Travels in the Interior Parts of America

Communicating Discoveries Made in Exploring the Missouri, Red River and Washita With a Statistical Account of the Countries Adjacent.

By LEWIS & CLARK, Captains

London: Richard Phillips, 1807. First Edition. Octavo. 116pp. One double page table, handsome period style brown elaborately gilt tooled full sheep. A near fine copy. Rare. — Hill p.476, Howes L317.

The Rare first printed account of the Lewis & Clark expedition. The book describes the U.S. Government-backed expedition to explore the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase undertaken from 1804 to 1806 by ascending the Missouri to its source, crossing the Rocky Mountains, and reaching the Pacific Ocean. In total, the expedition covered some eight thousand miles in slightly more than twenty-eight months.