A Gazetteer of the State of New-York; Carefully written from original and authentic materials, arranged on a new plan, In three parts

Spafford, Horatio Gates

Verlag: H.C. Southwick, Albany, 1813

Beschreibung

THE FIRST GAZETTEER OF NEW YORK -- A CONGRESSIONAL COPY. Albany: H. C. Southwick, 1813. Octavo in 4s (8 1/4" x 5 1/16", 210mm x 129mm). [Full collation available.] With an engraved folding map of New York State. Bound in contemporary tree sheep. On the spine, seven pairs of gilt fillets. Title gilt to red morocco in the second panel. Paper labels in the third (date) and the sixth panels (owner). Blind roll to the edges of the boards. All edges of the text-block speckled red. Lacking two lithographed plates. Rubbed generally, worn at the fore-corners. Light foxing. Ownership signatures to the recto of the second front end-paper: "Nat W. Howell/1813," and "J.M. Howell/1873." The signatures are repeated in the margin of p. 78. Horatio Gates Spafford (1778-1840; not to be confused with his son the hymnist), named for the hero of Saratoga, was dedicated to the accurate survey and analysis of his home state. By maintaining a huge correspondence with municipalities across the state, he was able to produce the first gazetteer -- a sort of enhanced atlas, full of history and statistics -- of New York. He was a known and respected intellectual of his day, having published a General Geography in 1809. Spafford divided the book into 3 parts: 1) a comprehensive geographical and statistical overview of the state, 2) topographical and statistical views of each county, and 3) descriptions of each town. In addition to the wealth of facts in the Gazetteer, Spafford included his opinions and editorial information. His second wife, Elizabeth Clark Hewett (1793-1840), created the map accompanying her husband's Gazetteer. Thus, Mrs. B(etsey) C(lark) Spafford became the first female cartographer published in America. Nathaniel Woodhull Howell (1770-1851) was an important lawyer and politician in New York State, who served as Attorney General for Western New York (1799-1802). He represented the 21st District of New York in the U. S. House of Representatives 1813-1815. He would have used the Gazetteer as a resource and may well have contributed to it. He signed the Gazetteer opposite Greene County, where he may have had an association. Howes S 802. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers AMB0005

Bibliografische Details

Titel: A Gazetteer of the State of New-York; ...

Verlag: H.C. Southwick, Albany

Erscheinungsdatum: 1813

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very good

Auflage: First.