Title: Map of Oregon and Upper California from the Surveys of John Charles Frémont and other Authorities, Drawn by Charles Preuss Under the Order of the Senate of the United States, Washington City, 1848 Author: Preuss, Charles Place: Washington Publisher: Date: 1848 [but 1873] Description: Lithographed map, hand-colored. 63x50 cm. (24¾x19¾"). "The one great general map of 1848 was that of Fremont and Preuss..." - Wheat. The present issue of the map, which was originally published with Frémont's Geographical Memoir Upon Upper California, came with California Messages and Correspondence, House Ex. Doc. 17, 31st Congress, 1st Session, 1850, and is smaller than the original issue. See Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West, 613. Lot Amendments Condition: Large tears with tape repairs on verso, faint toning, mild soiling; still very good and bright. Item number: 144922
Title: Map of Oregon and Upper California from the Surveys of John Charles Frémont and other Authorities, Drawn by Charles Preuss Under the Order of the Senate of the United States, Washington City, 1848 Author: Preuss, Charles Place: Washington Publisher: Date: 1848 [but 1873] Description: Lithographed map, hand-colored. 63x50 cm. (24¾x19¾"). "The one great general map of 1848 was that of Fremont and Preuss..." - Wheat. The present issue of the map, which was originally published with Frémont's Geographical Memoir Upon Upper California, came with California Messages and Correspondence, House Ex. Doc. 17, 31st Congress, 1st Session, 1850, and is smaller than the original issue. See Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West, 613. Lot Amendments Condition: Large tears with tape repairs on verso, faint toning, mild soiling; still very good and bright. Item number: 144922
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