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Lewis, Meriwether, and William Clark
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4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition 1804–1806 ... together with Manuscript Material of Lewis and Clark from other sources, including Note-Books, Letters, Maps, etc., and the Journals of Charles Floyd and Joseph Whitehouse, now for the first time published in full and exactly as written (ed. Reuben Gold Thwaites). New York: Dodd, Mead, 1904–1905
8 volumes in 15, in 8s (12 1/4 x 9 1/8 in.; 311 x 232 mm, uncut). Title-pages printed in red and black, numerous portraits, views, maps, plans, and facsimiles, including 54 folding maps and charts in the atlas volume; frontispieces and a few other illustrations offset to facing pages. Publisher's green buckram gilt; many endpapers lightly foxed, heads and feet of some spines bumped and occasionally frayed, small gouge to spine of vol. 4, pt. 1.
8 volumes in 15, in 8s (12 1/4 x 9 1/8 in.; 311 x 232 mm, uncut). Title-pages printed in red and black, numerous portraits, views, maps, plans, and facsimiles, including 54 folding maps and charts in the atlas volume; frontispieces and a few other illustrations offset to facing pages. Publisher's green buckram gilt; many endpapers lightly foxed, heads and feet of some spines bumped and occasionally frayed, small gouge to spine of vol. 4, pt. 1.
Literature
Graff 2485; Literature of the Lewis and Clark Expedition 5d1; Wagner-Camp-Becker 13:7n
Catalogue Note
One of 200 sets on Van Gelder paper of Thwaites's monumental documentary study of the Lewis and Clark expedition.