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FRÉMONT IN ORIGINAL CLOTH & THE LARGE FOLDING MAP
115. FRÉMONT, John C. Report of the
Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year
1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years
1843-’44. Washington: Gales and Seaton, SED174,
1845. 693 pp., 22 lithographic plates (views, fossils,
botany, some by Weber), 5 lithographed maps (including
large folding map in rear pocket: Map of an Exploring
Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842 and to
Oregon & North California in the years 1843-44....
80 x 129.6 cm; 31-1/2 x 51 inches). 8vo, original dark
brown blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt-lettered. Light shelf
wear, hinges neatly strengthened with matching paper,
occasional foxing. Large folding map present and in fine
condition (seldom encountered thus).
First
edition, the Senate issue, with astronomical and
meteorological observations omitted from subsequent
editions. Cowan, p. 223. Edwards, pp. 89-90. Graff 1436.
Grolier American Hundred 49. Howes F370. Plains
& Rockies IV:115:1. The maps are one of the
outstanding features of this pivotal report. Wheat, Gold
Region 21; Mapping the Transmississippi West 497
& II, 194-200: "[Frémont’s] report and the
Frémont (Preuss) map which accompanied it, changed
the entire picture of the West and made a lasting
contribution to cartography....An altogether memorable
document in the cartographic history of the West, and for
it alone Fremont would deserve to be remembered in
history." Zamorano Eighty 39.
($700-1,400)