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Fremont, John C.. Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and California in the Years 1843-44.. Gales and Seaton, 1845.

Price: US$235.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 1845 first edition. Original black cloth binding. Rebacked, with the original cloth spine laid over. There is scattered foxing, heavy in places, to the text. Two folding maps are present missing the large folding map and two other maps). A landmark Western Americana publication.; Senate Ex. Doc. 174

Seller: Orrin Schwab Books, Providence, UT, U.S.A.

Fremont, John Charles. Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-'44. Gales and Seaton, 1845.

Price: US$249.95 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: 22 pl. 1 folding map of 5. 693 pp., Hardcover. Joints weakened. Leather spine. Moderate shelf wear, chipping loss to spine. Blind stamp to title page. Name and note to fep. Lacking 4 maps. Only map is of the Bear River, tear to first fold. Toning and foxing throughout to pages. Some pages have torn margins, affecting text. Senate issue. First edition, Senate issue, with the astronomical and meteorological observations omitted from the House issue and subsequent editions. Howes F-370; Sabin 25845; Streeter 3131; Wagner-Camp 115.1; Cowan p. 223.

Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.

Fremont, John C.. Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-'44.. Gales and Seaton, Washington DC, 1845.

Price: US$400.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 8vo, 693 pages, publisher's brown embossed cloth, leaf 503/4 minor loss of paper and half of the final line of text at bottome of page 504, upper right corner dampstained for first quarter of pages, foxed. [ Howes F370; Streeter 3131; Wagner-Camp IV: 115:1; Graff 1436; Field 565; Sabin 25845. Soliday I:861. Rosenbach 32:146. Wheat 497 ]. Important Report by the amazing John C. Fremont, also known as "The Pathfinder". This copy has the 22 plates, and two maps, but lacks the two folding text maps, and lacks the important Preuss map from the rear pocket.

Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.

Fremont, J. [John] C.. Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-'44. Gales and Seaton, Printers, Washington, 1845.

Price: US$450.00 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: 693 pages, plus 22 plates, two single page maps and two folding maps. Lacking the large folding map in the rear pocket. Blind stamped cloth covers with about one half inch of the cloth missing at the crown of the spine. Corners are a little bumped. The cloth also shows some slight chips along the joint of the covers at the spine. Inked names on end leaves. Scattered light foxing and offsetting, though contents are generally clean. Volume remains fairly tight.

Seller: Lloyd Zimmer, Books and Maps, Chanute, KS, U.S.A.

Fremont, Captain J. C. (John Charles). Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842 and to Oregon and California in the Years 1843-44. Gales and Seaton, Washington, 1845.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Description: 691pp. Octavo [23 cm] Rebound in sturdy tan cloth. New endsheets and flyleaves. Good plus. The plates and pages are foxed, and there are sporadic tidemarks of varying sizes on the pages as well. 22 single-sided plates (views, botanical, fossils) and 3 maps (missing the large folding map by Charles Preuss, and the map at p. 247). John Fremont's expeditions of 1842 and 1843-44 were the most spectacular reconnaissance of the American West since Lewis and Clark. Performed under the auspices of the Army Bureau of Topographical Engineers, the expedition's published reports and maps brought a factor of dependability and trustworthiness that would aid American settlement of the West. Fremont's report was the most detailed observations of the western territories at the time. The country covered by the report was previously terra incognito--Brigham Young is said to have used both the report as a guide in bringing the Mormon people West. Utah was then part of Mexico and would first become Deseret and then Utah territory. One of the seminal works for any western or Utah collector. Howes F-372(Senate Issue). Wagner/Camp 115.2.

Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.

John Charles Fremont.. Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-'44, by Brevet Capt. J. C. Fremont, of the Topographical Engineers, Under the Orders of Col. J. J. Abert, Chief of the Topographical Bureau. Printed by Order of the Senate of the United States.. Washington: Gales & Seaton, Printers, 1845. 28th Congress, 2nd Session, Senate Exec. Doc. 174. Serial 461., 1845.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition, Senate issue, 8vo, pp. (1-3), 4-693, 22 lithograph plates, 4 maps (2 folding), lacks the large folding Pruess map & it's rear pocket. Original gilt lettered & blind decorated brown cloth. Sabin 25845, Howes F 370, Jenkins Full Howes 925, Wagner-Camp 115:2, Graff 1436, Zamorano 80, #39. Very good bright copy, cloth in unusually good shape with minor bumps & wear to extremities, corners bumped & showing. Lacks the large folding map & its pockets has been removed from the lower inner board with evidence but no real damage. Sheets with natural age toning & some offset but with stain to title diminishing throughout the first hundred pages or so, otherwise unmarked & complete. H9551 All Items Are Sent Insured. Insurance charges are included in the Shipping & Handling Charges. International buyers please be aware that we are not responsible for and do not include or estimate customs duties, fees or taxes in any way in our listings. We ship all orders within 5 days of cleared payment. We do not create and are not responsible for shipping times or delays associated with customs and international shipping. All Items Are Sent Insured. Insurance charges are included in the Shipping & Handling Charges.

Seller: J & J House Booksellers, ABAA, Kennett Square, PA, U.S.A.

Fremont, Brevet Captain J.C.. REPORT OF THE EXPLORING EXPEDITION TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS IN THE YEAR 1842 AND TO OREGON AND NORTH CALIFORNIA IN THE YEARS 1843-'44. U.S. Senate/Gales & Seaton Printers, Wash, DC, 1845.

Price: US$895.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 28th Congress, 2nd Session, Senate Doc 174, 693 pp.+ 22 Engraved Plts & 2 FoldOut Maps (lacks Lge FoldOut Map in pocket), Bound in Period Blk Three-Quarters Leather & Bds, Gilt & Ruled Spine Title, Provenance: Signature & Bookplate of John S Phelps (23rd Governor of Missouri), Light edgewear, foxing, else VG, 1st ed (Howes #F370 - "aa" rating)

Seller: Larry W Price Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

Fremont, J.C. (John Charles).. Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-'44.. Washington: Gales and Seaton, Printers, 1845, 1845.

Price: US$900.00 + shipping

Description: Washington: Gales and Seaton, Printers, 1845. First edition, the Senate version (Howes, F-370; Paher, 640). Original brown cloth, gilt-lettered, ruled in blind, 22 inserted engraved plates, four inserted maps (two folding), plus the large Preuss map in a pocket at the back with the original green extraction ribbon - most of the lakes hand colored in blue along the shorelines; 693 pp. Includes the scientific data (not present in all copies). Octavo, collates complete. Howes finds this Senate edition to be less common than the House version of the same year. Lots of wear to the spine panel, rear joint cracked; the cloth rubbed along the edges and especially at the tips; moderate foxing throughout, gatherings 9 and 14 badly foxed but legible, one gathering slightly pulled; a few gatherings darkened; three pages with tears at one corner with some loss, about a dozen letters from each of two pages and about 8 words from another; some inserted plates lightly foxed; the large Preuss map, 52 x 32 1/2 inches folded to 5 1/4 x 8 1/2, with three chips at the top edge - about 12 of the 33 places where the folds cross with small tears. A Good copy, the important Preuss map Very Good.

