The western navigator; containing directions for the navigation of the Ohio and Mississippi, and information concerning the towns, &c., on their banks.

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Author / Creator:Cumings, Samuel
Imprint:Philadelphia, E. Littell, 1822.
Description:4, 232, [6] p. and atlas of 27 fold. maps. 23 cm. & 42 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
Local Note:University of Chicago Library's Rare copy lacking atlas.
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3184721
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Notes:The atlas has title: The western navigator; containing charts of the Ohio river...and of the Mississippi river...Accompanied by directions for the navigation of the Ohio and Mississippi...vol.1.
The volume of text forms v. 2 of the work.
Later editions published under title: The western pilot.
"Cumings' editions of the 'Navigator' and 'Pilot'...were amplifications of [The navigator of Zadok] Cramer...without acknowledgment of the main source of their material."--Sabin, Bibl. amer., v. 5, p. 126.
"List of steam-boats...in operation on the Mississippi and confluent waters...1822": v. 2, p. [69]-70.
"General description of the regions around the gulf of Mexico": v. 2, p. [71]-170.
"Marine insurance": v. 2, p. [71]-229.

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Call Number: F353.C89 c.1
Issues: v.2
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