how can i help you hey guys i have a real piece of american history i'd like to sell you
okay hopefully it's a toupee
no it's not a toupee all right i have a first-hand journal of the travels and
history of lewis and clark rick this thing looks like it's been across america okay
i have a book to sell today that is the journal of lewis and clark's expedition across the united
states in 1804. i've seen other copies of this sell for 16 000 so yeah i'm trying to get them
up as high as i can on it this is pretty cool man can i take a look sure you know about lewis
and clark rick yes i know about lewis and clark they were literally the lindbergh of their day
in 1804 congress wanted a route to the west coast over land they wanted to explore the
center of this country that really hadn't been explored before president jefferson was way
behind this he really wanted this to happen because he knew that eventually the united
states would be going farther and farther west and he really wanted to know what we had there
but going on land across this country in 1804 it's almost the equivalent of going into space
so lewis and clark set out to discover the unknown and they did this overland trek all the way across
the united states over like treacherous territory and had adventures and everything else like that
when they got back to the east coast they were hailed as heroes before them we had no idea some
of the resources we had going west and it really helped out plan the future of the united states
so where did you get this i was on the estate cell about five years ago and i bought a box of books
i noticed this in here lewis and clark's journal actually it was a journal kept by a guy named gas
the troops nominated him to become the sergeant one of the duties of the sergeant was to keep a
journal the book if you read through it it shows a pretty much a day-to-day journey of what they did
how much do you want for this 16 000. okay i have no idea if that's a good price or not
but i have a friend who will know about everything there is to know about the book
and if you don't mind hanging out for a little bit we'll bring her down here
i'd love for you too can you come call rebecca for me you'd much rather hear from me trust me
so it's patrick gas's book on lewis clark i know this book the expedition was 1804 to 1806
and this was the first published account in 1807. people were dying for information about this
trip because you think about it like the united states have just bought this huge amount of land
they were trying to find waterways the whole way through because at that point water routes were
the roads that's how you did any sort of shipping and that's what jefferson wanted yes was supposed
to keep a journal that was part of his duties as a sergeant and so that's what you're getting here
is you're getting really a play-by-play every single day and jefferson's really interested to
see what was happening out west it is on the one hand not terribly well preserved but on the other
hand to have it with all of the original elements intact is great and does really affect what you
can ask for it so it's actually quite handleable considering all things considered the hinges seem
pretty well intact all right but looking inside this looks like an institutional library stamp
there are a couple of the institutional library stamps
but you can see this book doesn't look great and that's typical the
binding here yes that sheep which was the cheapest of the leathers available so what's it worth
so when i think about dealers who are specialists in americana i
see them these days listing them for prices around 15 16 17 000
but this is x library which is a real painful hit to the asking price because
private collectors mostly really dislike that so for this particular book with all faults
i would put it around 7 500. why would it uh go down in value so much
being the next library copy you can see libraries tend to put stamps and things they tend to leave
markings and the markings often are very obvious to have one is annoying enough but this has three
so this particular library was a little stamp happy unfortunately and collectors are all
about pristine condition they want it to look exactly the way it did when it first published
because it's unremovable yeah x library is a little bit like a choose a literary reference
so scroll it letter you know thanks for coming in though you're the best glad i could help
well where are we at um lucky before grandfort that's not going to do it you
can do a little better than that seven thousand i'm not gonna make any money
but four grand i think is a fair price that's too low the book is the original book it has
library stamps granted how about 5 000 i go 4 100. it's a fair price 45. i'll i'll go 42.
i shouldn't go that bike done all right 4 200 steal don dale do it right about chum come on
i made an expedition out here to las vegas just to sell this book and it paid
off
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