NMLP P-035253 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-09
History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark (prepared for publication by Paul Allen, from Nicholas Biddle's narrative) · Bradford and Inskeep (Philadelphia); printed by John Maxwell · 1814
The Philadelphia printing is the first published edition of the expedition narrative; the first London edition (Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815) is a reprint of the American text, not a rival or earlier edition.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-035253 for "History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark" by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark (prepared for publication by Paul Allen, from Nicholas Biddle's narrative) (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-035253, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).