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(LEWIS and CLARK.) Jefferson, Thomas. Message from the President of the United States, Communicating Discoveries Made in Exploring
The Missouri, Red River and Washita, by Captains Lewis and Clark, Doctor Sibley, and Mr. Dunbar. Folding table. 8vo, disbound; some toning and foxing; inscribed on the title "Office of the Secretary of the Treasury / Not to be loaned." Senate issue, without the map. Washington, 1806
- Notes: The first official account of Lewis and Clark's findings, preceded only by a letter from Clark printed in the Frankfort Palladium (and subsequently reprinted in several other newspapers). The map was not bound into all copies. "Though meager in information on Lewis and Clark, this was the first book giving any of their activities"--Howes L319; Wagner-Camp 5:2.
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