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United States Exploring Expedition. During the year 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842

statement of responsibility: Under the command of Charles Wilkes, U.S.N · 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 Five volumes are unpublished: v. 18 Botany, by Asa Gray; v. 19, Geographical distribution of animals and plants, by Charles Pickering; v. 21-22, Ichthyology, by Louis Agassiz; v. 24,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 th

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