Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 printed from the original manuscripts in the library of the American Philosophical Society and by direction of its committee on historical documents |
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Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 | ||
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DATA
By VICTOR HUGO PALTSITS
APART from a few insignificant references in the prefaces or
introductions of some of the earlier editions of Lewis and
Clark,
the first attempt to record the publications related to
the expedition of
those explorers was made by Joseph Sabin in his
Dictionary of Books relating to America, vol. vi, P. 443,
under William
Fisher; vol. vii, p. 181, under Patrick Gass; and vol. x,
pp. 310–113,
under Merriwether Lewis. Unfortunately Sabin read into
his record
several titles or editions that never existed, and in his
descriptions committed
a number of egregious
errors, which have been only too freely
copied and perpetuated by
others.
An incomplete list was given by Field in his Essay towards an Indian
Bibliography (New York,
1873).
The late Elliott Couse made the first comprehensive
bibliographical
study of these problematic books in his An Account of the various publications
relating to the Travels of Lewis
and Clarke (sic), printed in the
"Bulletin of
the Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories"
(Hayden's),
Second Series, No. 6, published by the Department of the
Interior in 1876.
A few copies thereof were also issued as separates.
This material Coues
"recast and improved" for his 1893 edition of the
Lewis and Clark History; it appears in vol. i, pp. cvii–cxxxii. In many
respects it is a worthy endeavor, especially if regarded as a pioneer
effort;
yet it must be admitted that it teems with errors, some of which
are
inexplicable.
There are some brief bibliographical notes in
Hubert Howe Bancroft's
Northwest Coast, vol. ii.
pp. 7, 8, 31, which present some inaccuracies.
The same may be said of
Justin Winsor's Narrative and Critical History
of
America, vol. vii, PP. 556–558.
The latest attempt to cover
the subject was made by William Harvey
Miner, in The
Literary Collector, vol. iii (1902), pp. 204–209. The
form is
poor; the collations are not nearly accurate, and numerous
errors
perpetuated from Coues and Sabin, as well as some omissions,
detract from
its usefulness as a bibliography.
In order to serve its real purpose—namely,
to afford the scholar, the
librarian, and the collector media for
determining what is a complete
work—a monographic bibliography
must give in minutest detail an
analysis of each volume. Only by this
method can imperfections and
variations be determined. Starting out with
this ideal in view, I have
endeavored to find and examine one or more
copies of every work related to the expedition. This task was great, but an
insatiable appetite
would not permit deviation
from this plan. If the results attained
prove at all of service, the
compiler will consider himself rewarded for his arduous labor.
The
material is arranged in five chronological groups, namely: Jefferson's
Message (1806–1808);
Counterfeit Publications (1809–1851);
Gass (1807–1904);
Genuine History (1814–1904); Miscellanea
(1804–1904). Only a
few analytical references have been included, on
account of their special
importance, and magazine articles have intentionally
been barred. The various
editions of Jefferson's Writings and
Works, edited by Washington and by Ford, are worth consulting
for
valuable materials. References to the official publications of the
government
of the United States, not
included here, are given by another
hand at the end of my
bibliography.
The following key is explanatory of the abbreviations used
to locate
copies:
= American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass.
= Boston Athenæum
= British Museum, London
= Boston Public Library
= Library of Congress, Washington, D. C.
= Collection of Charles H. Conover, Esq., Chicago
= Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford
= Columbian University, Washington, D. C.
= Essex Institute, Salem, Mass.
= Harvard College Library, Cambridge, Mass.
= Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
= Library Company of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
= Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston
= New York Public Library (Astor Library Building)
= New York Public Library (Lenox Library Building)
= New York Historical Society, New York
= New York State Library, Albany
= War Department Library, Washington, D. C.
= State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison
AAS
BA
BM
BPL
C
CHC
CHS
CU
EI
HC
HSP
LCP
MHS
NA
NL
NYHS
NYSL
WD
WHS
JEFFERSON'S MESSAGE
1806
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. |
City of Washington: | A. & G. Way, Printers. | 1806. |
8vo; title, verso blank;
"Message", pp. [3] and 4; "Extract of a Letter
from Captain Meriwether
Lewis, | to the President of the United States, dated |
Fort
Mandan, April 17th, 1805", pp. [5]–8; "A Statistical View",
pp.
[9]–65; "Historical Sketches", pp. [66]–86; "To General Henry
Dearborn", signed by John Sibley, pp. 87–112; "Distances up Red
river by
the course of the river", pp. 113–115; "Observations",
etc., pp. 116–171;
"Meteorological observations", pp. (7); two
folded broadsides, to follow pp. 30
and 34. Signatures; [1]–22 in
fours, 23 in two (the last leaf blank).
This is the original and official
edition, as well as the first separate publication
with data on the
expedition of Lewis and Clark.
Copies: AAS; BM;
BPL; C; CHC; CHS; CU; EI; HC; LCP;
MHS; NA; NL; WD; WHS.
1806
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.
| Read in
Congress, February 19, 1806. |
New-York: | Printed by
Hopkins and Seymour, | and sold by G. F.
Hopkins, No. 118,
Pearl-Street. | 1806. |
8vo; title, verso blank; "Message",
pp. [3] and 4; "Extract of a Letter
from Captain Meriwether Lewis,
| to the President of the United States, dated |
Fort
Mandan, April 17th, 1805", pp. [5]–8; "A Statistical View", pp. [9]47;
"Historical Sketches", pp. [48]–62; "To
General Henry Dearborn",
signed by John Sibley, pp. 63–81;
"Distances up Red river by the course of
the river", pp. 82–83;
"Observations", pp. 84–125; "Meteorological
Observations", beginning
on p. 125–128; table of "Siouxs proper" to follow
p. 25. Signatures: [A]–Q in fours.
Copies: AAS (uncut copy); BPL; CHC; LCP; NYHS; WHS.
1806
Discoveries | made in
exploring | the Missouri, Red River | and
Washita, |
by | Captains Lewis and Clark, Doctor Sibley, | and |
William Dunbar, Esq. | with | a Statistical Account |
of the | Countries
adjacent. |
With an Appendix by Mr. Dunbar. |
Natchez: | Printed by Andrew Marschalk, | 1806. |
8vo; title, verso blank;
"Message", pp. [3] and 4; "Extract of a letter
from Captain Meriwether
Lewis, to the Prefident of the United States, dated
Fort Mandan, April
17th, 1805", pp. [5]–8; "A statistical View of the
Indian Nations",
pp. [9]–64; "Historical Sketches of the several Indian Tribes of
Louisiana", pp. [65]–83; "To General Henry Dearborn, Secretary
of
War", signed by John Sibley, pp. 84–109; "Distances up Red river by the
course of the river", pp. 110–112; "Observations", pp.
113–164; "Extracts
from the Appendix", pp. [165]–166,
159–169; "Meteorological observations",
pp. 170–177; verso of last leaf blank. Two pages 127, also erratic
pagination after 166. Signatures: [A]–W in fours, X in
six.
The only copy which I have seen was one kindly loaned to me by Dr.
Samuel
A. Green, of Boston, Mass., purchased by him many years ago in
Paris, France.
It appears not to be in the various libraries which I have
visited, but the British
Museum has a copy.
1806
The | Monthly
Authology, | and | Boston Review, | Containing |
Sketches and Reports | of | Philosophy, Religion, History,
| Arts and
Manners, | Omnes undique flosculos carpam atque
delibem. | Vol. 3d.|
1806.
|
Boston | Published by | Munroe & Francis
| No. 7 Court Street. |
1806 |
Callender Scp. |
8vo. The appendix, entitled,
"The Political Cabinet", consists of 96 pp.
On pp. 39, ff. Jefferson's
Message of February 19, 1806 and other documents
are printed in
part.
[Same title] Vol. 4th.
| 1807 | Boston | Published by | Munroe &
Francis |
No 7 Court Street. | 1807
| Callender scp | The appendix of this fourth
volume,
also entitled, "The Political Cabinet",
consists of 80 pp. On pp. 6, ff.
is printed a "Letter from Capt. Clark",
dated at "St. Louis, 23d Sept. 1806."
These descriptions are from a set in MHS. Also in WHS.
1807
Travels | in the | Interior
Parts of America; | communicating |
Discoveries |
made in exploring | the Missouri, Red River and
Washita, |
by | Captains Lewis and Clark, Doctor Sibley, | and |
| As laid before the Senate, | by the | President of the United
States. | In February, 1806, | and never before published in Great
Britain. |
London: | Printed for Richard Phillips, 6, Bridge Street,
| Blackfriars,
| By J. G.
Barnard, 57, Snow-hill. | 1807. |
8vo; title, verso blank;
text in composite, pp. [3]–24, 17–116. Signatures:
A—
C, C—O in fours, P in two. Folded table of "Siouxs Proper" at p. 24
of first series of pagination.
This edition is part of Richard
Phillips's A | Collection | of | Modern and
Contemporary | Voyages | and | Travels: | . .
. | . . . | . . . | . . . | . . .|
. .
. | . . . | . . . | . . . | Vol. VI.
|
The copy described[1]
is in HC. It is also in BM; C; CHC; NYSL;
WHS.
Jefferson's Message of February 19th, 1806, was printed many times in collected
works, without the accompanying documents, of which the following is by no
means
a complete list: (1) Addresses and Messages.
New York: Charles Lohman, 1837;
(2) Addresses and
Messages. New York: Edward Walker, 1841; (3) Addresses
and Messages. New York: Edward Walker, 1846; (4) True American. By
Joseph Coe. Concord, N. H.: Morrill,
Silsby & Co., 1841; (5) Statesman's
Manual. By
E. Williams. New York: Edward Walker, 1853; (6) Richardson's
Messages and
Papers of the Presidents. Washington: Government Printing
Office,
1896–99; (7) Writings of Thomas Jefferson. Edited
by H. A. Washington.
