1904-1905. · New York
by [Lewis, Meriwether, and William Clark]: Thwaites, Reuben Gold, [editor]
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1904-1905.. Seven volumes bound in fourteen parts, plus atlas volume. Plates (many in color), facsimiles. Quarto. Original gilt green cloth. Octavo atlas maps laid in a red cloth drop-front box. Cloth somewhat worn, particularly at spine ends. Library bookplates with withdrawal stamps on front pastedowns, shelf labels on spines, reference stamps across top edges. Some occasional offsetting from plates, but generally clean internally. A solid set. Text volumes untrimmed. One of 200 large paper sets on Van Gelder paper, with the atlas supplied from the reprint edition done by Argosy-Antiquarian Press. "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 thorough 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. REESE, BEST OF THE WEST 233 (note).
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