First printing Very near fine in 1/4 black cloth and green cloth covered boards with bold gilt text stamping on the spine and with a facsimile of Clark's signature on the front board. A folio measuring 14" by 10" with a small prior owner's book plate on the first free end page and with a small water spot on the upper edge of the text block. In a very good unclipped dust jacket with small nicks and short closed tears at the extremes with the rear panel well tanned. The 5th volume in Yale's Western America Series. Edited and with introductory notes by Ernest Staples Osgood. Signed by the editor on the verso of the fourth free end page. The book contains 335 pages of transcription and facsimile of the field notes of William Clark between 1803 and 1805 which were discovered in an attic in St. Paul in 1953. Illustrated with maps and the facsimile photographs of the original field notes. This is the first publication of these field notes. (The Literature of The Lewis and Clark Expedition, 5g.1). Seller Inventory # TB23653

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Title: The Field Notes of Captain William Clark1803...

Publisher: Yale University Press,, New Haven:

Publication Date: 1964

Binding: Hardcover

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Edition: First Edition, First printing.

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