Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition during the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. With Atlas

by Charles Wilkes

$5,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First trade edition, limited to 1000 copies. 63 of 64 engraved plates engraved portrait of Wilkes from later edition laid-in to vol. I, not original to this issue and 47 steel-engraved vignettes, 14 engraved maps 1 hand-colored , numerous woodcuts. 6 vols. 8vo. Publisher's brown embossed cloth with gilt-stamped vignettes to covers. Spine ends and tips frayed, cloth torn at rear joint of vol. I, plates foxed, 1 plate in vol. I loose, open tear to

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