| Author | Cumings, Samuel.
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| Title | The western navigator; containing directions for the navigation of the Ohio and Mississippi, and information concerning the towns, &c., on their banks. Accompanied by charts of the Ohio river, in its whole extent; and of the Mississippi river, from the mouth of the Missouri to the gulf of Mexico. By Samuel Cumings.
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| Published | Philadelphia, E. Littell, 1822.
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| Description | 4, 232, [6] p. and atlas of 27 fold. maps. 23 cm. & 42 cm.
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| General Note | 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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| Subjects | Insurance, Marine.
Mississippi River -- Description and travel -- Maps.
Mississippi River -- Navigation.
Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel.
Ohio River -- Description and travel -- Maps.
Ohio River -- Navigation.
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| LC Card Number | 01-8695 |
| Call Number/Copies | |
| | WRHS Research Library: F 25 J C969W 1822 Vault Oversize, v. 1
mq57880: Rare book room, LC class, restricted access [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| | WRHS Research Library: F 25 J C969W 1822 Vault, v. 2
mq240582: Rare book room, LC class, restricted access [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
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