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Condition: Very Good
Description: Engraving from the atlas volume of Duflot de Mofras' Exploration du Territoire de L'Oregon, des Californies et de la Mer Vermielle. Two maps on one sheet. Sheet size: 12 x 19 3/4". Frame size: 21 3/4 x 27 1/4". Inventory#: p1939pfat. These two highly important maps are just about the first published charts of San Pedro and Santa Barbara harbors, California. No earlier plan of either sit is listed in Phillips, Maps of America. The plan on the left (San Pedro) shows the modern-day harbor of Los Angeles. The area was virtually devoid of settlement in 1844. Santa Barbara was more highly developed, with a small town ("Pueblo"), the mission, and "Presidio" (ruined) clearly maked. Wagner calls this work "one of the twenty rarest and most important.dealing with the history of California."
Seller: Arader Galleries of Philadelphia, PA, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$3750.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Three quarter leather over marbled boards, 8vo. Gilt decorated spine with 5 raised bands. Marbled end papers. 8 engraved plates with tissue guards, light foxing here and there throughout. Outer front hinge of volume 1 cracked but holding. One inch triangular chip missing from crown of spine. Generally clean and sound.
Seller: David Morrison Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$8000.00 + shipping
Description: Atlas maps are reproduced on plain white paper. Atlas is bound in close matching leather with similar marbled paper over boards Very good. Vol. I has been skillfully rebacked to style. Vol. II has new labels and is lightly rubbed and bumped. Both text volumes have old Cyrillic bookplates on front pastedowns. Collated complete with eight engraved plates. Pages are very clean but light foxing occurs near front and end matter. Facsimile atlas is in very good condition Text volumes in octavo, atlas folio
Seller: Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A., Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$9995.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 2 Vols, 524 & 514 pp.+ Illus Plt at Frontis of each volume (with Tissue Guards) & 10 Other Illus Plts (with Tissue Guards), Beautifully bound in Red Three-quarters Leather & Marbled Bds, Marbled e.p., Raised Ridges on Spine & Gilt title, TEG, small owner namestamp ff e.p., else VG & Tight, 1st ed (does not include Atlas) (Beautifully bound set in Very Nice Condition) (Howes #D542 - "c" rating)
Seller: Larry W Price Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$30000.00 + shipping
Description: "3 volumes: 2 text volumes, 8vo., (9 x 5 4/8 inches) and atlas volume, folio (23 x 17 inches). Text: 8 engravings (some spotting and browning). Contemporary French quarter calf marbled boards gilt (worn at the extremities, hinges weak). Atlas: large folding map hand-colored in outline, 21 engraved maps and charts, including one double-page, and 4 plates. Contemporary French red morocco backed red paper boards. Provenance: Bookplates of Herbert McLean Evans (1882-1971), pioneering endocrinologist, on the front paste-downs of the text volumes. First edition of " one of the most important works on the northwestern coast, including Alaska" (Lada-Mocarski). Duflot de Mofras was sent to Mexico in 1839 as French Ambassador, "but his special mission was to explore and evaluate the commercial possibilities of California and the Oregon Territory, in order that the French government would be better able to decide whether to become involved in the conflict over Oregon between the U.S. and Great Britain" (Hill). This extensive and detailed account of his journey includes the western coast of America from Tehuantepec to the Bering Strait, Vancouver Island, and the Fraser River. Howes describes Duflot de Mofras' account, which was: "Issued under French government auspices, [and] forms an admirable supplement to Humboldt's account of the same region and is the only early illustrated work on the Pacific coast comparable in beauty to the 'Voyage pittoresque' of Choris or to Litké's account of the Russian survey of the northwest coast." The atlas volume contains some magnificent plates of Monterey, California missionary Father Duran, Californian throwing the lasso, and the large and spectacular "Vue de la Mission de Saint Louis Roi de France dans la Nouvelle Californie". The charts and maps of California include the ports of San Diego, San Pedro, Santa Barbara, Monterey, Trinity, San Francisco, and Fort Ross. The large engraved map, one of the greatest western maps, extends along the west coast from Mount St. Elias to Acapulco and east as far as Hudson Bay, Fort Leavenworth, and Austin, Texas. Wheat describes this map: "A