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Title: A Geographical Description of the United States with the
contiguous British and Spanish Possessions, intended as an
accompaniment to Melish's map of these countries.Publisher: British
Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the
national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's
largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all
known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound
recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its
collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial
additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating
back as far as 300 BC.The GENERAL HISTORICAL collection includes
books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This varied
collection includes material that gives readers a 19th century view
of the world. Topics include health, education, economics,
agriculture, environment, technology, culture, politics, labour and
industry, mining, penal policy, and social order. ++++The below
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British Library Melish, John; 1816. 8 . 10411.bbb.21.
Title: A Geographical Description of the United States with the
contiguous British and Spanish Possessions, intended as an
accompaniment to Melish's map of these countries.Publisher: British
Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the
national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's
largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all
known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound
recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its
collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial
additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating
back as far as 300 BC.The GENERAL HISTORICAL collection includes
books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This varied
collection includes material that gives readers a 19th century view
of the world. Topics include health, education, economics,
agriculture, environment, technology, culture, politics, labour and
industry, mining, penal policy, and social order. ++++The below
data was compiled from various identification fields in the
bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an
additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++
British Library Melish, John; 1816. 8 . 980.k.24.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
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hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
Title: The traveller's manual and description of the United States:
comprising geographical, historical, and statistical details of the
Union, and of each state: being a compendium of information, and a
useful accompaniment to a map of this country.Author: John
MelishPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph
Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana,
1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and
other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to
the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of
discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the
U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans,
slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana
offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere,
encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North
America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th
century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and
South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights
the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary
opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to
documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts,
newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and
more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of
original works are available via print-on-demand, making them
readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars,
and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from
various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this
title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to
insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington
LibraryDocumentID: SABCP03490900CollectionID:
CTRG00-B2171PublicationDate: 18310101SourceBibCitation: Selected
Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to
AmericaNotes: Preface signed and dated: "John Melish. Philadelphia,
July 4, 1822." Includes index.Collation: 497, 15] p., 12] leaves of
plates: maps (1 fold.); 21 cm
Title: A Geographical Description of the United States with the
contiguous British and Spanish Possessions, intended as an
accompaniment to Melish's map of these countries.Publisher: British
Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the
national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's
largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all
known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound
recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its
collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial
additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating
back as far as 300 BC.The GEOGRAPHY & TOPOGRAPHY collection
includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft.
Offering some insights into the study and mapping of the natural
world, this collection includes texts on Babylon, the geographies
of China, and the medieval Islamic world. Also included are
regional geographies and volumes on environmental determinism,
topographical analyses of England, China, ancient Jerusalem, and
significant tracts of North America. ++++The below data was
compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic
record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool
in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library
Melish, John; 1826. 8 . 1045.f.25.
Title: Travels in the United States of America in 1806, 1807,
1819-10 including an account of passages betwixt America and
Britain, and travels through various parts of Great Britain,
Ireland, and Upper Canada, etc.Publisher: British Library,
Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national
library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest
research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known
languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound
recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its
collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial
additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating
back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF TRAVEL collection includes
books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This
collection contains personal narratives, travel guides and
documentary accounts by Victorian travelers, male and female. Also
included are pamphlets, travel guides, and personal narratives of
trips to and around the Americas, the Indies, Europe, Africa and
the Middle East. ++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++ British Library Melish, John; 1818. 8
. 1052.d.6.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
Subtitle: Including an Account of Passages Betwixt America
In order to provide a "living picture" of America and to entice his
fellow countrymen to emigrate to the United States, John Melish
published in 1812 his "Travels through the United States of
America, in the years 1806 & 1807, and 1809, 1810, & 1811;
including an account of passages betwixt America and Britain, and
travels through various parts of Britain, Ireland, & Canada," a
work that has come to be seen as an objective portrait of America
in the early nineteenth-century. Born in Scotland, where he began
his career in the textile industry, Melish visited the United
States several times beginning in 1806, finally deciding to settle
in Philadelphia in 1811. In the preface to this work, Melish notes:
"as I have always considered books of travels to be very defective
when unaccompanied by maps, I have spared no labour, nor expence
[sic], to have a good set of maps to illustrate this work." These
were Melish's first maps, and they formed the basis for his later
career in cartography. Reinforcing his observations of the places
he visited, these first-hand maps focused on cities, towns, or
transportation hubs and included topography and information on
local settlements and roads, predominantly covering the
Mid-Atlantic and Mid-West. Considered to be some of the best local
maps of the time, they were regularly updated with each
publication. Melish's maps came to dominate the cartography
industry in America, and he set the standard for future American
map-makers.
In order to provide a "living picture" of America and to entice his
fellow countrymen to emigrate to the United States, John Melish
published in 1812 his "Travels through the United States of
America, in the years 1806 & 1807, and 1809, 1810, & 1811;
including an account of passages betwixt America and Britain, and
travels through various parts of Britain, Ireland, & Canada," a
work that has come to be seen as an objective portrait of America
in the early nineteenth-century. Born in Scotland, where he began
his career in the textile industry, Melish visited the United
States several times beginning in 1806, finally deciding to settle
in Philadelphia in 1811. In the preface to this work, Melish notes:
"as I have always considered books of travels to be very defective
when unaccompanied by maps, I have spared no labour, nor expence
[sic], to have a good set of maps to illustrate this work." These
were Melish's first maps, and they formed the basis for his later
career in cartography. These first-hand maps focused on cities,
towns, or transportation hubs and included topography and
information on local settlements and roads, predominantly covering
the Mid-Atlantic and Mid-West. Considered to be some of the best
local maps of the time, they were regularly updated with each
publication. Melish's maps came to dominate the cartography
industry in America, and he set the standard for future American
map-makers.
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