8vo (216 x 134 mm). Folding map frontispiece. (Some spotting and toning, margins shaved.) Later cloth, red leather lettering-piece gilt. Provenance: Dudley Bell Priester (1923-2017), Mississippi River collector and bibliographer (sold Bloomsbury, 20 November 2009, lot 115).

FIRST EDITION of the report about Lieutenant Allen and Schoolcraft's 1832 expedition to the Northwest Territory, and with a map depicting their journey. "One of the principal objects of the expedition was to vaccinate the Chippewa Indians" (Wagner-Camp). During this trip, Allen produced the first accurate map of the lakes and streams of the headwaters. Howes A-148; Graff 3703; Field 1366; Streeter Sale III: 1793; Sabin 77847; Wagner-Camp 47a.