(LEWIS AND CLARK) Gass Patrick A Journal of the Voyages and

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EARLIEST ACCOUNT OF THE LEWIS & CLARK EXPEDITION (LEWIS AND CLARK.) Gass, Patrick. A Journal of the Voyages and Travels of a Corps of Discovery, under the Command of Capt. Lewis and Capt. Clarke. 12mo (167 x 104 mm), contemporary sheep-backed boards, worn at extremities; hinges starting, lacks front free endpaper, dampstaining affecting early pages and lower right corners of later pages, browning throughout; numerous signatures and inscriptions by at least five early owners on front pastedown, title page, fore-edge, and elsewhere. Pittsburgh, 1807

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first edition of the earliest first-hand account of the lewis and clark expedition. It was also the only authentic source for detailed information on the travels until the official History was published in 1814. "The first printing of a journal by a member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition"--Literature of the Lewis and Clark Expedition 3.1. "One of the essential books for an Americana collection"--Streeter sale V:3120. Graff 1516, Howes G77, Sabin 26741, Wagner-Camp 6:1.

This copy's inscriptions show that it was an 1809 gift from Adam Elliot of Pennsylvania to Sgt. Henry Trout, who was later an early settler of Erin, Ontario. Trout died in 1852, and the book was later discovered in a bookcase by Richard Anthony of Napier, Ontario in 1876; it bears later signatures by other members of the Anthony family.