Navigator Containing Directions Navigating Monongahela by Cramer Zadok (47 results)

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. The Navigator: Containing Directions for Navigating the Monongahela, Allegheny, Ohio, and Mississippi Rivers; With an Ample Account o 1. Book.

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LeatheBound. Condition: New. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 316. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1817 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 316.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 298. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1821 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 298.

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Quarter Leather. Condition: Very good. The Seventh Edition of Zadok Cramer's Navigator, published in 1811, the most important river guide to Western waters of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. (illustrator). Seventh Edition. Octavo, x, [13]-295pp, [1]. Period quarter brown leather spine, paper boards, heavily worn at edges. General toning and soiling throughout. Faint dampstain to rear endpapers, limited impact on text. Previous owner's name (James Williams) written in ink on front free endpaper. Faded notes and a rough sketch on rear endpapers. Free of marginalia within text block. This work is complete with all 28 woodcut maps, including navigation charts of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers (13 each), plus a map of Pittsburgh and one of the Falls of Ohio. (Thomson 282) (Howes C855) (Sabin 17385) A very nice example of this important guide used for travel along the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers in the early nineteenth century. "At the beginning of the 19th century, the waterways of the trans-Appalachian West were important transportation routes for emigrants, traders, and travelers. Flatboats, keelboats, and eventually steamboats carried goods and people to various destinations along the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers as well as their tributaries. River guides became standard purchases for those who traveled the western waters. One of the earliest and best-known river guides was compiled by Zadok Cramer." ("American River Guides from 1800 to 1860," AB Bookman's Weekly, July 27, 1998, p. 125) Cramer died in 1813, two years after the publication of the 7th edition of The Navigator. His wife, and eventually his daughter, took his place in the printing business, and five additional guides were published between 1814 and 1824.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 9th. [One of the First Guides to the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, this edition includes Lewis and Clark's expedition] Eighth edition, improved and enlarged. Contemporary 1/4 sheep. Front hinge split. Mylar dust jacket. Custom fitted box. Title, 13-360 pages: 26 maps only (navigational charts of river bends). p. 225-226 has a tear with loss to text. Tears, heavy reading use. Contemporary marginalia and additional notes throughout. Scattered staining, spotting. Includes a letter to God. Sold with all faults. Lacks Pittsburgh map. Pittsburgh, a long description of the young city (pages 49-72), and a detail of the "Falls of Ohio." "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." "Most widely used guide to western waters in the early period," Howes C855. Appended in this edition for the first time is an expanded "Abridgement of Lewis and Clark's Expedition," pages 343-349. Erickson, Literature of Lewis and Clark, page 105; Sabin 17386; Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 21031.2.

Quarter Leather. Condition: Very good. Tenth edition of Zadok Cramer's Navigator, published in 1818. (illustrator). Tenth Edition. Octavo, iv, [5]-304pp. Contemporary marbled boards, rebacked in modern leather, gilt-ruled bands on spine with gilt-lettered title over leather spine label. Binding professionally restored with reinforced hinges, tissue repairs to endpapers and portions of the original leather preserved on spine edges and corners. Foxing and toning throughout. Faint dampstain to top edge of preliminary pages, tears along the edge of three pages. Previous owner's name (William Burks) written in ink on title page with another notation blacked out in ink below. Pencil notations of check marks, cross marks and numbers found on pages 162 through 194, indicating this volume may have been used by someone traveling on the Lower Mississippi River. Also, a small pencil drawing of a group of buildings on page iv. Complete with all 28 woodcut maps, including navigation charts of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers (13 each), plus a map of Pittsburgh and one of the Falls of Ohio. Housed in brown cloth clamshell with title in gilt on spine. (Thomson 282) (Howes C855) (Sabin 17386) A very nice example of this important guide used for travel along the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers in the early nineteenth century. "At the beginning of the 19th century the waterways of the trans-Appalachian West were important transportation routes for emigrants, traders, and travelers. Flatboats, keelboats, and eventually steamboats carried goods and people to various destinations along the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers as well as their tributaries. River guides became standard purchases for those who traveled the western waters. . One of the earliest and best-known river guides was compiled by Zadok Cramer." ("American River Guides from 1800 to 1860," AB Bookman's Weekly, July 27, 1998, p. 125) Cramer died in 1813, two years after the publication of the 7th edition of The Navigator. His wife, and eventually his daughter, took his place in the printing business, and five additional guides were published between 1814 and 1824. While significant revisions were made to the eighth edition of 1814, the last four editions saw only minor changes. Among the changes made to the 10th edition of 1818 were an updated section on Pittsburgh as well as updated entries for other river towns. In this particular copy of the 10th Navigator, someone consistently checked off the individual entries from Island No. 35 [Tipton County, Tennessee] to Bayou Sara, Louisiana. There are also occasional number notations in the right margin which appear to be mileage corrections. There's an interesting drawing on page iv, which has a large building in the center, possibly a warehouse, flanked by two smaller buildings on stilts. While not certain, this copy may have been used by a flatboatman or steamboat pilot or possibly a passenger who was traveling on the Lower Mississippi River.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Ninth. Ninth edition. Pittsburgh: Robert Ferguson & Co. for Cramer, Spear, and Eichbaum, 1817. Duodecimo in 6s (6 1/2" x 4 1/8", 165mm x 106mm). [Full collation available.] With 28 full-page wood-cut river charts within the text. Bound in modern red half morocco over red cloth boards. On the spine, title gilt to head-piece, date gilt to tailpiece. With occasional mild soiling. Red numerical ink stamp to the recto of the first binder's blank, violet ink stamps of the New Bedford Free Public Library dated Oct. 1890 to the title-page and to p. 25. Zadok Cramer (1773-1814), a New Jerseyan of Quaker origin, dedicated his life to books. He opened his bookstore "Franklin Head" on Market street in Philadelphia in 1800 and established his own publication company there later. The Navigator was born out of necessity. Cramer had noticed the need for a guide to navigating the rivers that were bound west and south after he saw groups of immigrants pass through Pittsburgh asking for directions. The Navigator was published before the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, but Cramer grew interested in the Lewis and Clark expedition and was in fact the first to publish an account of the expedition as The Journal of Patrick Gass in 1807. From this account Cramer took descriptions of the Missouri and Columbia Rivers, which were added to the Navigator in 1808, and included in all subsequent editions. Additional information was added to each edition, and at the pinnacle of its popularity in 1814 it reached 360 pages. All editions after this began to shrink in size. Howes C 855; Sabin 17386.

