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Sale 478: Fine Americana - Travel & Exploration - Cartography (#478) 04/26/2012 11:00 AM PDT Closed
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Lot #246Oregon and Upper California... 1846

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Sale 478: Fine Americana - Travel & Exploration - Cartography (#478) 04/26/2012 11:00 AM PDT Closed
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Heading:

zzf(California & Oregon)

Title:

Oregon and Upper California... 1846

Author:

Mitchell, S[amuel] Augustus

Place Published:

Philadelphia

Date Published:

1846

Description:

Hand-colored lithographed map. 37x30 cm. (14½x11¾"), plus decorative borders. First Edition.

Classic pre-Gold Rush map; the first in a series of 14 editions of this map depicting the rapidly changing West. The area labeled Upper or New California includes today's California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and parts of New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming. The large Oregon territory's northern boundary is labeled "Boundary of 1846," which has Oregon City as the capital. California's capital is still Monterey and Sutter's Mill is still Nueva Helvetia. Phillips 6104.

Condition:

Marginal darkening, else near fine.

Item#:

227831

Headline:

Mitchell's Oregon & Califorina 1846
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