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(LEWIS & CLARK.) The Travels of Capts. Lewis & Clarke.
(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
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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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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