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
relation of the most
interesting transac- | tions during the expedition,—
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.
