NARRATIVE OF THE UNITED STATES EXPLORING EXPEDITION

by Charles Wilkes

A$1,800 · Offered by Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller

during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. With illustrations and maps. In five volumes. Pp. lvi+434+xii+476+xii+438+xiv+540+xii+558 each volume lacking the half-title page , 11 maps 10 folding , 3 folding tables, woodcut text illustrations, printed music, appendices, index; rebound in modern dark brown half leather, the spines lettered in gilt and decorated in blind, light brown cloth boards; later endpapers; bookseller's sticker at head of upper pastedown Volumes I & II and traces

• Binding: Leather

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