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A Topographical Description of the State of Ohio, Indiana Territory, and Louisiana. Comprehending the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, and Their Principal Tributary Streams: The face of the country, soils, waters, natural productions, animal, vegetable, and mineral; towns, villages, settlements and improvements: And A Concise Account of the Indian Tribes West of the Mississippi. To Which is Added, An Interesting Journal of Mr. Chas. Le Raye, While a Captive with the Sioux nation, on the waters of the Missouri River. By a Late Officer in the U. S. Army.
Boston: Published by Charles Williams, J. Belcher, printer, 1812
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first edition, 12mo, 219 pp., five plates, period tree calf, black leather spine label, binding is somewhat worn, and rubbed, some scuffing and abrasions to leather on front and rear boards, front inner hinge cracked but holding, moderate browning and foxing, lacking errata slip as usual, occasional pencil marks at margins of several pages, else a good copy.
The first edition of this valuable description of the trans-Mississippi West, which contains the first engraved view of Cincinnati and a printed captivity narrative which is "the earliest authentic relation of a captivity among the Sioux." - Eberstadt.
Jervis Cutler resided for many years in Ohio with his father Manasseh, who founded the Ohio Company. He was one of the band of emigrants from Massachusetts under General Rufus Putnam who settled at Marietta in 1788. Charles LeRaye's "Journal," which occupies pp. 158-204, was never printed elsewhere. It relates his experiences from 1801 - 1803 as a captive of the Sioux. His party started up the Missouri on September 21, 1801, and he was captured by the Sioux on the Osage River in October. He traveled in the Rocky Mountains, the Southwest and Canada. There is also included an essay on Indian tribes between the Mississippi and the Rockies. The plates are by the author himself.
Ayer 56; American Imprints 25204; Clark II:14; Howes C-984, "b"; Eberstadt 105:104; Field 395; Decker 41:163; Holliday Sale 256; Graff 963; Sabin 18170; Siebert Sale 969; Streeter Sale 1775; Wagner-Camp 10.
