![[LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION]. JEFFERSON, Thomas (1743-1826). Message from the President of the United States, Communicating Discoveries Made in Exploring the Missouri, Red River and Washita, by Captains Lewis and Clark, Doctor Sibley, and Mr. Dunbar; With a Statistical Account of the Countries Adjacent. February 19, 1806. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Washington, D.C.: A. & G. Way, 1806.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2005/NYR/2005_NYR_01614_0171_000(102408).jpg?w=1)
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[LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION]. JEFFERSON, Thomas (1743-1826). Message from the President of the United States, Communicating Discoveries Made in Exploring the Missouri, Red River and Washita, by Captains Lewis and Clark, Doctor Sibley, and Mr. Dunbar; With a Statistical Account of the Countries Adjacent. February 19, 1806. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Washington, D.C.: A. & G. Way, 1806.
8o in 4s (206 x 129 mm). Engraved folding map "Map of the Washita River in Louisiana" by Nicholas King (gutter margin renewed, some pale offsetting.) (Few repairs to gutter margin of title.) Modern calf-backed boards, red morocco lettering piece. Provenance: Frank T. Siebert (his sale Sotheby's New York, 28 October 1999, lot 794).
FIRST EDITION, CONTAINING THE FIRST ACCOUNTS OF TEXAS IN BOOK FORM AND VERY SCARCE WITH THE MAP. This is the first official publication to provide any detailed account of the Lewis and Clark expedition and the first work to provide a good account of the southwestern portion of the Louisiana Purchase. The first section consists of material transmitted to Jefferson by Lewis, including their route, Indians, trade, animals encountered and geography. Streeter notes that "Two letters by Dr. Sibley...one on the Indian tribes of Texas and the other an account of the Red River and the adjacent country (see preceding lot), seem to be the first accounts of Texas in book form."
The map is almost invariably lacking. It illustrates the route of the expedition from the Mississippi into east Texas and is the first cartographical effort of any detail to show western Louisiana and northeast Texas. William Dunbar, who drew the map, was well known for his survey work in Louisiana in the late Spanish period and under the United States. Nicholas King, who had the map engraved, also executed the Zebulon Pike map of the upper Mississippi. The map was called by The Medical Repository, the leading scientific journal of its day, "a substantial addition to American geography" (see Schwartz & Ehrenberg, The Mapping of America, 2001, p. 224). Graff 4406; Howes L-319; Sabin 40824; Shaw & Shoemaker 11633; Streeter I:290; Streeter Texas 1038; Wagner-Camp-Becker 5:1.
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FIRST EDITION, CONTAINING THE FIRST ACCOUNTS OF TEXAS IN BOOK FORM AND VERY SCARCE WITH THE MAP. This is the first official publication to provide any detailed account of the Lewis and Clark expedition and the first work to provide a good account of the southwestern portion of the Louisiana Purchase. The first section consists of material transmitted to Jefferson by Lewis, including their route, Indians, trade, animals encountered and geography. Streeter notes that "Two letters by Dr. Sibley...one on the Indian tribes of Texas and the other an account of the Red River and the adjacent country (see preceding lot), seem to be the first accounts of Texas in book form."
The map is almost invariably lacking. It illustrates the route of the expedition from the Mississippi into east Texas and is the first cartographical effort of any detail to show western Louisiana and northeast Texas. William Dunbar, who drew the map, was well known for his survey work in Louisiana in the late Spanish period and under the United States. Nicholas King, who had the map engraved, also executed the Zebulon Pike map of the upper Mississippi. The map was called by The Medical Repository, the leading scientific journal of its day, "a substantial addition to American geography" (see Schwartz & Ehrenberg, The Mapping of America, 2001, p. 224). Graff 4406; Howes L-319; Sabin 40824; Shaw & Shoemaker 11633; Streeter I:290; Streeter Texas 1038; Wagner-Camp-Becker 5:1.