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.
