Travels to the source of the Missouri River and across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. By order of the Government of the United States, in the years 1804, 1805, and 1806.
Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809)
Category
Books
Date
1817
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3204856
Summary
Bibliographic description
3 v. : maps ; 22cm. No ownership marks. Binding: Nineteenth-century full calf, double gilt fillet forming a border with blind inner decorative border. Five false raised bands, blind and gilt tooled panels. Brown leather spine labels, lettered in gilt. Gilt doublure and board edges. Marbled endpapers and edges. Spines damaged. vol. I: upper board detached, in phase box.
Makers and roles
Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809) William Clark (1770 - 1838)