(LEWIS AND CLARK) Meriwether Lewis; edited by Elliott Coues

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(LEWIS AND CLARK.) Meriwether Lewis; edited by Elliott Coues. History of the Expedition under the Command of Lewis and Clark. 8 maps (including 3 folding maps in a rear pocket), 2 portrait plates, 2 facsimile plates, 2 folding tables. 4 volumes. 8vo, publisher's cloth-backed boards, minimal wear, inked catalog numbers on backstrips and dust jackets; pencil catalog numbers on title and second leaves, no other internal library markings, minimal wear to contents; uncut, title pages in red and black, #7 of 200 copies on handmade large paper; in original printed dust jackets (Volume I a fragment only, Volume IV quite worn). New York, 1893

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"Second in importance only to the original journals. His lengthy annotations, based on first-hand knowledge of the territory, are highly informative, and his bibliographic essay is a major contribution"--Wagner-Camp 13:7n. Erickson, Lewis & Clark 5b.2; Graff 2484; Howes L317 ("most scholarly" edition, "aa").With--an extra portrait plate depicting editor Coues laid in.