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

FREMONT, Brevet Captain J. C.. Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-'44. [Fremont s First and Second Expeditions]. Gales and Seaton, 1845.

Price: US$950.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 1845 1ed John C Fremont Expedition Rocky Mountains California Gold Rush MAPS A rare first edition of John Charles Fremont s explorations and voyages. Printed shortly after the expedition itself, this account of exploration includes Fremont s expeditions took him to California, along the Oregon Trail, and through Nevada, where he encountered and battled Native American Indians. According to Kurutz, this work is one of the monumental works of western exploration! Issued in both House [of Representatives] and Senate issues, this 1845 first edition is illustrated with 24 full-page engravings of mountain views, maps of the route, view of Pyramid Lake in Nevada, Columbia River Gorge views, waterfalls, the Sierra Nevada, the Great Salt Lake, and much more! This book changed the perspective of the American West, as it provided details of physical terrain and landmarks that had never been reported on through the mid-1800s. Fremont and his wife became exceedingly wealthy during the California Gold Rush, much in part to the marketing and advertisement that Report of the Exploring Expedition provided the east. Item number: #40522 Price: $950 FREMONT, Brevet Captain J. C. Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-'44. [Fremont s First and Second Expeditions] Washington: Gales and Seaton, 1845. [For the Senate of the United States]. First edition. Details: Collation: Complete o 693, [1] o 26 engraved plates 24 full-page engravings 2 folding maps Note on number of illustrations: Sabin lists 23 expected, while Howes states 22. This edition includes both House and Senate issue illustrations, thus quite rare and desirable References: Sabin 25845; Howes F-370; Wagner-Camp 115:1; Graff 1436: Streeter 3131; Zamorano 80, #39; Grolier 100 American #49; Hill, p. 112; Cowan, pg. 223; Rittenhouse 229; Mintz 165; Tweney 89, #22; Field 565; Soliday I-861; Rosenbach 32, #146 Language: English Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure o Brown cloth Size: ~9.25in X 6in (23.5cm x 15cm) Very rare and desirable Our Guarantee: Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide. Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving, and we will offer a full refund without reservation! 40522 Photos available upon request.

Seller: Schilb Antiquarian, Columbia, MO, U.S.A.

Fremont, J.C. (John Charles).. Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-'44.. Washington: Gales and Seaton, Printers, 1845, 1845.

Price: US$1000.00 + shipping

Description: Washington: Gales and Seaton, Printers, 1845. First edition, the Senate version (Howes, F-370; Paher, 640). Original brown cloth, gilt-lettered, ruled in blind, 22 inserted engraved plates, four inserted maps (two folding), plus the large Preuss map in a pocket at the back with the original green extraction ribbon - most of the lakes hand colored in blue along the shorelines; 693 pp. Includes the scientific data (not present in all copies). Octavo, collates complete. Howes finds this Senate edition to be less common than the House version of the same year. Some soiling to the cloth, the spine panel slightly faded,minimal wear to spine ends, edges, or points; rear joint cracked; moderate foxing throughout; the large Preuss map, 52 x 32 1/2 inches, folded to 5 1/4 x 8 1/2, with a 3 inch closed tear at the top margin as well as several of the 33 places where the folds cross with small tears that have been repaired with archival tape on the back. A Good copy, the important Preuss map Very Good.

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

Fremont, John Charles. Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-'44. Gales and Seaton, Washington, 1845.

Price: US$1000.00 + shipping

Description: 693pp. Octavo [23 cm] Brown cloth covered boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine and blind stamped decorative patterns on the covers. Very good. Light rubbing to boards. Minor bumping to corners. Gentle sporadic foxing throughout. 22 single-sided plates and 4 maps (missing the large folding map by Charles Preuss). John Fremont's expeditions of 1842 and 1843-44 were the most spectacular reconnaissance of the American West since Lewis and Clark. Performed under the auspices of the Army Bureau of Topographical Engineers, the expedition's published reports and maps brought a factor of dependability and trustworthiness that would aid American settlement of the West. Fremont's report was the most detailed observations of the western territories at the time. The country covered by the report was previously terra incognito--Brigham Young is said to have used both the report as a guide in bringing the Mormon people West. Utah was then part of Mexico and would first become Deseret and then Utah territory. One of the seminal works for any western or Utah collector. Howes F-372(Senate Issue). Wagner/Camp 115.2.

Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.

Fremont, John Charles. Report / Of / The Exploring Expedition / To The Rocky Mountains / In The Year 1842, / And To / Oregon And North California / In The Years 1843 -- '44 /./ 28th Congress, 2nd Session / Senate Executive Report 174. Gales & Seaton; Washington DC; 693 pp.; ; VG; nc/1845, 1845.

Price: US$1200.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: ____Wagner-Camp=115.1_____ Howes3=F-372.1 _____Zamorano=39_____ Wheat=2.495____ Soliday=I.862 ____Graff=1436 ____Larned=410 ____Streeter/Sale=V-3131. _____ An unread copy, evidenced by a couple of unopened page pairs. _____ Collated and complete, with all 22 full page plates._____ A couple of the fossil and botany plates are bound in out of order, but that seems to have happened frequently with these government productions. _____ Includes all five maps: two full page, two fold-out and one in pocket. _____ That last is Charles Preuss' large (51 x 31.5") folding map in the rear pocket._____ . _____ "Map / of an / Exploring Expedition / to the / Rocky Mountains in the year 1842 / and to Oregon & North California in the Years 1843-44 / by / Brevet Capt. J.C. Fremont of the corps of Topographical Engineers /./ Profile of the Route from the Mouth of the Kansas to the Pacific by Capt. J.C. Fremont in 1843". _____ "This report and and the Fremont (Preuss) map which accompanied it, changed the entire picture of the West and made a lasting contribution to cartography. _____It was drawn by Charles Preuss, whose skill in sketching topography in the field and in representing it on the map has probably never been surpassed. ____[It] represented as important a step forward from the earlier western maps of the period as did those of Pike, Long, and Lewis and Clark in their day._____The Fremont map was carefully drawn, with its locations adequately checked by astronomical observations._____ And, for the first time upon a published map it showed the entire area west of the Mississippi as seen by a single party . almost uniformly it represented trustworthy direct observation, a new, welcome, and long overdue development in the myth-encrusted cartography of the West._____ To Fremont and his magnificent map of his Second Expedition all praise._____An altogether memorable document in the cartographic history of the West , and for it alone Fremont would deserve to be remembered in history._____This map marked not only the end but the beginning of an era" -- (Wheat II-495, p.195 & p.269). _____ The courses of lakes and rivers are hand-colored in blue._____The silk ribbon originally bound in and used to slide the map out is free and now just laid in._____The Preuss map has archival repairs to the rear._____ There are small pieces from a couple of interior fold corners. _____ The book has an 1848 non-authorial inscription on a blank preliminary._____The recipient has mounted his armorial bookplate to the front pastedown._____ ._____Below that is the clipped signature of one "J. Davis"._____ Presumably someone of note, but it is not Jefferson Davis. _____ There is darkening to the paper throughout, but no evident foxing to the plates. _____ There is a 2" stain to the upper foredge corner throughout. _____ The cover cloth is splitting at the hinges and is missing the bottom 1" of the spine. _____

Seller: Watermark West Rare Books, Wichita, KS, U.S.A.

