Schultz, Christian:

$7,000 · Offered by William Reese Company · No longer available

TRAVELS ON AN INLAND VOYAGE THROUGH THE STATES OF NEW-YORK, PENNSYLVANIA, VIRGINIA, OHIO, KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE, AND THROUGH THE TERRITORIES OF INDIANA, LOUISIANA, MISSISSIPPI AND NEW-ORLEANS; ... One of the earliest works to give a detailed account of travel and the actual risks and dangers encountered in the western country. Schultz crossed upstate New York and western Pennsylvania, then went down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans, travelling inland along the way. The entire second volume covers the trip from the mouth of the Ohio south, and paints a marvelous picture of a Mississippi passage of the period. The excellent maps include one of the United States and Louisiana, a map of the Hudson and Mohawk Rivers, a plan of the ancient mounds near Marietta, a map of the Ohio River, and a map of the Mississippi. Complete copies such as this one - with all of the plates and maps - are exceedingly scarce.

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