Description
The first edition of An Account of Expeditions to the Sources of the Mississippi by Major Zebulon M. Pike, Jr., published in Philadelphia in 1810. The bestselling account of the first exploration through the American Southwest and the new Louisiana Purchase.
Octavo, 5pp, [3], 277pp, [3 blank], [table], 65pp appendix, [table], 87pp appendix, [1]. Full period calf, title stamped in gilt over red morocco label on spine, decorative gilt bands. General wear to boards, solid hinges. Light offsetting and browning throughout. Library bookplate on front endpaper, previous ownership note on free endpaper.
Includes engraved frontispiece portrait of Pike by Edwin. This work is complete with 6 engraved maps (5 folding) and three folding letterpress tables. The 6 maps are all backed with linen, a few archival repairs, all detached and held in maroon cloth elephant folio.
(Sabin 62836) (Howes P373) (Graff 3290) (Wheat, Transmississippi 297-299)
The six maps include the following: FALLS OF ST. ANTHONY (20.5 x 11cm); MAP OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER FROM ITS SOURCE to the MOUTH of the MISSOURI by Anthony Nau and NICHS. KING, Engraved by Francis Shallus, Philadelphia (23.5 x 76.5cm); CAPTN. PIKE’S CHART of the Internal Parts of LOUISIANA by Anthony Nau (44.75 x 45.5cm); THE INTERNAL PROVINCES of NEW SPAIN (45 x 46.5cm); INTERNAL PART OF LOUISIANA by Z. M. PIKE (43.5 x 38.5cm); SKETCH of the VICE ROYALTY (32.5 x 39.5cm).
