NMLP P-035988 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-09

Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition, during the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842

Charles Wilkes · C. Sherman (Philadelphia), printed by authority of Congress · 1844

Wider circulation came only with a separate 1,000-copy 'imperial octavo' trade edition that Lea & Blanchard stereotyped from an entirely new Sherman typesetting later in 1845 (Haskell 2B), followed by a further 3,000-copy printing from those same stereotype plates before the year was out (Haskell 3)

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-035988 for "Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition, during the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842" by Charles Wilkes (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-035988, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).