312 pp. 6½x3¾, period tree calf, spine ruled in gilt, morocco lettering piece. 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.
Condition:
Light shelf wear to covers, two tiny wormholes in rear joint; some soiling and darkening to contents, 1x½" piece missing from lower right corner of title-page well away form any printing, light staining to about a quarter of the contents, still very good.