View of the Valley of the Mississippi: or the Emigrant's and Traveller's Guide to the West. by [BAIRD, Robert]

Philadelphia: H.S. Tanner. First Edition. Small octavo. ix, [3], 341, [1, blank], 10 [ads for other Tanner maps and atlases] pp. The copy unusual in that is has all fifteen full-page engraved and folding maps and plans by Tanner (with the frontispiece map having hand-coloring). Publisher's plain muslin later rebacked in light brown cloth with recent spine label, cloth reinforcement at hinges. Covers quite firm with minor old wear to original cloth, text tight and clean with very slight aging, small ink markings at few pages, abrasions from removal of bookplate at front pastedown, all maps in excellent condition with light aging. A very good copy.The text is based "in large measure on Peck's 'Guide for Emigrants ...' Boston, 1831, although there are some passages developed from personal observation" - Graff. The maps are of many individual states east of the Mississippi plus plans of Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Detroit, Louisville, ana St. Louis, with a map of the Eastern U.S. at frontis. The catalogue at rear includes 121 entries (the most expensive being the American Atlas, for $30, or $45 with individual maps mounted on rollers and varnished).