[Rarebooks] FS: 1834 traveler's guide featuring the Territory of Michigan & the Erie Canal

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(MICHIGAN) THE WESTERN TRAVELER'S POCKET DIRECTORY AND STRANGER'S GUIDE; Exhibiting Distances on the Principal Canal and Stage Routes in the States of New-York and Ohio, in the Territory of Michigan, and in the Province of Lower Canada, & Containing Also Descriptions of the Rail Roads Now Building... With a List of Broken Banks -- Rates of Toll on the Canals for 1834... Schenectady, NY: Printed by S. S. Riggs for the Publisher. 1834. 16mo. (4-1/4" x 3"). 96pp. Pages 51-86 are a description of the Territory of Michigan, signed "Pioneer." Pages 9-34 describe the recently completed Erie Canal. Orig. cloth spine over printed boards, somewhat soiled & rubbed. Text with some old, light water stains. Rare.    $750.00 (trade discount allowed)
Sabin 103023. See Howes T331. Graff 4612.

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