Fremont, John Charles and Jessie Benton Fremont. [IMPORTANT WESTERN AMERICANA]. Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-'44 [Senate 174, 28th Congress, 2nd Session]. Gales and Seaton, Washington DC, 1845.

Price: US$1250.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Thick 8vo (23.5 x 16 cm). 693 [1 blank] pp., 5 lithographic maps (list below), 22 lithographed plates (views, fossils, botany), 3 of the maps and 12 of the plates are attributed to Weber in image. Original blindstamped dark brown cloth, spine gilt-lettered (worn at extremities, particularly at head and tail of spine). Interior with moderate foxing and some browning, plates with moderate uniform foxing and browning, generally a good copy in original condition, unsophisticated. The large folding map is preserved in a separate mylar sleeve, good condition without any loss but with multiple characteristic splitting at folds as is always the case with this vastly oversized folding map (SEE IMAGES), original pocket at rear separating from lower board edge. With faults, and priced accordingly. FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE MONUMENTAL WORKS OF WESTERN EXPLORATION. This copy belongs to the PREFERRED SENATE ISSUE, containing the astronomical and meteorological observations that were omitted from the House issue and subsequent editions. Our copy is complete with all 22 plates and 5 maps, including the huge and justly famous 50" x 30" map (see below). "John C. Frémont's 'Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains.and to Oregon and California' can only be described as one of the monumental works of Western exploration. Although preceded by mountain men and immigrants, Frémont opened the West to an entire nation. By accurately describing this vast territory from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, his government report became the vade mecum of Manifest Destiny. Its words, maps, and pictures paved the way for future waves of overlanders culminating in the flood tide of the Gold Rush. Historians from Hubert Howe Bancroft to William H. Goetzmann bestowed upon the "Pathfinder" the highest praise for his accomplishments as a scientific explorer. The celebrated savant, Alexander von Humboldt, congratulated Frémont as a geographer and explorer and Brigham Young, the great Mormon prophet, read with keen interest his description of the Salt Lake Valley and its potential as a new Zion. Frémont, as he readily acknowledged, benefited from a superb supporting cast beginning with his wife and amanuensis, Jesse Benton Frémont; his powerful father-in-law, Senator Thomas Hart Benton; and his courageous and knowledgeable scouts and scientists including Kit Carson, Thomas Fitzpatrick, Alexis Godey, and Charles Preuss. His reports and those of his later expeditions made him a national hero and a charismatic symbol of American expansionism." (Gary Kurutz in Volkmann, Zamorano 80 catalogue). MAPS: 1. [Untitled emigrant route in Bear River Valley]. Sheet size: 49 x 22.5 cm. 2. Beer Springs [lower right] Lith by E Weber & Co. Sheet size: 22.5 x 14.5 cm. 3. The Great Salt-Lake. Sheet size 22.5 x 14.5 cm. 4. [Untitled map of the crossing of the Sierra Nevada by the South Fork of the American River] [lower center] Lith. by E. Weber & Co. Baltimore, Md. Sheet size: 22.5 x 64 cm. 5. Map of an Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842 and to Oregon & North California in the Years 1843-44 by Brevet Capt. J. C. Frémont of the Corps of Topographical Engineers under the Orders of Col. J. J. Abert, Chief of the Topographical Bureau. Lith. by E. Weber & Co., Baltimore, Md. [profile at top] Profile of the Route from the Mouth of the Kansas to Pacific by Capt. J. C. Fremont in 1843. Neat line to neat line: 78 x 129 cm (30" x 50"). Water courses and lakes highlighted in blue. Rumsey 1833 (House issue): "The large map of the west is one of the most interesting and beautiful government maps of the 1840s. It filled in many of the gaps in cartographic knowledge of the west. Charles Preuss was the cartographer." Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West, no. 497: "[Frémont's report and gigantic map] changed the entire picture of the West [and] represented as important a step forward from the earlier western maps of the period as did those of Pike, Long, and Lewis and Clark in their day. [Frémont's map] represented trustworthy direct observation, a new, welcome, and long overdue development in the myth-encrusted cartography of the West. To Frémont and his magnificent map of his Second Expedition all praise. An altogether memorable document in the cartographic history of the West, and for it alone Frémont would deserve to be remembered in history. This map marked not only the end but the beginning of an era." (See also Wheat, Maps of the California Gold Region 21). Alliott, p. 83. Cohen, Mapping the West, pp. 130-133. Cowan I, pp. 91, 269. Cowan II, pp. 223. Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp. 89-90. Field 565. Graff 1436. Grolier American Hundred 49. Hill I, pp. 112-113. Hill II:640. Holliday 396. Howell, California 50:88. Howes F370. Huntington Library, Zamorano 80.Exhibition of Famous and Notorious California Classics 39. Mintz, The Trail 165. Plains & Rockies IV:115:1. Sabin 25845. Schwartz & Ehrenberg, The Mapping of America, pp. 262, 271-78. Streeter Sale 3131: "Though the [large folding] map is unsigned, Lt. G. K. Warren in his Memoir, p. (45), says 'it was drawn by Charles Preuss, whose skill in sketching topography in the field and representing it on the map has probably never been surpassed.' Though the Oregon Trail and the Spanish Trail had been regularly used for a few years there were no dependable maps. For other parts of Frémont's route, much of the recording of his map was new, including the whole extent of the Sierra Nevada Range, the California rivers from the American River south, and the three Colorado rivers.-TWS." Tweney, The Washington 89 #22. Walgren, The Scallawagiana Hundred: A Selection of the Hundred Most Important Books about the Mormons and Utah 29. Zamorano 80 #39. PROVENANCE: Contemporary ownership inscription of George [Arthur?] Donald dated 1846 (lightly crossed out) -- bookplate and signature of Edward E. Bourne inside the front cover -- subsequently in Dorothy Sloan's private colle

Seller: Michael Laird Rare Books LLC, Lockhart, TX, U.S.A.

