Voyage dans les deux Louisianes, et Chez les Nations sauvages du Missouri, par les Etats-Unis, l'Ohio et les Provinces qui le bordent, en 1801, 1802 et 1803.

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8vo., (7 6/8 x 4 6/8 inches). Half-title. Large engraved folding map "Carte de Missouri. 1802" and folding plate of a mammoth both on light blue paper (map torn at the mount affecting the image). Quarter modern calf, 19th-century paper boards. Provenance: Engraved bookplate of Augustus Thorndike on front paste-down; ownership inscriptions of H.C. Badger on front paste-down and title-page dated November 1863, also notes on the Louisiana purchase on the half-title. First edition. Two French editions were issued in 1805, one in Lyon and the present Paris edition. With an important and early map the "earliest published map of the trans-Mississippi region which can be said to display even the faintest semblance of accuracy" (Wagner). Described by F. J. Teggart in his "Notes Supplementary to any Edition of Lewis and Clark" (1908) at p. 189 as "substantially the same as the Mackey map which Lewis and Clark took with them . Here there are many familiar names which perhaps appear for the first time on a printed map of this region, such as R. Platte, R. des Kances, and its affluent Fourche des Republiques, R. des Fowke, R. de Chagayenne (i.e. Cheyenne) and so on" (Streeter). "Important for details concerning the early fur trade with the Indians on the upper Missouri, but that information was probably obtained from Pierre Menard at St. Louis and there is little doubt that Du Lac lied like a horse-thief in claiming to have gone on a trading expedition up the Missouri" (Howes). Clark, "Old South" 2:52, 114; Field "Indian Bibliography" 1204; Graff 3254; Howes P-244; Monaghan 1176; Rader 2647; Sabin 61102; Streeter sale III:1773 (second, Paris, issue); Wagner-Camp-Becker 3:1; Wheat, "Mapping the Transmississippi West" 256. N° de ref. del artículo 002141

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