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Lot 32

Sale 6285 - Books and Manuscripts
Mar 27, 2025 10:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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[Americana] [Lewis, Meriwether, and William Clark] Travels in the Interior Parts of America; Communicating Discoveries Made in Exploring the Missouri, Red River and Washita, By Captains Lewis and Clark, Doctor Sibley, and Mr. Dunbar...


London: Printed for Richard Phillips, by J.G. Barnard, 1807. First English edition. 8vo. 24, 17-116 pp. With one folding letterpress table, and in-text tables. Three-quarter brown calf over marbled paper-covered boards, stamped in blind, front and rear boards detached, lower spine perished, chipping to top of same, boards and extremities rubbed and scuffed; all edges untrimmed; abrasion and residue on front paste-down from removed book-plate; blindstamp of the Utica Public Library, dated 1893, on title-page, B1, and P1; library ink notations on A2r; old pencil signature at top of title-page; ink stamp on rear free endpaper, residue on same from removed library pocket. Howes L-319; Field 926; Sabin 40826; Streeter sale 3121; Wagner-Camp 5, p. 10

First English edition of the Lewis and Clark expedition, nearly an exact copy of the original government publication published the previous year in Washington.

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