Visions of America: The Stephen White Collection

3 volumes, 8vo (203 x 127 mm). 8 aquatints including 3 frontispieces (2 in color) and 5 plates (one in color); 2 folding maps (the larger on new linen). 20th century half calf gilt, all edges gilt, stamp-signed by Bayntun (light rubbing to joints and fore-corners).

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, printed the same year as the American edition but with additional plates. The Long Expedition was a “Notable government expedition [commanded by Maj. Stephen H. Long], supplementing earlier discoveries of Pike and of Lewis and Clark, and pronouncing the plains region as nothing but a desert, incapable of cultivation!” (Howes). It “ranks in importance with those of Pike and Lewis and Clark” (Reese). Abbey, Travel 650 Howes J-41; Reese, Best of the West 49; Sabin 35683; Streeter Sale 1783; Wagner-Camp 25:2; Wheat, Transmississippi 353.