Item #48146 History of the District of Maine. James SULLIVAN.

History of the District of Maine.

Item #48146

SULLIVAN, James. The History of the District of Maine. Boston: Printed by I. Thomas and E.T. Andrews..., 1795. vii,421pp. plus folding frontispiece map. Contemporary sheep, spine gilt, leather label. Joints worn, top board and front free endpaper detached. 19th-century inscription on titlepage. Map moderately foxed and soiled, clean five-inch tear neatly repaired. A nice, unsophisticated copy, in a half morocco slip case. HOWES S1122, "aa". DAB XVIII, pp.190-91. SABIN 93499. The first general history of Maine, which the DAB calls "still valuable," including material about the native Indians, early settlement, government, and the American Revolution. The author was elected governor of Massachusetts in 1807 and played an important role in government in the Northeast during the Federalist period. "A Map of the District of Maine, Drawn from the latest Surveys and other best Authorities by Osgood Carleton" has an inset entitled "A Map of those parts of the Country most famous for being harassed by the Indians, on and long after their first settlement...."

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