John Charles Fremont.. Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-'44, by Brevet Capt. J. C. Fremont, of the Topographical Engineers, Under the Orders of Col. J. J. Abert, Chief of the Topographical Bureau. Printed by Order of the Senate of the United States. Copy of Julius L(ucius) Brenchley, explorer & author with M. Jules Remy of A Journey to Great Salt Lake City, 2 vols, 8vo, 1861, here signed on the front free endpaper & with his engraved bookplate on the front pastedown endpaper.. Washington: Gales & Seaton, Printers, 1845. 28th Congress, 2nd Session, Senate Exec. Doc. 174. Serial 461., 1845.

Price: US$1500.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition, Senate issue, 8vo (9 1/4" x 5 3/4"), pp. (1-3), 4-693, 22 lithograph plates, 4 maps (2 folding), without the large folding Pruess map & no rear map pocket. Original gilt lettered & blind decorated brown cloth. Sabin 25845, Howes F 370, Jenkins Full Howes 925, Wagner-Camp 115:2, Graff 1436, Zamorano 80, #39. Very good bright cop y with some wear to joints & extremities, corners bumped & showing. Without the large folding map but clearly never had a rear map pocket. Sheets with natural age toning & some offset & minor occasional stains, clean, unmarked & complete. H9551 All Items Are Sent Insured. Insurance charges are included in the Shipping & Handling Charges. International buyers please be aware that we are not responsible for and do not include or estimate customs duties, fees or taxes in any way in our listings. We ship all orders within 5 days of cleared payment. We do not create and are not responsible for shipping times or delays associated with customs and international shipping. All Items Are Sent Insured. Insurance charges are included in the Shipping & Handling Charges.

Seller: J & J House Booksellers, ABAA, Kennett Square, PA, U.S.A.

FRÉMONT, John Charles (1813-1890).. Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Year 1843-‘44.. Washington: Gales and Seaton, printers, 1845., 1845.

Price: US$1750.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 8vo (235 x 146 mm, 9-1/4 x 5-3/4 inches): 693 pages, 2 engraved folding maps, 2 engraved maps, 22 engraved plates in text (spotting, dampstained); large folding map in rear pocket (with short tears to folds). Bound in original blind-stamped brown cloth (some wear, joints splitting). FIRST EDITION, SENATE ISSUE CONTAINING THE SCIENTIFIC DATA, OF "ONE OF THE MONUMENTAL WORKS OF WESTERN EXPLORATION" (Kurutz). Contains the astronomical and meteorological observations omitted from the House issue and subsequent editions. Fremont's report, written with the help of his wife Jessie Benton, and map "changed the entire picture of the West [and] represented as important a step forward from the earlier western maps of the period as did those of Pike, Long, and Lewis and Clark in their day. [Fremont's map] represented trustworthy direct observation, a new, welcome, and long overdue development in the myth-encrusted cartography of the West. To Fremont and his magnificent map of his Second Expedition all praise. An altogether memorable document in the cartographic history of the West, and for it alone Fremont would deserve to be remembered in history. This map marked not only the end but the beginning of an era" (Wheat). In 1842 Fremont was commissioned to head "a 25-man, four-month expedition to survey and map the region of the emerging Oregon Trail through South Pass on the Continental Divide. A Report of an Exploration . . . between the Missouri River and the Rocky Mountains . . . (1843), the lively, factually detailed government report that Frémont and his wife produced after the journey caught the public imagination: images of Frémont's guide, the then little-known Christopher "Kit" Carson, riding bareback across the prairie, and Frémont himself, raising a flag on a Rocky Mountain peak, entered the national mythology. "In 1843 Frémont set out on a far more ambitious journey to the Oregon region. Disregarding government orders to return by the same route, he went south to Nevada and, in a dangerous midwinter journey, over the snow-covered Sierra Nevada into Mexican-held California. By the time the expedition returned east across the southern rim of what Frémont defined as the Great Basin, they had completed a bold fourteen-month circuit of the West, traveling 6,475 miles by their own calculations. The Frémonts' account of the journey, A Report of the Exploring Expedition to Oregon and California . . . (1845), enthralled the nation. Skillfully combining adventure, scientific data, and detailed practical information for emigrants, supplemented by a valuable map prepared by expedition cartographer Charles Preuss, it was "monumental in its breadth--a classic of exploring literature" (William H. Goetzmann, Exploration and Empire [1966], p. 248). Powerful propaganda, it stirred Americans to head west, guided, as pioneer Sarah Royce stated, "only by the light of Frémont's Travels" (Pamela Herr for ANB online). REFERENCES: Cohen, Mapping the West, pp. 130-133; Field 565; Graff 1436; Howes F-370; Sabin 25845; Streeter sale VI:3131; Wagner-Camp-Becker 115.

Seller: Arader Galleries - AraderNYC, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Fremont, Brevet Captain John C.. Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-'44. Gales and Seaton, Washington, 1845.

Price: US$1750.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Three-quarter leather over marbled paper; decorative pastedowns and endpapers. Collated and complete except for No. 17, Plate IV depicting fossil shells. Includes the large folded map, housed in a pocket on rear pastedown. Boards have moderate wear and scratching to spine and light wear to edges; previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown and name written in ink on title page and on verso of large folded map; folded map has light foxing and a few closed tears at folds; "iltyd nicholl" rubber stamp on title page; text block has light to moderate foxing and toning. This report contains Fremont's first and second expeditions. Howes F-370. Wagner-Camp 115:1. ; B&W Plates and Maps ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 693 pp

Seller: Back of Beyond Books, Moab, UT, U.S.A.

FREMONT, John Charles (1813-1890).. Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-'44. 28th Congress, 2d Session, [174].. Washington: Gales and Seaton, 1845., 1845.

