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Map of Oregon and Upper California From the Surveys of John Charles Fremont and Other Authorities
Washington Lithography by E.Weber & Company 1848 Hardcover Large folding map backed with linen. Map folds out of a quarto sized green cloth volume. Leather label on backstrip. Map measures 90 cm by 69 cm. Overall a nice clean copy of this uncommon map. This map is one of the greatest cartographic achievements of the American West and helped to fill in the great unknown of the Great Basin and points farther West and is the only contemporary work to come out of Fremont's third expedition. ... more information
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Map of Oregon and Upper California from the Surveys of John Charles Fremont and Other Authorities‹
Washington City: Senate of the United States, 1848. Rare. Very, very faint browning at upper margin and lower left. Old, archival tape repairs from backside in folds and corners of folds. An attractive map with no loss of paper. Approximately 71 x 90 cm. Lithographed by E. Weber & Company, Balto. The Mexican, Oregon Territory and British Possession borders handcoloured in green, the Pacific and some lakes in blue, and most rivers in red, all within a yellow border, much more colour on this map than i... more information
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Topographical Map of the road from Missouri to Oregon commencing at the mouth of the Kansas in the Missouri River and ending at the mouth of the Wallah-Wallah in the Columbia. In VII sections ... From the field notes and journal of Capt. J.C. Frémont, and from sketches and notes made on the ground by his assistant Charles Preuss ... By order of the Senate of the United States
Baltimore: E. Weber & Co, 1846. Oblong folio. (15 3/4 x 26 inches). Lithographed map by E. Weber & Co. after Preuss, on seven sheets, expert repairs to old folds and some outer margins. Expertly bound to style in morocco over contemporary marbled paper-covered boards. First issue of the first map "to show the Oregon Trail accurately" (Rumsey). One of the greatest monuments to the cartography of the American West. Charles Preuss, born George Karl Ludwig Preuss in Höhscheid, Prussia, ... more information
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Topographical map of the road from Missouri to Oregon, commencing at the mouth of the Kansas in the Missouri River and ending at the mouth of the Wallah Wallah in the Columbia, in VII sections : from the field notes and journal of Capt. J.C. Fremont, and from sketches and notes made on the ground by his assistant Charles Preuss ; compiled by Charles Preuss, 1846, by order of the Senate of the United States
Baltimore:: E. Weber & Co. Lithographer,. 1846.. First issue of the first map "to show the Oregon Trail accurately with great detail" (Rumsey); "An extraordinary map by a master cartographer" (Graff). "Used by many of the overland trail parties, and published only three years before the gold rush, it was based on the 1,670 mile journey of 1842-3 lead by John Charles Fremont, from the Missouri to the Columbia Rivers, by the cartographer Charles Preuss. "This valuable ove... more information
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