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Author: Dana, E[dmund]
Title: Geographical Sketches on the Western Country designed for Emigrants and Settlers: Being the result of extensive researches and remarks. To which is added, a summary of all the most interesting matters on the subject, including a particular description of the unsold public lands, collected from a variety of authentic sources, also, a list of the principal roads
Place Published: Cincinnati
Publisher:Looker, Reynolds & Co., Printers
Date Published: 1819
Description:

312 pp. (12mo) 17.5x10.5 cm (7x4") period full calf, black leather spine label. First Edition.

Primarily devoted to states east of the Mississippi, including Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, East and West Florida, Michigan Territory, etc.; there are however, as noted in Wagner-Camp, "chapters devoted to Louisiana, Texas (at the time still a part of New Spain), 'Arkansaw' Territory, Missouri Territory, and 'Sketches of the Country Watered by Columbia and its Tributary Streams.' The work concludes with a mileage table of public roads across the continent from Eastport, Maine to the mouth of the Columbia River, and from Quebec to New Orleans by way of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River. Despite published information to the contrary, Dana states in the table that 'it is not more than a mile from the head spring of Missouri to the head spring of one of the branches of the Columbia.'" Buck 136; Grasff 997; Howes D47; Sabin 18408; Wagner-Camp 15a.

Biding worn, lacking front free endpaper and half of rear free endpaper; two leaves with corners lacking with some loss of text (Pp. 83/84 & 175/176), foxing and staining throughout; a fair copy of a very scarce book.