LEWIS, Meriwether and William CLARK The Travels of Capts. Lewis & Clarke, from St. Louis, by Way of the Missouri and Columbia Rivers, to the Pacific Ocean; Performed in the Years, 1804, 1805, & 1806, by Order of the Government of the United States . London: C. Stower for Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1809.
LEWIS, Meriwether and William CLARK The Travels of Capts. Lewis & Clarke, from St. Louis, by Way of the Missouri and Columbia Rivers, to the Pacific Ocean; Performed in the Years, 1804, 1805, & 1806, by Order of the Government of the United States . London: C. Stower for Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1809. 8 o (218 x 129 mm). (Lacks folding map, lacking pp.11-14, some pale browning and spotting, marginal tear to P2 shaving a few letters at text extreme.) 19th-century red half morocco. Provenance : ELLIOTT COUES (1842-1899), American naturalist and historian, editor of the journals of Lewis and Clark (signature on title dated 1893, annotations in pencil throughout); sold Parke Bernet, 23 September 1969, lot 181. ELLIOTT COUES'S COPY OF THE FIRST ENGLISH EDITION OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK "APOCRYPHA". Coues has fully annotated this copy, presumably in preparation of the definitive edition of the Lewis and Clark expeditions journals which he published in 1893. Coues writes on the first text leaf: "This book is one of the 'Apocrypha,' or spurious editions of 'Lewis & Clarke,' based primarily upon the Documents accompanying President Jefferson's Message to Congress, 1806, variously patched together, with some foreign matter. Coues." He notes after the reprinting of Jefferson's message that it is "genuine but lacks nearly ½" of the text. The majority of Coues's remaining annotations comprise corrections to spelling and punctuation, apparently for the use of a typesetter, but also include inserted editorial remarks, such as parenthetical elucidations of names or places, but also includes scholarly commentary. One example on p.25 notes that "What is apparently L & C matter continues to p.30--but not beyond: for there the compilation from Jonathan Carver begins without any break in the text"; further references to the Carver text are made elsewhere, as identifications of passages from Alexander Mackenzie Page 30 includes a written footnote relating to the story of the large snake encountered early in the expedition. Pages 15-24 are trimmed shorter than those before and after. Pages 11-14 which immediately precede this section appear to have been removed editorially by Coues for his edition's preparation. The bulk of Coues's notes are made from pages 1-130, where virtually every page has numerous markings and additions; the remaining sections of the book are more sparsely corrected and annotated. Coues earned early fame with his work on natural history, notably upon the publication of his Key to North American Birds in 1872. In 1876 he became secretary and naturalist of Ferdinand V. Hayden's U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories. He left military employ in 1880 and returned to his alma mater, the National Medical College, to teach. In his last decade, he dedicated his studies to the great narratives of exploration of the American West, beginning with the Lewis and Clark journals, and continuing with those of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Alexander Henry Charles Larpenteur and Francisco Garcés. These annotated editions would become the standard editions well into the Twentieth century. Field 927; Howes L-321; Sabin 40827; Wagner-Camp-Becker 8:2.
LEWIS, Meriwether and William CLARK The Travels of Capts. Lewis & Clarke, from St. Louis, by Way of the Missouri and Columbia Rivers, to the Pacific Ocean; Performed in the Years, 1804, 1805, & 1806, by Order of the Government of the United States . London: C. Stower for Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1809.
LEWIS, Meriwether and William CLARK The Travels of Capts. Lewis & Clarke, from St. Louis, by Way of the Missouri and Columbia Rivers, to the Pacific Ocean; Performed in the Years, 1804, 1805, & 1806, by Order of the Government of the United States . London: C. Stower for Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1809. 8 o (218 x 129 mm). (Lacks folding map, lacking pp.11-14, some pale browning and spotting, marginal tear to P2 shaving a few letters at text extreme.) 19th-century red half morocco. Provenance : ELLIOTT COUES (1842-1899), American naturalist and historian, editor of the journals of Lewis and Clark (signature on title dated 1893, annotations in pencil throughout); sold Parke Bernet, 23 September 1969, lot 181. ELLIOTT COUES'S COPY OF THE FIRST ENGLISH EDITION OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK "APOCRYPHA". Coues has fully annotated this copy, presumably in preparation of the definitive edition of the Lewis and Clark expeditions journals which he published in 1893. Coues writes on the first text leaf: "This book is one of the 'Apocrypha,' or spurious editions of 'Lewis & Clarke,' based primarily upon the Documents accompanying President Jefferson's Message to Congress, 1806, variously patched together, with some foreign matter. Coues." He notes after the reprinting of Jefferson's message that it is "genuine but lacks nearly ½" of the text. The majority of Coues's remaining annotations comprise corrections to spelling and punctuation, apparently for the use of a typesetter, but also include inserted editorial remarks, such as parenthetical elucidations of names or places, but also includes scholarly commentary. One example on p.25 notes that "What is apparently L & C matter continues to p.30--but not beyond: for there the compilation from Jonathan Carver begins without any break in the text"; further references to the Carver text are made elsewhere, as identifications of passages from Alexander Mackenzie Page 30 includes a written footnote relating to the story of the large snake encountered early in the expedition. Pages 15-24 are trimmed shorter than those before and after. Pages 11-14 which immediately precede this section appear to have been removed editorially by Coues for his edition's preparation. The bulk of Coues's notes are made from pages 1-130, where virtually every page has numerous markings and additions; the remaining sections of the book are more sparsely corrected and annotated. Coues earned early fame with his work on natural history, notably upon the publication of his Key to North American Birds in 1872. In 1876 he became secretary and naturalist of Ferdinand V. Hayden's U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories. He left military employ in 1880 and returned to his alma mater, the National Medical College, to teach. In his last decade, he dedicated his studies to the great narratives of exploration of the American West, beginning with the Lewis and Clark journals, and continuing with those of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Alexander Henry Charles Larpenteur and Francisco Garcés. These annotated editions would become the standard editions well into the Twentieth century. Field 927; Howes L-321; Sabin 40827; Wagner-Camp-Becker 8:2.
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