Feb 04, 2016 - Sale 2404

Sale 2404 - Lot 168

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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(LEWIS & CLARK.) The Journal of Lewis and Clarke, to the Mouth of the Columbia River Beyond the Rocky Mountains. 16 full-page illustrations. 240 pages. Small 8vo, modern morocco gilt by Andrée M. Clarke (no relation); first three illustration leaves bound out of sequence, additional blank bound after page xii; early inscriptions and binder/owner's embossed stamp on flyleaf. In a modern 1/4 morocco folding case. Dayton, OH, 1840
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A scarce later version of the "counterfeit" edition, with crude woodcuts. This is the first book-length version of Lewis and Clark's journal published west of the Appalachians. Erickson, Literature of the Lewis and Clark Expedition 4c.4; Wagner-Camp 8:8.