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Auction 153, Lot 60

Advertisement for a Large-Scale Lewis & Clark Map

"National Intelligencer, and Washington Advertiser Vol. VII. No. 1061",

Subject: Cartographic Miscellany, Newspapers

Period: 1807 (published)

Publication:

Color: Black & White

Size:
12.4 x 19.4 inches
31.5 x 49.3 cm
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This is a wonderful piece of map-related ephemera taken from the August 3rd, 1807 issue of the National Intelligencer. It includes a full column advertisement (2.2 x 17.8") on the back cover announcing "Proposals by Conrad, Lucas & Co...for Publishing Lewis and Clark's Tour to the Pacific Ocean, Through the Interior of the Continent of North America..." The bottom of the advertisement publicizes a separately issued map to accompany the report: "Detached from the work there will be ub shed [sic] Lewis & Clark's Map of North America" at a price of $10 and measuring 5 feet 8 inches by 3 feet 10 inches. Of course Meriwether Lewis never completed this map, and it wasn't until 1814 when the Lewis & Clark report was commercially published.

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Condition: B

Moderate soiling with numerous separations along the fold, but still intact.

Estimate: $300 - $400

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Closed on 5/20/2015

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