Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1905. 1st octavo trade edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8 volumes. maps and plates collated and all present. Original dull red cloth. 8vo. Modest spotting and scuffing. Ends of backstrips frayed (some loss of cloth. The seven text volumes are in good condition with contents that are sound and clean. As to Volume VIII, the map volume, the binding is detached from the contents and the stubs have perished on the last two maps. The maps seem otherwise sound and clean with browning along exposed outer folds. The map volume would benefit from being recased with at least the last two maps restubbed. Edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites. "Printed from the original manuscripts ... together with manuscript material of Lewis and Clark from other sources including note-books, letters, maps etc., and the journals of Charles Floyd and Joseph Whitehouse now for the first time pub. in full and exactly as written." Dodd, Mead also published this work as 8 volumes in 15 with a height of 25 cm. as a limited edition of 200 copies. Dodd, Mead also issued this in taller volumes (around 33 cm.) which were also 8 volumes in 15 and sometimes or perhaps always identified as various limited editions. (Inventory #: 94784)