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Title: Parker, Samuel
Place Published: Map of Oregon Territory
Publisher:[Ithaca, NY]
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Description: 1838Copper-engraved folding map. 34.7x58.8 cm (13¾"x23¼").The "earliest map of the Oregon interior with a pretense of accuracy." Wheat states that the map "represented a real advance, and it was made from personal observations." Issued in Samuel Parker's "Journal of an Exploring Tour beyond the Rocky Mountains," though this might be from a later edition, the maps were the same for the several issues. With folds. Wheat Transmississippi 438
Author:
Title: Parker, Samuel
Place Published: Map of Oregon Territory
Publisher:[Ithaca, NY]
Date Published:
Description: 1838Copper-engraved folding map. 34.7x58.8 cm (13¾"x23¼").The "earliest map of the Oregon interior with a pretense of accuracy." Wheat states that the map "represented a real advance, and it was made from personal observations." Issued in Samuel Parker's "Journal of an Exploring Tour beyond the Rocky Mountains," though this might be from a later edition, the maps were the same for the several issues. With folds. Wheat Transmississippi 438
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A few scattered fox marks, 1½ stub tear
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Parker's map of Oregon 1838
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