Navigator, Containing Directions for Navigating the
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[CRAMER, Zadok]. The Navigator, Containing Directions for Navigating the Monongahela, Allegheny, Ohio, and Mississippi Rivers; With An Ample Account of these Much Admired Waters, From the Head of the Former to the Mouth of the Latter; And A Concise Description of their Towns, Villages, Harbors, Settlements, &c. With Maps of the Ohio and Mississippi. To which is Added an Appendix, Containing an Account of Louisiana, and of the Missouri and Columbia Rivers, as Discovered by the Voyage under Captains Lewis and Clarke [sic]. Pittsburgh: Cramer & Spear, 1818. 304pp. including twenty-eight full-page woodcut maps. Contemporary 3/4 calf and marbled boards, gilt-ruled spine. Boards heavily worn. Contemporary ownership inscriptions on flyleaves and several internal leaves. Light foxing throughout. Good. HOWES-C855. SABIN 17386. The first navigational guide to the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, with Lewis and Clark material appended. This vitally important work in helping to develop the commerce of the early United States, containing woodcut maps of the length of the aforementioned rivers as well as an early plan of Pittsburgh, was the "most widely used guide to western waters in the early period both before and after the application of steam in 1807" (Howes). This edition is styled on the title as the tenth. Also of interest is the appearance in this later edition of an account of Louisiana and the Missouri and Columbia rivers as discovered by Lewis and Clark. The Lewis and Clark material (see pp.290-295) is derived from Patrick Gass' journal, which was also printed by Cramer in Pittsburgh.
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