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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. 12o (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 8o 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 8o 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 (8o 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...").
Second edition (an undated edition in 8o 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 8o 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 (8o 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...").