Untitled: advertisement for The Navigator

 

CRAMER, SPEAR, & EICHBAUM
Franklin-Head Bookstore
Market Street
Have Just published
THE NAVIGATOR
Containing directions for Navigating
The
Monongahela,Ohio, and
Allegheny,Mississippi
RIVERS;
with an ample account
of these much admired waters,
from the head of the former to the mouth
of the latter;
And a concise description of their
Towns, Villages, Harbours,
Settlements, & etc.
________

With accurate 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
Captains Lewis and Clarke.
________
Seventh Edition-Enlarged and improved
[Price One Dollar.]

March 4, 1811

 

[Note that Hanover College owns a copy of this rare book. In 2009, the Duggan Library reported that The Rivers Institute at Hanover College, in celebration of the bicentennial of the first successful steamboat to navigate the Ohio River, has purchased a rare copy of . . . the 1811 edition of Cramer's The Navigator,." The book "gives an early account of the Lewis and Clark expedition, . . . [includes] twenty-seven woodcut charts of American inland waterways . . . [and] descriptions of river towns, villages, harbors and settlements."]

Steamboat Adventure
Made possible by the Rivers Institute and the
History Department of Hanover College.

 

How to cite this article:  Untitled advertisement for The Navigator, Pittsburgh Gazette, 8 Mar 1811, p. 3, available at http://history.hanover.edu/texts/1811.