ORIGINAL JOURNALS OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION 1804 - 1806 PRINTED FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS...TOGETHER WITH MANUSCRIPT MATERIAL OF LEWIS AND CLARK...NOW FOR THE FIRST TIME PUBLISHED IN FULL AND EXACTLY AS WRITTEN

Book Description

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1904-5.. Seven volumes bound in fourteen parts, plus atlas volume. Plates (many in color), facsimiles. Quarto. Original gilt green cloth. Cloth a bit discolored on both parts of first, fourth, and fifth volumes, most spines sunned, some minor silverfishing on some volumes. Internally clean and tightly bound. Overall a very good set, several of the volumes unopened. One of 200 large paper sets on Van Gelder paper. "The most elaborate work on this expedition" - Howes. A cornerstone of modern historical research, printing for the first time many major primary documents which did not appear in the Biddle edition, including the Floyd and Whitehouse journals, and material from the Clark-Voorihis papers, along with facsimile manuscripts, maps, portraits, and other illustrative matter. Also valuable is Victor Paltsits' bibliography of the Lewis and Clark expedition, in the first volume. "This edition is notable for its through Introduction, covering the history of the expedition and earlier exploration, and a detailed account of the original journals and their various editions...In its maps and numerous illustrations, the Thwaites edition is an outstanding source of visual materials relating to the expedition" - LITERATURE OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION. HOWES L320, "c." LITERATURE OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION 5d.1. WAGNER-CAMP 13:7 (note). TWENEY, WASHINGTON 76.

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