Morse, Jedediah, 1761-1826 The American Geography / By Jedediah Morse
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00176 Author/Creator: Morse, Jedediah, 1761-1826 Place Written: Elizabeth Town [New Jersey] Type: Book signed Date: 1789 Pagination: xii, 534 p. 21 x 13 cm Order a Copy
8vo. Signed on titlepage by George Washington with his engraved heraldic bookplate. Contemporary calf. With two fold-out engraved maps, as issued. Athenaeum Catalog (1897) p. 506 (item 161 in the GW's estate inventory), mentions that it was once owned by Senator Hearst of Washington.
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