Price: US$1800.00 + shipping

Description: 8vo., (9 ¼ x 6 inches). (A bit spotted throughout). Large folding lithographed "Map of an Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842 and to Oregon & North California in the years 1843-1844" by Charles Preuss, hand-colored in outline, in rear pocket (evenly browned, one or two short tears at folds); 2 folding lithographed maps; 2 full-page lithographed maps; 22 lithographed plates (a bit spotted). Original publisher's brown cloth, decorated in blind to both covers, the smooth spine in five blind-ruled compartments, gilt-lettered in one and the rest stamped in blind (rebacked, preserving most of the original spine). Provenance: Contemporary manuscript ownership inscription of William L. C. Pennington, a private in the Union Army during the Civil War, to rear pastedown; bookplate of Willard S. Morse (1856-1935) to front pastedown. First edition. Senate issue, with the astronomical and meteorological observations omitted from the House issue and subsequent editions. Fremont's report, written with the help of his wife Jessie Benton, and map "changed the entire picture of the West [and] represented as important a step forward from the earlier western maps of the period as did those of Pike, Long, and Lewis and Clark in their day. [Fremont's map] represented trustworthy direct observation, a new, welcome, and long overdue development in the myth-encrusted cartography of the West. To Fremont and his magnificent map of his Second Expedition all praise. An altogether memorable document in the cartographic history of the West, and for it alone Fremont would deserve to be remembered in history. This map marked not only the end but the beginning of an era" (Wheat). In 1842 Fremont was commissioned to head "a 25-man, four-month expedition to survey and map the region of the emerging Oregon Trail through South Pass on the Continental Divide. A Report of an Exploration . . . between the Missouri River and the Rocky Mountains . . . (1843), the lively, factually detailed government report that Frémont and his wife produced after the journey caught the public imagination: images of Frémont's guide, the then little-known Christopher 'Kit' Carson, riding bareback across the prairie, and Frémont himself, raising a flag on a Rocky Mountain peak, entered the national mythology. "In 1843 Frémont set out on a far more ambitious journey to the Oregon region. Disregarding government orders to return by the same route, he went south to Nevada and, in a dangerous midwinter journey, over the snow-covered Sierra Nevada into Mexican-held California. By the time the expedition returned east across the southern rim of what Frémont defined as the Great Basin, they had completed a bold fourteen-month circuit of the West, traveling 6,475 miles by their own calculations. The Frémonts' account of the journey, A Report of the Exploring Expedition to Oregon and California . . . (1845), enthralled the nation. Skillfully combining adventure, scientific data, and detailed practical information for emigrants, supplemented by a valuable map prepared by expedition cartographer Charles Preuss, it was "monumental in its breadth - a classic of exploring literature" (William H. Goetzmann, Exploration and Empire [1966], p. 248). Powerful propaganda, it stirred Americans to head west, guided, as pioneer Sarah Royce stated, "only by the light of Frémont's Travels" (Pamela Herr for ANB online). Cohen Mapping the West pp.130-133; Field 565; Graff 1436; Howes F-370; Sabin 25845; Streeter sale VI:3131; Wagner-Camp-Becker 115.

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Fremont, John C. Report of The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-'44, Printed by Order of the Senate of the United States, with Original Map. Senate of the United States, 1845.

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Description: Report of The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-'44. By Brevet Captain J. C. Fremont, of the Topographical Engineers. Under the Orders of Col. J. J. Abert, Chief of the Topographical Bureau. Printed by Order of the Senate of the United States, Washington: Gales and Seaton, Printers. 1845 Original report in custom slipcase with full original large map in custom case and smaller aged facsimile of same map in back pocket. Please review photos for complete set. Condition: Presenting the original 1845 Senate report entitled "Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-1844." The book is complete with its bound-in maps. It was professionally re-backed with original spine piece re-applied as shown. The very large map has been encased in its own custom case, then combined with the book in a custom slip case. Within the pocket of the book is a smaller, aged facsimile of the original map. Please review all the photos and ask questions if you need more information about this special presentation of the original Senate report!

Seller: SRG Antiquarian, Lincoln, NE, U.S.A.

Fremont, John C.. REPORT OF THE EXPLORING EXPEDITION TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS IN THE YEAR 1842, AND TO OREGON AND NORTH CALIFORNIA IN THE YEARS 1843-44. Gale and Seaton Printers, Washington, 1845.

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Description: 8vo. 693 pp. Twenty-two plates, five maps, three folding, the largest in rear pocket. Howes F-370. Wagner-Camp 115:1. Wheat Gold Regions 3266. Wheat Transmississippi 497. Zamorano 80, 39. Cowan, p. 223. Graff 1437. Grolier Club One Hundred American Books 49. Mintz 165. Rittenhouse 229. Streeter sale 3131: "Though the map accompanying the report is unsigned, Lt. G.K. Warren in his Memoir, p. (45), says 'it was drawn by Charles Preuss, whose skill in sketching topography in the field and representing it on the map has probably never been surpassed.'" This, the Senate printing, is considered the best edition of this work, containing one of the most historically important maps of the Western exploration. Original brown blindstamped cloth, rebacked, with original spine laid down. Usual foxing, a few tears to large map in pocket.

Seller: Bartleby's Books, ABAA, Chevy Chase, MD, U.S.A.

Captain J. [John] C. {Charles] Fremont. Report Of The Exploring Expedition To The Rocky Mountains In The Year 1842 An To Oregon And North California In The Years 1843-'44. Senate Of The United States and printed by Gales and Seaton,, Washington, DC:, 1845.

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Description: Very near fine in its original black, ribbed cloth covered boards with bold gilt text on the spine and blind embossing on the front and rear boards. A small quarto of 9 by 5 3/4 inches with a prior owner's book plate on the first free end page and very light rubbing to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine and with foxing to the first 20 pages of the text and the final 14 pages of the text. Without a dust jacket and probably as issued. 693 pages of text (with 17 unopened leaves). This volume includes the first report: An Exploration Of The Country Lying Between The Missouri River And The Rocky Mountains In The Line Of The Kansas And Great PLatte Rivers.(comprising pages 9 to 101). Illustrated with 2 one-page maps, 22 plates, and 3 fold-out maps including the large map at the rear of the book with the extraction ribbon still in place. This title is considered by Howes in his bibliography USIana, to be "quite scarce". Truly, one of the most important books of Western Americana as it provided a trail map for the great migration of miners of 1849 and settlers to follow. A splendid copy and one bearing the book plate of Louis E. Goodman, the Chief of the Federal Bench of San Francisco. (Howes, F-370; Graff, 1436; Sabin, 25845; Cowan, p223; Streeter, 3131)

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FREMONT, John Charles. Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-44.Printed by order of the Senate of the United States.. Gales and Seaton, Printers, Washington, 1845.

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Description: in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-44. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. Washington: Gales and Seaton, Printers, 1845. First edition, Senate issue with all the scientific data. Octavo (9 x 5 3/4 inches; 228 x144 mm). 693, [1, blank] pp. Complete. With twenty-two plates and five maps, two of which are small folding and the very large folding map in the rear pocket. Publisher's vertically-ribbed dark brown cloth. Covers with blind-stamped borders and floral loops. Spine lettered in gilt. Some foxing and toning throughout. Cloth lightly rubbed and bumped. Binding a bit skewed, causing a crease in the spine. Pocket map in very good condition with just a few small fold-line splits. Still a very good copy of this important narrative in the original binding and with the large map in the rear pocket. One of the most important publications on the history of the exploration of the American West. 'On January 18, 1844, Fremont determined to cross the Sierra instead of turning eastward. Crossing over what is now known as Carson's Pass, he reached the San Joaquin Valley and turned north to Sutter's Fort. It was a tattered and exhausted outfit that arrived there on March 6th, 1844. Here he learned much about the conditions in California.' Later he crossed the Tehachapi Pass into the Mojave Desert. The large map is of particular importance as it charts hitherto unknown areas. Graff 1436. Howes F-370. Sabin 25845. Streeter 3131. Wagner-Camp 115:1. Zamorano Eighty #39. HBS 68687. $2,250.

