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GASS, Patrick (1771-1870). A Journal of the Voyages and Travels of a Corps of Discovery, under the Command of Capt. Lewis and Capt. Clarke of the Army of the United States, from the Mouth of the River Missouri through the Interior parts of North America to the Pacific Ocean. Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1810.
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GASS, Patrick (1771-1870). A Journal of the Voyages and Travels of a Corps of Discovery, under the Command of Capt. Lewis and Capt. Clarke of the Army of the United States, from the Mouth of the River Missouri through the Interior parts of North America to the Pacific Ocean. Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1810.
12o (169 x 105 mm). Frontispiece and 5 engraved plates. (Hole on Y[2] with loss of a few letters, some occasional soiling.) Contemporary sheep (rubbed, and with some loss to joints and ends of spine). Provenance: D.B. Fearing (pencil inscription above mounted silhouette portrait of Lewis on flyleaf, presenting the book to); John Gerard Hecksher (bookplate)
Second Carey (third American) and second illustrated edition. Mathew Carey issued two editions in 1810 after acquiring the copyright from David McKeehan. Graff 1518; Howes G77; Smith 3467; Streeter sale V:3123; Wagner-Camp-Becker 6:5.
12o (169 x 105 mm). Frontispiece and 5 engraved plates. (Hole on Y[2] with loss of a few letters, some occasional soiling.) Contemporary sheep (rubbed, and with some loss to joints and ends of spine). Provenance: D.B. Fearing (pencil inscription above mounted silhouette portrait of Lewis on flyleaf, presenting the book to); John Gerard Hecksher (bookplate)
Second Carey (third American) and second illustrated edition. Mathew Carey issued two editions in 1810 after acquiring the copyright from David McKeehan. Graff 1518; Howes G77; Smith 3467; Streeter sale V:3123; Wagner-Camp-Becker 6:5.