HISTORY OF THE EXPEDITION UNDER THE COMMAND OF LEWIS AND CLARK.A NEW EDITION, FAITHFULLY REPRINTED.WITH COPIOUS CRITICAL COMMENTARY.BY ELLIOT COUES
Lewis, Meriwether, and William Clark
Published by Francis P. Harper, New York, 1893
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Three text volumes plus atlas, totaling 1364pp. Facsimiles and plates. Folding map. Large octavo. Original half cloth and paper boards, paper labels. Boards edgeworn and a bit soiled, spines darkened, spine label on first volume chipped. Very fresh and clean internally. About very good. Largely unopened. One of 200 copies on handmade paper (this being number 197) from a total edition of 1000, and slightly larger in format than the 800 copies printed on "fine book paper." The first "modern" edited scholarly edition of the Lewis and Clark account and manuscripts, reprinting the official text of 1814, but with extensive notes by Coues based on his examination of the surviving manuscripts and maps of the expedition. This was also the first of a series of landmark publications by Harper on western exploration, and the first editing project of the prolific Coues. "[Coues'] edition of 1893 ranks second in importance only to the original journals. His lengthy annotations, based on first-hand knowledge of the territory, are highly informative, and his bibliographical essay is a major contribution" - Wagner-Camp. A landmark work in the history of western historiography, ushering in modern scholarship the same year as the Turner thesis. HOWES L317, "aa." GRAFF 2484. LITERATURE OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION 5b.2. WAGNER-CAMP 13:7 (note). PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 272 (ref). Seller Inventory # WRCAM33548A
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Title: HISTORY OF THE EXPEDITION UNDER THE COMMAND ...
Publisher: Francis P. Harper, New York
Publication Date: 1893
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