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FREMONT, John Charles (1813-1890).. Report of the Exploring Expedition in the Year 1842 and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1834-1844.. Washington: Gales and Seaton, for the Senate of the United States, 1845., 1845.

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Description: 8vo., (8 6/8 x 5 4/8 inches). One large lithographic folding map ". of an Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842 and to Oregon & North California in the years 1843-1844" by Charles Preuss with waterways hand-colored in blue tucked into pocket at end (one or two very small holes at folds, lightly browned, but FINE), four lithographic maps, including two folding, and 22 plates (bound with a duplicate of "Devil's Gate", "Hot Spring's Gate" loosely inserted and supplied from a copy of the "House." issue, some occasionally heavy spotting and browning). Original brown cloth (a bit rubbed). "ONE OF THE MONUMENTAL WORKS OF WESTERN EXPLORATION" (Kurutz) First edition, Senate issue, and a NEAR FINE COPY with the astronomical and meteorological observations omitted from the House issue and subsequent editions. Fremont's report, written with the help of his wife Jessie Benton, and map "changed the entire picture of the West [and] represented as important a step forward from the earlier western maps of the period as did those of Pike, Long, and Lewis and Clark in their day. [Fremont's map] represented trustworthy direct observation, a new, welcome, and long overdue development in the myth-encrusted cartography of the West. To Fremont and his magnificent map of his Second Expedition all praise. An altogether memorable document in the cartographic history of the West, and for it alone Fremont would deserve to be remembered in history. This map marked not only the end but the beginning of an era" (Wheat). In 1842 Fremont was commissioned to head "a 25-man, four-month expedition to survey and map the region of the emerging Oregon Trail through South Pass on the Continental Divide. A Report of an Exploration . . . between the Missouri River and the Rocky Mountains . . . (1843), the lively, factually detailed government report that Frémont and his wife produced after the journey caught the public imagination: images of Frémont's guide, the then little-known Christopher "Kit" Carson, riding bareback across the prairie, and Frémont himself, raising a flag on a Rocky Mountain peak, entered the national mythology. "In 1843 Frémont set out on a far more ambitious journey to the Oregon region. Disregarding government orders to return by the same route, he went south to Nevada and, in a dangerous midwinter journey, over the snow-covered Sierra Nevada into Mexican-held California. By the time the expedition returned east across the southern rim of what Frémont defined as the Great Basin, they had completed a bold fourteen-month circuit of the West, traveling 6,475 miles by their own calculations. The Frémonts' account of the journey, A Report of the Exploring Expedition to Oregon and California . . . (1845), enthralled the nation. Skillfully combining adventure, scientific data, and detailed practical information for emigrants, supplemented by a valuable map prepared by expedition cartographer Charles Preuss, it was "monumental in its breadth--a classic of exploring literature" (William H. Goetzmann, Exploration and Empire [1966], p. 248). Powerful propaganda, it stirred Americans to head west, guided, as pioneer Sarah Royce stated, "only by the light of Frémont's Travels" (Pamela Herr for ANB online). Cohen Mapping the West pp.130-133; Field 565; Graff 1436; Howes F-370; Sabin 25845; Streeter sale VI:3131; Wagner-Camp-Becker 115.

Seller: Arader Galleries - AraderNYC, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Fremont, John Charles. Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-'44. Printed by Order of the Senate, by Gales and Seaton, Washington, D.C., 1845.

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Description: First Edition. 693pp. 22 engraved plates and 5 maps (including large folding map in pocket). 8vo. The Senate issue of the Fremont report, certainly one of the most important single pieces of Western Americana. In various editions this report was more widely read than any other account of the West before the Gold Rush, and the text and map had a profound effect on the routes frequented during the great period of emigration. "The great folding map is an altogether memorable document in the cartographic history of the West." [Trans-Mississipi West II,497]Christopher "Kit" Carson was one of the guides for Fremont along with many other famous scouts of the day, and Fremont's book was instrumental in paving the way for expansion West. A classic of American exploration, scarce in such fine condition and complete with the large folding map in the rear pocket. Howes F 370; Wagner-Camp 115; Wheat Transmississippi 497; Cowan pp. 223-24; Sabin 25845; Graff 1437; Hasse, p. 31; Hill p. 112; Zamorano Eighty, #39; Grolier Club, One Hundred American Books, #49; Reese, Best of the West 86. Provenance: Samuel Tuck (early signature on ffep); William H. Claflin, Jr. (bookplate) Publisher's cloth. Minor wear along front joint. Small void to corner of blank front endpaper. A very good copy, in nicer condition than usually encountered 693pp. 22 engraved plates and 5 maps (including large folding map in pocket). 8vo

Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.

FRÉMONT, JOHN CHARLES. Report of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842, and to Oregon and north California in the years 1843-'44. By Brevet Captain J. C. Frémont, of the Topographical Engineers, under the orders of Col. J. J. Abert, Chief of the Topographical Bureau. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. Gales and Seaton, Washington, 1845.

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Description: 22.8 x14 cm (octavo), pp. [1-3] 4-6 [7-9] 10-583 [584: blank] [585] 586-693 [694: blank], 22 inserted plates, 5 maps (3 folded), one in pocket at rear, the others inserted in text, original black cloth decorated in blind on sides and spine, title in gold on spine. First edition. The Senate issue, 28th Congress, 2d Session, Senate Executive Document 174, Serial 461. Wagner, Camp and Becker (1982) 115:1. Howes F370. Sabin 25845. Streeter 3131. Cloth worn at spine ends and corner tips, scattered tanning and foxing to text paper as is usually the case, a couple of plates are foxed, but most are remarkably clean, several preliminary leaves have light water stains, the last seven leaves have heavier water stains, a good copy. The large folded map in the rear pocket is in nice condition. In a custom cloth clamshell box with leather label. (#153517)

Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.

FREMONT, John Charles (1813-1890).. Report of the Exploring Expedition in the Year 1842 and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1834-1844.. Washington: Gales and Seaton, for the Senate of the United States, 1845., 1845.

