JEFFERSON, THOMAS, President . Message from the President of the United States, Communicating Discoveries Made in Exploring the Missouri, Red River and Washita, by Captains Lewis and Clark, Doctor Sibley, and Mr. Dunbar; With a Statistical Account of the Countries Adjacent. February 19, 1806. Read, and ordered to lie on the table, Washington: A. & G. Way 1806, folding engraved map spotted and inserted on a guard, leaf 16/4 (p. 127-128) torn and repaired at corner with loss of a few letters in eight lines, lacking final blank , FIRST EDITION, CONTAINING THE FIRST ACCOUNTS OF TEXAS IN BOOK FORM, two folding letterpress tables (at pages 30 and 34), large folding engraved "Map of the Washita River in Louisiana" by William King letterpress tables in the text. Graff 4406; Howes L-319; Sabin 40824; Shaw & Shoemaker 11633; Streeter sale I:290; Streeter Texas 1038; Wagner-Camp-Becker 5:1 -- U.S. CONGRESS. Report of the Committee Appointed...On So Much of the Message of the President...As Relates to the Further Exploring of the Western Waters. December 22, 1806. Washington: A.&. G. Way 1806, 2 pages , report authorizing expenditure of unspecified funds in order "further to explore the western waters" -- U.S. CONGRESS. Documents Accompanying A Bill Making Compensations to Messieurs Lewis and Clarke and their Companions, Presented the 23rd January 1807, Washington: A. &. G. Way 1807, 4 pages , plus large folding letterpress table: "Roll of the men who accompanied captains Lewis and Clarke in their Late Tour to the Pacific ocean, through the interior of the continent of North America...," signed in type by Capt. Meriwether Lewis; together 3 vols. in one, 8vo, 212 x 130 mm. (8 3/8 x 5 3/16 in.), recent green morocco gilt, silk doublures and endpages . FROM THE LIBRARY OF THOMAS WINTHROP STREETER, with his pencilled notes on front endpages and in margins. An important compilation of reports on the Louisiana Territory, prefaced by Jefferson's letter to Congress of 18 February 1806 and Meriwether Lewis's letter to Jefferson from Fort Mandan, 17 April 1805, announcing the expedition's westward departure. The two letters of Dr. Sibley to Secretary of War Henry Dearborn (see also lots 31 & 33), reporting on the Indian tribes of Texas (pp. 66-86) and the Red River Country (pp. 87-115) apparently constitute, according to Streeter, "the first accounts of Texas in book form except for the sketchy translation of the unsatisfactory Pages narrative" (Streeter sale I:290). Of the second of the two ephemeral Congressional reports bound with the book Streeter notes: " Coues, vol.1, p. 211 says: 'This is a rare tract, hard to find. Mr. A.R. Spofford showed me the only copy I have seen in the Library of Congress'" (pencilled note on blank preceding the text). Provenance : T. W. Streeter, as above (this is not the copy that appeared in his sale, Parke-Bernet, 1966-69, as lot 290, which was without the two pamphlets).
JEFFERSON, THOMAS, President . Message from the President of the United States, Communicating Discoveries Made in Exploring the Missouri, Red River and Washita, by Captains Lewis and Clark, Doctor Sibley, and Mr. Dunbar; With a Statistical Account of the Countries Adjacent. February 19, 1806. Read, and ordered to lie on the table, Washington: A. & G. Way 1806, folding engraved map spotted and inserted on a guard, leaf 16/4 (p. 127-128) torn and repaired at corner with loss of a few letters in eight lines, lacking final blank , FIRST EDITION, CONTAINING THE FIRST ACCOUNTS OF TEXAS IN BOOK FORM, two folding letterpress tables (at pages 30 and 34), large folding engraved "Map of the Washita River in Louisiana" by William King letterpress tables in the text. Graff 4406; Howes L-319; Sabin 40824; Shaw & Shoemaker 11633; Streeter sale I:290; Streeter Texas 1038; Wagner-Camp-Becker 5:1 -- U.S. CONGRESS. Report of the Committee Appointed...On So Much of the Message of the President...As Relates to the Further Exploring of the Western Waters. December 22, 1806. Washington: A.&. G. Way 1806, 2 pages , report authorizing expenditure of unspecified funds in order "further to explore the western waters" -- U.S. CONGRESS. Documents Accompanying A Bill Making Compensations to Messieurs Lewis and Clarke and their Companions, Presented the 23rd January 1807, Washington: A. &. G. Way 1807, 4 pages , plus large folding letterpress table: "Roll of the men who accompanied captains Lewis and Clarke in their Late Tour to the Pacific ocean, through the interior of the continent of North America...," signed in type by Capt. Meriwether Lewis; together 3 vols. in one, 8vo, 212 x 130 mm. (8 3/8 x 5 3/16 in.), recent green morocco gilt, silk doublures and endpages . FROM THE LIBRARY OF THOMAS WINTHROP STREETER, with his pencilled notes on front endpages and in margins. An important compilation of reports on the Louisiana Territory, prefaced by Jefferson's letter to Congress of 18 February 1806 and Meriwether Lewis's letter to Jefferson from Fort Mandan, 17 April 1805, announcing the expedition's westward departure. The two letters of Dr. Sibley to Secretary of War Henry Dearborn (see also lots 31 & 33), reporting on the Indian tribes of Texas (pp. 66-86) and the Red River Country (pp. 87-115) apparently constitute, according to Streeter, "the first accounts of Texas in book form except for the sketchy translation of the unsatisfactory Pages narrative" (Streeter sale I:290). Of the second of the two ephemeral Congressional reports bound with the book Streeter notes: " Coues, vol.1, p. 211 says: 'This is a rare tract, hard to find. Mr. A.R. Spofford showed me the only copy I have seen in the Library of Congress'" (pencilled note on blank preceding the text). Provenance : T. W. Streeter, as above (this is not the copy that appeared in his sale, Parke-Bernet, 1966-69, as lot 290, which was without the two pamphlets).
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