Narrative of the United States exploring expedition

Narrative of the United States exploring expedition

Full title: Narrative of the United States exploring expedition : during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842 / by Charles Wilkes ... with illustrations and maps : in five volumes.

Spine title: United States Exploring Expedition

Charles Wilkes, 1798-1877

Philadelphia : Lea and Blanchard.
[Philadelphia] : Stereotyped by J. Fagan.
[Philadelphia] : Printed by C. Sherman.

1845

5 volumes : illustrations, 11 maps (including frontispiece: volume 1, 4, 5), tables ; 28 cm.

" ... This edition ... contains ... the same type, page and reading matter, as the one in imperial octavo; the difference between them being in the quality and size of the paper; the substitution of forty-seven wood-cuts for that number of steel vignettes in the other; the omission of the sixty-four plates, and the use of eleven of the fourteen maps, four of which are on a reduced scale."--Notice of the publisher.

Copy 3 presented by Seymour Schulich [Gift2015]

Copy 3: signature of "Wm. A. Guild, Lowell, March 1847"; book label: "From the library of Frank M. Jones estate services, Birmingham, Alabama"

Schulich, Seymour, donor. former owner.
Lea & Blanchard, publisher.
J. Fagan & Son, stereotyper.
C. Sherman & Son. printer.
Schulich-Woolf Collection.

English

Q115 .W6 1845