American Register, or, General Repository of History, Politics, & Science Vols. 1-7
Philadelphia: C. & A. Conrad & Co., 1806-1810. Hardbound. 7 physical volumes, 1-6 in red leather and the last in publisher's boards with cloth spine and paper label. VG, slight to moderate foxing here and there a solid and strong set in original publishers bindings, uniform in their appearance. The last volume is cracked the length of the spine and has some ancient dampstaining to the covers and a few pages, but no stickiness or waves. Item #128419
In 1806 Charles Brockden Brown began a semi-annual publication called the American Register or General Repository of History, Politics, and Science, which he conducted until his death in 1810. Each issue of this encyclopedia of current information contained five hundred pages, most of them devoted to "annals" of Europe and American, abstracts of laws, state papers, a section of news, and registers of deaths. There were also catalogs of British and American publications, some miscellaneous articles, and a little poetry. Robert Walsh edited the last two volumes of the Register, the second of them devoted to 1810 but issued the following year. Cf. American periodicals, 1741-1900. Editors: v. 1-5, C. B. Brown.--v. 6-7, R. Walsh. Volume 3 includes a very noteworthy and lengthy article entitled "Journal of a Voyage between China and the North Western Coast of America Made in 1804" which has a very strong auction record by itself s the first published account of California by a United States citizen.
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