A diagram of the United States shewing the bearings and distances. / Melish, John / 1822

A diagram of the United States shewing the bearings and distances. Melish, John, 1822

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Full Title: A diagram of the United States shewing the bearings and distances of the principal places from Washington, and from each other, with a scale of time. Prepared for the Travellers directory by John Melish. (Philadelphia: Published by the Author. 1822)

Author: Melish, John

Date: 1822

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Author: Melish, John

Date: 1822

Short Title: A diagram of the United States shewing the bearings and distances.

Publisher: Phila: John Melish

Type: Book Map

Object Height cm: 29

Object Width cm: 36

Scale 1: 8,350,000

Note: Distances in geographical miles. "The scale at bottom below the Scale of Longitude shows the time."

Reference: Phillips Maps of America, p. 882; Howes M494.

Country: United States

Subject: Roads

List No: 0501.002

Series No: 4

Published In: The traveller's directory through the United States; containing, a description of all the principal roads through the United States ... The whole illustrated by appropriate maps. By John Melish. Philadelphia: Published by the Author. 1822. (on verso) ...on the eighteenth day of September ... 1821, John Melish ... has deposited ... a book ... Pennsylvania.

Publication Author: Melish, John

Publication Date: 1822

Publication Reference: Howes M494.

Publication Note: Late edition; first edition 1814. Has unusual extra uncolored map not found in earlier editions: "A Diagram of the United States Shewing the Bearings and Distances of the Principal Places from Washington, and from each other, with a Scale of Time." The outline color U.S. map is changed to a version of the U.S. map used in Carey and Lea's American Atlas. Bound in a wallet style holder with original (?) pencil in holder.

Publication List No: 0501.000

Publication Type: Guide Book

Publication Maps: 2

Publication Height cm: 16

Publication Width cm: 10

Image No: 0501002

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