Title: The History of Oregon and California, and the Other Territories on the North-West Coast of North America; Accompanied by a Geographical View and Map of Those Countries, and a Number of Documents as Proofs and Illustrations of the History
Author: Greenhow, Robert
Description: xviii, [2], 482 pp.; errata slip. Large folding copper-engraved map. 8½x5½, 19th century half morocco & marbled boards, spine tooled & lettered in gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers & edges. First British Edition.First British edition of Greenhow's important study. Wheat describes the map at some length: "Robert Greenhow published in 1844 a large map wholly different from his Burr-drawn map of 1840, drawn this time by George H. Ringgold (not the Cadwalader Ringgold of later California coastal chart fame). It covered `the Western and Middle Portions of North America,' to illustrate Greenhow's History of Oregon and California.... No northern boundary of the `Oregon Region' is shown west of the Rockies, and since Greenhow was an advocate of at least 54o 40', he did not even carry the northern boundary across from the mountains on that line. It is said that his History of Oregon and California grew out of his 1840 Memoir. And his reply to Thomas Falconer, and the latter's rejoinder, followed by a sur-reply and a sur-rejoinder, and so on, form an amusing chapter of Western history." Cowan p.249; Graff 1652; Howes G389; Sabin 28362; Smith 3842; Tweney 25; Wheat Transmississippi 491. Sold for the benefit of the Friends of the San Bruno Public Library, with that institution's bookplates, rubberstamps to title, white ink spine number.
Heading: Place Published: London
Publisher: John Murray
Date Published: 1844

Slight rubbing to the boards; map with offset, 3" stub tear; very good, a nice copy except for the library markings.