Travels to the source of the Missouri river and across the American continent to the Pacific ocean : performed by order of the government of the United States, in the years 1804, 1805, and 1806 / by Captains Lewis and Clarke ; published from the official report, and illustrated by a map of the route, and other maps.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809.

Contributor:

Clark, William, 1770-1838.

Rees, Thomas, 1777-1864.

Biddle, Nicholas, 1786-1844.

Allen, Paul, 1775-1826.

Robert Dechert Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806).

Lewis and Clark Expedition.

West (U.S.)--Description and travel.

West (U.S.).

Missouri River.

Missouri River Region.

Columbia River.

Genre:

Advertisements -- England -- London -- 19th century.

Penn Provenance:

Wilson, Helen Godey (bookplate)

Physical Description:

xxiv, 663 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates (1 folded) : maps ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1814.

Notes:

Printed nearly verbatim from the original "History of the expedition" (written by N. Biddle and prepared for the press by P. Allen) with omission of the preface, the appendix, and Jefferson's "Life of Capt. Lewis". Thomas Rees, the English editor, supplies a new preface, which also includes President Jefferson's Message of Feb. 19, 1806, and an extract of the Fort Mandan letter of April "17th" [i.e. 7th] 1805, from Capt. Lewis to the President, with bibliographical references to the Jefferson pamphlet of 1806, to the English ed. (1800) of the Apocrypha, and Gass' Journal. Cf. Coues, History of the expedition, 1893.

Advertisements on last page.

Local Notes:

Imperfect: cover detached from spine.

OCLC:

4910831