[SAINT Louis]:

$350 · Offered by William Reese Company

ANNUAL REVIEW. HISTORY OF THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS, COMMERCIAL STATISTICS, IMPROVEMENTS OF THE YEAR AND ACCOUNT OF LEADING MANUFACTORIES, &c. FROM THE MISSOURI REPUBLICAN, JANUARY 10, ... Howes enters this under "S," presumably for St. Louis. What he does not note (nor does anyone else) is that there are two distinct issues of this pamphlet, one of forty-seven pages and another of forty-eight pages. They are identical to page 38; after that some of the material is the same, though arranged differently, but the forty-eight-page issue has a list of steamboat disasters for 1853 while the forty-seven-page issue has an article on the Pacific Railroad. The latter also has two unpaginated lithographs not in the other version, "View of the Iron Mountain" and "View of the Pilot Knob." The map is the same in both. Issued by Jules Hutawa, it shows the U.S., with the five possible railroad routes to the Pacific indicated by dotted lines. Wheat suggests that Hutawa leaned on Edwin Johnson's maps of 1853.

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