“The American gazetteer” by Jedidiah Morse was first published in 1797, a few years after Joseph Scott's “Gazetteer of the United States” (1795).In Livorno we had our first “Gazzettiere americano” in 1763, when Marco Coltellini printed a translation of “The American Gazetteer”, a British version published in London the year before.
A page from the Italian edition
The same page of the original versionSee also: “Encyclopédie” - Marco Coltellini (Wikipedia)
The American gazetteer
(S. Hall, and Thomas & Andrews, 1797 in Boston)
Il Gazzettiere americano
(Marco Coltellini, 1763 in Livorno)
The American Gazetteer
(A. Millar, and J. & R. Tonson, 1762 in London)
13 comments:
Excellent art work on the first shot!
Remaining one of my favourite means to measure time and life, newspapers.
Please have a good Sunday.
daily athens
Very interesting, VP. Two of the three entries are from New England: Nantucket, an island off Massachusetts, and Naragauset, a county in Connecticut where New London is located. The current county name is New London County. But a similar name, Narragansett, is a town in the adjoining state of Rhode Island and the bay that divides the two sides of Rhode Island.
These are really interesting. Thank you VP.
I like old newspaper, with their particular fonts. It's a perfume of old times around them, always.
I like the illustrations a lot!
God bless you!
Cezar
Interesting how many of us are 'thinking' alike with the camera... you Brattcat today.
How interesting VP. Was reading that last page and it seems in those days an 'f' was used instead of a 's' in a lot of places. Wonder how much longer before it changed to what we have now.
Arty and very pretty.
Grazie per questa notizia.
Now that is absolutely fantastic. I need to dig more into history...
What a fascinating post VP!
The poor whales.
Why did they need so much whalebone, for whalebone corsets? Oi
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