Identifier: careysamericanpo00incare (find matches)
Title: Carey's American pocket atlas ; containing twenty maps... with a brief description of each state, and of Louisiana: also, the census of the inhabitants of the United States, for 1801 and The exports from the United States for ten years
Year: 1805 (1800s)
Authors: Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839. cn
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Publisher: Philadelphia : M. Carey
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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