Mar 26, 2009 - Sale 2174

Sale 2174 - Lot 150

Price Realized: $ 3,120
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
(LEWIS AND CLARK.) The Travels of Capts. Lewis & Clarke. Folding map (imprint obscured by binding). 8vo, contemporary calf, rebacked with most of original backstrip laid down, corners restored; offsetting from map on title page, minor browning, rear pastedown faulty; bookplate on front pastedown. In buckram slip case. London, 1809
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first english edition of what is sometimes called the Lewis & Clark apocrypha, an unauthorized compilation of various sources which came to press five years before the official expedition journals were published in 1814. "A close reprint of the Philadelphia edition, with the omission of Jefferson''s Recommendation (a deliberately misleading element in the earlier edition), with changes to the publisher''s introduction, particularly in the early paragraphs, and with the omission of the plates and final anecdotes. This light editing showed some judicious cuts in extraneous material"--The Literature of the Lewis and Clark Expedition 4a.2.
Graff 2479; Howes L321; Sabin 40827; Wagner-Camp 8:2. Provenance: d''Olier armorial bookplate; Laird Park sale, Sotheby''s, 29 November 2000, lot 211; collection of Roger Hollander.