LEWIS, Meriwether (1774-1809) and William CLARK (1770-1838). History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, to the Sources of the Missouri, thence across the Rocky Mountains and down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed during the years 1804-5-6. Philadelphia: [by J. Maxwell at New York for] Bradford and Inskeep, 1814.
LEWIS, Meriwether (1774-1809) and William CLARK (1770-1838). History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, to the Sources of the Missouri, thence across the Rocky Mountains and down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed during the years 1804-5-6. Philadelphia: [by J. Maxwell at New York for] Bradford and Inskeep, 1814. 2 volumes, 8 o (211 x 132 mm). Large folding engraved "Map of Lewis and Clark's Track Across the Western Portion of North America" (720 x 310 mm) engraved by Samuel Harrison after Clark, 5 other engraved plates and maps (large map with some pale spotting, a few short splits along folds, plates with some pale staining along gutter margins). (Occasional foxing as usual, scattered pale spotting.) Contemporary American gold-tooled, partly green-stained, tree sheep, dog-tooth roll and blind-floral roll on sides, oval tool in center surrounded by four stars, flat spine with roll-tooled greek key and dog-tooth ornament, wheat and rake tool in compartments of spine, blue morocco lettering pieces, marbled edges (light rubbing to extremities). Provenance : Hachette et Cie, Bibliotheque Géographique (19th-century lending library ink stamp on titles). A SUPERB, UNSOPHISTICATED COPY IN A CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN BINDING FIRST EDITION OF THE "MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL OVERLAND NARRATIVES," AND THE "DEFINITIVE ACCOUNT OF THE MOST IMPORTANT EXPLORATION OF THE NORTH AMERICAN CONTINENT" (Wagner-Camp), including a prefatory "Life of Captain Lewis" by President Jefferson. The expedition, commissioned by Jefferson and funded by Congress in early 1803 (it cost all of $2,500), was the first exploration officially sponsored by the Federal government. The acquisition of Louisiana Territory, finalized in December of the same year, increased the importance and urgency of the expedition, which set out from St. Louis in May 1804 and covered 8000 miles in the next 2½ years, crossing the Rocky Mountains and reaching the mouth of the Columbia River before returning by the same route. The extremely accurate and detailed map, based on Clark's manuscript, was termed by Wheat the "master map of the American West" (quoted in Cohen). The remarkable cartographic achievement, perhaps even more than the written account of the journey, served to impel and motivate the nation's inexorable westward expansion. Publication of Lewis's and Clark's account of the epic expedition was delayed by the appointments of both leaders to official positions in the new Louisiana Territory (Lewis as territorial Governor and Clark as Superintendent of Indian Affairs), and later by Lewis's murder or suicide in 1809. This "most important of all overland narratives" (Grolier) was finally brought to press but a high proportion of the copies issued in this first printing, which is replete with errors, apparently lacked the folding map or were otherwise defective. IN A FINE AMERICAN BINDING, POSSIBLY BY THE PUBLISHER: In a letter to Paul Allen prior to publication, Thomas Jefferson requested Allen to ask the publisher to send him 13 copies of the book--10 in boards and 3 bound. The publisher did send the books and the original invoice is reprinted in E. Millicent Sowerby's Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson (Washington, D.C., 1952-59). Of the three copies sent to Jefferson, only one is now located: in the Graff collection at the Newberry Library. The Graff copy contains Jefferson's initials before the signatures I and T in each volume as usual. That copy then apparently passed into the possession of William Clark whose signature also appears in the book. The copy the passed into the collection of W.J. Holliday, at whose sale there was no mention made of Jefferson's ownership, although the Clark provenance was noted. Colton Storm, in the catalogue of the Graff collection, notes that Jefferson received "two" copies in full calf, apparently failing to notice that in the invoice printed in Sowerby the publisher billed Jefferson for t
LEWIS, Meriwether (1774-1809) and William CLARK (1770-1838). History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, to the Sources of the Missouri, thence across the Rocky Mountains and down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed during the years 1804-5-6. Philadelphia: [by J. Maxwell at New York for] Bradford and Inskeep, 1814.
LEWIS, Meriwether (1774-1809) and William CLARK (1770-1838). History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, to the Sources of the Missouri, thence across the Rocky Mountains and down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed during the years 1804-5-6. Philadelphia: [by J. Maxwell at New York for] Bradford and Inskeep, 1814. 2 volumes, 8 o (211 x 132 mm). Large folding engraved "Map of Lewis and Clark's Track Across the Western Portion of North America" (720 x 310 mm) engraved by Samuel Harrison after Clark, 5 other engraved plates and maps (large map with some pale spotting, a few short splits along folds, plates with some pale staining along gutter margins). (Occasional foxing as usual, scattered pale spotting.) Contemporary American gold-tooled, partly green-stained, tree sheep, dog-tooth roll and blind-floral roll on sides, oval tool in center surrounded by four stars, flat spine with roll-tooled greek key and dog-tooth ornament, wheat and rake tool in compartments of spine, blue morocco lettering pieces, marbled edges (light rubbing to extremities). Provenance : Hachette et Cie, Bibliotheque Géographique (19th-century lending library ink stamp on titles). A SUPERB, UNSOPHISTICATED COPY IN A CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN BINDING FIRST EDITION OF THE "MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL OVERLAND NARRATIVES," AND THE "DEFINITIVE ACCOUNT OF THE MOST IMPORTANT EXPLORATION OF THE NORTH AMERICAN CONTINENT" (Wagner-Camp), including a prefatory "Life of Captain Lewis" by President Jefferson. The expedition, commissioned by Jefferson and funded by Congress in early 1803 (it cost all of $2,500), was the first exploration officially sponsored by the Federal government. The acquisition of Louisiana Territory, finalized in December of the same year, increased the importance and urgency of the expedition, which set out from St. Louis in May 1804 and covered 8000 miles in the next 2½ years, crossing the Rocky Mountains and reaching the mouth of the Columbia River before returning by the same route. The extremely accurate and detailed map, based on Clark's manuscript, was termed by Wheat the "master map of the American West" (quoted in Cohen). The remarkable cartographic achievement, perhaps even more than the written account of the journey, served to impel and motivate the nation's inexorable westward expansion. Publication of Lewis's and Clark's account of the epic expedition was delayed by the appointments of both leaders to official positions in the new Louisiana Territory (Lewis as territorial Governor and Clark as Superintendent of Indian Affairs), and later by Lewis's murder or suicide in 1809. This "most important of all overland narratives" (Grolier) was finally brought to press but a high proportion of the copies issued in this first printing, which is replete with errors, apparently lacked the folding map or were otherwise defective. IN A FINE AMERICAN BINDING, POSSIBLY BY THE PUBLISHER: In a letter to Paul Allen prior to publication, Thomas Jefferson requested Allen to ask the publisher to send him 13 copies of the book--10 in boards and 3 bound. The publisher did send the books and the original invoice is reprinted in E. Millicent Sowerby's Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson (Washington, D.C., 1952-59). Of the three copies sent to Jefferson, only one is now located: in the Graff collection at the Newberry Library. The Graff copy contains Jefferson's initials before the signatures I and T in each volume as usual. That copy then apparently passed into the possession of William Clark whose signature also appears in the book. The copy the passed into the collection of W.J. Holliday, at whose sale there was no mention made of Jefferson's ownership, although the Clark provenance was noted. Colton Storm, in the catalogue of the Graff collection, notes that Jefferson received "two" copies in full calf, apparently failing to notice that in the invoice printed in Sowerby the publisher billed Jefferson for t
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