12mo. (6 3/4 x 4 inches). 295, [1]pp. 28 full-page woodcut maps (including one of Pittsburgh, 13 of the Ohio and 13 of the Mississippi). Tipped to the title of this copy is a printed letter from James Smith to the publishers about alterations to channels in the Mississippi. Contemporary quarter calf-backed marbled boards, minor spine repair, spine flat, red morocco lettering piece. Provenance: "W S Jones Vaucluse (Frederick County, Virginia" (bookplate and ownership signature) The first navigational guide to the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. Cramer had been in Pittsburgh but a short time when he realized the necessity for a publication giving detailed information for navigating the Western rivers. It is generally supposed that the first edition of The Navigator was published in 1801 yet no copy bearing that date is known to be in existence. There are extant several copies of the edition of 1802. The earlier editions were small octavo pamphlets bound in coarse paper covers, the third containing some forty pages. First published in this form in 1806, a key to the success and longevity of the guide were the frequent republications, some with additions. The first edition to include information from Lewis & Clark's discoveries was published in 1808. Cramer declared that he had obtained the information set forth "From the journals of gentlemen of observation, and now minutely corrected by several persons who have navigated those rivers for fifteen and twenty years." Cramer's Navigator was the "most widely used guide to western waters in the early period, both before and after the application of steam in 1807" (Howes). Howes C855; Sabin 17385; Streeter Sale II 994.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1808 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 174 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 174 Language: English.

[2],156pp. including twenty-eight full-page maps. 12mo. Contemporary paper boards, rebacked in modern calf, spine gilt. Boards worn at extremities. Some light foxing. Very good. Styled the "Sixth edition - improved and enlarged" on the titlepage, but actually only the fourth known edition, after those of 1802, 1804, and 1806. The first two editions have been found in a few copies only. Cramer's work is the first navigational guide for the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, which were vitally important commercial arteries at the time. The present edition is the first to contain material regarding the Lewis and Clark expedition, found on the final ten pages of text. The Lewis and Clark material is taken from Patrick Gass' journal, which was also printed by Zadok Cramer in Pittsburgh the previous year. Included are twenty-eight woodcut maps of various sections of the rivers described. A vitally important work in helping to develop the commerce of the early United States, with a very early account of Lewis and Clark's discoveries. The Streeter copy sold to Michael Ginsberg, bidding for the firm of J.S. Canner, for $325 in 1967. HOWES C855, "aa." SABIN 17385. LITERATURE OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION, pp.89-94. STREETER SALE 992. REESE, BEST OF THE WEST 24 (ref).

Tenth edition, 12mo, pp. iv, [1], 6-304; 28 full-page woodcut maps; old marbled boards, recased with a late 20th century rebacking, smooth spine with simple gilt lettering; a good, sound copy, the text block lightly toned. Important early American work on navigating the vital waterways that opened up the interior of the young United States to settlement and trade. "Most widely used guide to western waters in the early period" (Howes). Most of the maps are river sections; also includes a map of Pittsburgh, and a long description of the young city (pages 48-66). Appended is an "Abridgement of Lewis and Clark's Expedition" (pages 290-295). Erickson, Literature of Lewis and Clark, p. 105; Howes C-855; Sabin 17386.