Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike
Item #45150
[PIKE, Zebulon M.] COUES, Elliott, ed. The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, to Headwaters of the Mississippi River, Through Louisiana Territory, and in New Spain, During the Years 1805-6-7.... New York, 1895. Three volumes, totaling 995pp. Plates. Maps (some folding). Original green cloth, gilt-lettered spines. Cloth of first volume lightly scuffed. A very good, tight set. Howes P-373. With the bookplate of the noted Western Americana collector Wallace Schutz on the front pastedown of the first volume. From an edition limited to 1150 copies, printed on fine book paper. "A new edition, now first reprinted in full from the original of 1810, with copious critical commentary, memoir of Pike, new map and other illustrations, and complete index." Noted by Howes as the "best edition."
Price: $1,100.00