Lithographed map, hand-colored. 38.2x25.5 cm (15x10"), folding into original cloth covers with embossed floral design, 11.5x7.5 cm (4½x3"). In custom half morocco slipcase & chemise.
Rare map of northern California, from Monterey to the Oregon border, with detail of the northern and southern mining districts. Warren Heckrotte comments, "This map is a reduced size version of the Tassin map, also published by Cooke and LeCount, 1851; the mapping is identical. The Streeter copy and mine are the only two known copies of this map thus rarer than the Tassin map." He also notes that the map is not in Wheat, Maps of the California Gold Region, though Wheat does record an 1850 Cooke and LeCount map of larger size, the only known copy of which is at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, the latter being the only known copy of three gold region maps published in San Francisco in 1850. Describing the Tassin map, of which the present map is a reduced copy, Wheat says "This is an important map. It shows many more mining camps than any of the 1850 maps, and is probably slightly later than '1851 - Butler (California),' since it contains certain additional information (as 'Rich Bar' on the Feather River). It is quite similar to Butler, but discloses somewhat better workmanship..." OCLC/WorldCat lists three copies, at the University of California Berkeley, the Denver Public Library, and Yale.
Provenance: Heaston, 9/87
References: Streeter 2661.