Charlottesville: Published by Joseph Martin, Moseley & Tompkins, Printers, 1835.
Price:
$2,500.00
About the item
First edition. Hand colored engraved folding map of Virginia by J. H. Young, published by S. Augustus Mitchell. 636pp. 8vo. Contemporary calf, black morocco lettering piece. Foxing, short repaired tear to folding map. Swem 3498; Howes M340; Sabin 44894.
Item #378262
Dedicated to the members of the Virginia Historical and Philosophical Society, Martin's Gazetteer is, as the dedication notes, "the first work which has ever appeared since the publication of Mr. Jefferson's Notes, which professed to embrace all which could be ascertained of the present situation of Virginia, and some investigation of its past history."
An immensely useful compendium, the work includes state-wide data on a plethora of topics, as well as much information on a county by county level. The appended history of the state from its first settlement to the Revolution is attrinuted to W. H. Brockenbrough, noted on the title simply as "A Citizen of Virginia."
The work is illustrated with the Young-Mitchell map of Virginia, also issued separately by Mitchell as a pocket map and noted for its inclusion of roads, stage routes and steamboat routes.
Rare, especially in its original binding and complete with the map.