Washington, D. C. : Taylor & Maury,
1853–54; (8) Writings. [Idem]. New
York: J.
C. Riker, 1854–56; (9) Works. [Idem]. Philadelphia:
J. B. Lippincott
& Co., 1864; (10) Works. [Idem]. New York: Townsend MacCoun,
1884.
—It is not in Paul Leicester Ford's collection of Jefferson's Writings.
1808
American | State Papers, |
containing | Authentic Documents | relative
to | the History, Politicks,
Statisticks, &c. | of the | United States
of America.
| Communicated | to Congress by the President.
|
Boston: | Printed by Munroe, Francis, & Parker,
| No. 4, Cornhill.|
1808. |
8vo. On pp. 39,
ff. Jefferson's Message of February 19, 1806 and other
documents are
printed in part; and on pp. 6, ff. the "Letter from Capt.
Clark", dated at
"St. Louis, 23d Sept. 1806." It is a reissue, with separate
title-page, of
the appendixes from the Monthly Anthology, vols. 3 and
4.
The description is from a copy in MHS. Also in WHS.[1]
COUNTERFEIT PUBLICATIONS
1809
The | Travels | of |
Capts. Lewis & Clarke, | by order of the |
Government of
the United States, | performed in the years 1804, 1805,
& 1806,
| being upwards of three thousand miles, from | St. Louis, by
way of the Missouri, and | Columbia Rivers, to the |
Pacifick-Ocean: |
Containing an Account of the Indian Tribes, who
inhabit | the Western
part of the Continent unexplored, |
and unknown before. | With copious
delineations of the manners, cus- | toms, religion, &c. of the
Indians. | Compiled | From various authentic sources, and
Documents.|
To which is subjoined, | A Summary of the
Statistical view of the
Indian | Nations, from the Official
Communication of | Meriwether
Lewis. | Embellished with a
Map of the Country inhabited by | the Western tribes of Indians, and five
Engravings | of Indian Chiefs. |
Philadelphia: |
Published by Hubbard Lester. | 1809. | Price—
1
dollar 62 1/2 cts. |
12mo; title, with copyright on verso;
"Recommendation" of Jefferson,
verso blank; "Message", verso blank;
"Introduction", pp. [vii]–xi;
"Estimate", p. xii; "Travels to the
Pacifick Ocean", pp. [13]–153;
"Statistical View", pp.
[154]–178; "Historical Sketches of the several
Indian Tribes in
Louisiana", pp. [179]–204; "Origin", pp. 204–228;
"Observations", pp. [229]–292; "Anecdotes", pp. 293–300. Five
portraits,
of "Sioux Warrior", "Sioux
Queen", "Mahas King", "Ottoes
Queen", and "Serpentine Chief"; also folded
map, entitled, "Map of the Country Inhabited by the Western Tribes of Indians".
Two of the plates in
different copies exhibit a curious metamorphosis, by
serving in one case for masculinity
and in
the other for femininity, namely, as "Mahas King" and "Mahas
Queen";
"Ottoes Chief" and "Ottoes Queen". Signatures: [A]-BB in
sixes.
Copies: C; CHC; NL (lacks map); NYHS (two copies, one lacks map).
1809
The
| Travels | of | Capts. Lewis & Clarke, | from
| St. Louis, by
way of the Missouri and Columbia Rivers, |
to the | Pacific Ocean; |
performed in the years 1804, 1805,
& 1806, | by order of the | Government
of the United States. |
Containing | Delineations of the Manners,
Customs, | Religion, &c. | Of the Indians, |
compiled from |
Various Authentic Sources, and Original Documents,
| and | a Summary
communication of | Meriwether Lewis. | Illustrated with a Map of
the Country, inhabited by the | western Tribes of Indians. |
London: | Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme,
| Paternoster
Row, | 1809
|.[2]
8vo; title, with printer's name on verso;
"Message", pp. [iii]–iv; "Introduction,"
pp. [v]–ix; one blank
page; "Travels to the Pacific ocean",
pp. [1]–156; "Statistical
View", pp. 157–183; "Historical Sketches of
the several Indian
Tribes in Louisiana", pp. 184–210; "Origin of the American
Indian Population", pp. 211–237;
"Observations", pp. 238–307;
"Common Names of some of the Trees",
etc., pp. 308–309; verso of p. 309
blank. P. 38 is misprinted 83.
Folded "Map of the Country Inhabited by
the Western Tribes of Indians",
engraved by Neele. Signatures: A in five,
B–U in eights, X in two, Y
in one.
Copies: BM; C; CHC; HC; NL; NYHS; NYSL.
See Eclectic Review for November, 1809, p.
1052, for a caustic review of this publication,
which is reprinted in Monthly Anthology and Boston Review, viii,
p. 142.—Ed.
1811
Die | Reisen
| der Capitaine | Lewis und Clarke; | unternommen |
auf Befehl der | Regierung der Vereinigten Staaten | in den
Jahren
1804, 1805 und 1806, | über | eine
Länderstrecke von mehr als 3000
Meilen, | von
St. Louis, auf dem Missouri und | Columbia, nach dem
stillen Meer.
| Enthaltend: | Eine Beschreibung der Indianischen Völkerstāmme,
|
welche dem westlichen Theil von Nord-America, | der
uns bisher
unbekannt und unentdeckt | war, bewohnen. | Samt | einer
statistischen Uebersicht der Indianer Nationen, | aus dem Official
Bericht von | Meriwether Lewis. | [Mit vier Abbildungen
Indianischer
Könige.] |
Libanon, (P.) | Gedruckt
bey Jacob Stöver.—1811. |
18mo;
title, verso blank; "Empfelung", with "Vorbericht" on verso,
1 leaf;
"Reise nach dem stillen Meet", pp. [5]–23; "Statistische Uebersicht",
pp. 23–33: "Beobachrungen",
pp. 34–47; "Louisiana", pp.
47–51; "Ueber den Ursprung der
Indianer", pp. 52–59; "Anekdote",
pp. 59–60. Signatures;
1–5 in sixes.
On p. 60 the publisher says; "☞Die unerwartet
gross Ermunterung, die
diese gegenwärtige
Reisebeschreibung durch eine zahlreiche Subscription von
einem geehrten
Publikum erhalten hat, und wöfur der Herausgeber hiermit
seinen
aufrichtigsten Dank abstattet"
[etc.].
The only copy I have found is in the Historical Society of
pennsylvania
(Cassel Collection).
1812
Die
| Reisen | der Capitaine | Lewis und Clarke; |
unternommen |
auf Befehl der | Regierung der Vereinigten
Staaten | in den Jahren
1804, 1805 und 1806, | über
| eine Länderstrecke von mehr als 3000
Meilen, | von
St. Louis, auf dem Missouri und | Columbia, nach dem
stillen Meer.
| Enthaltend: | Eine Beschreibung der Indianischen
Völkerstämme, | welche den westlichen Theil von
Nord-Amerika, |
der uns bisher unbekannt und unentdeckt |
war, bewohnen. | Samt |
einer statistischen Uebersicht der
Indianer Nationen, | aus dem Official
Bericht von |
Meriwether Lewis. | [Mit Abbildungen Indianischer
Könige.]
|
Friedrichstadt: | Gedruckt bey M. Bärtgis.— 1812. |
12mo; title, verso blank; "Empfehlung" [extract from
Jefferson's Message],
p. [3]; "Vorbericht", p. [4]; "Reise nach dem
stillen Meer", pp. [5]–
11; "Bericht des Capitains Clarke, in einem
Briefe an den Gouvernör Harrison.
Fort
Madan, den 2ten April, 1806", pp. 12–15; "Brief des Capt.
Clarke an
seinen Bruder. St. Louis, den 22ten Sept. 1806", etc., pp. 15–24;
"Statistische Uebersicht aller westlichen Indianer Stämme", pp.
24–36;
"Beobachtungen über die Sitten u. Gebräuche die
Indianer", pp. 36–51;
"Louisiana", pp. 51–56; "Ueber den
Ursprung der Indianer", pp. 56–64.
Signatures: A-E in sixes, F in
two. The third leaf of sig. D is misnumbered C2. A complete
copy, apparently, should have several cuts of Indian chiefs
("Abbildungen
Indianischer Könige").
This little pamphlet, printed at Frederick,
Maryland, is entirely unknown to
bibliographers, and Seidensticker did not
know of a single item printed there
during the year 1812. The only copy I
have located is owned by Charles H.
Conover, Esq., of Chicago, who kindly
loaned it to me for this study. It has
not the cuts of Indian chiefs which
the title-page calls for.
1812 (FISHER)
An | interesting Account
| of the | Voyages and Travels | of | Captains
Lewis and Clark, | in the Years
1804, 1805, and 1806. | Giving
a faithful description of the river
Missouri and | its source—of the
various tribes of Indians
through | which they passed—manners and
customs—
soil—climate |—commerce—gold and silver mines
—
animal and vege- | table productions interspersed with very
enter- |
taining anecdotes, and a variety of other useful and
| pleasing information
remarkably
calculated to de- | light and instruct the readers.—To
which is added a | complete dictionary of the Indian tongue.
| By
William Fisher, Esq. |
Baltimore. |
Printed by Anthony Miltenberger, | For the Purchasers.|
1812. |
Sm. 12mo; two
frontispieces, Lewis and Clark; title, verso blank; "Recommendation",
p. (1); "Message", pp.
