A Geography for the Use of Schools, Illustrated with an Atlas of Seven Maps, bound separately.
Poughkeepsie: Paraclete Potter, 1826. Thirteenth edition. Hardcover. A two volume school geography, including an atlas with 7 maps. With reference to Australasia, "Comprehends New Holland, New Guinea, New Zealand, and all those islands that lie near them. New Holland is the largest island in the world, and by many has been styled a continent. The British have formed a settlement at Port Jackson near Botany Bay, to which place they banish their criminals..." p105. Captain Cook is mentioned at the same page: "The Sandwich islands are noted for the civilization of their inhabitants, and as being the place where the celebrated Captain Cook lost his life". 24mo, 197pp, woodblock ills. Quarter leather and marbled boards, no title on spine. Spine with some loss at bottom, boards quite rubbed, as are the leading corners. Previous owner initials in ink at outer edge of pages. Internally, lacks ffep, o/w very good.
With the separate atlas, Poughkeepsie: P. Potter, 1820, issued without title page. With 7 steel engraved double page maps, including: the world (folding), North America, United States of America (folding), South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. The map of North America shows California as "New Albion or California"; New Mexico encompassing the entire southwest; New Orleans; and East and West Florida. The map of the United States extending from the Mississippi River in the west to the "North western territory" to the west of Lake Michigan; to Georgia in the south and to the "District of Maine" in the northeast. Contemporary thick paper wrappers, slightly water stained, with later tape repair at spine. Short split at bottom fold map of United States.
Paraclete Potter (1780 - 1858) the publisher, was also a bookseller and journalist who edited the Poughkeepsie Journal for almost thirty years. According to an article in the 1873 'Historical Magazine', Potter also opened a bookstore, which included a reading room frequented by New Yorkers "such as James Kent, afterwards Chancellor, James Tallmadge, N. P. Tallmadge. Philo T. Ruggles, James Duane Livingston, Gulian C. Verplank, Peter R. Livingston, James K. Paulding, Edmond H. Pendleton, Charles H. Ruggles, and many more, who made the place a resort for social, literary, and political intercourse" (p242-243). Very good overall. Item #14289
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