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Auction archive: Lot number 155

Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. Performed by Order of the Government of the United States, in the Years 1804, 1805, and 1806

Estimate
US$10,000 - US$15,000
Price realised:
US$21,600
Auction archive: Lot number 155

Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. Performed by Order of the Government of the United States, in the Years 1804, 1805, and 1806

Estimate
US$10,000 - US$15,000
Price realised:
US$21,600
Beschreibung:

Title: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. Performed by Order of the Government of the United States, in the Years 1804, 1805, and 1806 Author: Lewis, Meriwether & William Clark Place: London Publisher: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown Date: 1814 Description: xxiv, 663, [1 ad] pp. With a large folding copper-engraved map & 5 copper-engraved charts/plans on 3 sheets. (4to) 11x8¾, full modern gilt-ruled brown levant morocco, spine lettered in gilt, raised bands, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers; bound by Bayntun (Riviere). First English Edition. First English edition of the official account of the most famous and most important expedition of exploration in U.S. history, a monumental undertaking executed with unbelievable skill and bravery. Derived from the journals of Lewis and Clark and other members of the expedition, the work is a rich mine of new information about a previously unexplored region. The folding map, "A Map of Lewis and Clark's Track Across the Western Portion of North America, from the Mississippi to the Pacific, by Order of the Executive of the United States in 1804, 5 & 6," Wheat, Transmississippi 317, is a close copy of the map in the American first edition of 1814. Field 929; Graff 2480; Howes L317; Streeter 3128; Wagner-Camp 13:2. Lot Amendments Condition: Half-title, title and following leaves with horizontal fold/indentation, with neat repairs to half-title, 4" tear at gutter margin of title, folding map with short stub tear repaired; a few, primarily marginal, tears repaired within; a near fine, full-margined copy in handsome modern binding. Item number: 190996

Auction archive: Lot number 155
Auction:
Datum:
29 May 2008
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

Title: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. Performed by Order of the Government of the United States, in the Years 1804, 1805, and 1806 Author: Lewis, Meriwether & William Clark Place: London Publisher: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown Date: 1814 Description: xxiv, 663, [1 ad] pp. With a large folding copper-engraved map & 5 copper-engraved charts/plans on 3 sheets. (4to) 11x8¾, full modern gilt-ruled brown levant morocco, spine lettered in gilt, raised bands, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers; bound by Bayntun (Riviere). First English Edition. First English edition of the official account of the most famous and most important expedition of exploration in U.S. history, a monumental undertaking executed with unbelievable skill and bravery. Derived from the journals of Lewis and Clark and other members of the expedition, the work is a rich mine of new information about a previously unexplored region. The folding map, "A Map of Lewis and Clark's Track Across the Western Portion of North America, from the Mississippi to the Pacific, by Order of the Executive of the United States in 1804, 5 & 6," Wheat, Transmississippi 317, is a close copy of the map in the American first edition of 1814. Field 929; Graff 2480; Howes L317; Streeter 3128; Wagner-Camp 13:2. Lot Amendments Condition: Half-title, title and following leaves with horizontal fold/indentation, with neat repairs to half-title, 4" tear at gutter margin of title, folding map with short stub tear repaired; a few, primarily marginal, tears repaired within; a near fine, full-margined copy in handsome modern binding. Item number: 190996

Auction archive: Lot number 155
Auction:
Datum:
29 May 2008
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
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