(2); "Introduction", pp. [x]–
xiv; "Estimate", p. xv; text, pp.
[16]–326. Pp. 179 and 265 are mispaged
178 and 295, respectively. Signatures: [A]–Bb in sixes, Cc in
one.
Copies: BM; BPL; C; CHC; NYHS.
1812 (FISHER)
New Travels | among the | Indians of North
America; | being | a
compilation, taken partly from the
communications already | published,
of | Captains Lewis and
Clark, | to the | President of the United States; |
and | partly from other authors who travelled among | the
Various
Tribes of Indians. | Containing | a variety of very
pleasant anecdotes,
remarkably calculated | to amuse and inform the
mind of every curious
reader; | with | a Dictionary of the
Indian Tongue. | Compiled | by
William Fisher, Esqr.
|
Philadelphia: | Published by James Sharan. | J.
Maxwell, printer. |
1812. |
12mo; two leaves with
portraits of Lewis and Clark; title, with "Copyright
secured" on the verso; a second title:
"The | Voyages and Travels |
of | Captains Lewis and
Clarke", with verso blank; "Recommendation",
p. (1); "Message", pp. (2);
one blank page; "Introduction", pp. [vii]–
xi; "An Estimate", etc.
on p. xii; "Travels to the Pacific Ocean", etc.,
pp. [13]–153;
"Statistical View", pp. [154]–178; "Historical Sketches
of the
several Indian Tribes in Louisiana", pp. [179]–204; "Origin", pp.
204–228; "Observations", pp. [229]–292; "Anecdotes", pp.
[293]–300.
The pagination of 155 is inverted in some copies. In most
copies the second
title-page is lacking. Signatures: Two leaves with
portraits: | Main title-page,
A—BB in sixes.
Copies: BM; C; CHC; NA; NL; NYHS; NYSL; WHS.
1813 (FISHER)
An | interesting Account | of the |
Voyages and Travels | of | Captains
Lewis and Clarke, | in the Years 1804–5, & 6. |
Giving a
faithful description of the river Missouri and | its
source—of the various
tribes of Indians through | which
they passed—manners and customs
—soil |—
climate—commerce—gold and silver | mines—animal
and vegetable | productions. | Interspersed | With
very entertaining
anecdotes, and a variety of | other useful and
pleasing information,
re- | markably calculated to delight and
| instruct the readers. | To
which is added | A
complete Dictionary of the Indian Tongue | By
William Fisher, Esq.
|
Baltimore: |
Printed and published by P. Mauro, | No. 10, North
Howard St. | 1813. |
12mo; title, verso blank;
"Recommendation", p. (1); "Message", pp.
[vi]–vii; "Introduction",
pp. [viii]–xi; "Estimate", p. (1); text, pp.
[13]–266. There
are no pp. 125, 126, 149, 150, 179, 180, 209, 210;
and pp. 173, 174 are
repeated. Signatures: [A]–X in sixes, Y in three.
Three
illustrations, at pp. 35, 80, 230.
Copies: BPL (lacks one plate); C; CHC; NYSL; WHS.
1840
The | Journal | of |
Lewis and Clarke, | to the Mouth of the
Columbia River |
beyond the Rocky Mountains. | In the Years 1804–5,
& 6.
| Giving a faithful description of the river Missouri | and its
source
—of the various tribes of Indians | through which
they passed—manners
and cus- |
toms—soil—climate—commerce—gold and |
silver
mines—animal and vegetable | productions, &c.
| New Edition, with
Notes. | Revised, corrected, and
illustrated with numerous | wood cuts. |
To which is added
| a complete dictionary of the Indian tongue. |
Dayton, O.
| Published and sold by B. F. Ells. | John Wilson,
Printer.
| 1840. |
16mo; two leaves with portraits; title, with
advertisement and copyright
on the verso; extracts from "Message", etc.,
pp. (2); "Preface", pp. [ix]–
xii; text, pp. [15]–224;
"Dictionary of Indian Words and Phrases", pp.
[225]–234; "Appendix",
pp. 234–237; "Contents", pp. [238]–240.
Page [xiii] is blank.
Plates: Portraits of Lewis and of Clark, before the title;
other
illustrations on pp. [xiv], 18, 39, 44, 68, 82, 84, 98, 105, 111, 126,
138, 176, 222. Signatures: [I]–15 in eights.
Copies: BPL (lacks portraits); C; CHC; HSP; NYHS; WHS.
1851
The
Journal of Lewis and Clarke. Dayton: Ells, Claflin & Co.
1851. 12mo,
pp. 240.
This title is given in Sabin's Dictionary of
Books relating to America, No.
40832. I have not been able to
authenticate his reference, and it has not been
found in any collection or
library known to me.
GASS
1807
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, |
during the
years 1804, 1805 & 1806. | Containing | An
authentic relation of
the most interesting transactions | during
the expendition,—A description
of
the country,—| And an account of its inhabitants, soil, climate,
curiosities | and vegetable and animal productions. | By
Patrick Gass, |
one of the persons employed in the expedition.
| With | Geographical
and Explanatory Notes | by the
publisher. | [Copy-right secured according
to law.] |
Pittsburgh, | printed by Zadok Cramer,
| for David M'Keehan, Publisher
and
| Proprietor . . . . . . . . . . 1807. |
18mo; title, with
copyright on verso; "Preface", pp. [iii]–viii; half-title,
verso
blank; text, pp. [11]–262. No illustrations. Signatures: A–Y in
sixes, the last blank.
Copies: BA; BM (two
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1808
A | Journal |
of the | Voyages and Travels | of | a Corps of Discovery,
| under the Command of Captain
Lewis and | Captain 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; | during the years 1804, 1805, & 1806. |
Containing |
An Authentic Relation of the most interesting
Transactions during
the Expedition: A Description of the Country: And an
| Account of
its Inhabitants, Soil, Climate, Curiosities, |
and Vegetable and Animal
Productions. | By Patrick Gass, |
One of the Persons employed in the
Expedition. |
Pittsburgh:
Printed for David M'Keehan. | London: Re-printed
for J. Budd,
Bookseller to | His Royal Highness the Prince of | Wales,
Pall-Mall. 1808. |
8vo; title, with printers' name on verso;
"Advertisement by the English
Publisher", pp. [iii]–iv; "Preface, by
the American Publisher", pp. [1]–9;
Voyages and Travels, &c. &c.", pp. 13–381; verso of the last page blank;
"Books lately published by J. Budd", pp. (2). Signatures: [A] in two,
B–BB in eights. Published in paper covers with label-title, "Gass's | Voyages
| and | Travels | through | North America. | 9 s."
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1810
Voyage | des Capitaines | Lewis
et Clarke, | Depuis l'embouchure
du Missouri, jusqu'à
l'entrée | de la Colombia dans l'Océan Pacifique; |
fait dans les années 1804, 1805 et 1806, | par ordre du
gouvernement
des États-Unis: | contenant | Le Journal
authentique des Événements
les plus remar- | quables
du Voyage, ainsi que la Description des |
Habitants, du Sol, du
Climat, et des Productions | animales et végétales
des pays situésà l'ouest de | l'Amerique
Septentrionale. | Rédigé en
Anglais par Patrice Gass,
Employé dans | l'Expédition; | Et traduit en
Français par A. J. N. Lallemant, | l'un des
Secrétaires de la Marine. |
Avec des Notes, deux Lettres du
Capitaine Clarke, | et une Carte
gravée par J. B. Tardieu.
|
A Paris, | Chez Arthus-Bertrand, Libraire, rue
Hautefeuille, no 23. |
1810.
|
8vo; half-title, with publisher's list on verso; title, verso
blank; "Message",
pp. [v]–vij; one
blank page; "Préface de l'éditeur américain", pp.
[ix]–xviij; text, pp. [1]–415; "Lettre du capitaine Clarke
à S. E. le gouverneur
Harrison",
dated "Fort Mandanne, 2 avril 1805", pp. 416–422;
"Lettre du
capitaine Clarke à son frère le général Clarke",
dated "Saint-Louis,
23 septembre 1806", pp. 423–432; "Table des
Chapitres", pp. 433–443;
verso of last page blank. Colophon at the
foot of p. 443, thus: "De l'Imprimerie
de
Me Ve Jeunehomme, | Rue
Hautefeuille, no 20." Page 358 is
mispaged 258.
Signatures: Nine preliminary leaves, sig. 1–27 in eights, 28
in six.
Folded map, engraved by J. B. Tardieu, entitled: "Carte | Pour servir
au Voyage | des Capes. Lewis et Clarke, | à l'Océan
Pacifique." It
measures 7 3/4 by 9 1/2 inches.
Copies: BM; BPL; CHC; HC; NYHS; NYSL.
1810
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, |
During the Years 1804, 1805 and 1806. | Containing | An
authentic
A description of | the country,—And an account of its inhabi- | tants,
soil, climate, curiosities and ve- | getable and animal productions. | By
Patrick Gass, | one of the persons employed in the expedition. | With
geographical and explanatory notes. | Second Edition—with six engravings.
| [Copy-Right secured according to Law.]
Philadelphia: | Printed for Mathew Carey,
| No. 122, Market-street.
|
1810. |
12mo; title, with copyright on verso; "Preface by the
publisher of the
first edition", pp. [iii]–viii; half-title, with
verso blank, forming pp. [9–10];
"Journal", pp. [II]–262.
Signatures: A–Y in sixes, the last leaf blank.
This is the first
Gass which has piates, as follows: Frontispiece, to p. 220,
"A Canoe
striking on a Tree"; opp. p. 26, "Captains Lewis & Clark holding
a Council with the Indians"; opp. p. 60,
"Captain Clark & his men
building a line of Huts";
opp. p. 95, "Captain Clark and his men shooting
Bears"; opp. p. 239, "An
American having struck a Bear but not killed him,
escapes into a Tree";
opp. p. 245, "Captain Lewis shooting an Indian."
