Sale 137 Lot 148

LEWIS, MERIWETHER & WILLIAM CLARK
History of the Expedition under The Command of Captains Lewis and Clark to the Sources of Missouri Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean Performed During the Years 1804-5-6. Nicholas Biddle, editor. Philadelphia: Bradford and Inskeep, 1814.

2 vols. 8vo, bound in early nineteenth-century 3/4 black leather over black cloth-backed boards, spines gilt, housed in modern half black morocco clamshell box. First edition. With five engraved plans and charts and a later issue of the large folding map laid into volume 1.

A fine association copy with ownership signature and presentation inscription to Elwood Evans, a notable early historian of the Northwest Territory and the third governor of the Washington Territory. Presentation inscription from James Paul of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, dated 1865, to the f.f.e.p. (trimmed down) and title page of vol. 1 and the f.f.e.p. of vol. 2; ownership stamp of Evans to title pages of vol. 1; ownership signature of James Paul to the title page of vol. 2. Renewed endpapers; Vol. 1: 3 inch tear to p. 249; 1 inch marginal tear to p. 251; loss to lower right corner of p. 401; Vol. 2: 1 inch marginal tear along top left edge of p. 31; intermittent foxing; some pages with minor shaved edges; browning to plates.

Estimate $ 8,000-12,000

Full condition report available upon request, as well as additional photographs.