8vo (225 x 142 mm). (Occasional minor spotting.) Modern brown roan-backed cloth, black calf lettering-piece gilt to spine; original printed pink wrappers bound in (slight toning, soft creasing to rear cover). Provenance: Heugh White? (signature); Dudley Bell Priester (1923-2017), Mississippi River collector and bibliographer (sold Bloomsbury, 20 November 2009, lot 54).

FIRST EDITION of the pamphlet prepared by St. Louis delegates in reaction to President Polk's veto of the 1846 River and Harbor Bill, which would have provided federal funds for improvements on small harbors. This report was printed for distribution at the Chicago Convention of 5 July 1847 and "describes many of the rivers of Illinois and treats of their commerce and possibilities" (Buck). Buck 414; Graff 43; Howes A-158; Missouri Imprints 507; Sabin 876.