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United States exploring expedition. During the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842.

Title
United States exploring expedition. During the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. Under the command of Charles Wilkes, U.S.N. ...
Publication
Philadelphia, Printed by C. Sherman, 1844-74.

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Additional Authors
  • Wilkes, Charles, 1798-1877.
  • United States. Congress.
Description
v. in illus., plates, ports., maps, plans, tables, diagrs.; 32.5 x 24 cm.
Subject
Note
  • Atlas accompanying v. 1-5: 32.5 x 24 cm.; v. 23: 68.5 x 54.5 cm.
  • Half-title: United States exploring expedition. By authority of Congress.
  • By the same act, the edition was limited to 100 copies. Mr. Wilkes, however, secured copyright on his Narrative of the expedition, under which privilege he published several editions of that part of the reports. Later, also, the authors themselves, or publishers who might be willing to undertake it, were allowed to issue an additional 150 copies of the various reports, and under this arrangement, from 100 to 150 copies of most of the volumes were published in addition to the 100 copies provided for by the government. The oficial edition however was 100 copies only.
  • Volumes of unfinished plates--some of them in proof before lettering--are found, without t.-p. or other printed matter. The Library of Congress has two such volumes: one of 71 pl. (4 col.) from the atlases to Botany, and one of 32 col. pl., 28 of which belong to the unpublished v. 21-22, Ichthyology, and 4 to v. 12, Mollusca and shells.
  • Vol. 8 was first published as Mammalia and ornithology, by Titian R. Peale ... Philadelphia, Printed by C. Sherman, 1848. This volume was later suppressed, and replaced by the one by John Cassin.
  • Vol. 10, Text, has imprint: New York, G.P. Putnam; London, Putnam's American agency [n.d.]
Numbering (note)
  • The publication was never completed. Five volumes are unpublished: v. 18, Botany, by Asa Gray; v. 19, Geographical distribution of animals and plants, by Charles Pickering; v. 21-22, Ichthyology, by Louis Agassiz; v. 24, Physics, by Charles Wilkes.
  • Vol. 19 was partly printed, and still remains in signatures. Part 1, Chronological observations on introduced animals and plants, was published in Boston, 1854, and the first half of part 2, Plants and animals in their wild state, Salem, Mass., 1876. The complete work has not been published.
Issued By (note)
  • Published under act of Congress of Aug. 26, 1842, which provided: "That there shall be published ... an account of the discoveries made by the Exploring expedition under the command of Lieutenant Wilkes ... which account shall be ... published in a form similar to the voyage of the Astrolabe, lately published by the government of France."
Contents
I-V. Narrative of the United States exploring expedition during the years 1838-42. By Charles Wilkes. 5 v. and atlas of 5 fold. maps. 1844.--VI. Ethnography and philology. By Horatio Hale. 1846.--VII. Zoophytes. By James D. Dana. 1 v., 1846 and atlas of 61 pl. 1849.--VIII. Mammalogy and ornithology. By John Cassin. 1 v. and atlas of 53 pl. 1858; also vol. by T.R. Peale, suppressed.--IX. The races of man: and their geographical distribution. By Charles Pickering. 1848.--X. Geology. By James D. Dana. 1 v. and atlas of 29 pl. 1849.--XI. Meteorology. By Charles Wilkes. 1851.--XII. Mollusca & shells. By Augustus A. Gould. 1 v., 1852 and atlas of 52 pl. 1856.--XIII-XIV. Crustacea. By James D. Dana. 1 v. in 2, 1852-53 and atlas of 96 pl. 1855 [i.e. 1861]--XV. Botany. Phanerogamia. By Asa Gray. Part I. 1 v., 1854 and atlas of 100 pl. 1856. No more published.--XVI. Botany. Cryptogamia. Filices, including Lycopodiaceæ and Hydropterides. By William D. Brackenridge.
Call Number
*KF+ 1844 (United States exploring expedition, 1838-1842. United States exploring expedition)
OCLC
42599464
Title
United States exploring expedition. During the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. Under the command of Charles Wilkes, U.S.N. ...
Imprint
Philadelphia, Printed by C. Sherman, 1844-74.
Numbering
The publication was never completed. Five volumes are unpublished: v. 18, Botany, by Asa Gray; v. 19, Geographical distribution of animals and plants, by Charles Pickering; v. 21-22, Ichthyology, by Louis Agassiz; v. 24, Physics, by Charles Wilkes.
Vol. 19 was partly printed, and still remains in signatures. Part 1, Chronological observations on introduced animals and plants, was published in Boston, 1854, and the first half of part 2, Plants and animals in their wild state, Salem, Mass., 1876. The complete work has not been published.
Issued By
Published under act of Congress of Aug. 26, 1842, which provided: "That there shall be published ... an account of the discoveries made by the Exploring expedition under the command of Lieutenant Wilkes ... which account shall be ... published in a form similar to the voyage of the Astrolabe, lately published by the government of France."
Local Note
Vol. XIII-XIV, Atlas wanting; vol. XVI, Atlas wanting; vol. XVII, Not in N.Y.P.L.; vol. XXIII, Text wanting.
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Wilkes, Charles, 1798-1877.
United States. Congress.
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