United States Exploring Expedition. During the year 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. Under the command of Charles Wilkes, U.S.N..
Object Details
- Notes
- Atlas accompanying v. 1-5: 33 x2 5 cm.; v. 23: 69 x 55 cm.
- Half-title: United States Exploring Expedition. By authority of Congress.
- Vol. 10, Atlas, has imprint: New York, G. P. Putnam; London, Putnam's American agency [n.d.]
- 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."
- By the same act, the edition was limited to 100 copies.
- 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 Five volumes are unpublished: v. 18 Botany, by Asa Gray; v. 19, Geographical distribution of animals and plants, by Charles Pickering; v. 21-22, Ichthyology, by Louis Agassiz; v. 24,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 left in sheets.
- 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 pl., 28 of which belong to the unpublished v. 21-11, Icthyology, and 4 to v. 12, Mollusca and shells.
- 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.
- Plates in the Hydrography volume (v. 23) drawn by W.H. Dougal; drawn by F.D. Stuart.
- Also available online.
- 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.
- 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.
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- Contents
- 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]. Hydrography atlas (in 2 vol.)
- Data Source
- Smithsonian Libraries
- Date
- 1844
- 1844-1874
- Call number
- Q115 .W6X
- Q115.W6X 1844
- Author
- United States Exploring Expedition (1838-1842)
- Wilkes, Charles 1798-1877
- engraver
- Dougal, William H. 1822-1895
- illustrator
- Stuart, Fred D.
- Author
- United States Congress
- former owner
- Library of Congress DSI
- Subject
- United States Exploring Expedition (1838-1842)
- Type
- Electronic resources
- Physical description
- 19 v. in 21. illus., plates, ports., maps, plans, tables, diagrs. 33 x 25 cm. + atlas (11 v. ; 57 x 37 cm.)
- Place
- Pacific Ocean
- Antarctica
- Northwest Coast of North America
- Topic
- Scientific expeditions
- Record ID
- siris_sil_298484
