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Fremont's Expedition w/ map and signed ephemera
Fremont's Expedition w/ map and signed ephemera
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Author: Frémont, John Charles
Title: Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-'44 [with] signed letter and bond note.
Place Published: Washington
Publisher:Gales & Seaton
Date Published: 1845
Description:

693 pp. With 22 lithograph plates; 5 maps, 3 of them folding, 1 loose in acetate sleeve, 1 in rear pastedown pocket. (8vo) 22.5x14 cm (8¾x5½"), period blind-stamped cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition, Senate Issue.

Frémont's most important work, chronicling his seminal expeditions that revealed the paths and trails that were to be the highways by which the gold-seekers would rush to California beginning in 1849, with his important large map of the West with hand-colored waterways. This copy is accompanied by a bond note for the Southern Trans-Continental Railroad signed by Frémont on the verso, and a signed letter to J.B. Brown Jr, along with some printed photos and typed transcriptions. Bookplate of previous owner and bookseller sticker on front pastedown.

The first portion of the work reprints Frémont's report of 1843, covering his 1842 expedition to the Rocky Mountains with a young Kit Carson as a guide. The second portion records his expedition of 1843-1844, guided by Thomas Fitzpatrick, aka "Broken Hand", with Carson joining them en route. This Senate issue contains scientific data including astronomical and meteorological observations not present in the smaller House issue or later printings. Wheat describes the map at great length, and attaches great importance to it: "The year 1845, however, though otherwise somewhat cartographically barren, because of a single event is in fact one of the towering years in the story of Western Cartography. In that year John C. Frémont's report of his journey to Oregon and California in 1843-44 was published. This report and the Frémont (Preuss) map which accompanied it, changed the entire picture of the West, and made a lasting contribution to cartography...." Wheat Transmississippi Vol. II, pp.194-200, Map 497; Cowan p.223-4; Graff 1436; Howes F370; Wagner-Camp 115:1; Wheat Transmississippi Vol. II, pp.194-200, Map 497; Zamorano Eighty #39.

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Offsetting and occasional foxing throughout, a few minor tears; very good.
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