?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(TRAVEL.) [Zadok Cramer.] The Navigator; Containing Directions for Navigating the Monongahela, Alleghany, Ohio, and Mississippi Rivers. 28 woodcut maps paginated with text. 360 pages. 12mo, contemporary 1/2 calf, worn, lacking spine title, repairs to backstrip, boards detached; lacking front free endpaper and preliminary leaf, tops of leaves A1 and A3 excised, also a bit of D1, numerous inked marks in margins, plus 3 manuscript notes; inscribed "Henry W. Longfellow" on front pastedown, itinerary of 1815 Ohio River journey on rear pastedown. Pittsburgh, 1814
8th and largest 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 49-72). Appended in this edition for the first time is an expanded "Abridgement of Lewis and Clark's Expedition," pages 343-349. Erickson, Literature of Lewis and Clark, page 105; Sabin 17386.
Two of the manuscript notes are interesting. The map on page 91 is annotated to show the location of Blennerhassett Island, an important site in Aaron Burr's conspiracy of 1806. On page 310, a description of vigilante "club law" used against the river pirates of Stack Island, MS is annotated: "Lynch law is club law."
We believe the Longfellow signature to be a forgery, although we would be pleased to think he may have owned this book for background research on the Louisiana portions of Evangeline.
![(TRAVEL.) [Zadok Cramer.] The Navigator; Containing Directions for Navigating the Monongahela, Alleghany, Ohio, and Mississippi Rivers.](https://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/full//025\771025.jpg)
![(TRAVEL.) [Zadok Cramer.] The Navigator; Containing Directions for Navigating the Monongahela, Alleghany, Ohio, and Mississippi Rivers.](https://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/full//025\771025_view 02_02.jpg)
![(TRAVEL.) [Zadok Cramer.] The Navigator; Containing Directions for Navigating the Monongahela, Alleghany, Ohio, and Mississippi Rivers.](/Content/images/image-placeholder.png)
![(TRAVEL.) [Zadok Cramer.] The Navigator; Containing Directions for Navigating the Monongahela, Alleghany, Ohio, and Mississippi Rivers.](https://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/thumb//\025\771025tn.jpg)
![(TRAVEL.) [Zadok Cramer.] The Navigator; Containing Directions for Navigating the Monongahela, Alleghany, Ohio, and Mississippi Rivers.](https://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/thumb//\025\771025_view 02_02tn.jpg)