Mar 26, 2009 - Sale 2174

Sale 2174 - Lot 151

Price Realized: $ 240
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(LEWIS AND CLARK.) Fisher, William; editor. [New Travels among the Indians of North America; being a Compilation Taken Partly from . . . Lewis & Clark]. 2 frontispiece portrait plates. 12mo, contemporary calf, moderate wear; later illustration pasted to front pastedown, lacking first title page, signature excised from top of second title page, some foxing and dampstaining, fault on Y5 with loss of several words; early owner's inscriptions. [Philadelphia, 1812]

Additional Details

This unusual collection of Lewis & Clark apocrypha was issued with two title pages. The first one is lacking here, but the second title page reading "The Voyages and Travels of Captains Lewis and Clarke" is present. Howes F153a (aa: quite scarce); Literature of the Lewis and Clark Expedition 4c.1; Sabin 24509; Wagner-Camp 8:6. Provenance: Jonas Aby, 1813; Laird Park sale, lot 212; collection of Roger Hollander.