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(LEWIS & CLARK.) The Travels of Capts. Lewis & Clarke. 5 plates (including 4 crudely hand-colored at an early date), small remnant of the folding
(LEWIS & CLARK.) The Travels of Capts. Lewis & Clarke. 5 plates (including 4 crudely hand-colored at an early date), small remnant of the folding map. 12mo, contemporary calf, worn, front cover detached; foxing. Philadelphia: Lester, 1809
- Notes: first edition of the apocrypha. "The preparation of Lewis and Clark's authorized account of their expedition encountered a series of delays... In the meantime, curiosity continued unabated... In 1809 the above curious work appeared, implying the sanction of the Government and purporting to contain everything known about the country and the expedition... 'this wretched meretricious compilation' as Elliott Coues called it, was for a time a major source of information on the Far West"--Wagner-Camp 8:1; The Literature of the Lewis and Clark Expedition 4a.1; Howes L321; Streeter Sale 3122.
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