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[Americana] [Lewis, Meriwether, and William Clark] Travels in the Interior Parts of America... First English edition.
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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.


This lot is located in Philadelphia.