(LEWIS AND CLARK) Travels in North America

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(LEWIS AND CLARK.) Travels in North America. Frontispiece plate, text illustrations. 18mo, original boards, needs binding; ink stain to frontispiece, foxing; original gift inscription on title page. Dublin, 1822

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first edition. The dramatic story of evangelical Irishman George Philips and his travels with the Lewis and Clark expedition. Unfortunately, he never existed. Several apocryphal accounts of the Lewis and Clark Expedition were published in the early 19th century, but the Phillips narrative "was in a class of its own for the license it took in fabricating a travel tale around a core of factual data. . . . Entirely new and quite wonderful."--Literature of the Lewis and Clark Expedition 4d.1 and pages 121, 129-130. Illustrated with full-page non sequitur woodcuts of Eskimos, icebergs, a mine shaft, and Niagara Falls. This tall tale went through three other editions. Howes P305; Sabin 62456; Wagner-Camp 21c:1. Only one other copy known at auction, which brought $2600 in 2007.