[Americana] Morse, Jedediah. Geography Made Easy: Being an Abridgement of the American Geography...

Boston: Isaiah Thomas & Ebenezer T. Andrews, 1790. Second edition. 12mo. 322 pp. Illustrated with frontispiece map and seven plates of maps (one folding), by Amos Doolittle. Full modern brown leather, spine label, stamped in gilt; all edges trimmed; marbled endpapers; frontispiece tipped onto title-page; circular library blindstamp at bottom of title-page, edges of same toned and with light wear and small chips; faint ink stamp at bottom of dedication leaf recto; leaf A2 bound after A3; two ink stamps of the Saginaw Public Libraries, Michigan on recto and verso of folding map; toning along edges of most leaves; scattered spotting to text; some maps trimmed in margins; in blue cloth fall-down-back box. Howes M-842; Wheat & Brun 7, 8, 116, 702, 744, 841, 864; Evans 22681; Sabin 50936

Scarce second edition of the first American geography textbook. First published in New Haven in 1784 with only two maps, this edition, printed in Boston by Isaiah Thomas, expands the number of maps to eight. Notably, it contains a folding map of the United States, one of the earliest of the young nation printed in America.

This lot is located in Philadelphia.