Lot 6

American Travel, Exploration & Expansion
[LOUISIANA PURCHASE] --[JEFFERSON, Thomas]. An Account of Louisiana, Being an Abstract of Documents, in the Offices of the Departments of State, and of the Treasury. [Philadelphia]: William Duane, [1803].

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Estimate: $600 - $800

Estimate$600 – $800

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American Travel, Exploration & Expansion
[LOUISIANA PURCHASE] --[JEFFERSON, Thomas]. An Account of Louisiana, Being an Abstract of Documents, in the Offices of the Departments of State, and of the Treasury. [Philadelphia]: William Duane, [1803].

8vo (219 x 139 mm). Modern paper wrappers. (Some spotting.)

An early printing of the "first official description of the newly acquired territory" through the Louisiana Purchase (Wagner-Camp). "It is ironic that the acquisition of this vast region that was to have so great an effect upon the course of empire should have been heralded by this tattered, badly printed, credulous synthesis of hazy fact and ill-founded rumor" (Wagner-Camp). Howes L-493; Sabin 42177; Shaw & Shoemaker 5197; Wagner-Camp 2b:9.

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Visions of America: The Stephen White Collection

American Travel, Exploration & Expansion [LOUISIANA PURCHASE] --[JEFFERSON, Thomas]. An Account of Louisiana, Being an Abstract of Documents, in the Offices of the Departments of State, and of the Treasury. [Philadelphia]: William Duane, [1803].

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American Travel, Exploration & Expansion
[LOUISIANA PURCHASE] --[JEFFERSON, Thomas]. An Account of Louisiana, Being an Abstract of Documents, in the Offices of the Departments of State, and of the Treasury. [Philadelphia]: William Duane, [1803].