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Cerographic [i.e. wax engraved] map. 35x27.8 cm (14x11").

Significant pre-gold rush map of California and the southwest from the Rio Grande to the Pacific, and the tip of Baja to the Oregon border, about 42º north, with Santa Fe, Sonora (in present Mexico), San Francisco, Pueblo de Los Angeles, and many other towns and cities in California, among them "Suter's Colony." The map first appeared in Farnham's Travels in the Californias, 1844. It was then included in Morse and Breese, North American Atlas, New York, 1845, No. 34, from which this copy came.

Provenance: California Book Auction, 4/30/83

References: W-GR 20. W-TW 498. P-LG 1228. Tyner, "Images of the Southwest"  in Nineteenth-Century American Atlases" in The Mapping of the American Southwest, pp 57-77 ( Rep ).