Volume 1

Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition, during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842 / By Charles Wilkes ... ; in five volumes.

  • Charles Wilkes
Date:
1845
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition, during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842 / By Charles Wilkes ... ; in five volumes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE EXPLORING EXPEDITION. LEA AND BLANCHARD, PHILADELPHIA, ~ HAVE JUST PUBLISHED, THE NARRATIVE OF THE BNITED STATES KXPLORING EXPEDITION, DURING THE YEARS 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, ann 1842. BY CHARLES WILKES, U.S.N., COMMANDER OF THE EXPEDITION, ETC., ETC. IN FIVE MAGNIFICENT LARGE IMPERIAL OCTAVO VOLUMES, WITH AN ATLAS OF LARGE AND EXTENDED MAPS, Price Twenty-five Dollars to Subscribers, done up in beautiful Extra Cloth Binding, This great and truly national work is issued in a style of superior magnificence and beauty, containing SIXTY-FOUR LARGE AND FINISHED LINE ENGRAVINGS, EMBRACING SCENERY, PORTRAITS, MANNERS, CUSTOMS, ETC. ETC. FORTY-SEVEN EXQUISITE STEEL VIGNETTES, WORKED AMONG THE LETTER-PRESS ; ABOUT TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY FINELY-EXECUTED WOOD-CUT ILLUSTRATIONS : FOURTEEN LARGE AND SMALL MAPS AND CHARTS; AND NEARLY TWENTY-SIX HUNDRED PAGES OF LETTER-PRESS _ No pains or expense have been spared to render these volumes worthy of the theme they illustrate, and to make them equal, if not superior, to anything of the kind ever produced been used in its preparation that is not STRICTLY AMERICAN, and the design of the Author and Publishers has been to produce a book worthy of the country. * A specimen of the Plates, Cuts, and general execution of the work can be seen, and the names of the persons wanting copies may be left with the Publishers, or any of the principal
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