CUMING, F[ORTESCUE]. Sketches of a Tour to the Western Country, Through the States of Ohio and Kentucky; A Voyage Down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, and A Trip Through the Mississippi Territory, and Part of West Florida. Commenced at Philadelphia in the Winter of 1807, and Concluded in 1809...With...A Notice of an Expedition Through Louisiana. Pittsburgh: Cramer, Spear & Eichbaum 1810. FIRST EDITION. 12mo, 174 x 106 mm. (6 3/4 x 4 1/4 in.), original linen-backed pale blue paper boards, worn, front hinge slightly cracked, scattered foxing and spotting, light dampstains in gutter margins at front, red quarter morocco gilt slipcase. Buck 71; Graff/Storm 944 (page 25 mispaginated 28); Howes C-947; Sabin 17890; Streeter sale III:1325; Thomson Bibliography of the State of Ohio 286 ("one of the most interesting works relating to the West").

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CUMING, F[ORTESCUE]. Sketches of a Tour to the Western Country, Through the States of Ohio and Kentucky; A Voyage Down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, and A Trip Through the Mississippi Territory, and Part of West Florida. Commenced at Philadelphia in the Winter of 1807, and Concluded in 1809...With...A Notice of an Expedition Through Louisiana. Pittsburgh: Cramer, Spear & Eichbaum 1810. FIRST EDITION. 12mo, 174 x 106 mm. (6 3/4 x 4 1/4 in.), original linen-backed pale blue paper boards, worn, front hinge slightly cracked, scattered foxing and spotting, light dampstains in gutter margins at front, red quarter morocco gilt slipcase. Buck 71; Graff/Storm 944 (page 25 mispaginated 28); Howes C-947; Sabin 17890; Streeter sale III:1325; Thomson Bibliography of the State of Ohio 286 ("one of the most interesting works relating to the West").

"Excellent and extensive observations on pioneer conditions throughout the Ohio and lower Mississippi" (Howes). The last few chapters and several appendices are devoted to Louisiana's geography and inhabitants.