📚 Gazetteers

Place-name dictionaries: the county surveys and the imperial compilations that standardised geography.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject gazetteers in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	An universal etymological English dictionary	Nathan Bailey	1721	76
	江苏省志	江苏省地方志编纂委员会	1994	45
	Gazetteer of Canada	Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographical Names.	1961	37
	Geography made easy	Jedidiah Morse	1784	36
	Gazetteer's, or, Newsman's interpreter	Laurence Echard	1692	27
	Palestine under the Moslems	Guy Le Strange	1890	26
	Lippincott's pronouncing gazetteer	Joseph Thomas	1855	23
	California place names	Erwin Gustav Gudde	1947	22
	A statistical account of Bengal	William Wilson Hunter	1875	21
	The Western India States Agency	India	1932	18
	The New England gazetteer	Hayward, John	1839	17
	Smith's Canadian gazetteer	William Henry Smith of Canada	1846	16
	Imperial gazetteer of India	William Wilson Hunter	1881	16
	Nei menggu Zizhiqu di ming zhi	Nei Menggu Zizhiqu di ming wei yuan hui	1986	14
	Von der Verfassungsmässigkeit der Gesetze zur Gesetzmässigkeit der Verfassung	Leisner, Walter	1837	12
	The general gazetteer, or, Compendious geographical dictionary	R. Brookes	1762	11
	The Jaulân	Gottlieb Schumacher	1888	11
	The Ohio gazetteer, or, Topographical dictionary	John Kilbourn	1816	10
	A complete descriptive and statistical gazetteer of the United States of America	Daniel Haskel	1843	10
	The statesman's year-book world gazetteer	John Paxton	1864	10
	The modern gazetteer	Thomas Salmon	1746	9
	New-York, June 23d, 1788	Jedidiah Morse	1788	9
	Curiosities of Great Britain	Thomas Dugdale	1800	9
	An accompaniment to Mitchell's reference and distance map of the United States	S. Augustus Mitchell	1834	9
	Hydronymia germaniae	Hans Krahe	1962	9
	Nei Menggu Zizhiqu di ming zhi	Nei Menggu Zizhiqu di ming wei yuan hui	1985	9
	Oregon geographic names	Lewis Ankeny McArthur	1928	8
	A topographical dictionary of Wales	Samuel Lewis	1833	7
	A complete reference gazetteer of the United States of North America	William Chapin	1839	7
	A topographical dictionary of England	Samuel Lewis	1842	7

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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