[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.
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Lot Description
[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. Small portion of lower right corner of engraved folding map only (the rest torn away); engraved frontispiece portrait and 4 engraved Indian portrait plates. (Marginal chipping, fraying and tears affecting text with occasional minor losses to text, browning and spotting.) Contemporary roan (light wear). Provenance: Jacob Horley (signature 1811); William B. Reese (signature, 1833); Ambrose H. Seiffert (signatures, Dover, PA, 1868);
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.
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