History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clarke to the Sources of the Missouri, thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean....Prepared for the press by Paul Allen, Revised and Abridged by the Omission of Unimportant Details, With an Introduction and Notes by Archibald M'Vickar
New York: Harper & Brothers.
Hardcover. Very good. Undated, c. 1860s, a reprint of the Harper edition first published in 1842. Two volumes, 4 x 6 inches, in dark red cloth with gilt lettering on spines, Harper & Brothers insignia stamped in blind on boards. Vol 1: pp li, (53)-371; Vol 2: x, (9)-395. Folding map showing the expedition route as frontispiece to Volume I; no other plates, as issued (Beckham, 5a.8 notes). Mild sunning to spine, very mild slant to both spines, closed tear to map. An attractive and sound set. The Harper edition of 1842 was the first edition of Lewis and Clark that had been published since 1817. It added a new introduction and notes and was reissued 19 times between 1842 and 1891. Elliott Coues, in the Introduction to the 1893 edition, describes this set as "an editorial abridgement, or digest, of the original, faithfully and, on the whole, judiciously executed."
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