1849. · Cincinnati
by Cumings, Samuel
Cincinnati: George Conclin, 1849.. 142,[2]pp., including forty-four full-page engraved maps of the rivers. Original printed paper boards, neatly rebacked in calf. Boards soiled and toned. Scattered foxing. Very good. "Latest revised edition." The successor to Cramer, the guides of Cumings (misspelled "Cummings" in this publication) were the most important river pilots of the classic period of steamboating in the antebellum period. The charts, including twenty of the Ohio River and twenty-three of the Mississippi River, illustrate all the bars and currents, necessarily revised yearly due to the ever- shifting Mississippi. HOWES C948 (ref). REESE, BEST OF THE WEST 24 (note).
(Inventory #: WRCAM54111)