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FRÉMONT, John Charles (1813-1890). Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-44. 28th Congress, 2nd Session. House Executive Document, no. 186. Serial 467. Washington, D.C.: Blair and Rives, 1845.
8o (255 x 165 mm). 22 lithographed plates and 5 maps, including large folding map, laid loose (a few occasional short tears, some scattered pale foxing). UNBOUND, STITCHED, UNCUT; brown quarter morocco folding case.
FIRST EDITION, the preferred House issue of this cornerstone work. Much of the mapping of Frémont's route was new, including that of the entire Sierra Nevada range, all California rivers south of the American River and the three Colorado rivers. Frémont's exploration provided the general guide for the wave of settlement in Oregon and was a principal reference for the overland travelers during the Gold Rush. Field 565; Graff 1436; Howes F-370; Sabin 25845; Streeter VI:3131; Wagner-Camp-Becker 115:2 ("Camp said that the House issue might have been earlier than the Senate, that the plates of the 1842 expedition were probably re-engraved, and that, in any case, the plates were not identical in all copies"); Wheat Mapping the Transmississippi West 495 (a "magnificent map... as important a step forward from the earlier western maps of the period as did Pike, Long, and Lewis and Clark in their day"); Zamarano 80, 39.
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FIRST EDITION, the preferred House issue of this cornerstone work. Much of the mapping of Frémont's route was new, including that of the entire Sierra Nevada range, all California rivers south of the American River and the three Colorado rivers. Frémont's exploration provided the general guide for the wave of settlement in Oregon and was a principal reference for the overland travelers during the Gold Rush. Field 565; Graff 1436; Howes F-370; Sabin 25845; Streeter VI:3131; Wagner-Camp-Becker 115:2 ("Camp said that the House issue might have been earlier than the Senate, that the plates of the 1842 expedition were probably re-engraved, and that, in any case, the plates were not identical in all copies"); Wheat Mapping the Transmississippi West 495 (a "magnificent map... as important a step forward from the earlier western maps of the period as did Pike, Long, and Lewis and Clark in their day"); Zamarano 80, 39.