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Lot 129

Sale 6004 - Books and Manuscripts
May 20, 2021 8:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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$500 - 800
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[Travel & Exploration] Clark, William, and Meriwether Lewis The Travels of Lewis & Clarke...

Philadelphia: Hubbard Lester, 1809. First counterfeit edition. 8vo. xii, 13-300. Illustrated with engraved folding map, one engraved frontispiece portrait of the "Sioux Queen", and four engraved portrait plates. Contemporary brown calf, stamped in gilt, red morocco spine label, rear board lacking; all edges trimmed; bottom right side of folding map torn away; plates and text moderately to heavily foxed; bottom corner of pp. 215/216 torn away, but present. Howes L-321; Wagner-Camp 8; Streeter Collection 3122; Sabin 96499.

"This is the publication which so aroused the ire of Dr. (Elliott) Coues, and is usually referred to as a counterfeit publication." (Wagner-Camp)

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