These cuts are very
crude, artistically considered, and are insets.
The subject-matter and
location of the plates in Carey's three edition, 1810,
1811, 1812, are the
same, but the plates as engraved differ in each edition.
For example, the
bear in the plate to page 239 of the 1810 edition looks like a
Newfoundland dog; in the other editions he looks either like a pig or
anything
other than a bear. On the whole, the best illustrations are those
of the 1812
edition, and this has a map of Louisiana not in the preceding
editions. The
three editions are typographically different.
Copies of 1810 edition: CHC; HC; HSP; LCP; NYHS; NYSL; WHS.
1811
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, |
During the
Years 1804, 1805, and 1806. | Containing | An
authentic relation of
the most interesting transactions | during
the expedition; a description
of the country; | and an account of
its inhabitants, soil, cli- | mate,
curiosities, and vegetable
| and animal productions. | By Patrick Gass, |
One of
the persons employed in the expedition. | With geographical and
explanatory Notes. | Third Edition—With six Engravings.
| [Copyright
secured according to
Law.] |
Printed for Mathew Carey, | No. 122 Market Street,
| Philadelphia. |
1811. |
12mo; title, with copyright on verso; "Preface. By
the publisher of the
first edition", pp. [iii]–viii; half-title
(Journal | of the | Voyages and Travels
| of |
a Corps of Discovery.), with verso blank; text, pp. [II]–262. Page
170 is misnumbered 70. Signatures: A–X in sixes, Y in five. Six illustrations
to pp. 26, 60, 95, 220
(frontispiece), 239 and 245.
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1812
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, |
During the
Years 1804, 1805, and 1806. | Containing | An
authentic relation of
the most interesting transactions during the expedi-
| tion; a description
of the country; and an account of its
inhabitants, | soil, climate, curiosities,
and vegetable and animal
productions. | By Patrick Gass, | One
of the persons
employed in the expedition. | With geographical and
explanatory
notes. | Fourth Edition—with six Engravings. | [Copyright
secured according to Law.]
|
Printed for Mathew Carey, | No. 122, Market-Street,
| Philadelphia, |
1812.
12mo; "Review of this Work",
pp. (2); title, with copyright on verso;
"Preface. By the publisher of the
first edition", pp. [v]–x; "Journal", pp.
[11]–262. Small
folded map of "Louisiana", at the beginning, measuring
7 5/8 by 5 3/4
inches; frontispiece to p. 220, and also plates to pp. 26, 60, 95,
239 and
245. Signatures: A–Y in sixes, the last leaf being blank.
Copies: AAS (this is Isaiah Thomas's copy, in the original
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1814
Tagebuch | einer
| Entdeckungs-Reise | durch | Nord-America, |
von | der Mündung des Missuri an bis zum Einfluss der |
Columbia in
den stillen Ocean, | gemacht | in den Jahren
1804, 1805 und 1806, |
auf | Befel der Regierung der
Vereinigten Staaten, | von | den beiden
Capitäns Lewis
und Clarke. | Uebersetzt | von | Ph. Ch. Weyland. |
Mit einer Charte. |
Weimar, | im Verlage des H. S.
privil. Landes-Industrie-Comptoirs.
| 1814. |
8vo; title, verso blank; "Bothschaft des
Präsidenten der Vereinigten Staaten
an die beiden Kammern des
Congresses", pp. iii–v; "Vorbericht des Uebersetzers",
pp. vi–viii; "Inhalt",
pp. ix–x; half-title to text, with verso blank;
an Se. Excell. den Gouverneur Harrison", pp. [346]–352; "Schreiben vom
Capitän Clarke an seinen Bruder, den General Clarke", pp. [353]–362.
Map, as below. Signatures: a in five, A–Y in eights, Z in five.
This is a translation made from the French edition (Paris, 1810),
and is
so uncommon in the United States that Dr. Coues had never seen it,
and was
unable to identify it. I have not traced a copy in any of the many
large libraries
which I have consulted, and
it was only after some difficulty that I succeeded
in obtaining a copy
from Germany which contains a later map. Subsequently,
by good fortune, I
procured a perfect copy with the correct map. This chart
measures 7 1/2 by
9 1/4 inches, and is entitled: "Carte | Pour Servir au Voyage |
des Capes. Lewis et Clarke, | à
l'Océan Pacifique." The similar map in the
French edition was
engraved by Tardieu, but no engraver's name is attached to
the German
copy. In my other copy of the book, this map is replaced by a
much larger
colored map, possibly designed for a reissue of the book, and is
entitled:
"Nord | America | entworfen u. gezeichnet | von | C.
F. Weiland. |
Weimar | im Verlage des Geograph. Instituts.
| 1839." It measures 12 1/2 by
14 1/4 inches, and was probably also
included in Stieler's atlas of the period.
There is a copy of the book in
the British Museum. In Germany it is classed as
"Selten" (rare). The
German translator, Philipp Christoph Weyland, in his
preface refers to
Gass as "Sir Patrick Gass." Weyland was the translator of
several works of
travel.
1847
Lewis and Clarke's | Journal |
to the | Rocky Mountains | In the
years 1804, –5,
–6; | as related by | Patrick Gass, | one of the
officers
in the expedition. | New Edition with Numerous Engravings.
|
Dayton, | Published by Ells, Claflin, & Co. | 1847. |
12mo; frontispiece, with recto blank; title, with
copyright and first part of
"Preface" on verso; the "Preface" extends from
pp. [iv]–viii; two leaves
with portraits of Lewis and Clark;
"Journal", pp. [13]–238; "Books published
by Ells, Claflin, & Co.", etc., pp. (2). Portraits on pp. [x] and
[xi],
and illustrations on pp. 23, 27, 40, 47, 51, 62, 79, 91, 98, 117,
131, 151,
173, 196, 222, and frontispiece. Signature: [1]–15 in
eights.
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1852
Patrick Gass. | [To
accompany bill H. R. No. 152.] | January 29,
1852. | Mr. G.
W. Thompson, from the Committee on Private Land
Claims, made | the
following | Report: | The Committee on Private
Land Claims,
to whom was referred the petition | of Patrick Gass,
report:
| [followed by the text of the Report]
8vo; pp. 2. House Report No. 56, 32d Congress, 1st Session.
1854
Patrick Gass. | [To
accompany bill H. R. No. 419.] | June 23,
1854. | Mr.
Hillyer, from the Committee on Private Land Claims,
made the |
following | Report. | The Committee on Private Land
Claims,
to whom was referred the petition | of Patrick Gass, report:
[followed by the text of the Report]
8vo; pp. 2. House Report No. 215, 33d Congress, 1st Session.
1859
The | Life and Times | of
| Patrick Gass, | now sole survivor | of
the overland
expedition to the Pacific, | under Lewis and Clark, in
1804–5–6; | also, | a soldier in the war with
Great Britain, from | 1812
to 1815, and a participant in the
| Battle of Lundy's Lane. | Together
with | Gass'
Journal of the Expedition condensed; |—and—|
sketches
of some events occurring during the | last century in the
upper Ohio
country, | biographies, reminiscences, etc. | By
J. G. Jacob. |
Jacob & Smith, | Publishers and Printers, Wellsburg, Va. | 1859. |
12mo; title, with
copyright on verso; "Preface", pp. [iii]–v; "Contents",
pp. [vi]–viii; "Life and Times
of Patrick Gass", pp. [9]–193;
portrait of Washington on p. 194;
"Civil History", pp. [195]–280. No
signatures. Frontispiece portrait
of Gass, with autograph; "Mandan Indians",
to p. 59; "Big White-Ball
Costume", to p. 108; tailpiece on p. 202;
"Going to Church in Old Times",
to p. 248.
Dr. Elliott Coues learned from the author of this volume that
the substance
of it appeared in the columns of the Wellsburg (Va.) Herald before it was made
up in book form.
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1904
[A Journal of the Voyages
and Travels of a Corps of Discovery,
etc., by Patrick Gass.]
A. C.
McClurg & Co., of Chicago, have announced that they will issue
during
the year 1904 a reprint of Gass's Journal, in one volume,
with an introduction
by James K. Hosmer,
uniform with their library edition of the Biddle
version of Lewis and
Clark, published in 1902.
GENUINE HISTORY
1814
History | of | the Expedition
| under the command of | Captains
Lewis and Clark, |
to | the Sources of the Missouri, | thence | across
the Rocky Mountains | and down the | River Columbia to the
Pacific
Ocean. | Performed during the years 1804–5–6.
| By order of the |
Government of the United States.
| Prepared for the press | by Paul
Allen, Esquire. |
In two volumes. | Vol. I. [II.] |
Philadelphia: |
Published by Bradford and Inskeep; and | Abm: H.
Inskeep, New York.
| J. Maxwell, Printer. | 1814. |
2 vols; 8vo. Vol.
1: Title, with copyright on verso; "Preface", signed
by Paul Allen, pp.
[iii]–v; p. [vi] blank; "Life of Captain Lewis", pp.
[vii]–xxiii; p. [xxiv] blank; "Contents", pp. [xxv]–xxviii;
text, pp. [1]–
470. Plates: "Fortification", opp. 63; "The Falls and
Portage", opp. p.
261; large folded map entitled, "A | Map of
| Lewis and Clark's Track, |
Across the Western Portion of
| North America | From the | Mississippi to the
Pacific Ocean; | By Order of the Executive | of the |
United States. | in 1804.
