Mitchell's traveller's guide through the United States : containing the principal cities, towns, &c., alphabetically arranged : together with the stage, steam-boat, canal, and railroad routes, with the distances, in miles, from place to place : illustrated by an accurate map of the United States

Object Details

Author

Mitchell, S. Augustus (Samuel Augustus) 1792-1868

Notes

Tables and map on separate leaves. The leaf of tables contains an index to towns, steam-boat and canal routes, distances, lengths of railroads and canals "(finished or in progress)" in the United States.

Title and text within double-rule border.

"Stereotyped by John Fagan ... Philadelphia"--Verso of t.p.

SCNHRB copy (39088016458523) imperfect: lacking frontispiece map.

SCNHRB copy has additional ms. notations in pencil and ink on endpapers.

SCNHRB copy stamped on t.p.: Smithsonian Institution National Museum Jul 29 1916.

SCNHRB copy in original publisher's embossed leather binding, title in gilt within cartouche on front cover; housed in an archival envelope.

Date

1836

[1836]

Call number

E158 .M682 1836t

E158.M682t

Type

Books

Guidebooks

Physical description

78 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 14 cm

Place

United States

Data Source

Smithsonian Libraries

Topic

Distances, etc

Description and travel

Metadata Usage

CC0

Record ID

siris_sil_129900