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Description: 8vo., (8 6/8 x 5 4/8 inches). One large lithographic folding map ". of an Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842 and to Oregon & North California in the years 1843-1844" by Charles Preuss with waterways hand-colored in blue loosely inserted at end (pocket for map on inside back cover torn, small holes at folds, one or two short tears with minor loss, browned and creased), four lithographic maps, including two folding, and 21 of 22 plates (without "Outlet of Subterranean River", some occasionally heavy spotting and browning). Original brown cloth (rebacked preserving the original spine, rubbed, shaken). Modern cloth clamshell box. Provenance: Contemporary ownership inscription of Willis Johnson of Waterbury Connecticut, dated December 1848, on the front free endpaper. "ONE OF THE MONUMENTAL WORKS OF WESTERN EXPLORATION" (Kurutz) First edition, Senate issue, with the astronomical and meteorological observations omitted from the House issue and subsequent editions. Fremont's report, written with the help of his wife Jessie Benton, and map "changed the entire picture of the West [and] represented as important a step forward from the earlier western maps of the period as did those of Pike, Long, and Lewis and Clark in their day. [Fremont's map] represented trustworthy direct observation, a new, welcome, and long overdue development in the myth-encrusted cartography of the West. To Fremont and his magnificent map of his Second Expedition all praise. An altogether memorable document in the cartographic history of the West, and for it alone Fremont would deserve to be remembered in history. This map marked not only the end but the beginning of an era" (Wheat). In 1842 Fremont was commissioned to head "a 25-man, four-month expedition to survey and map the region of the emerging Oregon Trail through South Pass on the Continental Divide. A Report of an Exploration . . . between the Missouri River and the Rocky Mountains . . . (1843), the lively, factually detailed government report that Frémont and his wife produced after the journey caught the public imagination: images of Frémont's guide, the then little-known Christopher "Kit" Carson, riding bareback across the prairie, and Frémont himself, raising a flag on a Rocky Mountain peak, entered the national mythology. "In 1843 Frémont set out on a far more ambitious journey to the Oregon region. Disregarding government orders to return by the same route, he went south to Nevada and, in a dangerous midwinter journey, over the snow-covered Sierra Nevada into Mexican-held California. By the time the expedition returned east across the southern rim of what Frémont defined as the Great Basin, they had completed a bold fourteen-month circuit of the West, traveling 6,475 miles by their own calculations. The Frémonts' account of the journey, A Report of the Exploring Expedition to Oregon and California . . . (1845), enthralled the nation. Skillfully combining adventure, scientific data, and detailed practical information for emigrants, supplemented by a valuable map prepared by expedition cartographer Charles Preuss, it was "monumental in its breadth--a classic of exploring literature" (William H. Goetzmann, Exploration and Empire [1966], p. 248). Powerful propaganda, it stirred Americans to head west, guided, as pioneer Sarah Royce stated, "only by the light of Frémont's Travels" (Pamela Herr for ANB online). Cohen Mapping the West pp.130-133; Field 565; Graff 1436; Howes F-370; Sabin 25845; Streeter sale VI:3131; Wagner-Camp-Becker 115.

Seller: Arader Galleries - AraderNYC, New York, NY, U.S.A.

FREMONT, J[ohn] C[harles]. Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year. , 1845.

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Description: FREMONT, J[ohn] C[harles]. Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-'44. Washington: Gales and Seaton, Printers, 1845. 1st ed. 693 pp. 22 plates, and 5 maps including large folding map. Orig. cloth rebacked in facsimile. Corners slightly worn, else a very good copy. HOWES F-370. Wheat Transmississippi 497. Rittenhouse 229. Wheat Gold Regions 3266. Tweney 89, 22. Hill, p.112. Zamorano 80,39. Mintz 165. Cowan, p.223. Sabin 25845. Wagner-Camp 115:1. Graff 1437. Taxonomic Literature 1852. Coates, The Plant Hunters, p.322. The Senate issue of the Fremont report, certainly one of the most important single pieces of Western Americana. In various editions, this report was more widely read than any other account of the West before the gold rush, and the text and map had a profound effect on the routes frequented during the great period of emigration. The maps include the huge folding "Map of.Oregon & North California in the Years 1843-44," with many lakes and rivers traced in color. Fremont also made substantive contributions as a naturalist, mainly through the work of John Torrey, who accompanied the expedition.

Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.

FREMONT, John Charles (1813-1890).. Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842 and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-44.. Washington: Gales and Seaton, for the Senate of the United States, 1845., 1845.

Price: US$3600.00 + shipping

Description: 8vo., (8 6/8 x 5 4/8 inches). One large lithographic folding map ". of an Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842 and to Oregon & North California in the years 1843-1844" by Charles Preuss with waterways hand-colored in blue loosely inserted at end (pocket for map on inside back cover torn one or two small holes at folds, lightly browned, but NEAR FINE), four lithographic maps, including two folding, and 22 plates (some occasionally heavy spotting and browning). Original brown cloth (extremities a bit scuffed). Provenance: Contemporary presentation inscription on the front free endpaper to: "Fred D. Sewall from his friend & brother XY George A. Fairfield". "ONE OF THE MONUMENTAL WORKS OF WESTERN EXPLORATION" (Kurutz) First edition, Senate issue, with the astronomical and meteorological observations omitted from the House issue and subsequent editions. Fremont's report, written with the help of his wife Jessie Benton, and map "changed the entire picture of the West [and] represented as important a step forward from the earlier western maps of the period as did those of Pike, Long, and Lewis and Clark in their day. [Fremont's map] represented trustworthy direct observation, a new, welcome, and long overdue development in the myth-encrusted cartography of the West. To Fremont and his magnificent map of his Second Expedition all praise. An altogether memorable document in the cartographic history of the West, and for it alone Fremont would deserve to be remembered in history. This map marked not only the end but the beginning of an era" (Wheat). In 1842 Fremont was commissioned to head "a 25-man, four-month expedition to survey and map the region of the emerging Oregon Trail through South Pass on the Continental Divide. A Report of an Exploration . . . between the Missouri River and the Rocky Mountains . . . (1843), the lively, factually detailed government report that Frémont and his wife produced after the journey caught the public imagination: images of Frémont's guide, the then little-known Christopher "Kit" Carson, riding bareback across the prairie, and Frémont himself, raising a flag on a Rocky Mountain peak, entered the national mythology. "In 1843 Frémont set out on a far more ambitious journey to the Oregon region. Disregarding government orders to return by the same route, he went south to Nevada and, in a dangerous midwinter journey, over the snow-covered Sierra Nevada into Mexican-held California. By the time the expedition returned east across the southern rim of what Frémont defined as the Great Basin, they had completed a bold fourteen-month circuit of the West, traveling 6,475 miles by their own calculations. The Frémonts' account of the journey, A Report of the Exploring Expedition to Oregon and California . . . (1845), enthralled the nation. Skillfully combining adventure, scientific data, and detailed practical information for emigrants, supplemented by a valuable map prepared by expedition cartographer Charles Preuss, it was "monumental in its breadth--a classic of exploring literature" (William H. Goetzmann, Exploration and Empire [1966], p. 248). Powerful propaganda, it stirred Americans to head west, guided, as pioneer Sarah Royce stated, "only by the light of Frémont's Travels" (Pamela Herr for ANB online). Cohen Mapping the West pp.130-133; Field 565; Graff 1436; Howes F-370; Sabin 25845; Streeter sale VI:3131; Wagner-Camp-Becker 115.

