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[LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION]. Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, Being the First Session of the Ninth Congress… in the Thirtieth Year of the Sovereignty of the Said United States. Washington City: William Duane and Son, 1805. 8vo (210 x 125 mm). Later light-green cloth, spine with black and burgundy gilt morocco lettering labels and a printed shelf label (spine sunned, worn, binding worn, sunned, lightly soiled, text toned, a bit wrinkled, inkstamps of the library of the New York Bar Association on the title-page). FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST REPORT FROM THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION MADE TO CONGRESS, AS RELAYED TO CONGRESS BY THE SECRETARY OF PRESIDENT THOMAS JEFFERSON, Mr. Coles: “... captain Meriwether Lewis of the first regiment of infantry, was appointed, with a party of men, to explore the river Missouri from its mouth to its source, and crossing the highlands by the shortest portage, to seek the best water communication thence to the Pacific ocean; and lieutenant Clarke [sic] was appointed second in command.” This report is on pp. 144-147. This volume also contains other information related to the Louisiana Purchase, and more.