United States Exploring Expedition. During the year 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. Under the command of Charles Wilkes, U.S.N..
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By authority of Congress."}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "Vol. 10, Atlas, has imprint: New York, G. P. Putnam; London, Putnam's American agency [n.d.]"}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "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.\""}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "By the same act, the edition was limited to 100 copies."}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "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 Five volumes are unpublished: v. 18 Botany, by Asa Gray; v. 19, Geographical distribution of animals and plants, by Charles Pickering; v. 21-22, Ichthyology, by Louis Agassiz; v. 24,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."}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "Vol. 19 was partly printed, and left in sheets."}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "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 pl., 28 of which belong to the unpublished v. 21-11, Icthyology, and 4 to v. 12, Mollusca and shells."}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "Vol. 8 was first published as Mammalia and ornithology, by Titian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."}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "Plates in the Hydrography volume (v. 23) drawn by W.H. Dougal; drawn by F.D. Stuart."}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "Also available online."}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "SCNHRB copy of text v. 7 (Zoophytes) has stamps: Smithsonian Institution National Museum; accession numbers: 309559; 402647; Library of Congress Smithsonian Deposit, Mar. 11, 1931. In a later green buckram library binding with gilt-lettered spine and all edges gilt."}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "SCNHRB copy of text v. 23 (Hydrography) has stamps: (ink) Smithsonian Institution National Museum, accession no. 230034; (perforated) LC [Library of Congress]. In a later green buckram library binding with gilt-lettered spine and all edges gilt."}, {"label": "Notes", "content": "Elecresource"}, {"label": "Contents", "content": "1. Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition, vol. 1 - 5 -- [5 atlas]. Atlas of the narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition -- 6. Ethnography and Philology -- 7. Zoophytes -- [7 atlas]. Zoophytes atlas -- 8. Mammalia and ornithology -- [8 atlas]. Mamalia and ornithology atlas -- 9. Races of man -- 10. Geology -- [10 atlas]. Geology atlas -- 11. Meteorology -- 12. Mollusca and shells -- [12 atlas]. Mollusca and shells atlas -- 13. Crustacea pt. 1 -- 14. Crustacea pt. 2 -- [13 & 14 atlas] Crustacea atlas -- 15. Botany, Phanerogamia -- [15 atlas] Botany, Phanerogamia atlas -- 16. Botany Cryptogami -- [16 atlas] Botany, Cryptogami atlas -- 17. Botany, Cryptogami -- 19. The geographical distribution of animals and plants pt. 1 -- 19. The geographical distribution of animals and plants pt. 2 -- 20. Herpetology -- [20 atlas] Herpetology atlas -- [12 & 21 & 22 atlas] Ichthyology and Conchology atlas -- 23. Hydrography -- [23 atlas]. 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