A DISCOURSE DELIVERED BEFORE THE HISTORICAL & PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF OHIO, AT THE ANNUAL MEETING OF SAID SOCIETY, IN COLUMBUS, DECEMBER 22, 1832. BY...PRESIDENT OF SAID SOCIETY, AND PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF CANAL COMMISSIONERS.
Columbus: JR Emrie Printers- High Street, 1833. 16pp, stitched. Age toned, scatterd foxing. Numerical notation at head of top margin of title page. Good or Good+
"Relates to the early history of Ohio" Thomson Tappan articulates the primary mission of the Society, to preserve the "authentic history" of Ohio's stunning change "from an uncultivated wildernessto cultivated fields, rich with all the gifts of Ceres and Pomona; to villages, to towns, and to the thronged and populous City, possessed by an industrious, intelligent and thriving population" He argues that "a thorough investigation of [Ohio's] natural history" is a greater priority than "antiquarian investigations, traditionary and authentic history of the Indians"
FIRST EDITION Thomson 1135 Sabin 94356 AI 21431 [6] 583 NUC 0035989 [4]. Item #8274
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