5 & 6. | Copied by Samuel
Lewis from the | Original Drawing of Wm.. Clark.
| Saml. Harrison fct.
|" Vol. II: Title, with copyright on verso; "Contents",
pp.
[iii]–ix; one blank page; text, pp. [1]–433; p. [434] blank; "Appendix",
pp. [435]–522. Plates: "Great
Falls of Columbia River", opp. p.
31; "The Great Shoot or Rapid", opp. p.
52; "Mouth of Columbia River",
opp. p. 70. Signatures: Vol.
1–[a]–c in fours, d in two, B–30 in fours, the
last leaf
blank. Vol. II–[A] in six (the first blank), B–3u in fours, 3x in
one.
Copies: AAS; BA; BM; C; CHC; HC (two copies);
HSP; LCP;
NL (two copies, one without the map); NYHS (uncut copy, with
titles on
original board covers); NYSL; WHS.
1814
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.
|
London: | Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and
Brown, |
Paternoster-Row. | 1814. |
4to;
half-title, with "J. G. Barnard, | Skinner-street, London", on the
verso; title, verso blank; "Preface, by the English Editor", pp.
[v]–xiv,
signed at end by "Thomas Rees", and dated at "Barnard's
Inn, April 30,
"Works published" on verso of p. 663. P. 323 is misprinted 223. Signatures:
[a] in two, b–c in fours, d in two; B–4P in fours. Large folded
map, "Neele. sculp. 352. Strand"; five plates on three leaves, intended for
pp. 47, 191, 364, 379, 398.
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1815
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. | A new edition, in three
volumes. | Vol. I. [II.] [III.] |
London: | Printed
for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, |
Paternoster-Row.
| 1815. |
3 vols; 8vo. Vol. I: Title, with "Printed by A.
Strahan, Printers-Street,
London" on verso; "Preface, by the English
editor", signed by Thomas
Rees, pp. [iii]–xix; p. [xx] blank;
"Contents of the first volume", pp.
[xxi]–xxvi; text, pp.
[1]–411; verso of last page blank. Plates: Large
folded map engraved
by Neele; "Ancient Fortification on the Missouri", opp.
p. 87 (but the
plate is misnumbered 47); "Great Falls of the Missouri", opp.
p. 191. Vol.
II: Title, with printer's name on verso; "Contents of the
second volume",
pp. [v]–xii; text, pp. [1]–434. Plates: "Great Falls of
Columbia River", opp. p. 364; "Lower Falls of the Columbia", opp. p.
379; "Mouth of Columbia River", opp. p. 398. Vol. III: Title, with
printer's name on verso; "Contents of the third volume", pp.
[iii]–xii; text,
pp. [1]–394. No plates. Signatures: Vol. I
—A in eight, a in eight (the
last three represented only by stubs),
B–CC in eights, DD in four, EE in
two. Vol. II—a in six (the
first being blank), B–EE in eights, FF in one.
Vol. III—A in
six, B–BB in eights, CC in four, DD in one.
Copies: BM; C; CHC; HSP; NL.
1817
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. | A
new edition, in three volumes. | Vol. I. [II.] [III.]
|
London: | Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and
Brown, |
Paternoster-Row. | 1817.
This edition collates almost the same as the
preceding London edition of
1815. The large map and plates are the same in
both, but the editions differ
typographically; the 1817 edition is
entirely reset. The following variations
should be noted: A comma at the
end of the third line of the title-pages, not
in the 1815 edition. On the
verso of sig. a6, in vol. i, "Directions for placing
the Maps", not in the 1815 edition. A half-title to vol. ii, with verso
blank,
making sig. A in six, of which this half-title is the first leaf.
In vol. iii sig. A
is arranged in six leaves, as follows: Title, with
printer's name on verso;
"Contents of the third volume", pp.
[iii]–xii.
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1817
History | of | the Expedition
| under the command of | Captains
Lewis and Clarke, |
to | the Sources of the Missouri, | thence | across
the Rocky Mountains | and down the | River Columbia to the
Pacific
Ocean. | Performed during the years 1804–5–6.
| By order of the |
Government of the United States.
| Prepared for the press | by Paul
Allen, Esq. | With
the life of Captain Lewis, | by T. Jefferson, |
President of
the United States of America. | In two volumes. |
Vol. I.
[II.] |
Philadelphia: Published by Bradford and Inskeep; and Abm.
H. |
Inskeep, New York. | Dublin: | Printed by J.
Christie, 170, James's–
Street. | 1817. |
2
vols; 8vo. Vol. I: Title, with American copyright on verso; "Contents
of
the first volume", pp. (6); "Preface", pp. [iii]–v; p. [vi] blank;
"Life of Captain Lewis", pp. [vii]–xxvii; p. [xxviii] blank; text,
pp. [1]–
588. P. viii is misprinted iiiv, and p. 418 is given as 18.
Folded map on thin
paper, copied in reduced size after that of the 1814
Philadelphia edition; plates
of "Fortification", opp. p. 78; "Principal
Cascade of the Missouri", a view,
opp. p. 326; "The Falls and Portage",
opp. p. 327. Vol. II: Title, with
American copyright on verso; "Contents
of the second volume", pp. [i]–
xii; "Subscribers", pp. (3);
"Directions for placing the plates" in both
volumes, p. (1); text, pp.
[3]–544; "Appendix", pp. [545]–643, verso
of last leaf blank.
The appendix consists of "Observations and reflections on
the present and
future state of Upper Louisiana"; "Estimate of the Western
Indians";
"Reflections and Remarks"; "A summary statement of the
rivers", etc. P.
261 is mispaged 2. Plates of "Great Falls of Columbia
River", opp. p. 40;
"The Great Shoot or Rapid", opp. p. 67; "Mouth
of Columbia River", opp. p.
90. Signatures: Vol. 1—[a] for title, b in
six, B–4 H in
fours. Vol. II—[a] for title, b and c in fours, [A] in three,
B–4 M in fours, 4N in two.
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1816–1818
Reize
| naar | de Bronnen van den Missouri, | en door het vaste
Land van America | naar de Zuidzee. | Gedaan op last van de
Regering
der Vereenigde Staten van America,
| in de jaren 1804, 1805 en
1806. | Door de Kapiteins
| Lewis en Clarke. | Met eene Kaart. |
Uit het
Engelsch vertaald door | N. G. Van Kampen. | Eerste
[Tweede]
[Derde en Laatste] Deel. | [Star]
|
Te Dordrecht, | bij A. Blussé & Zoon. | 1816. |
3 vols; 8vo. Vol. I: Title, verso blank; "Voorberigt van
den Vertaler",
pp. [iii]–xviii; "Voorberigt van den Engelschen
Uitgever", pp. [xix]–
xxviii; "Inhoud", pp. xxix-xxxii; text, pp.
[I]–398; large folded "Kaart
| der Reizen van Lewis en Clarke
| door het Westelijk gedeelte van | Noord
Amerika, |
van den | Mississippi tot de Zuid Zee, | op last van de
Uitvoerende
Magt der | Vereenigde Staten, | in 1804, 5 en 6.
| C. van Baarsel en Zoon,
sculps." Vol. II: Title, verso blank;
"Inhoud", pp. [iii]–viii; text, pp.
[1]–390; p. 98 is mispaged
70. Vol. III: Title, verso blank; "Inhoud",
pp. [v]–xii; text, pp.
[1]–326; "Bijlagen", pp. 327–335; verso of p. 335
blank; pp.
119, 161 and 300 are mispaged 116, 163 and 30, respectively.
Signatures:
Vol. I—* and ** in eights, A–B b in eights, the last apparently
completed by one blank leaf. Vol. II—* in four, A–A a in
eights, B b in
four, the last apparently completed by one blank leaf. Vol.
III—* in six, one
being blank, A–X in eights. In Vol. I sig.
O6 is misprinted O5; and in Vol.
II. sig. A3 is misprinted A5.
In this work the imprints of the first two volumes
agree, save that the second
volume is dated 1817; but the third volume has
the following imprint: "Te
Dordrecht, | bij Blussé en Van
Braam. | 1818.|" The only copy which I
have seen is in the
Library of Congress. It is also in WHS.
1842–1901
History | of | the
Expedition | under the command of | Captains
Lewis and
Clarke, | to | the sources of the Missouri, thence across the
Rocky | Mountains, and down the River Columbia to the |
Pacific
Ocean: performed during the | Years 1804, 1805, 1806,
| by order
of the | Government of the United States.
| Prepared for the press | by
Paul Allen, Esq. |
Revised, and abridged by the omission of umimportant
[sic] de-
| tails, with an introduction and notes, | by Archibald
McVickar. | In two volumes. | Vol. I. [II.]
|
New-York: | Harper and Brothers, 82 Cliff-St. | 1842. |
2 vols.; 18 mo. Vol. 1:—Title, with copyright on
verso; "Advertisement",
pp.
[iii]–vi; "Contents", pp. [i]–v; p. [vi] blank; "Introduction",
pp. [vii]–li; p. [lii]
blank; text, pp. [53]–371; "Catalogue of
"Contents", pp. [iii]–x; text, pp. [9]–338; "Appendix", pp. [339]–
395; verso of p. 395 blank. Plates: Vol. 1, "Map of Lewis and Clark's,
Track across the Western Portion of North America, . . . Drawn & Engraved
by W. G. Evans N. York", to face title; "Fortification" opp. p. 87;
"Principal Cascade of the Missouri" opp. p. 223; "The Falls & Portage"
opp. p. 234. Vol. II, "Great Falls of Columbia River" opp. p. 64; "The
Great Shoot or Rapid" opp. p. 79; "Mouth of Columbia River" opp. p. 92.
