[MISSISSIPPI VALLEY]. [BAIRD, Robert. (1798-1863)]. View of the Valley of the Mississippi, or the Emigrant?s and Traveller?s Guide to the West? Philadelphia: H. S. Tanner, 1834. 8vo. With hand-colored map as frontispiece and 14 black and white maps, most are folding. [2, blank], [x], [1]-372, [2, blank] pp. Publisher?s full purple cloth, printed paper label on spine (spine toned, headcap chipped, front joint starting, label chipped and soiled, boards worn and soiled, front blank and frontispiece a bit loose, text foxed, most maps toned or partially toned, contemporary owner?s inscription on title-page). Good. SECOND EDITION. Based partially on Guide for Emigrants by Peck (1831), and has sections on Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky, Tennessee, Illinois, Missouri, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, and Florida. There is also a brief history of steamboats in the West. Sabin 99586.