(CRAMER, Zadok) .

The Navigator, Containing Directions for Navigating the Monongahela,Allegheny, Ohio, and Mississippi Rivers; With an Ample Account of TheseMuch Admired Waters from the Head of the Former to the Mouth of theLatter; and a Concise Description of Their Towns, Villages, Harbors,Settlements, &c., with Maps of the Ohio and Mississippi; To which Is Addedan Appendix, Containing an Account of Louisiana, and of the Missouri andColumbia Rivers, as Discovered by the Voyage under Capts. Lewis and Clark.

Cramer, Spear, and Eichbaum (Robert Ferguson & Co., printers), , Pittsburgh, (PA): 1817. Ninth edition. Contemporary ownership signature of Benjamin Beal, his stamp on title page, his note on an endpaper "Benjamin Beal on board the Brig Fredonia, Capt. Jubern (?), January 4th 1819 in the Mississippi River" (with several other of his notes on a ship's position).Howes C-855: "Most widely used guide to western waters in the early period, both before and after the application of steam in 1807." Sabin 17386. American Imprints 40590. 12mo. (2), 307 pp. Map of Pittsburgh, 25 strip maps of stretches of the rivers; errata leaf. Contemporary half-calf and marbled boards (rubbed), gilt title and rules on spine; scattered foxing, but a very good, crisp copy.

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