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Coues edition of Lewis & Clark 1893

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Title: History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark to the Sources of the Missouri River, thence across the Rocky Mountains and down the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean, performed during the years 1804-5-6 by Order of the Government of the United States
Author: Lewis, Meriwether & William Clark
Description: A New Edition, Faithfully Reprinted from the only Authorized Edition of 1814, with Copious Critical Commentary, Prepared Upon Examination of Unpublished Official Archives and Many Sources of Information, Including a Diligent Study of the Original Manuscript Journals and Field Notebooks of the Explorers...by Elliott Coues. 4 vols. Illustrated with engraved portraits of Lewis & Clark; facsimiles of letters from each of them; 8 maps, 3 of them folding & loose in rear endpaper pocket of Vol. IV; 2 folding charts. 9¼x6, original green cloth, spines lettered in gilt. No. 446 of 1000 copies.The most scholarly of the various editions of the work first published in 1814, with extensive footnotes and other amenities. Howes L317. With ink ownership signatures of Lucien Wulsin, The Hermitage, Oct. 1893, to the front free endpapers.
Heading: Place Published: New York
Publisher: Francis P. Harper
Date Published: 1893