Seller: Arader Galleries - AraderNYC, New York, NY, U.S.A.

FREMONT, JOHN C.. REPORT OF THE EXPLORING EXPEDITION TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS IN THE YEAR 1842, AND TO OREGON AND NORTH CALIFORNIA IN THE YEARS 1843-44.. Gales and Seaton, 1845., Washington, D.C., 1845.

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Description: 28th Congress, 2nd Session, Senate Exec. Doc. 174. Serial 461. First Edition, Senate Issue. Original blind-stamped, brown cloth, with title in gilt on spine, 693pp. Illus. with 22 lithographed plates, 5 maps, 3 folding with large folding map in pocket at rear. An outstanding report and Fremont's greatest work. It records Fremont's first two expeditions. "The first expedition consisted of 25 men, with Kit Carson as a guide. They went a little beyond South Pass. The second expedition, consisting of about 40 men, was guided by Thomas Fitzpatrick (joined by Kit Carson en route) and reached the Columbia River and Fort Vancouver. The expedition then looped back to California by a spectacular winter crossing of the Sierra Nevada and returned to St. Louis via the San Joaquin Valley, Tehachapi Pass, and the Great Salt Lake."--The Pacific Northwest. The great Fremont (Preuss) unusually nice condition with a few minor splits at folds, else fine. Of this map Carl Wheat said, "The great folding map is an altogether memorable document in the cartographic history of the west, and for it alone Fremont would deserve to be remembered in history." The report is comprised of a well-written and interesting narrative of each expedition, combined with much detailed scientific data, skillfully-produced maps, and attractive lithographic plates by E. Weber & Co.-Baltimore. This report, as well as the expeditions themselves, received much promotion and exposure from Fremont's father-in-law, Sen. Thomas Hart Benton. The report guided Oregon emigrants and California gold seekers, and firmly established Fremont's reputation. Occasional minor foxing, else near fine! An exceptionally nice, clean, tight copy of this important work, which is usually encountered rebound, heavily foxed & worn, and/or without map. The important large folding map shows minor wear, an old water stain to lower corner of some pages, lightly foxed, else a very good copy.

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

FRÉMONT, John Charles (1813-1890), FRÉMONT, Jessie Benson (1824-1902). Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and Northern California in the years 1843-'44. Printed by Order of the Senate of the United States. Gales and Seaton; Lithographs printed by E. Weber and Co. in Baltimore, Washington, D.C., 1845.

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Description: (9 x 5.5 inches). Complete first edition. [1]-693 [1]. 694 pp. 22 lithograph plates, 5 lithograph maps, including 2 tinted blue and 3 folding, 1 of which is outsize and in rear pocket. Title, Notice to the Reader, A Report on the Exploration of the Country, Catalogue of Plants, A Report of the Exploring Expedition, Appendices A-B, Astronomical Observations, Meterological Observations. Publisher's original brown ribbed and ribbon-embossed cloth with foliate motif, expertly rebacked preserving original spine, with gold lettered title on spine [FREMONT'S | FIRST & SECOND | EXPEDITIONS | 1842-3-4.]. Quarter black morocco folding clamshell case with marbled boards Provenance: American Historian Francis Parkman (1823-1893), whose ink manuscript signature is seen twice, on the front free endpaper as "Francis Parkman, Jr." and on the title page as "Francis Parkman 1847." This copy was part of Parkman's January 7th, 1894, bequest to the Harvard University Library, with bookplate on front pastedown, from which it was de-accessioned. Parkman attended and taught at Harvard. The Francis Parkman copy of the Senate issue of the famed Frémont report, inscribed by Parkman, the author of The Oregon Trail, with his 1847 ownership signature on the title page and front free endpaper. One of the most significant works of Western Americana, with the large Preuss map of Oregon and Northern California. John C. Frémont, called "The Pathfinder to the West," was a prominent American explorer and politician, who was one of the first two Senators to represent California, and was the Republican Party's first nominee for president in 1856. This official report of Frémont's 1843-44 expedition to the Rocky Mountains established the reputations of Frémont, the celebrated frontiersman Kit Carson, and the German topographical cartographer Charles Preuss. Frémont and his colleagues covered some ten thousand miles from the Missouri frontier to the shores of the Pacific, exploring portions of modern-day Wyoming, which is now home to Fremont County and Fremont Peak. Carson served as the guide to the first and last of Frémont's three expeditions, but it was his involvement in the first which brought the fur trapper fame. Frémont's Report is one of the most important single pieces of Western Americana. In its various editions, this book was more widely read than any other account of the American West before the Gold Rush, and the text and maps had a profound effect on the routes frequented during the great period of Western emigration. This copy includes the outsize tinted folding map of "Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-44" by Preuss, which on its own proved to be a major factor in the opening up of the West; its importance cannot be overstated. Wheat writes that "the map depicting [Frémont's exploration] radically and permanently altered western cartography. It represented trustworthy direct observation, a new, welcome, and long overdue development in the myth-encrusted cartography of the West. This is an altogether memorable document in the cartographic history of the West, and for it alone Frémont would deserve to be remembered in history." Another figure integral to the history of the American West, Francis Parkman, signed and dated the present copy just after he returned from his travels West that he immortalized in the American classic The Oregon Trail, which he serialized from 1847 to 1849 in Knickerbocker Magazine. The Oregon Trail would eventually lend its name to the iconic educational computer game which taught generations of American students about the travails of this period. Parkman's vivid travelogue described significant portions of Wyoming and was almost certainly greatly influenced by Frémont's Report. "Parkman undertook a trip into the Wyoming Territory from March to October 1846. In this foolhardy but exhilarating adventure, he explored along the California and Oregon Trail, traveling in the process from St. Louis to the environs of Fort Laramie, where he camped and hunted with the Sioux and studied frontier and Native-American tribal life." (ANB) This premier Western Americana association copy marks an important intellectual and historical connection between two explorers who shaped the history of the expanding United States in the nineteenth century. ANB 17, p.51. Coats, The Plant Hunters, p.322. Cohen, Mapping the West, pp.130-133. Cowan, p.223. Field 565. Graff 1436-7. Grolier, One Hundred American Books, 49. Hasse, p.31. Hill 640. Howes F370. Mintz 165. Paher 640. Reese, Best of the West 86. Rittenhouse 229. Rosenbach 32:146. Sabin 25845. Soliday 1:861. Streeter Sale 6:3131. Taxonomic Literature 1852. Tweney 89, 22. Wagner-Camp-Becker 115:1-2. Wheat, Gold Regions 3266. Wheat, Transmississippi 497. Zamorano 80, 39.

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