A spurious account, of which the earliest American edition, Philadelphia, 1809, appeared under title: "The travels of Capts. Lewis & Clarke." The various spurious editions are made up of material taken principally from three sources: 1) Message from the President of the United States communicating discoveries made in exploring the Missouri, Red river and Washita, by Captains Lewis and Clark, Doctor Sibley, and Mr. Dunbar, Washington, 1806; 2) Jonathan Carver's "Travels through the interior parts of North America ... in the years 1766, 1767, and 1768"; 3) Alexander Mackenzie's "Voyage from Montreal ... through the continent of North America in the years 1789 and 1796". For detailed descriptions of contents of this and other spurious editions cf. "History of the expedition ... of Lewis and Clark", edited by Elliott Coues, 1893, v. 1, p. cviii-cxvii; and V.H. Paltsits' "Bibliographical data, in Original journals of the Lewis and Clark expedition", edited by R.G. Thwaites, 1904, v. 1, p. lxvi-lxx.

"Anecdotes", p. [261]-266, signed William Buchan.

Vocabulary of the Knistenaux (i.e. Crees): p. [116]-124.

Signatures: [A] B-X Y (Y4 blank)

Sabin 24508.

Shaw & Shoemaker 28817.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in comtemporary treed calf; rebacked.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library: James F. Gould, of Boston, 1816: autograph on front pastedown; Benjamin Collins, 1819: autograph on title page.