47 BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 54SCOTT, Joseph T. The United States Gazetteer. Philadelphia, 1795. Thick 12mo, contemporary full brown sheep rebacked. $15,000 The First Gazetteer Of The United States, 1795, Containing All 19 Folding Maps As Issued First edition of the scarce first gazetteer of the United States, with engraved title page and 19 folding maps—some with outlining in color—delineating the United States and the various individual states, including some of the most important early maps of the new “western” territories. Joseph Scott, along with fellow Philadelphian Mathew Carey, was one of the first American cartographic publishers, and he was responsible for the first map of Tennessee, which he engraved in 1793 for inclusion in Carey’s American Atlas (1795)—the first atlas published in America. Scott’s Gazetteer appeared in 1795, with 19 maps that “I have drawn and engraved myself, and I trust they will be found, on examination, as accurate as circumstances would admit, and probably more so than any collection of maps that has hitherto been published in the United States.” Scott’s Gazetteer developed a fine reputation for its reliance on such primary sources as the first Federal Census (1790) and Jefferson’s Notes on Viriginia. Jefferson owned a copy of the Gazeteer.Small marginal repair to verso of large folding map of the United States; scattered light foxing and dampstaining to text and plates, interior generally quite clean. An excellent copy in contemporary boards.
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