Signatures: Vol. I, 3 prel. leaves, A–H h in sixes; x2 misprinted H2. Vol.
II, 5 prel. leaves, A in two, B–K k in sixes.
The foregoing description is
from a set of the original edition in the Library
of Congress. It is a
curious fact that all of the editions which I have seen, even
those of a
late date, perpetuate an error in the stereotype plates, namely "unimportant"
on the title-pages, which is
given as "umimportant."
By the kindness of Mr. A. V. S. Anthony, of
Harper and Brothers, I have
been able to test my record of subsequent
editions by the books of the publishers.
He also states that "several
small editions have been published since 1891, of
which no record was
kept." The following is a conspectus of the issues of this
oft-printed
work, brought out originally in Harpers' popular "Family Library":
—
September, 1842; January, 1843; May, 1843; January, 1844; July,
1845;
April, 1847; May, 1850; August, 1851; June, 1855; April, 1858;
November,
1860; February, 1868; March, 1871 (vol. II); April, 1872
(vol. I);
February, 1874 (vol. II); December, 1875 (vol. I); 1876 (copy
in NYHS, but
publishers have no record); February, 1881; March, 1882;
July, 1883;
April, 1886; February, 1887; June, 1891; June, 1901; several
undated
editions of late publication (one such in NYHS).
Sabin in his Dictionary of Books relating to America mentions a London,
1842, edition of McVickar, but it is not in the
British Museum. I have not
been able to verify his statement, yet it is
not unlikely that the American publishers
may have made up some sets for the English market.
1893
History of the Expedition
| under the command of | Lewis and
Clark, | To the
Sources of the Missouri River, thence across the Rocky
Mountains and
| down the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean, performed
during | the Years
1804–5–6, by Order of the Government
of the United States.
| A New Edition, | Faithfully Reprinted from the
only
Authorized Edition of 1814, with Copious | Critical Commentary,
Prepared upon Examination of Unpublished | Official Archives and
Many Other Sources of Information, | Including a Diligent Study of
the | Original Manuscript Journals | and | Field
Notebooks of the
Explorers, | together with | A New
Biographical and Bibliographical
Introduction, New Maps | and other
Illustrations, and a Complete
United States Army, | Late Secretary and Naturalist, United States
Geological Survey, | Member of the National Academy of Sciences,
etc. | In Four Volumes. | Vol. I. [–IV.]
New York. | Francis P. Harper. | 1893.
4 vols., 8vo. Vol. I: Half-title, with certification of
the edition on verso;
title, with copyright on verso; "Dedication", verso
blank; "Preface to the
new edition", pp. v–x; "Contents of the first
volume", pp. xi–xii; "Preface
to the original edition", pp.
xiii–xiv; "Memoir of Meriwether Lewis", pp.
xv–xlii;
"Supplement to Jefferson's Memoir of Meriwether Lewis. By Dr.
Coues", pp.
xliii–lxii; "Memoir of William Clark. By Dr. Coues", pp.
lxiii–xcvii; p. [xcviii] blank; "Memoir of Patrick Gass. By Dr.
Coues", pp.
xciv–cvi; "Bibliographical Introduction. By Dr. Coues",
pp. cvii–cxxxii; text,
pp. [1]–352; frontispiece portrait of
Lewis, and facsimiles of holograph letters of
Lewis and of Clark, opposite
pp. xv and lxiii. Vol. II: Half-title, verso blank;
title, with copyright
on verso; "Contents of the second volume", pp. v–vi; text
pp.
353–820; frontispiece portrait of Clark. Vol. III: Half-title, verso
blank;
title, with copyright on verso; "Contents of the third volume", pp.
v–vi; text,
pp. 821–1213; p. [1214] blank; "Appendix I. Essay
on an Indian policy",
pp. 1215–1243; "Appendix II. Estimate of the
western Indians", pp. 1244–
1256; "Appendix III. Summary statement",
pp. 1257–1263; "Appendix
IV. Meteorological register", pp.
1264–1298. Vol. IV: Half-title, verso
blank; title, with copyright
on verso; "List of maps and other plates", p. v;
one blank page; folded
"Tabular statement of the lineal issue of William Clark";
folded "Tabular
statement of the living issue of William Clark"; "Index",
pp.
1299–1364; plans and maps as follows: "Fortification", "The Falls
and Portage", "Great Falls of Columbia River", "The Great Shoot or Rapid",
"Mouth of Columbia River", folded "Map of Lewis and Clark's Track",
folded "Map of part of the Continent of North America"; "New Map of the
Route of Lewis and Clark in 1804–5–6, Prepared by Elliott
Coues for comparison
with Clark's Map of
1814". No signatures. The edition consisted
of one thousand copies, of
which Nos. 1 to 200 were printed on handmade
paper, and Nos. 201 to 1000
on fine book paper.
Dr. Coues did not believe in strictly adhering to the
text of the 1814 edition.
"I have not found it necessary to make a fetich
of that text", is his declaration.
So in his other edited works he took
liberties with originals; for example, in
Larpenteur he tells us that "there was scarcely a sentence in
it all that did not
need to be recast to some extent in preparing the
manuscript for publication.
But this is a mere matter of grammar; I have
simply helped the author to
express himself; the sense and sentiment are
his own, if the style is not." Of
the Lewis and Clark he says, "I have
punctiliously preserved the orthography
of proper names in all their
variance and eccentricity; and wherever I have
amplified any statement in
the text, or diverted the sense of a passage by a hair's
breadth, square
brackets indicate the fact. Yet I have not hesitated to touch the
I have prepared new titles and synopses of the chapters, and new headlines of
the pages; one new chapter is interpolated, by digesting the Clatsop diary for
that purpose. Excepting in these several respects, the present edition is literally
true to the original. Nothing whatever is omitted."
Copies: AAS; BA; BPL; C; CHC; HC; LCP; NA; NL; NYHS;
NYSL; WHS.
1902
History | of | the Expedition
| under the command of | Captains
Lewis | and Clark
| to | the sources of the Missouri, across the Rocky |
Mountains, down the Columbia River | to the Pacific in 1804–6
| A
reprint of the edition of 1814 to | which all the
members of the |
expedition contributed | with maps |
In three volumes | Vol. I. [II.]
[III.]
New Amsterdam Book Company | Publishers: New York, 1902 |
3 vols; sm. 8vo.
Vol. I: Title, verso blank; "Preface", pp. v–vii;
one blank page;
"Life of Captain Lewis", pp. ix–xxvii; one blank page; "Contents",
pp. xxix–xxxiii; one blank
page; text, pp. 35–416; portrait frontispiece
of Lewis; plan of "Fortification",
opp. p. 108; "The Falls and
Portage", opp. p. 347. Vol. II: Title, verso
blank; "Contents", pp. iii–ix;
one blank page; text, pp.
11–410, with two blank leaves between pp. 406 and
407; a final blank
leaf to complete the last signature; portrait frontispiece of
Clark;
"Great Falls of Columbia River", opp. p. 210; "The Great Shoot",
etc.,
opp. p. 234; "Mouth of Columbia River", opp. p. 257. Vol. III:
Title,
verso blank; "Contents", pp. iii–xi; one blank page; text, pp. 13–
283; one blank page; "Appendix", pp. 285–382; "The Commonwealth
Library", pp. (4). Signatures: Vol. I: [1]–26 in eights, the first
leaf blank;
Vol. II: [1] to 10 in eights, 11 in four, 12 in four,
12–26 in eights. Vol.
III: [1] to 24 in eights, and one additional
leaf. Large folded map in a pocket
of Vol. III, entitled, "A Map of Lewis
and Clark's Track . . . Sam Harrison
fct". This
edition is included in the series known as "The Commonwealth
Library".
Described from a set in the Library of Congress. There is also
a special
edition on large paper.
An issue for the Canadian market from the same
sheets and in the same
binding of "The Commonwealth Library", has the
following imprint on the
title-pages: "George N. Morang & Company,
Limited | Toronto |". This is
the only variation from the
regular New York edition.
1902
History | of | the Expedition
| of | Captains Lewis and Clark |
1804–5–6 | Reprinted from the edition of 1814 |
With introduction
Volumes, with Portraits and Maps | Volume I. [II.] |
Chicago | A. C. McClurg & Co. | 1902.
2 vols; 8vo. Vol. I: Half-title, verso blank; title, with
copyright, etc. on
verso; facsimile of 1814 title and original copyright,
pp. (2); "Publishers'
Note", with verso blank, one leaf; "Contents of
Volume I", pp. [ix]–xiii;
one blank leaf; "List of Portraits and
Maps", with verso blank, one leaf;
"Introduction", pp. [xvii]–xxxv;
"Preface To the Edition of 1814", pp.
[xxxvii]–xxxix; one blank
leaf; "Life of Captain Lewis", pp. xli–lvi;
half-title to text,
verso blank; text, pp. [1]–500. Maps and portraits as
shown in the
volume itself. Vol. II: Half-title, verso blank; title, with copyright,
etc. on verso; "Contents of Volume
II", pp. [v]–xi; one blank page;
"List of Portraits and Maps", with
verso blank, one leaf; text, pp. [1]–461;
p. [462] blank;
"Appendix", pp. [463]–550; "Index", pp. [551]–586.
Maps and
portraits as shown in the volume itself. Described from a set in the
Library of Congress.
1904
History of the Expedition under the Command
of Captains Lewis and
Clark to the Sources of the Missouri, Across the
Rocky Mountains,
Down the Columbia River to the Pacific in 1804–6.
With an account
of the Louisiana Purchase, by Prof. John Bach MacMaster,
and an introduction
identifying the route,
by Ripley Hitchcock. New York:
A. S. Barnes & Co., 1904.
12mo;
3 vols. This edition is included in "The Trail Makers" series.
