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Auction archive: Lot number 16

Lewis, Meriwether, and William Clark

Estimate
US$50,000 - US$70,000
Price realised:
US$81,250
Auction archive: Lot number 16

Lewis, Meriwether, and William Clark

Estimate
US$50,000 - US$70,000
Price realised:
US$81,250
Beschreibung:

Lewis, Meriwether, and William Clark HISTORY OF THE EXPEDITION UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAINS LEWIS AND CLARK, TO THE SOURCES OF THE MISSOURI, THENCE ACROSS THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS AND DOWN TO RIVER COLUMBIA AND THE PACIFIC OCEAN, PERFORMED IN THE YEARS 1804–5–6. BY ORDER OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES. PHILADELPHIA: BRADFORD AND INSKEEP; AND ABM. H. INSKEEP, NEW YORK (J. MAXWELL, PRINTER), 1814 2 volumes, 8vo in half-sheets (8 1/8 x 5 in.; 205 x 126 mm). Large folding engraved map after Clark by S. Harrison bound at the end of vol. 2, 5 engraved maps and plans; folding map backed with linen with some closed tears and minor marginal losses and with some foxing, usual light browning and foxing to text and other plates. Nineteenth-century half red morocco, marbled endpapers; rubbed, covers detached.

Auction archive: Lot number 16
Auction:
Datum:
2 Dec 2014
Auction house:
Sotheby's
New York
Beschreibung:

Lewis, Meriwether, and William Clark HISTORY OF THE EXPEDITION UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAINS LEWIS AND CLARK, TO THE SOURCES OF THE MISSOURI, THENCE ACROSS THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS AND DOWN TO RIVER COLUMBIA AND THE PACIFIC OCEAN, PERFORMED IN THE YEARS 1804–5–6. BY ORDER OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES. PHILADELPHIA: BRADFORD AND INSKEEP; AND ABM. H. INSKEEP, NEW YORK (J. MAXWELL, PRINTER), 1814 2 volumes, 8vo in half-sheets (8 1/8 x 5 in.; 205 x 126 mm). Large folding engraved map after Clark by S. Harrison bound at the end of vol. 2, 5 engraved maps and plans; folding map backed with linen with some closed tears and minor marginal losses and with some foxing, usual light browning and foxing to text and other plates. Nineteenth-century half red morocco, marbled endpapers; rubbed, covers detached.

Auction archive: Lot number 16
Auction:
Datum:
2 Dec 2014
Auction house:
Sotheby's
New York
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