[Rarebooks] FS: Fremont's Geographical Memoir of Upper California w/scarce map by Preuss. Washington: 1848

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(CALIFORNIA) Fremont, John Charles. GEOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR UPON UPPER CALIFORNIA, In Illustration of His Map of Oregon and California. Addressed to the Senate of the United States. Washington, DC: Wendell and Van Benthuysen. 1848. 8vo. 67,(1)pp. With the large folding lithograph map of Oregon and California by Charles Preuss. Disbound pamphlet. Title very lightly soiled, but a fine copy with a fine crisp map.    $2,500.00 (trade discount allowed)
Note: only a few copies were published with the map. Howes F366. "...map by Preuss [not issued in all copies, if any, but intended to accompany the pamphlet]" as a separate. Wagner-Camp 150:1 (the Senate version. 30th Congress. 1st Session. Senate. Miscellaneous No. 148 at top of title).

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