Oct 21, 2004 - Sale 2018

Sale 2018 - Lot 259

Price Realized: $ 345
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(LOUISIANA PURCHASE.) An Account of Louisiana Being an Abstract of Documents in the Offices of the Departments of State, and of the Treasury. 50 pages; lacks the terminal blank. 8vo, disbound; foxed and browned, dampstaining to title and first few leaves. Philadelphia: John Conrad & Co., 1803

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One of the first accounts of the Territory, assembled by Thomas Jefferson and containing much information from John Sibley. This edition apparently published without a folding table. Howes L493 (incorrectly citing an 1800 edition); Sabin 42177; Wagner-Camp 2b:7; Streeter Sale 1576.