Pawn Stars: Rebecca Makes a COSTLY Discovery on Lewis & Clark Journal (Season 18) | History

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 you

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Length: 6min 0sec (360 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 01 2020