Jun 05, 2008 - Sale 2148

Sale 2148 - Lot 226

Price Realized: $ 480
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(LEWIS AND CLARK.) Allen, Paul. History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clarke. Folding map, illustrations. 2 volumes. 12mo, original cloth; manuscript bibliographical notes attached to front and rear endpapers; bookplates on front pastedown. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1842

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First edition of Archibald M'Vickar's popular abridgement, which stayed in print for 75 years. Volumes 154 and 155 of Harper's "Family Library." With binding signature on page xiii of the first volume: "This is the September 1842 first edition"--Literature of the Lewis and Clarke Expedition 5a.8.