12mo (183 x 106 mm). Engraved frontispiece hand-colored in outline, 14 engraved maps and plans (12 folding). (Slight marginal dampstaining, minor spotting and toning, plates brittle as usual with a few chips and tears.) Original black cloth, printed paper label to spine (upper cover and spine covers detaching, slight soiling and wear). Provenance: Isaac H. Keim (bookplate, signature on second flyleaf); Dudley Bell Priester (1923-2017), Mississippi River collector and bibliographer (bookplate, annotations, sold Bloomsbury, 20 November 2009, lot 58).

Second edition, based largely on Peck's Guide for Emigrants, published in Boston in 1831, including chapters on Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky, Tennessee, Illinois, Missouri, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, and Florida, and also including a history of steam-boating in the West. Sabin first attributed the work to Robert Bache. See Eberstadt 114:82; see Graff 141; Howes B-45; Sabin 99586 (see Sabin 2594).