Feb 04, 2016 - Sale 2404

Sale 2404 - Lot 226

Price Realized: $ 531
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
(PENNSYLVANIA.) Thompson, John. Chart, or Navigator of the Susquehanna River, from Tioga Point to Marietta. 13, [2] pages. 12mo, contemporary calf wrappers, worn; corners trimmed, moderate foxing, a few pencil notes. Corning, NY: Thomas Messinger, 1851

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A detailed navigational guide to the Susquehanna for most of its route through Pennsylvania, concluding with a one-page table of distances, but not (as the title might suggest) a map of the river. On the final blank are written the dates of various floods from 1853 to 1865. Stated third edition, but no other editions traced. One other copy in OCLC; not in Sabin, Howes, or auction records. with--Munro. A Description of the Genesee Country, in the State of New-York. [20] pages. Stated New York, 1804 but apparently a later reprint.