Scarce 1835 Comprehensive Gazetteer of Virginia and DC

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Scarce 1835 Comprehensive Gazetteer of Virginia and DC First Edition, Superb Research Source, Joseph Martin Among the best pre-Civil war sources of information on Virginia and the District of Columbia! This auction is for a first edition of Martin's A New and Comprehensive Gazetteer of Virginia and the District of Columbia.Subtitle: Contains geographical, statistical, political, commercial, religious, moral and miscellaneous information collected and compiled from the most respectable and chiefly from original sources, along with a history of Virginia from its first settlement to the year 1754 as written expressly for the work by a Virginian. The book is a wealth of information on almost every community within Virginia and DC in the early 19th Century. Contains information for the time, including: boundaries, geology and mineralogy, scenery and natural curiosities, mountains, climate, population, government and laws, religion, education, military organization and arms, lunatic hospitals, penitentiary, manufactures, agriculture, commerce, fiscal concerns, revenue, banks, arrangement of State (including the District of Columbia), congressional districts, electoral districts, and more.Within the District of Columbia section, there are separate descriptions of Georgetown and Alexandria, which at that time was still within the border read more

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