Mar 26, 2009 - Sale 2174

Sale 2174 - Lot 153

Price Realized: $ 900
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(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]. 3 copies, all in quite poor condition, disbound, lacking titles and otherwise incomplete. One copy is with its original 1/4 calf covers. Pittsburgh, 1807

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first editions. The first printing of a Lewis and Clark journal is an Americana cornerstone, and this group may appeal to those collectors who are not the least bit fussy about condition. With the printed card of 1940s Americana dealer James Lewis Hook of Philadelphia. Graff 1516; Howes G77 ("b"); Literature of the Lewis and Clark Expedition 3.1; Sabin 26741; Streeter sale V:3120; Wagner-Camp 6:1. should be seen.