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Title: Accompaniment to Mitchell's New Map of Texas, Oregon, and California, with the Regions Adjoining Author: [Mitchell, Samuel Augustus] Place: Philadelphia Publisher: S. Augustus Mitchell Date: 1846 Description: 46 pp. Large hand-colored folding map, 56x51.3 cm (22x20¼"). The book measures 12.5x7.5 cm (5x3") full dark re-backed brown morocco, with most of original spine laid down, decoratively embossed covers, gilt-lettered front cover, housed in a custom cloth drop-back box with gilt-lettered morocco spine label. First Edition. Complete with an important map, titled "A New Map of Texas, Oregon and California." Wheat cites this map as "among the first by a commercial cartographer to utilize the recent explorations that had bounded and determined the nature of the Great Basin. Because of its popularity, this map of the West exerted great influence, not only with the public but on other commercial cartographers." The map shows the emigrant route to Oregon and Fremont's route, plus the Great Spanish trail from California to Santa Fe and the Caravan route from Missouri to Santa Fe. With small paper label from H. Scofield Library pasted to verso of title page. Sabin 49714; Howes, M685; Streeter Sale 2511; Wheat, Maps of the California Gold Regions, 29. Lot Amendments Condition: Some of original spine lacking (re-backed), and that remaining has been retouched, a touch rubbed at corners; Boston bookseller's rubberstamp on front free endpaper; folding map a bit yellowed, a few short closed tears at center folds, most repaired with archival paper backing, very faint dampstains and yellowing on verso; very good. Item number: 232780