Beschreibung:

MILLER, ANDREW. New States and Territories, or the Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, North-Western, Missouri, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, In Their Real Characters, in 1818; Showing...the situation, size, number of Inhabitants, Whites and Indians--the number of Counties, Villages, Printing Offices, Banks, Factories, Furnaces, Forges, Mills, &c.... Also, a description of the Rivers, Roads, Settlements, qualities and prices of Lands...and of the new parts of [New] York State, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Kentucky . n.p. [Keene, New Hampshire(?)]: Printed for the Benefit of Emigrants and Others, Intending to Visit the Western Country, 1819. 12 o (126 x 70mm). 96pp., folding typographic "Map Table" (small tear at inner edge). Contemporary sheep-backed marbled paper boards, edges speckled (upper hinge cracked, edges worn). Generally a good copy. Second edition (an undated edition in 8 o format, probably issued in 1818, is believed to be the first printing). An important early emigrant's guide to the newly opened lands of the Ohio Valley and regions beyond; on the basis of a newspaper advertsement it is believed to have been issued by a Keene, New Hampshire printer. As Graff notes, the curious typographic "Map Table" occurs in two states; here, the error in the note at top left carries the corrected reading: "13,000." RARE: no copy of either edition has appeared at auction since the Streeter 8 o in 1967, according to ABPC. Bradford, Bibliographer's Manual 3484; Eames, Herschel V. Jones Collection 814; Eberstadt Catalogues 135:528-529; Storm Graff Collection 2794 (8 o issue: "a very interesting production"); Howes H601 ("priorities between these issues not established, but probabilities favor the octavo"); Jones 814; Sabin 49008; Streeter Sale III, 1329 ("gives quite a complete picture of the status of the different Ohio towns as they were...It is an excellent guide, giving a good contemporary account of the Old Northwest and especially Ohio...").