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Title: An Improved Topographical Map of the Northern & Middle Mines. Compiled from the most recent & authentic Surveys, showing a practicable Route for the great Atlantic & Pacific Railroad, through the Sierra Nevada at Fredonyers Pass. With a faithfull delineation of the course of Rivers, Mountain Ranges, & location of Cities, Towns, Roads, Mines, &c.c. Author: Milleson, M. Place: San Francisco Publisher: Published & lithd. by Alex. Zakreski Date: 1854 Description: Lithographed map, hand-colored in outline. 45.5x56 cm (17¾x22"), folding into original printed boards, 14x8.5 cm (5½x3¼"). Scarce map of Northern California, with details of the mining district in the north, around Coloma, and farther south, at Mockolumne Hill, Columbia, Sonora, etc. The Benicia-Marysville railroad is shown, and also a proposed route for the Atlantic to Pacific railroad. OCLC/WorldCat lists only five copies, and locates four of them, at Santa Clara University, the University of California Santa Cruz, the University of California Berkeley, and Yale. In ink on front cover is written "Keep 1854". On the inside of the front cover: "For Tirzah Jane". On verso of map is a bookseller's inkstamp "Post Office Literary Depot Gardiner & Kirk late Ourle Brothers Third St. Sacramento." Also, in ink, "Marquis C. Winchester In good health and Spirit" Further Notes from the Files of Warren Heckrotte Full title: An Improved Topographical Map of the Northern & Middle Mines. Compiled from the most recent & authentic Surveys, showing a practicable Route for the great Atlantic & Pacific Railroad, through the Sierra Nevada at Fredonyers Pass. With a faithfull delineation of the course of Rivers, Mountain Ranges, & location of Cities, Towns, Roads, Mines, &c.c. by M. Milleson, Cl. engineeer. Published & lithd. by Alex. Zakreski, at the Topographical Drawning Office. Cor. Washington & Montgomery 1854 San Francisco. | Engraved by H.Steinegger | Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1854 by Alex. Zakreski in the Clerks Office of the Destreict Court of the United States for the Northern District of the State of California. | For sale at all principal Book-Stores, and at Publisher's Office. Provenance: California Book Auction, 3/29/86 References: W-GR 265 (Rep). Wheat, 25 California Maps. Streeter 2765. Lot Amendments Condition: Some rubbing to boards; a bit of light foxing to map, short splits at some folds; very good. Item number: 265036