Three Rivers by Lewis Meriwether (10 results)

Condition: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

paperback. Condition: Good.

Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition; First Printing. Signed and dated by the author on half title page with an inscription to a late well known Seattle historian, book seller and book collector. ; 9 X 5.90 X 0.80 inches; 284 pages; Signed by AuthorShelf wear to wraps with crease on top corner of back cover. Text and images unmarked. Signed by Author.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Fine hardcover. Appears unread. Clean, bright and tight. No writing or other marks. We wrap and box our books for shipping.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Large, sturdy softcover, glossy wrappers with dark red and light brown background, a color-illustration of horse-mounted Indians looking down at expedition on front wrapper, 284 pages including two glossy color-photo sections, praise on back wrapper by presidents of Lewis and Clark Heritage Foundation. Fine.…

Paperback. Condition: As New.

Paperback. Condition: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Patrice Pr, 1996. Octavo. Paperback. Book is like new.

Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Full Leather. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo (6 3/4 x 4 inches): folding engraved map of "the Country Inhabited by the Western Tribes of Indians" (early repairs to verso, browned and spotted), engraved frontispiece portrait of a Sioux Queen, and four engraved plates of tribal chiefs (spotted and browned throughout). Bound in contemporary American mottled sheep, the smooth spine gilt-ruled in six compartments, with red morocco lettering-piece in the second (hinges weak, extremities a bit rubbed, head of spine worn with minor loss). Provenance: With the contemporary ownership inscription of William Cook dated 1809 on the verso of the second blank. First edition of an early piece of Lewis and Clark "Apocrypha". Little more than a compilation and rehashing of Jefferson's "Message from the President" of 1806, letters written by William Clark, Patrick Gass's "Journal." published in 1807, and plagiarized portions of Jonathan Carver's "Travels Through the Interior Parts of North America." of 1778 and Alexander Mackenzie's "Voyages from Montreal", 1801. The only original contribution in this work if the engraved folding map: "the earliest published map with legends stemming from Lewis and Clark. Here were the earliest published cartographic reflections of Lewis and Clark's great effort, and this fact alone distinguishes this small map, which otherwise harks back to earlier days" (Wheat). Among the new features on the map is the presence of "F. Clatsop" at the mouth of the Columbia River. REFERENCES: Howes L-321; Streeter sale V:3122; Wagner-Camp 8:1; Wheat Transmississippi 294. Book.…

First of the so-called "Apocrypha" editions of Lewis and Clark. 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 it was the account sanctioned by the government and containing all the information gathered during the journey. Despite its hodge-podge nature, it provided most of the world with its first detailed account of the Lewis and Clark expedition. It further contains five plates, purporting to be of Native Americans. One of these is knocked off from the frontispiece of Bartram's Travels.; the others have no earlier appearance that we can trace. Despite being titled "The Travels of Capts. Lewis & Clarke," nearly the whole of the text is dedicated to descriptions of different Indigenous tribes and their customs. The present copy also includes the very rare folding map, which Wheat notes as "the earliest published map with legends stemming from Lewis and Clark." Howes calls this the "counterfeit" edition, and Sabin states that, according to Paltsits, it is "the earliest edition of an unauthorized 'counterfeit' account." In addition to being published first, Lester's spurious edition also had the price advantage: this edition was priced a relatively conservative $1.62, ensuring an audience even after it was superseded by the official account in 1814 (priced a walloping $6 per set). Robert Becker (in Wagner-Camp) incorrectly cites the London map as accompanying this edition. This first Philadelphia edition is quite rare and is almost invariably found in terrible condition and frequently without the map, making this an uncommonly pleasing copy of a fundamental Lewis and Clark item. LITERATURE OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION 4a.1. WAGNER-CAMP 8:1. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 2282. SABIN 96499. STREETER SALE 3122. HOWES L321, "aa." SHAW & SHOEMAKER 17911. REESE, BEST OF THE WEST 37 (note). Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt, gilt morocco label, manuscript paper label. A bit rubbed and scraped, spine creased, front joint cracked. Scattered foxing and tanning, heavier to map and plates. In all a very good, clean copy.…