The title
is taken from the publishers' circular announcement.
MISCELLANEA
1804
Report | of | the Committee
| of | Commerce and Manufactures, |
who were
instructed, | by a Resolution of this House, | of the 18th
ult. | "To Enquire | into the | expediency of
authorising | the | President
of the United States, | to employ persons | to explore such
parts
of the province | of | Louisiana, | as he may
deem proper". | 8th
March, 1804. | Read, and ordered to be
committed to a committee of
the | whole House, on Wednesday next.
|
8vo; title, verso blank; text, pp. [3]–7; verso of last
leaf blank. Merely
has an allusion to Lewis and Clark on p. 4, who are
there designated as "two
enterprising conductors", etc.
1806
Message | from the
| President of the United States, | containing his |
Communication | to | both houses of Congress, | at
the commencement
| of the Second
Session of the Ninth Congress. | 2d December,
1806. |
Printed by Order of the Senate. |
Washington City: | Printed by Duane & Son. | 1806. |
8vo; title, verso
blank; text, pp. [3]–12. In this message Jefferson refers
incidentally to Lewis and Clark, and mentions that "they have traced the
Missouri nearly to its source."
1806
Report | of the Committee |
appointed | on the third instant, | on
so much of the
| Message of the President | of the | United States
| as
relates to | the farther exploring | of the
| western waters. | December
22,
1806. | Referred to a committee of the whole House on
Thursday
next. |
City of Washington: | A. & G. Way, Printers. | 1806. |
8vo; title, verso blank; text, p. [1], with verso
blank. Refers to Lewis
and Clark.
1806?—PROPOSALS FOR PUBLISHING FRAZER'S
JOURNAL[3]
[From a MS. in the Library of the Wisconsin Historical Society.]
Proposals for publishing by subscription Robert Frazer's Journal, from
St. Louis in Louisiana to the Pacific ocean,—containing an accurate
separating the eastern from the western waters, of the Columbia River
and the Bay it forms on the Pacific ocean, of the face of the country in
general; of the several tribes of Indians on the Missouri and Columbia
rivers; of the vegetable, animal [and mineral] productions discovered
in those extensive regions, the latitudes and longitudes of some of the
most remarkable places,—together with a variety of curious and interesting
occurrences during a voyage of 2 years 4 months and 9 days,
conducted by Captains Lewis and Clark.
Published by permission of
Capt. Meriwether Lewis. This work
will be contained in about 400 pages
octavo, and will be put to the
press as soon as there shall be a
sufficient subscription to defray the
expenses. Price to subscribers three
dollars.
Early
in the first decade of our [the nineteenth] century a brother of my father
sold a hat in Vermont to Robert Frazer, a fencing-master there, who
absconded without
paying for it. This Frazer
enlisted under Capt. Lewis, and his name was given
to a rapid and a creek
near the head-waters of the Missouri. Before Frazer's return
to St. Louis,
my uncle himself had removed thither and was managing the hotel to
which
Frazer came for entertainment. Each recognized the other, and my uncle had
no difficulty in collecting his debt. But Frazer proved to be one of the
seven journalists
[of the Lewis and Clark
expedition] and purposed to print his journal, he having,
as well as Gass,
obtained permission from Capt. Lewis. His prospectus, which of
necessity
was written, since there was no printing in St. Louis till 1808, shows beautiful
chirography, and promised a volume of
four hundred pages. A copy of it is in
my hands, which came to my father
in Vermont from his brother at the West.—
James
Davie Butler, in "The New Found Journal of Charles Floyd", Proceedings
of American Antiquarian Soc., April 25th,
1894.
Later, Professor Butler presented this MS. prospectus to the
Wisconsin Historical
Society, as above. Apparently there was insufficient
patronage, for the proposed
book was not published. The whereabouts of the
Frazer Journal is unknown to the
present Editor.—Ed.
1807
Documents | accompanying | a
Bill making Compensation | to |
Messieurs Lewis and Clarke,
| and | their Companions, | presented |
the
23d January, 1807. |
Washington City: | A. & G. Way, Printers. | 1807. |
8vo; title, verso blank; communication
signed by "Willis Alston, Jun.",
dated January 12, 1807, on p. [3]; answer
to the former by H. Dearborn,
dated January 14, 1807, pp. [4]–5;
letter from Meriwether Lewis to Gen.
Dearborn, dated at "City of
Washington, January 15, 1807", pp. [6]–8;
large folded broadside
entitled, "A Roll | Of the men who accompanied captains
Lewis and Clarke on their late tour to the
Pacific ocean, through the
interior of the continent of | North
America, shewing their rank, with some
remarks on their respective merits
and services", signed with Meriwether
Lewis's name, and dated at "City of
Washington, January 15, 1807."
Copies: BPL; C; CHS; WD.
1808, etc.
The Navigator, published
in many editions at Pittsburgh, by Zadok
Cramer, contains in an appendix
to some of the editions a short account
of the expedition of Lewis and
Clark. This work is a composite,
mostly devoted to "directions for
navigating the Monongahela, Allegheny,
Ohio,
and Mississippi rivers", together with correlative matter.
Its structure
is crude. The first edition appeared in 1801. It was in
its inception a
small pamphlet, devoted solely to the Ohio.
So far as I can ascertain,
the Lewis and Clark appeared for the first time in
the "Sixth Edition" of
1808, on pp. 146–156, based on Gass, etc. It is
entitled, "A brief
account of the Missouri river, and the extensive and fertile
—A short notice of the Indians and their customs—different kinds of wild
animals— fowls—fish—curiosities &c. And of the Columbia river." In
the "Advertisement" of "The Editor", this part purports to have been
"collected from the letters of captain Clark and other publications since the
return of the party". The "Seventh Edition" (1811) reproduced this text
on pp. 254–268. Beginning with the "Eighth Edition" (1814), pp. 343–
349, the text is very different from that of the sixth and seventh editions. All
of these subsequent editions have a mere summary headed, "Abridgment of
Lewis and Clark's Expedition." I have seen the editions of 1802 (third),
1808 (sixth), 1811 (seventh), 1814 (eighth), 1817 (ninth), 1818 (tenth),
and 1821 (eleventh); but there were others.
1830
Tales of Travels | west of the
Mississippi | [Cut] | By Solomon
Bell, | Late Keeper of the Traveller's Library, Province-House
Court,
Boston. | With a map, and numerous engravings.
|
Boston: | Gray and Bowen—Washington Street. | 1830. |
18mo; advertisement leaf, pp. (2); half-title,
with frontispiece illustration
on verso; title, with copyright on verso;
"Prefatory, including some account
of the author", pp. [vii]–x;
"Contents", pp. [xi]–xvi; text and illustrations,
pp. [1]–162. Numerous
woodcuts in the text. Signatures: [*]-**
in fours, 1–13 in sixes, 14
in four, the last leaf being blank. The volume is
the first of a series by
the publishers, having for design the supplying "to the
children of the
United States" of "an entertaining abstract of the most popular
books of
travels, which have lately appeared". Lewis and Clark's travels make
up
the bulk of the volume; the remainder being devoted to Long and Jewitt.
Described from a copy loaned by Mr. Charles H. Conover.
1848
In Senate of the United
States. | January 20, 1848. | Submitted,
and ordered to be
printed. | Mr. Westcott made the following | Report: |
The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Da- |
vid Whelply, report: [text of the
report]
8vo; pp. 3, verso of last leaf blank. David Whelply claimed
governmental
aid as a reward for his participation in Pike's explorations.
Lewis and Clark are
introduced by the petitioner as one of the precedents
under which he lodged his
claim. It was, however, adversely reported by
the senatorial Committee of
Claims. The public document is in Senate
Reports of Committees, 30th Cong.,
1st Sess., No. 37.
1866
Oregon and Eldorado; | or,
| Romance of the Rivers. | By | Thomas
Bulfinch,
| . . .
Boston: | J. E. Tilton and Company. | 1866. |
12mo; half-title, verso blank; title, with copyright, etc. on
verso;
"Preface", pp. ix–x; "Contents", pp. xi–xiv; half-title
to "Oregon",
verso blank; text to "Oregon" and "Eldorado", pp.
1–464. Signatures:
Six preliminary leaves, 1–29 in eights. The
Lewis and Clark matter begins on
p. 14 (chap. II). Described from a copy
in the Library of Congress.
1876
Department of the Interior. | United
States Geological and Geographical
Survey
of the Territories. | F. V. Hayden, U. S. Geologist-in-Charge.
| An Account
| of the various publications relating to | the
Travels of
Lewis and Clarke, | with a | Commentary on the Zoological
Results of | their Expedition.
| By | Dr. Elliott Coues, U. S. A. |
[Extracted from
Bulletin of the Geological and Geographical Survey |
of the
Territories, No. 6, Second Series.] | Washington, February 8,
1876.
|
8vo; title on cover, verso blank; text, pp. [417]–444.
Divided into two
parts, the first of which is bibliographical, and the
second zoological. This is
the separate edition. The Bulletin from which
it is an extract has the following
title: Department of the Interior.
| Bulletin | of | the United States | Geological
and Geographical Survey | of
| the Territories. | Bulletin, No. 6.—Second
Series.
| Washington: | Government Printing Office. | February 8,
1876. |
Copies of this Bulletin are in B; NYSL. The separate is in
B; CHC.
These I have seen or located, but there are of course
others.
1876
Sketch | of | Gov. Merriwether
Lewis. | By General Marcus J.
Wright. | [First published in
the June number, 1876, of "Ware's
Valley Monthly."] | Washington,
D.C.