landmark.because it made these western regions known in European official circles. De Mofras was much interested in travel routes. East of Santa Fe he noted the 'Route des Chariots des Etats-Unis,' and (for the first time on any published map?) he showed what later came to be called 'The Old Spanish Trail'. De Mofras really should have been a California 'realtor.' For example, in the.interior valley of California he says: 'Cette immense Valleé comprise entre la Sierra Nevada et les Mts. Californiens [the Coast Range], est arrosée de petites rivières et remplie de lagunes d'eau douce très poissonneuses. Ce pays est plus beau encore que la partie habitée de la Californie, son climat est plus doux, il presente des terrains fertiles, des bois de construction superbes et de vastes prairies ou paissent de troupeaux de Certs, d'Antilopes, de Taureaux et de Chevaux sauvages.' [De Mofras] was a sturdy soul, and his highly original map has much to commend it". Cowan I p.186; Graff 1169; Hill 496; Howes D-542; Lada-Mocarski 120; Phillips "Atlases" 1457; Sabin 21144; Streeter Sale VI 3323; Zamarano 80, 30. For more information about this book, or a warm welcome to see it and other books in our library at 72nd Street, NYC, please contact Kate Hunter, M.A. Oxon, in the Rare Book Department"
Seller: Arader Galleries - AraderNYC, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$35000.00 + shipping
Description: "3 volumes: 2 text volumes, 8vo (9 x 6 inches) and atlas volume, folio (20 6/8 x 14 inches). Text: 8 engravings (some spotting). Atlas: large folding map hand-colored in outline (short marginal tear repaired, some light staining), 25 engravings on 17 sheets, including one double-page, comprising 21 charts and 4 plates. Modern black half morocco gilt. Provenance: Bookplates of Frank Sherwin Streeter (1918-2006) (Collection of Important Navigation, Pacific Voyages, Cartography and Science), his sale, Christie's 17th April 2007, lot 167. First edition of " one of the most important works on the northwestern coast, including Alaska" (Lada-Mocarski). Duflot de Mofras was sent to Mexico in 1839 as French Ambassador, "but his special mission was to explore and evaluate the commercial possibilities of California and the Oregon Territory, in order that the French government would be better able to decide whether to become involved in the conflict over Oregon between the U.S. and Great Britain" (Hill). This extensive and detailed account of his journey includes the western coast of America from Tehuantepec to the Bering Strait, Vancouver Island, and the Fraser River. Howes describes Duflot de Mofras' account, which was: "Issued under French government auspices, [and] forms an admirable supplement to Humboldt's account of the same region and is the only early illustrated work on the Pacific coast comparable in beauty to the 'Voyage pittoresque' of Choris or to Litké's account of the Russian survey of the northwest coast." The atlas volume contains some magnificent plates of Monterey, California missionary Father Duran, Californian throwing the lasso, and the large and spectacular "Vue de la Mission de Saint Louis Roi de France dans la Nouvelle Californie". The charts and maps of California include the ports of San Diego, San Pedro, Santa Barbara, Monterey, Trinity, San Francisco, and Fort Ross. The large engraved map, one of the greatest western maps, extends along the west coast from Mount St. Elias to Acapulco and east as far as Hudson Bay, Fort Leavenworth, and Austin, Texas. Wheat describes this map: "A landmark.because it made these western regions known in European official circles. De Mofras was much interested in travel routes. East of Santa Fe he noted the 'Route des Chariots des Etats-Unis,' and (for the first time on any published map?) he showed what later came to be called 'The Old Spanish Trail'. De Mofras really should have been a California 'realtor.' For example, in the.interior valley of California he says: 'Cette immense Valleé comprise entre la Sierra Nevada et les Mts. Californiens [the Coast Range], est arrosée de petites rivières et remplie de lagunes d'eau douce très poissonneuses. Ce pays est plus beau encore que la partie habitée de la Californie, son climat est plus doux, il presente des terrains fertiles, des bois de construction superbes et de vastes prairies ou paissent de troupeaux de Certs, d'Antilopes, de Taureaux et de Chevaux sauvages.' [De Mofras] was a sturdy soul, and his highly original map has much to commend it". From the distinguished library of Frank S. Streeter. Cowan I p.186; Graff 1169; Hill 496; Howes D-542; Lada-Mocarski 120; Phillips "Atlases" 1457; Sabin 21144; Streeter Sale VI 3323; Zamarano 80, 30. Catalogued by Kate Hunter"
Seller: Arader Galleries - AraderNYC, New York, NY, U.S.A.