LEWIS and CLARK. Travels to the Source of the Missouri River... Lond., 1815. FIRST ENG. 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: A. Strahan for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815.
3 volumes, 8vo (196 x 125 mm). Half-title in vol. III; engraved folding route map (a few neatly-repaired short marginal tears); 5 engraved maps. (Light spotting to titles, some browning and spotting to plates.) Contemporary polished calf (rebacked to style, covers detached but present). Provenance: Armorial bookplate on pastedowns.
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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