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Preuss, Charles; John Charles Fremont.. Map of Oregon and Upper California from the Surveys of John Charles Fremont and other Authorities".. Drawn by Charles Preuss Under the Order of the Senate of the United States. Washington City 1848, 1848.

Price: US$875.00 + shipping

Description: Drawn by Charles Preuss Under the Order of the Senate of the United States. Washington City 1848. Lithographed by E. Weber & Co., Baltimore. (Wheat, 1995, 41). This is the California and Great Basin portion, issued in "Ex. Doc. No. 17, House of Representatives, in 1850, of the same, but larger map that included Oregon, issued in 1848 with Senate Misc. Doc. No. 148, 30th Congress, 1st Session. 16 5/8 x 19 ½ inches, folded size 4 ½ x 7 1/2. (See Carl I. Wheat, "The Maps of the California Gold Region" – 1848-1857, numbers 40 and 41, the Martino reprint,1995). This map shows all of California; all the area that would become Nevada and the western half of Arizona; east to the Wasatch Range and "Mormon Settlements"; slivers of Oregon to the north and Mexico to the south. The route of all Fremont’s explorations to date are traced. With folds for insertion in the House document or perhaps in the pamphlet included below. In Fine condition. With: "Geographical Memoir Upon Upper California in Illustration of His Map of Oregon and California, by John Charles Fremont" Washington: Wendell and Van Benthuysen, Printers, 1848. First edition (Kurutz, 256a; Cowan, p.223; Howes, F366). Original printed pale blue wrappers, 67 pp. Cowan asserts that "the folding map accompanies but few copies"; Howes did not see a copy with a map; the present copy shows no sign of having included the map. Some wear to the edges and dog-eared leaves, a Very Good copy. There was another, abbreviated, 40 page edition issued in 1849, the Tippin & Streeper (printers) edition (Wheat, 87).

Seller: Up-Country Letters, Gardnerville, NV, U.S.A.

[FREMONT, JOHN CHARLES]. MAP OF OREGON AND UPPER CALIFORNIA. Senate of the United States, 1848., Washington City, 1848.

Price: US$2500.00 + shipping

Description: Large Folding Map. 29.5" wide x 36" long. From the Surveys of John Charles Fremont and Other Authorities. Drawn by Charles Preuss. Under the order of the Senate of the United States. Washington City 1848. Scale 1:3,000,000. Lith. by E. Weber & Co, Balto. This important map was originally prepared to accompany Fremont's work, GEOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR UPON UPPER CALIFORNIA. Considered by many to be the greatest of Charles Preuss's maps. Preuss accompanied Fremont on his first three expeditions exploring the American West. "The one great general map of 1848 was that of Fremont and Preuss"-Carl I. Wheat, scholar and author of MAPPING THE TRANSMISSISSIPPI WEST. Wheat dedicates 8 pages to his discussion of the importance of this map. It is a map of all the territory of the United States west of the 105 meridian. Accordingly, it presents, in wonderful detail, the American West, from the front line of the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. It shows the routes followed by Fremont's various expeditions from 1842 through 1846, and benefits significantly from the exploration of Edward Kern, as part of Fremont's third expedition. The map is the first to show the location of the recent gold discoveries in California, and also is the first to identify the entrance to San Francisco Bay as the Golden Gate. The intent of the map was to attain completeness in its representation of the known cartography of 1848, reflecting the cartographic benefits of Fremont's many expeditions, as well as those of Kern and others. A wonderful map. Our copy is in exceptionally nice condition.bright, clean, and with no tears or splitting at folds!

Seller: BUCKINGHAM BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, GREENCASTLE, PA, U.S.A.