed in two columns. |
General note | "Together with a condensed history of the land from its first discovery to the present time. The biography of about two hundred of the leading men; a description of the principal cities and towns; with statistical tables, relating to the religion, commerce, manufactures and various other topics." |
General note | Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society. |
General note | Sabin no. 6363. |
Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Gale, 2010. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. |
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