Sep 26, 2019 - Sale 2517

Sale 2517 - Lot 219

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(TRAVEL.) [Cramer, Zadok.] The Navigator; Containing Directions for Navigating the Monongahela, Alleghany, Ohio, and Mississippi Rivers. 28 woodcut maps paginated with text. [1], 307 pages. 12mo, contemporary 1/4 calf, moderate wear, repair at spine head; endpapers renewed, intermittent foxing, moderate dampstaining, inscription excised from leaf B1, lacking leaves E1 and I3, leaves I4 and Bb2-3 short; early owners' signatures on initial blank, title page and page 134. Pittsburgh, 1817

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9th edition. "Most widely used guide to western waters in the early period"--Howes C855. Most of the maps are river sections; also includes a map of Pittsburgh, and a long description of the young city (pages 48-69). Appended is an "Abridgement of Lewis and Clark's Expedition," pages 293-298. In this copy, two of the lower Mississippi maps (pages 198 and 200) depicting the area near Baton Rouge are annotated with an early owner's navigational notes, showing the compass direction at each turn of the river and noting a "point with trees" on the shore. Erickson, Literature of Lewis and Clark, page 105; Sabin 17386.