Mar 31, 2011 - Sale 2241

Sale 2241 - Lot 191

Price Realized: $ 2,880
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Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(LEWIS AND CLARK.) Thwaites, Reuben G.; editor. Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. 54 folding maps in atlas volume, some in parts as issued; 45 plates. 8 volumes. 8vo, publisher's buckram gilt, minor wear at extremities; final map detached from volume; top edges gilt, otherwise uncut; front hinge split on Volume II and starting in two others; morocco collector's ex-libris tags on each front pastedown, with offsetting to facing blank. New York, 1904-05
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First trade edition thus, distinguished by its extensive introduction, the important Paltsis bibliography, and the first publication of several William Clark notebooks. All documents were newly transcribed from the original manuscripts. "Ambitious, scholarly, and immensely useful"--Beckham-Erickson, Literature of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 5d.1 and pages 168-9.