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Prepared upon Examination of Unpublished | Official Archives and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
Index, | by | Elliott Coues, |
Late Captain and Assistant Surgeon,
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
text here and there in a mere matter of
grammar or punctuation. For the rest,
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.
