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Narrative of the United States exploring expedition during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842
- Author / Creator
- Conferences
- United States Exploring Expedition (1838-1842)
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- Creator
- by Charles Wilkes
- Other Title
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- United States exploring expedition
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Philadelphia : Lea & Blanchard, 1845
- ©1844
- Physical Details
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- 5 volumes : illustrations, 14 maps ; 29 cm + 1 atlas (5 unnumbered folded leaves of plates : 5 maps ; 29 cm)
- OCLC
- ocn890386354
- "In five volumes, and an atlas."
- "Stereotyped by J. Fagan. Printed by C. Sherman"--Title page verso.
- Atlas has "Atlas" at head of title.
- Includes index.
- Vol. 1: xl, 434 p., [9] leaves of plates (1 folded); v. 2: xv, 476 p., [17] leaves of plates (3 folded); v. 3: xv, 438 p., [12] leaves of plates; v. 4: xvi, 539 p., [16] leaves of plates (1 folded); v. 5: xv, 558 p., [19] leaves of plates (4 folded); atlas: [5] folded leaves of plates.
- Edition limited to 1000 copies, gathered in signatures of fours, and known as the imperial octavo edition. Cf. Haskell for a bibliography and history of publication of the Narrative and Reports of the expedition. Not to be conflated with records for the official publication or other unofficial editions published by Lea & Blanchard. This record is for the edition previously identified as OCLC #2789792.
- Haskell, D. The United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842, 2B, 17B
- Amer. jour. sci., v. 49, no. 2 (Apr.-June 1845), p. 149-166