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An Historical Review and Directory of North America: Containing a Geographical, Political, and Natural History of the British and Other European Settlements, the United and Apocryphal States, the General State of the Laws, particularly those affecting Commerce, Foreign and British Debts; also, Strictures upon Lord Sheffield’s Treatise upon American Commerce to which is added “A description of the Interior Parts of North America, general Face of the Country, Mountains, Forests, Rivers and the most noted Towns, Cities, Seats and Public Buildings. A Plan of the Roads and a concise account of the different Indian Nations. A copious Index to American State Papers. With a Great Variety of Tables necessary to all Merchants in their Intercourse with North America. [With a concise Account of the Island of Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard, together with the Manners, Customs, Policies and Trade of the Inhabitants and a short account of the Whale Fishery]. By a Gentleman immediately returned from a Tour of that Continent.

Volume II (of II). Cork, Printed by W. Matthews, 38 North-Main-Street, 1801. 10 cm x 17 cm. IX, 377 pages. Original Hardcover (full calf). The original binding with some stronger signs of external wear. Corners bumped. Endpapers and pastedowns a little scruffy. Otherwise in very good condition.

Includes the following chapters: The New England States / Rhode Island and Providnce Plantation / Massachusetts Bay / A Constitution or Frame of Government agreed upon by the Delegates of the People of the State of Massachusetts, in Convention, begun and held in Cambridge, on the First September, 1799, and continued by Adjournments in the Second of March, 1780. Includes also short histories of Salem, Kentucky etc.

• Keywords: American History · American History – Rare · Catalogue Irish History Two – Origins of Irish Identity · Cork Printer · Cork Printer W. Mathews · Cork Printing History · Cork Publisher · Nantucket · Whale Fishery · Whales · Whaling
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 60678AB

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