1795 View of United States Winterbotham Colonial Revolutionary War Illustrated

“In Europe, everything has been changed in consequence of its commerce and connection with the American continent; but the changes which took place prior to the late revolution only served to increase the misery of mankind, adding to the power of despotism, and riveting faster than shackles of oppression.”
― William Winterbotham, View of American United States, preface

A rare 1795 edition of William Winterbotham’s ‘View of the American United States’. Winterbotham was a British Baptist preacher who was imprisoned for his extreme liberal views from the pulpit. While in prison, he wrote numerous works including this historical view of the Americas. Some of the major topics Winterbotham discusses include:

Discovery and discoverers of America
A physical description of America with boundaries
Waterfalls, tobacco plants, rivers
The colored plate of the tobacco plan is the first color plate to be regularly published in an American book
Pre-existing settlements in North America
Establishment of United States Independence
Developed towns in the Americas
18th-century views of the American Revolution
Descriptions of each state of the Northeast and South
Descriptions of settlements in Canada, South America, and West Indies
Winterbotham’s history is a key early view of the United States and the history of the American Revolution.

Item number: #1350
Price: $1,500

WINTERBOTHAM, William

An historical, geographical, commercial, and philosophical view of the American United States, and of the European settlements in America and the West-Indies

London : Printed for the editor ; J. Ridgeway, 1795.

Details:
Collation complete with all pages: three volumes
Vol. I: [viii], [5], 591
Vol. II: [3], 493
Vol. III: [3], 525
Illustrated with 10 engravings
George Washington
St. Anthony Falls
William Penn
Ohiophyle Falls Penn.
Portrait of Benjamin Franklin
Mammoth tusk
Plan of Lystra
Plan of Franklinville
Chart
Hand colored Tobacco Plant
Binding: Leather; tight & secure
References: Howes W 581; Sabin 104832; Evans 31647; Howes: List of plates calls for Niagara Falls in error for St. Anthony’s Falls
Language: English
Size: ~8.5in X 5.5in (22cm x 14cm)
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