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(WEST.) Frémont, John Charles.
Geographical Memoir upon Upper
California, in Illustration of his Map of Oregon and California.
Folding map with
2-inch repaired tear. 8vo, modern
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morocco, minor wear; browning, minor dampstaining
on top edge; small bookplate on front pastedown. 30th Congress, 1st Session, Senate Doc.
148.
Washington, 1848
[3,000/4,000]
FIRST EDITION
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with the scarce and important lithographed map drawn by Charles Preuss, 27
x 35
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inches, after notes from Frémont’s third expedition. Includes the first astronomical
observations at what became Salt Lake City, and the first notation of the “Mormon settlements”
and “Mormon forts” there. Also features the first use of “Golden Gate” on any map of San
Francisco, and very early notations of “El Dorado or Gold Region.” “The map is a wonder-
fully graphic report on where the expedition of 1845-46 went, and what it saw. . . . The first
cartographical record of the new Mormon Zion in the mountains”—Wheat, Transmississippi
West 559 and pages III:56-62. Graff 1429; Howes F366; Sabin 25837; Wagner-Camp
150:1.
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