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Title: An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of the American United States, and of the European Settlements in America and the West Indies Author: Winterbotham, William Place: London Publisher: For the editor; J. Ridgway, et al Date: 1795 Description: 4 volumes. viii, [2], 591; [iv], 493; [iv], 525; [iv], 415, [1], 54, [19] pp. 33 (of 36) maps and plates (one hand-colored); folding tables. Lacking the General Maps of North America and the United States, as well as the General map of South America. (8vo) 21x13 cm (8¼x5¼") period full calf, red and black labels. First Edition. Winterbotham wrote this account of the early years of the United States while imprisoned in Newgate Prison for the crime of sedition. Present in this set are both the often lacking color plate of the tobacco plant and the almost invariably lacking plan of Washington D.C. The map by John Russell, titled "Plan of the City of Washington, in the Territory of Columbia, Ceded by the States of Virginia and Maryland to the United States of America and by them Established as the Seat of their Government, after the Year 1800", 40x53 cm. (15¾x20½"), is based on the 1792 plan for the Capitol city by Andrew Ellicott which is in turn a completion of the plan begun by Pierre Charles L'Enfant in 1791. Sabin 104832; Howes W581. Armorial bookplate of John Thomas Stanley Baron of Aderley, in each volume. Lot Amendments Condition: Bindings worn, hinges cracked; short stub tears to maps; foxing; very good. Item number: 251603