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Auction archive: Lot number 18

LEWIS, MERIWETHER. 1774-1809; AND WILLIAM CLARK. 1770-1838.

Estimate
US$3,000 - US$5,000
Price realised:
US$5,700
Auction archive: Lot number 18

LEWIS, MERIWETHER. 1774-1809; AND WILLIAM CLARK. 1770-1838.

Estimate
US$3,000 - US$5,000
Price realised:
US$5,700
Beschreibung:

History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, to the Sources of the Missouri.... Philadelphia: Bradford and Inskeep, 1814. 2 volumes. 8vo (190 x 120 mm). 5 engraved maps (of 6); large folding map supplied in facsimile. Modern cloth. Title pages trimmed at upper margin, with restorations, repairs to numerous leaves in Volume I, 3 pages in Volume II repaired with slight loss of text. FIRST EDITION OF THE OFFICIAL ACCOUNT OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION, which opened up the American West for generations of settlers. Thomas Jefferson contributed the "Life of Captain Lewis" to Vol 1. According to Church many of the 2,000 copies printed were destroyed or lost and not all copies were issued with the large folding map (present here in facsimile). Church 1309; PMM 272; Graff 2477; Howes L317; Sabin 40828.

Auction archive: Lot number 18
Auction:
Datum:
21 Oct 2020
Auction house:
Bonhams London
New York
Beschreibung:

History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, to the Sources of the Missouri.... Philadelphia: Bradford and Inskeep, 1814. 2 volumes. 8vo (190 x 120 mm). 5 engraved maps (of 6); large folding map supplied in facsimile. Modern cloth. Title pages trimmed at upper margin, with restorations, repairs to numerous leaves in Volume I, 3 pages in Volume II repaired with slight loss of text. FIRST EDITION OF THE OFFICIAL ACCOUNT OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION, which opened up the American West for generations of settlers. Thomas Jefferson contributed the "Life of Captain Lewis" to Vol 1. According to Church many of the 2,000 copies printed were destroyed or lost and not all copies were issued with the large folding map (present here in facsimile). Church 1309; PMM 272; Graff 2477; Howes L317; Sabin 40828.

Auction archive: Lot number 18
Auction:
Datum:
21 Oct 2020
Auction house:
Bonhams London
New York
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