Sep 26, 2019 - Sale 2517

Sale 2517 - Lot 221

Price Realized: $ 812
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(TRAVEL.) Miller, Andrew. New States and Territories, or the Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, North-Western, Missouri, Louisiana, Missisippi and Alabama, in their Real Characters. 96 pages. 24mo, contemporary 1/4 calf, minor wear; minor foxing, lacking the folding table frontispiece; early owners' inscriptions on front flyleaves. [Keene, NH?], 1819

Additional Details

Probable second edition, likely issued after an undated 8vo edition. It covers a large swath of the Louisiana Purchase and the Old Northwest, but with greater emphasis on the more accessible destination of Ohio. Buck 124; Clark, Old South II:46; Graff 2794 ("a very interesting production"); Howes H601 ("c"); Sabin 49008; Streeter sale III:1329 (8vo edition--"an excellent guide, giving a good contemporary account of the Old Northwest and especially Ohio").