THE NAVIGATOR; CONTAINING DIRECTIONS FOR NAVIGATING THE MONONGAHELA, ALLEGHENY, OHIO AND MISSISSIPPI RIVERS; WITH...A CONCISE DESCRIPTION OF THEIR TOWNS, VILLAGES, HARBORS, SETTLEMENTS, &c. WITH MAPS OF THE OHIO AND MISSISSIPPI. TO WHICH IS ADDED AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF LOUISIANA, AND OF THE MISSOURI AND COLUMBIA RIVERS, AS DISCOVERED BY THE VOYAGE UNDER CAPTS. LEWIS AND CLARK

Pittsburgh: Published and Sold by Cramer, Spear and Eichbaum, 1814.. 360pp. including twenty-eight full-page woodcut maps. 12mo. Contemporary three- quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Binding rubbed and worn, corners bumped and worn. Foxing and some light staining to text throughout, minimal offsetting. Contemporary ownership inscription in ink to fore-edge and rear fly leaf. Very good. Styled "Eighth Edition" on the titlepage, but actually the sixth known edition, after those of 1802, 1804, 1806, 1808, and 1811, the first two surviving in a few copies only. This edition is considerably enlarged over all previous efforts, with a woodcut map of Pittsburgh, thirteen woodcut maps of the Ohio from Pittsburgh to the Mississippi, and thirteen woodcut maps of the Mississippi almost to New Orleans. The appendix, with information on Lewis and Clark, was first included in the 1808 edition, but much more geographical information on the western country is given in this edition, especially relative to the upper waters of the Mississippi. There are also a number of firsthand accounts of the famous New Madrid earthquake of 1812 and of tributary streams of the Mississippi. Cramer's guide was the first navigational guide to the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. This was the final edition of THE NAVIGATOR... to be prepared by Cramer himself, who died in 1816. HOWES C855. SABIN 17386. BUCK 59. RISTOW, pp.236-37. LITERATURE OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION, p.105. BRADFORD 1113. REESE, BEST OF THE WEST 24 (ref).