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Title: Message of the President of the United States, Communicating information...in relation to California and New Mexico. (caption title) Author: Taylor, Zachary Place: Washington Publisher: Date: 1850 Description: 952 pp. With 7 maps, 6 of them folding. 22.5x14 cm. (8¾x5½"), modern half green levant morocco & cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Senate Report 18, 31st Congress, 1st Session. Serial 557. Important compilation of documents relating to the conquest of California and the beginning of the California Gold Rush. "This important volume contains the official correspondence and documents relating to California, 1847-49, and is the most extensive source of authorities covering the period" - Zamorano. The maps include "Map of Oregon and Upper California from the Surveys of John Charles Fremont" with indication of the Gold Region; George Derby's "Sketch of General Riley's Route through the Mining Districts, July and Aug. 1849" (Wheat, Gold Region 79) which includes San Francisco & Monterey; the entrance to San Francisco Bay; "Map of Fort Hill, Monterey" from Lt. Warner's Field Map; plus route of Major Beall's expedition against the Apaches, Baja California and Port Escondido. Howes C53; Kurutz 106a; Wagner-Camp 179b:1; Wheat Books 31; Zamorano Eighty 14. Lot Amendments Condition: Old library rubberstamp removed from top edge of text block, slight dampstain to top margins, some darkening to contents, about 4 cm. of the fore-margin of untitled map of entrance to San Francisco Bay clipped off, else very good. Item number: 224169