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Auction archive: Lot number 56

LEWIS, MERIWETHER and WILLIAM CLARK. Travels in the Interior Parts of America; communicating Discoveries made in exploring the Missouri, Red River and Washita...1807, contemporary tree calf, rebacked , English reprint of the Message of the President ...

Auction 09.06.1993
9 Jun 1993
Estimate
US$1,200 - US$1,800
Price realised:
US$2,875
Auction archive: Lot number 56

LEWIS, MERIWETHER and WILLIAM CLARK. Travels in the Interior Parts of America; communicating Discoveries made in exploring the Missouri, Red River and Washita...1807, contemporary tree calf, rebacked , English reprint of the Message of the President ...

Auction 09.06.1993
9 Jun 1993
Estimate
US$1,200 - US$1,800
Price realised:
US$2,875
Beschreibung:

LEWIS, MERIWETHER and WILLIAM CLARK Travels in the Interior Parts of America; communicating Discoveries made in exploring the Missouri, Red River and Washita...1807, contemporary tree calf, rebacked , English reprint of the Message of the President [Jefferson]... communicating discoveries...by Captains Lewis and Clark (Washington 1806), folding chart, Sabin 40826, Wagner and Camp 5:6; The Travels...from St. Louis, by way of the Missouri and Columbia Rivers to the Pacific Ocean, 1809, original gray boards, paper backstrip (darkened), uncut, extremities of spine chipped, joints cracked, map foxed and with tiny marginal worm tracks, M1 torn with loss to two words, conjugate leaves S3.6 and 4.5 misbound (pp. 261-64 bound before p. 257), title discolored, spotting , folding engraved map, Sabin 40827 ("Almost a reproduction of the 'Message', but...it contains some documents not published in any other edition"), Wagner and Camp 8:2; both London, together 2 vols., 8vo . (2)

Auction archive: Lot number 56
Auction:
Datum:
9 Jun 1993
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Park Avenue
Beschreibung:

LEWIS, MERIWETHER and WILLIAM CLARK Travels in the Interior Parts of America; communicating Discoveries made in exploring the Missouri, Red River and Washita...1807, contemporary tree calf, rebacked , English reprint of the Message of the President [Jefferson]... communicating discoveries...by Captains Lewis and Clark (Washington 1806), folding chart, Sabin 40826, Wagner and Camp 5:6; The Travels...from St. Louis, by way of the Missouri and Columbia Rivers to the Pacific Ocean, 1809, original gray boards, paper backstrip (darkened), uncut, extremities of spine chipped, joints cracked, map foxed and with tiny marginal worm tracks, M1 torn with loss to two words, conjugate leaves S3.6 and 4.5 misbound (pp. 261-64 bound before p. 257), title discolored, spotting , folding engraved map, Sabin 40827 ("Almost a reproduction of the 'Message', but...it contains some documents not published in any other edition"), Wagner and Camp 8:2; both London, together 2 vols., 8vo . (2)

Auction archive: Lot number 56
Auction:
Datum:
9 Jun 1993
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Park Avenue
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