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HISTORY OF THE EXPEDITION UNDER THE COMMAND OF LEWIS AND CLARK.A NEW EDITION, FAITHFULLY REPRINTED.WITH COPIOUS CRITICAL COMMENTARY.BY ELLIOT COUES
INSCRIBED BY WILLIAM CLARK'S DAUGHTER IN LAW, PRESENTED TO DR. TODD HELMuTH, THE FATHER OF HOMEOPATHY
Published by Francis P. Harper, New York, 1893
Three text volumes plus atlas, totaling 1364pp.
Facsimiles and plates. Folding map. Large octavo. Original half cloth and paper boards, paper labels. Boards corners bumped and edgeworn and a bit soiled. Very good. Largely unopened. One of 200 copies on handmade paper (this being number 19) from a total edition of 1000 The first "modern" edited scholarly edition of the Lewis and Clark account and manuscripts, reprinting the official text of 1814, but with extensive notes by Coues based on his examination of the surviving manuscripts and maps of the expedition. The first of a series of publications by Harper on western exploration, and the first editing project of the prolific Coues. "[Coues'] edition of 1893 ranks second in importance only to the original journals. - Wagner-Camp. A landmark work in the history of western historiography, ushering in modern scholarship the same year as the Turner thesis. HOWES L317, "aa." GRAFF 2484.