Morre & Jones' Traveller's Directory

MOORE, S.S. and T.W. JONES.
The Traveller's Directory: or, a Pocket Companion, shewing the Course of the Main Road from Philadelphia to New York; and from Philadelphia to Washington.
Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1804.
Comparable: Christie's, 2007 - $10,200.
8vo., (8 4/8 x 5 2/8 inches). Half-title. 38 engraved maps on 22 leaves by F. Shallus, W. Harrison Jr., J. Smither, Jr. and J. Daper. Contemporary tree calf, the spine ruled in six compartments, red morocco lettering-piece in the second (extremities a bit worn); modern brown cloth slipcase and chemise. Provenance: with the ownership inscription of Philip Schuyler (1733-1804), American soldier and statesman, on the front paste-down and at the head of the title-page. "One of the earliest guides" (Howes) Second edition, first published in 1802, of this pocket guide of the routes to Philadelphia. Including a geographical and historical portrait of Philadelphia, which references the important landmark buildings in the city: the Philosophical Society, the Philadelphia Library, the University and the Peale Museum, etc. “This city is the capital of the State of Pennsylvania, and the chief city of the United States in point of size and splendor†(page [1]). The guide then takes the traveller from Philadelphia and describes the towns, villages, rivers, creeks along the roads to Washington. Similar descriptions are given of New York :“The situation of the city is both healthy and pleasant. Surrounded nearly on all sides by water, it is refreshed with cool breezes in summerâ€; Baltimore; and Washington: “The city is on a grand scale...â€, and includes notes on the Capitol and the President's house. From the library of Philip Schuyler who was a commander of the Northern Army during the Revolutionary War and came in to direct conflict with the British forces under Burgoyne during their invasion of Canada, and who was instrumental in the British defeat at Saratoga. ‘on the Board of Indian Commissioners of the Northern Department until 1785, advising Washington concerning enemy movements on the New York frontiers and the 1779 Sullivan-Clinton campaign against the Iroquois. In 1779-1780 he was again elected to Congress, where he urged reforms of the currency system and chaired a committee assigned to Washington's headquarters for reorganizing staff departments, raising men and supplies for effective cooperation with French allied forces. His constant surveillance of the northern and western frontiers enabled him to supply state and Continental officials with vital information for their defense efforts and for the repulsion of enemy incursions like that of Major Christopher Carleton in October 1780. So substantial was his intelligence service, his pacification of the Oneida and Tuscarora, and his support of the superintendent of finance and quartermaster general that the British tried to put him out of action. By January 1782 at least three parties were sent from Canada to capture or kill him; one raided his Albany house on 7 August 1781, but he cleverly eluded them... For thirty years there was little public business in which Schuyler had not taken some part or contributed some aid or influence. His statue stands at the entrance of the Albany City Hall†(Don R. Gerlach for ANB). Howes M-778; Sabin 50436; Streeter sale VII:3969.