Title: A New Map of Texas, Oregon and California, with the Regions Adjoining. Compiled from the Most Recent Authorities Author: Mitchell, Samuel Augustus Place: Philadelphia Publisher: S. Augustus Mitchell Date: 1846 Description: Engraved pocket map, hand-colored. 53x48.7 cm. (20¾x19¼") plus decorative border, folding into original blindstamped leather covers (front cover also lettered in gilt), 5¼x3¼, along with 46 pp. text. Rare first edition of this important map of the West at a time of geographic discovery as well as political upheaval and change. The map is issued with the "Accompaniment to Mitchell's New Map of Texas, Oregon, and California, with the Regions Adjoining." As noted in the Accompaniment, Texas has recently been gathered into the bosom of the United States, and California is in limbo, "Upper California. This part of Mexico was declared independent in 1845. It has of late attracted much attention in the United States; a number of Americans are already settled in it, and many others are preparing to emigrate thither..." Regarding Oregon, the Accompaniment declares that "the United States have an indubitable claim to the whole region of Oregon, from N. lat 42o to 54o 40', yet the government has several times proposed, from motives of accommodation, to adopt the 49th parallel of latitude as the dividing line...". Wheat describes the map: "In the Upper California portion, Fremont is carefully followed, while further north Wilkes is followed. The boundary (to be) with Mexico is imperfectly shown but Texas appears with the magnified boundaries, including Santa Fe, of the 1844 Emory. The various claims to Oregon appear. The Accompaniment is of particular interest, containing perhaps the clearest statement of Oregon and California facts that came out of the period just prior to settlement of the former's boundaries and inclusion of the latter in the United States." Cowan p.433; Graff 2841; Howes M685; Wheat Transmississippi 520; Wheat Gold Rush 29. Lot Amendments Condition: Archival tissue repairs to map verso, old dampstains; covers expertly rebacked, hinges reinforced, else very good. Item number: 189577
Title: A New Map of Texas, Oregon and California, with the Regions Adjoining. Compiled from the Most Recent Authorities Author: Mitchell, Samuel Augustus Place: Philadelphia Publisher: S. Augustus Mitchell Date: 1846 Description: Engraved pocket map, hand-colored. 53x48.7 cm. (20¾x19¼") plus decorative border, folding into original blindstamped leather covers (front cover also lettered in gilt), 5¼x3¼, along with 46 pp. text. Rare first edition of this important map of the West at a time of geographic discovery as well as political upheaval and change. The map is issued with the "Accompaniment to Mitchell's New Map of Texas, Oregon, and California, with the Regions Adjoining." As noted in the Accompaniment, Texas has recently been gathered into the bosom of the United States, and California is in limbo, "Upper California. This part of Mexico was declared independent in 1845. It has of late attracted much attention in the United States; a number of Americans are already settled in it, and many others are preparing to emigrate thither..." Regarding Oregon, the Accompaniment declares that "the United States have an indubitable claim to the whole region of Oregon, from N. lat 42o to 54o 40', yet the government has several times proposed, from motives of accommodation, to adopt the 49th parallel of latitude as the dividing line...". Wheat describes the map: "In the Upper California portion, Fremont is carefully followed, while further north Wilkes is followed. The boundary (to be) with Mexico is imperfectly shown but Texas appears with the magnified boundaries, including Santa Fe, of the 1844 Emory. The various claims to Oregon appear. The Accompaniment is of particular interest, containing perhaps the clearest statement of Oregon and California facts that came out of the period just prior to settlement of the former's boundaries and inclusion of the latter in the United States." Cowan p.433; Graff 2841; Howes M685; Wheat Transmississippi 520; Wheat Gold Rush 29. Lot Amendments Condition: Archival tissue repairs to map verso, old dampstains; covers expertly rebacked, hinges reinforced, else very good. Item number: 189577
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