8vo; title, verso blank; text, pp. [3]—10; one blank leaf.
Copies: HSP; NYHS; WHS.
1886–1888
Children's
Stories | of | American Progress | By | Henrietta
Christian
Wright | *** | Illustrated by J. Steeple Davis
|
New York | Charles Scribner's Sons | 1888 |
8vo; half-title, with
advertisement on verso; title, with copyright, etc. on
verso; "Contents",
pp. [v] – vii; one blank page; "List of Illustrations",
verso blank;
text, pp. [1] – 333; one blank page; advertisements, pp. (8);
one
blank leaf. Chapter IV (pp. 86–103) relates to "The Expedition of
Lewis and Clarke to the Pacific Ocean". This describes the issue of 1888,
but
the book was copyrighted in 1886.
1893
Description of the Original Manuscript
Journals and Field Notebooks
of |
Lewis and Clark, on which was based Biddle's History of the
Expedi-
| tion of 1804–6, and which are now in the possession of the
American | Philosophical Society in Philadelphia.
|
8vo. Forms pp. 17–33 of the "Proceedings | of the
| American Philosophical
Society
| held at Philadelphia | for | Promoting Useful Knowledge.
| Vol.
xxxi. | January to December, 1893. |
Philadelphia: | Printed for the Society |
by MacCalla &
Company. 1893." It is No. 140, which was printed March 4,
1893.
Described from a copy in AAS. It is also in CHC and WHS.[4]
1893
Explorers and Travellers. By General A. W. Greely.
See for full description infra, under 1902.
1893
Old South Leaflets. | Eleventh
series, 1893. No. 6. | Captain
Meriwether Lewis. | By Thomas
Jefferson. |
12mo; pp. 16. The cover-title to this series is
entitled "The Opening of
the West". Described from a copy in
HC.
1893
Old
South Leaflets. | General Series, No. 44. | Captain |
Meriwether |
Lewis. | By Thomas Jefferson. |
[1893]
12mo; pp. 16. Forms part of a volume, the general title of which
is "Old
South Leaflets. | Volume II. | 26–50. |
Boston: | Directors of the Old South
Work. | Old South
Meeting House".
Copies: BPL; HC; HSP; NYSL; WHS.
1894
The New Found Journal | of
Charles Floyd, | a sergeant under
Captains Lewis and Clark.
| By | James Davie Butler. | From Proceedings
of the American Antiquarian Society,
at the Semi- | annual
Meeting, held in Boston, April 25, 1894.
|
Worcester, Mass., U.S.A. | Press of Charles Hamilton,
| 311 Main
Street. | 1894. |
8vo; half-title
on cover; title, verso blank; introduction by Butler, pp. [3]
– 15;
"Appendix", pp. [16] – 30, of which Floyd's Journal is the principal
part.
Copies: CHC; HC; WHS (where also is the original MS. of the Journal).[5]
Republished in the present series directly from the original
MS. The publication
above noted contained
numerous minor errors.—Ed.
1898–1899
The Plants of Lewis and Clark's
Expedition across the Con- | tinent,
1804–1806. | By
Thomas Meehan.
Forms pp. 12–49 of "Proceedings | of the
| Academy of Natural Sciences |
of | Philadelphia.
| 1898. | Committee on Publication: | [Five names] | Editor:
Edward J. Nolan, M.D. | Philadelphia: | Academy of Natural
Sciences,
Logan Square. | 1899". It is a section of part I
(Jan.–March, 1898).
Described from a copy in AAS.
1900
Baldwin's Biographical
Booklets | The Story | of | Captain Meriwether
Lewis and | Captain William
Clark | for young readers | By |
Nellie F. Kingsley
| With an Introduction by The Editor | [Cut] |
Werner School Book Company | New
York Chicago Boston |
[1900]
18mo; title, with list of
series, etc. on verso; "Contents" on p. 3; portrait
of Lewis on p. [4]; "Introduction", pp. 5–12; text, with
illustrations,
pp. 13–128. Many illustrations in the text. No
signatures. Copyright, 1900.
1901
Lewis and Clark | Meriwether Lewis
| and | William Clark | By
William R. Lighton
| [Printer's mark] |
Boston and New
York | Houghton, Mifflin and Company | The
Riverside Press,
Cambridge | 1901
16mo; four
preliminary leaves; text, pp. [1]–159; colophon on verso of
p. 159.
No signatures. Frontispiece with photogravure portraits of clark and
Lewis.
Copies: BA; BPL; C; CHC; HC; NA; NYHS; NYSL; WHS.
1901
First | Across the Continent |
the Story of | The Exploring Expedition
of Lewis | and Clark in 1803–4–5 | By Noah
Brooks |
New York | Charles Scribner's Sons | 1901 |
8vo; half-title, verso blank; title, with copyright, etc. on
verso; "Preface,"
pp. [v]–vii; one blank page; "Contents", pp.
[ix]–x; "List of Illustrations",
pp. [xi]–xii; half-title, verso blank; text, pp. [1]–361; one
blank
page; "Index," pp. [363]–365; one blank page. Twenty-four
plates as
registered in the "List of Illustrations", and folded map at end
of the volume.
Signatures: Eight preliminary leaves, the first being
blank; 1–23 in eights, the
last leaf being blank.
"It is
hoped that the present version of the story of the expedition, told as
fully as possible in the language of the heroic men who modestly penned
the
record of their own doings and observations, will be acceptable to
many readers,
especially to young folks, who will here read for the first
time a concise narrative
of the first exploring expedition sent into a
wilderness destined to become the
seat of a mighty empire."—Preface.
Copies: CHC; LCP; WHS.
1902
Four | American Explorers |
Captain Meriwether Lewis | Captain
William Clark | General
John C. Frémont | Dr. Elisha K. Kane | A
Book for
Young Americans | By | Nellie F. Kingsley |
Werner
School Book Company | New York Chicago Boston |
[Copyright 1902]
12mo; title, with list of series, etc.
on verso; "Contents", pp. 3–4; map
on p. [5]; p. [6] blank;
half-title on p. [7]; portrait on p. [8]; "Introduction",
pp. 9–16; text of
Lewis and Clark, pp. 17–132; text, etc. of Fremont
and Kane, pp. [133]–271; advertisement
on verso of p. 271. No
signatures. This volume is the eighth in "The Four
Great Americans Series",
and was published in the spring of
1902.
1902
The Conquest | The True Story of
Lewis | and Clark | By | Eva
Emery Dye |
Author of | "McLoughlin and Old Oregon" | [Publishers'
mark] |
Chicago | A. C. McClurg & Company | 1902 |
12mo; half-title, with advertisement on verso;
title, with copyright, etc.
on verso; "Note of acknowledgment", with verso
blank; "Contents", pp.
[vii]–ix; "Foreword", pp. (1); half-title to
Book I, with verso blank; text,
pp. [1]–443; one blank page.
Portrait frontispiece of "Judith." Signatures:
Six preliminary leaves,
1–27 in eights, 28 in six, but printed off in an erratic
manner. The
work was first "Published Nov. 12, 1902." There have
been several
subsequent editions. Historical fiction with considerable antiquarian
detail. Described from a copy in NL.
1902
Men of Achievement | Explorers and
Travellers | By | General A.
W. Greely, U. S. A. |
Gold Medallist of Royal Geographical Society
and Société de
Géographie, Paris | [Publisher's mark]
|
New York | Charles Scribner's Sons | 1902 |
12mo; half-title, with list of "Men of Achievement Series" on
verso;
title, with copyright on verso; "Preface", pp. [3]–4;
"Contents", p. [5];
"List of Illustrations", pp. [6]–8; text, pp.
[9]–373; verso of last leaf
blank. There are seven full-page
illustrations not a part of the regular pagination,
and sixty-two full page and
text-illustrations included in the regular pagination,
The original issue appeared in 1893,
and it has been kept in print ever
since that date. I have here described
the latest issue. The fifth chapter, pp.
[105]–162, is entitled,
"Captain Meriwether Lewis and Lieut. William Clark.
First
Trans-Continental Explorers of the United States."
1903
The Louisiana Purchase and
the Exploration, early History and
Building of the West. By Ripley
Hitchcock. Boston: Ginn & Co.,
1903.
12mo; pp. 21, 349.
Illustrations, portraits and maps. Part 2 is devoted
to the Lewis and
Clark expedition. Copyright 1903, but really issued early in
1904. The
author's full name is James Ripley Wellman Hitchcock. Not
seen.
1904
A Brief History of | Rocky Mountain
| Exploration | with especial
reference to the |
Expedition of Lewis and Clark | By | Reuben
Gold Thwaites
| . . . | . . . | . . . | With illustrations and
maps |
| [Publisher's cut]
|
New York | D. Appleton and Company | 1904 |
8vo; half-title, with list of the "Series" on verso; title, with
copyright, etc.
on verso; dedication, verso blank; "Preface", pp.
vii–ix; one blank page;
1–252; "Index", pp. 253–276; publishers' advertisements, pp. (14).
Views, map, portraits, etc., making ten subjects, as in the printed "List of Illustrations".
"Published February, 1904" in Appletons' "Expansion of the
Republic Series". Signatures: [1]–19 in eights.
1904
The Trail of Lewis and Clark. A Story of the
Great Exploration
Across the Continent, 1804–06; with a Description
of the Old Trail,
Based upon Actual Travel over it, and of the Changes
Found a Century
Later. By Olin D. Wheeler,
member of the Minnesota Historical
Society. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons,
1904.
8vo; 2 vols, with colored frontispieces and about two hundred
illustrations,
including maps and diagrams. From the publishers' spring
announcements
of 1904.
Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 | ||