[Rarebooks] FS: 1848 Preuss Map of Oregon & Upper California (35" x 28")

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(MAPS) Preuss, Charles. MAP OF OREGON AND UPPER CALIFORNIA FROM THE SURVEYS 
OF JOHN CHARLES FREMONT AND OTHER AUTHORITIES. Drawn by Charles Preuss... 
Washington City: Under the Order of the Senate of the United States. 1848. 
Large (35" x 28") linen backed folding topographic map, lithographed by E. 
Weber & Co. Baltimore. Boundary lines hand colored in green. Map is mounted on 
a linen guard bound into a modern green cloth portfolio with a brown calf 
spine label. Some wear & slight losses at a few folds.     $2,500.00 (trade 
discount allowed)
This important map, the most authoritative map to this date, covers an area 
from the 49th to the 31st parallels, and from the 126th to the 103rd 
meridians; what would later become the states of California, Utah, Arizona, 
Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, etc. Wheat 559. Moffat 17.

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