[Rarebooks] Heap's "Central Route to the Pacific..." w/ scarce 1st map of the mid-Rockies. Phila.: 1854

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(AMERICANA) Heap, Gwinn Harris. CENTRAL ROUTE TO THE PACIFIC, FROM THE VALLEY OF THE MISSISSIPPI TO CALIFORNIA: Journal of the Expedition of E. F. Beale, Superintendent of Indian Affairs in California, and Gwinn Harris Heap, from Missouri to California, in 1853. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo, and Co.... 1854. 8vo. 136pp. Plus 46pp. publisher's ads and additional ads on the endpapers. Illustrated with 13 tinted lithograph plates and a folding map at rear. Original gilt & blind stamped brown pebbled cloth. Minor chips at extremities of spine, otherwise a near fine bright copy. Front pastedown with printed (in German) library rules of the Bremer Museum library. Small oval Bremer Museum rubber stamp  (19th century) in 3 places.    $3,750.00 (trade discount allowed)
The map, issued with only some copies, is the first to show the middle Rocky Mountain region in what is now Southern Colorado. Wagner-Camp 235. Flake 3934. Cowan, p.273. Howes: The Final Edition. H365.

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