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LEWIS & CLARK EXPEDITION – The Universal Gazette . Washington: Samuel Harrison Smith, 17 September 1807. Vol. 5, No. 502. [With]: The Pittsburgh Gazette . Pittsburgh: John Scull, 7 April 1807. Vol.21, No.1072.
LEWIS & CLARK EXPEDITION – The Universal Gazette . Washington: Samuel Harrison Smith, 17 September 1807. Vol. 5, No. 502. [With]: The Pittsburgh Gazette . Pittsburgh: John Scull, 7 April 1807. Vol.21, No.1072. Rare 1807 prospectuses for the map and published journals of the Lewis and Clark expedition. In the September paper an entire column is devoted to “Proposals, by Conrad, Lucas & Co. … For Publishing Lewis and Clark’s Tour to the Pacific Ocean through the interior of the Continent of North America,” described in three volumes; and a separate “Map of North America.” The volumes were to be “put to press at as early periods as the avocations of the author will permit him to prepare them for publication.” Meriwether Lewis’s delay in publication is well-known, he died in 1809, and the volumes were not actually published until 1814. There is some foreshadowing of this delay in the final paragraph which permits earlier subscribers to relinquish if they are put off by the price ($31 all together). This is dated 27 July and signed in type by Meriwether Lewis. Literature of the Lewis and Clark Exhibition , p. 227. The April paper has a front-page, local prospectus for Patrick Gass’s Journal of the Corps of Discovery published by David McKeehan in Pittsburgh that year. Gass’s was the first account of the expedition to be published. Two issues. Four pages each, folio (483 x 315mm and 437 x 275mm respectively). (First with browning and some edge-chipping, closed tear to first leaf, small adhesion to last page. Second with a small stain.)