Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery: An Illustrated History.

DUNCAN, Dayton; Ken Burns; Stephen E. Ambrose; Erica Funkhouser; William Least Heat-Moon.

$275.00

Item Number: 147298

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.

Early printing of this illustrated history of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Royal octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers, brilliantly illustrated with two maps and more than 150 illustrations. Signed on the half-title page by the authors in the year of publication, “Dayton Duncan Dec. 7, 1997” and “Ken Burns Dec. 7, 1997 Walpole, N.H.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Archie Ferguson.

"The Lewis and Clark expedition stands as a major event in American history, solidly establishing our title to the vast Louisiana Territory and later to the Oregon country. The explorations revealed a strange and unknown world, full of exciting wonders, and pointed the way to its possibilities for future development" (Downs, Books that Changed America, 40).