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Longs expedition 1823
Longs expedition 1823
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Author: James, Edwin
Title: An Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819 and '20, by order of the Hon. John C. Calhoun, Sec'y of War under the Command of Major Stephen H. Long
Place Published: Philadelphia
Publisher:H.C. Carey & I. Lea
Date Published: 1822-1823
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2 volumes (sans atlas volume). [4], 503; [6], 442, xcviii pp. (8vo) 21.6x13.5 cm (8½x5¼") modern blue cloth. First Edition.



First edition of this account of an important expedition up the Platte and then across the watershed to the Arkansas, thought by Streeter to be the first published account of a journey along that route. The expedition consisted of Major Long, the commander; Captain J.R. Bell, official recorder; Thomas Say, zoologist; Edwin James, botanist, geologist, and surgeon; Titian R. Peale, assistant naturalist; Samuel Seymour, landscape painter; a corporal with six army privates, and assorted interpreters, hunters, and baggage men. James based this compilation on his own records, the brief geological notes of Major Long, and the early journals of Thomas Say.

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Foxed, previous owner's mark on title; pp. 227-230 in volume I pulling away from binding, marginal chips to preliminary pages, very good.
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