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1275 pp. 8 lithographed maps (6 folding); 7 folding tables; 13 folding illustrations (unrelated to text). (8vo) later half leather and boards.  Ex. Doc. No. 1, House of Representatives.

Important message from the president, being the first official publication of the news of the California Gold Rush and containing three maps of the gold region. In addition there are battle maps from the Mexican War. Wheat notes it "Contains Colonel R.B. Mason's celebrated report of his visit to `the newly discovered gold placer in the valley of the Sacramento,' as well as Lieutenant E.O.C. Ord's `Map of the Gold and Quicksilver District of California,' and other maps of Gold Rush interest." These are a map of the Upper Mines and the Lower Mines or Mormon Diggings, and the Upper and Lower Gold Mines on the South Fork of the American River. This copy without the large hand-colored map is of the U.S. found in some copies. Cowan p.426; Howes P446; Kurutz 105; Wheat Books 30.