Report of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the years 1843 - '44.

FRÉMONT, J.C.

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Washington, Gales & Seaton, 1845. Contemporary calf, with black titlelabel to spine, in fine slipcase. With 4 (of 5) maps (3 folding, including the large folding map (folds repaired); missing map Beer Springs), and 22 lithographed plates. 693 pp. First edition. - 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 by Preuss, with many lakes and rivers traced in colour. 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'. - (Foxed). - A classic of American exploration. Hill 640; Cowan p.223. Howes F370; Sabin 25845; Wagner-Camp 115:1; Graff Collection 1436; Wheat, Gold Regions 3266. Wheat, Transmississippi 497. Seller Inventory # 36650

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Title: Report of the exploring expedition to the ...

Edition: 1st Edition