[LEWIS, Meriwether and William CLARK].
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[LEWIS, Meriwether and William CLARK]. The Travels of Capts. Lewis & Clarke, by Order of the Government of the United States, performed in the years 1804, 1805 & 1806. Philadelphia: Hubbard Lester, 1809.
8vo (184 x 107 mm). Partial engraved folding map (lacking left half, chipped and torn at edges and folds), 4 hand-colored engraved Indian portrait plates (lacking engraved frontispiece portrait entitled "Sioux Queen"). Contemporary mottled calf (lacking upper cover, spine broken, worn). FIRST EDITION OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK "APOCRYPHA", including printings of President Jefferson's Message... Communicating Discoveries of 1806, letters of William Clark, and plagiarized portions of the journals of Jonathan Carver, Patrick Gass and Alexander Mackenzie. The Lester anthology was "first in a long and mostly related series of unauthorized published accounts of the expedition" (Literature of the Lewis and Clark Expedition 4a.1). It was one of the primary sources of information about the West until the official publication of the Lewis and Clark narrative in 1814 . See Wagner Camp 8:1.
Estimate $ 800-1,200
8vo (184 x 107 mm). Partial engraved folding map (lacking left half, chipped and torn at edges and folds), 4 hand-colored engraved Indian portrait plates (lacking engraved frontispiece portrait entitled "Sioux Queen"). Contemporary mottled calf (lacking upper cover, spine broken, worn). FIRST EDITION OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK "APOCRYPHA", including printings of President Jefferson's Message... Communicating Discoveries of 1806, letters of William Clark, and plagiarized portions of the journals of Jonathan Carver, Patrick Gass and Alexander Mackenzie. The Lester anthology was "first in a long and mostly related series of unauthorized published accounts of the expedition" (Literature of the Lewis and Clark Expedition 4a.1). It was one of the primary sources of information about the West until the official publication of the Lewis and Clark narrative in 1814 . See Wagner Camp 8:1.
Estimate $ 800-1,200
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[LEWIS, Meriwether and William CLARK].
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