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Title: History of the Expedition under the Command of Lewis and Clark to the Sources of the Missouri River, thence across the Rocky Mountains and down the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean performed during the Years 1804-5-6, by Order of the Government of the United States Author: Lewis, Meriwether & William Clark Place: New York Publisher: Francis P. Harper Date: 1893 Description: 4 volumes. Edited by Elliot Coues. Titles printed in red and black. Illustrated, including two portrait frontispieces, 2 facsimile letters, folding charts, and three large folding maps (one in color) in Volume IV. (Large 8vo) 26x16.5 cm (10x6½"), original vellum-backed boards, red leather spine labels. Limited Edition, number 21 of 200 large-paper copies, from an edition of 1000. The vellum spines and leather labels are later, not original. The endpapers have been renewed. The original bindings were backed with white cloth and paper labels. Scarce large-paper edition. Howes notes this as the "most scholarly" of all the editions of Lewis and Clark. Howes L317; Cutright pp. 73-103. Embossed personal ownership stamp on title page of Albert S. Bickmore, Central Park, New York. Bickmore was a noted naturalist, author of "​Travels in the East Indian Archipelago" (1868), and one of the founders of the American Museum of Natural History. Each volume additionally with the museum library's embossed stamp on the leaf following the title page. Small red ink numbers on copyright pages, no external library markings. Lot Amendments The vellum spines and leather labels are later, not original. The endpapers have been renewed. The original bindings were backed with white cloth and paper labels. Condition: Spine labels lightly worn, spotting to vellum, board edges rubbed, evidence of removed bookplate on front pastedowns, Volume 1 has a modern photograph of a portrait of Coues mounted to the front free endpaper; near fine. Item number: 264844