1812 · Baltimor
by [Lewis, Meriwether, and William Clark]: Fisher, Willia
Baltimor, 1812. 326pp. including two portraits. Contemporary calf, rebacked, preserving original label. Light tanning and foxing. Very good. In a black morocco and cloth clamshell case. The so-called "Apocrypha edition" of Lewis and Clark, bearing the name of compiler William Fisher on the titlepage. In response to the growing curiosity of the public regarding the findings of Lewis and Clark, and the delay in publication of the "authorized account" of their expedition, this compilation of bits and pieces from already published works appeared (culled from Gass, Clark, Mackenzie, Carver, and Jefferson's MESSAGE... of 1806), misleading the reader into believing (truncated)