Engraved map, hand-colored. 73.5x91 cm (28¾x35¾"), folding into original embossed cloth folder lettered in gilt, 16x10.5 cm (6¼x4¼").
Colton's United States as published in 1850, with additional and changed place names in California from the preceding year. "Gold Region" still appears north of the American River; "El Dorado Gold Region" appears along the Feather River. California takes up all the Southwest, with the southern border in pred-Gadsden configuration, a maximum Texas, and a West yet to be configured into territories. The delicately engraved border vignettes including the Capitol (correctly spelled) Building in Washington, the Washington Monument, Mexicans Catching Wild Cattle, Willamette Falls in Oregon, Astoria in Oregon, etc. Sailing ships abound in the oceans, and there is an inset of the Atlantic Ocean and a smaller one of the Isthmus of Panama.
Further Notes from the Files of Warren Heckrotte
Provenance: Old Print Shop, 10/98
I know of the following states : 1) 1848. 2) 1849. 3) 1849, W-GR 74. 4) 1850, W-GR 145. 5) 1851, W-GR 188. 6) 1852, Rumsey. 7)1853, Sotheby's 10/31/88. 8(next in order or last?) 1859, W-TW 970. I have 2, 3, 4 and 8. LC has the 1848 state. Phil Print Shop, Cat 2/01, 10/01, has the 1848 state as wall map.Burkwood Books, Cat 56, 10/97, has a map with same title, but smaller in dimensions, 28"x 36", with 3" pictorial and floral border, dated 1856 (price 350 and sold), folded in morocco folder. Rumsey has map with same title, smaller in dimensions but slightly larger than preceding, dated 1861, and probably different map.
References: W-GR 145. Ristow, Maps for an Emerging Nation, p 23, and #54 for 1st edition, 1848.