[PIKE, Zebulon Montgomery (1779–1813)]. COUES, Elliott (1842–1899), editor. The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, To Headwaters of the Mississippi River Through Louisiana Territory, and in New Spain, During the Years 1805–6–7. New York: Francis P. Harper, 1895.
3 volumes, royal 8vo. Portrait frontispiece on india paper in Vol. I, folding facsimile letter, 7 maps (including 6 folding into rear pocket of the Index volume). Original cloth–backed boards, printed paper spine labels, uncut (spines a bit darkened with some soiling to cloth, light edgewear). Provenance: Norman Stanley (book label).
LIMITED EDITION, number 80 of 150 large–page copies on hand–made paper. This new edition and the “best edition” according to Howes was “first reprinted in full from the original of 1810, with copious critical commentary, memoir of Pike, new map and other illustrations, and complete index.” (Rittenhouse). Howes P–373; Jenkins, Basic Texas Books 163F; Rittenhouse 467 (“Scholars have preferred the 1895 edition for its annotations, clarity, and appended documents”).