![[AMERICANA] FREMONT, JOHN CHARLES. Geographical Memoir Upon Upper California, in Illustration of his Map of Oregon and California ... Addressed to the Senate of the United States.](/sites/default/files/styles/auction_slider/public/images/lots/251/1455251.jpg?itok=9TIXPUH0)
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[AMERICANA] FREMONT, JOHN CHARLES. Geographical Memoir Upon Upper California, in Illustration of his Map of Oregon and California ... Addressed to the Senate of the United States.
Washington: Wendell and Van Benthuysen, 1848. First edition, Senate issue, Miscellaneous No. 148. Later wrappers, housed in a folding cloth case. The text 9 x 5 1/2 inches, 67 pp. and retaining the large folding lithographed Map of Oregon and Upper California from the Surveys of John Charles Fremont and Other Authorities, 1848, opening to 27 x 33 inches. The map detached and with a few splits and punctures along folds, lightly toned, the text spotted.
An important map of the West documenting Fremont's third expedition and indicating the California "El Dorado or Gold Region." The map also contains the first appearance of the term Golden Gate at the mouth of San Francisco Bay. Almost not published due to Fremont's court martial and resignation, this report is much shorter than his earlier texts, but the work was widely sought as the discovery of gold in California was announced the same year. Cowan II p 223; Graff 1429; Howes F366; Kurutz 256a; Sabin 25837; Wagner-Camp 150:1; Wheat Gold Region 58 "the one great general map of 1848"; Wheat Transmississippi West 559.
C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
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