The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Volume 1 (of 3): To Headwaters of the Mississippi River Through Louisiana Territory, and in New Spain, During the Years 1805-6-7.Pike, Zebulon Montgomery
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The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Volume 1 (of 3): To Headwaters of the Mississippi River Through Louisiana Territory, and in New Spain, During the Years 1805-6-7.
Pike, Zebulon Montgomery
Mississippi River -- Description and travel; New Mexico -- Description and travel; Pike, Zebulon Montgomery, 1779-1813 -- Travel -- West (U.S.); West (U.S.) -- Description and travel; West (U.S.) -- Discovery and exploration; West (U.S.) -- History -- To 1848
Two vols., 8vo. Vol. I., pp. i-xvi, 1-368; Vol. II., pp.
1-373, with 3 maps. In Vol. I. the half title p., backed de
l'imprimérie de L. Hausmann, Rue de la Harpe, N^o. 80, is
pp. i, ii; full title p., verso blank, is pp. iii, iv;
Préface du Traducteur, pp. v-xiv; sub-title, Voyage au
Mississippi, backed with errata, pp. xv, xvi; Avertissement
de l'auteur, pp. 1-6; Wilkinson's instructions to Pike of
July 30th, 1805, abstracted from one of the pieces of App.
to Pt. 3 of the orig. ed., pp. 7, 8; main text of the
Mississippi Voyage, pp. 9-236, ending Pt. 1 of the orig.
ed.; thence the Arkansaw Journey, with separate sub-title,
Voyage au Nouveau-Mexique, pp. 237-368, ending Vol. I.,
with end of Pt. 2 of the orig. ed.--In Vol. II., half title
p. backed blank, pp. 1, 2: full title, backed blank, pp. 3,
4; main text, pp. 5-373, beginning at date of Feb. 27th,
1807, when Pike was starting on his involuntary Mexican
tour; this tour ending on p. 236, with end of the main
text of Pt. 3 of the orig. ed.; thence to end of vol.
various matters from the Appendixes of Pts. 2 and 3,
including Lieutenant Wilkinson's Arkansaw Report, pp.
325-363, and a piece of padding, pp. 293-324, this last
being Remarques Additionelles sur le sol, les productions
et les habitans de la Nouvelle-Espagne, of which the editor
says that "ces détails sont extraits en partie de
l'excellente histoire d'Amérique par Winterbotham, et de
l'ouvrage de l'abbé Clavigéro." These 32 pages of padding
have no business in the book; I suppose they were wanted to
balance the bulk of the two volumes. The maps of this
edition are three in number, supposed to belong in Vol. II.
They are the Mississippi and the two Arkansaw maps,
prepared by Antoine Nau, redrawn and re-engraved, with
French names instead of English ones; the size is about the
same as that of the original; the execution is rather
better. The editor apologizes, Vol I., p. xiii, for not
reproducing Pike's two maps of Mexico, because he would not
venture "d'attenter à la propriété de M. de Humboldt," _i. e._,
steal Humboldt's thunder. For it seems that Humboldt
thought Pike had done so, and he had just previously so
expressed himself in a réclamation in Le Moniteur. Humboldt
compliments Pike pro formâ, and proceeds to protest: "Mais
les cartes du Mexique, publiées sous son [Pike's] nom, ne
sont que des réductions de ma grande carte de la
Nouvelle-Espagne, sur laquelle le voyageur a tracé sa route
de Santa-Fé par Cohahuila à Nacodolhes [Nacogdoches or
Natchitoches]."
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