History of the Expedition Under the Command of 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 by Order of the Government of the United States

  • Francis P. Harper, 1893
By Lewis, Meriwether & Clark, William & Coues, Elliot
History of the Expedition Under the Command of 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 by Order of the Government of the United States / A new edition, faithfully reprinted from the only authoriZed edition of 1814, with copious critical commentary, prepared upon examination of unpublished official archives, and MANY OTHER SOURCES OF INFORMATION INCLUDING A DILIGENT study of the original manuscript journals and field notebooks of the explorers, together with a new biographical and bibliographical introduction, new maps and other illustrations, and a complete index By Elliot Coues, Francis P. Harper, 1893, 4 volumes complete including all folding maps, a bright vg+ or better set with several inner hinges professionally strengthened and the faintest hint of the previous owners stamp on the title page, bound in the publishers original green cloth with gold-gilt lettering to the spine. 1/1,000 copies. Howes L-317.

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History of the Expedition Under the Command of 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 by Order of the Government of the United States

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Lewis, Meriwether & Clark, William & Coues, Elliot

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Francis P. Harper

Date

1893


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