Author: SALISBURY, ALBERT AND JANE
Title: Two Captains West: An Historical Tour of the Lewis and Clark Trail
Description: Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Stated first edition of a pictorial guide to the route taken by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark as they explored the newly-bought Louisiana Purchase at the behest of President Thomas Jefferson. Included are 160 of Albert Salisbury's photos of Lewis & Clark campsites, landscape features, monuments and signage as they appeared at the time of publication of this work in 1950. With several detailed maps, and a historic map of the route at endpapers. With drawings throughout by Carter Lucas. --- In light blue cloth-covered boards with orange titling to cover & spine. Text presented on glossy, coated leaves. Volume wrapped in jacket with a photo of the Missouri River in North Dakota, taken at sunset. --- With bookseller pencilings to front free endpaper, else a bright, unmarked and tightly-bound copy. Unclipped jacket ($7.50) with a mild chafing to extremities, else intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; Small Quarto - 9 to 11 in. tall; xix, 236 pages. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .
Keywords: >>American History & Politics >>Travel / Exploration / Adventure
Title: Two Captains West: An Historical Tour of the Lewis and Clark Trail
Description: Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Stated first edition of a pictorial guide to the route taken by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark as they explored the newly-bought Louisiana Purchase at the behest of President Thomas Jefferson. Included are 160 of Albert Salisbury's photos of Lewis & Clark campsites, landscape features, monuments and signage as they appeared at the time of publication of this work in 1950. With several detailed maps, and a historic map of the route at endpapers. With drawings throughout by Carter Lucas. --- In light blue cloth-covered boards with orange titling to cover & spine. Text presented on glossy, coated leaves. Volume wrapped in jacket with a photo of the Missouri River in North Dakota, taken at sunset. --- With bookseller pencilings to front free endpaper, else a bright, unmarked and tightly-bound copy. Unclipped jacket ($7.50) with a mild chafing to extremities, else intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; Small Quarto - 9 to 11 in. tall; xix, 236 pages. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .
Keywords: >>American History & Politics >>Travel / Exploration / Adventure
Price: US$ 20.50 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 87857
- Book number: 87857