LEWIS, Meriwether (1774-1809) and William CLARK (1770-1838). Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and across the American Continent.... London: for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815. FIRST ENGLISH OCTAVO EDITION.
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LEWIS, Meriwether (1774-1809) and William CLARK (1770-1838). Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and across the American Continent.... London: for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815.
3 volumes, 8vo (196 x 125 mm). Engraved folding route map (short tear at fold crossing image repaired verso); 5 engraved maps. (Dampstain gutter margin to a few leaves, some spotting and browning.) 20th-century half green calf gilt (some rubbing and light wear).
FIRST ENGLISH OCTAVO EDITION, edited by Thomas Rees. It is a reproduction in larger type and on better paper, of the Philadelphia edition of 1814, omitting the ‘Observations on the Government of the Indians,’ by Captain Lewis and the eight meteorological tables. Another edition was printed in Dublin with the same title with some additions" (Sabin 40830). Graff 24881; Howes L-317; Wagner-Camp 13:3.
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Property From the Westland Library of the Frontier
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