Lot 31
  • 31

Smith, John Calvin

Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

Map of North America Showing the Routes to California [cover-title]. New York: J. Disturnell, 1849



Pocket folding map, as issued, (23 7/8 x 20 3/4 in.; 608 x 528 mm), handcolored in outline; light marginal soiling, small glue-stains where the map is attached to the binding. Publisher's gilt-stamped black cloth; a few pale stains on covers.

Literature

Wheat, Maps of the California Gold Region 123

Condition

Pocket folding map, as issued, (23 7/8 x 20 3/4 in.; 608 x 528 mm), handcolored in outline; light marginal soiling, small glue-stains where the map is attached to the binding. Publisher's gilt-stamped black cloth; a few pale stains on covers.
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Catalogue Note

An extraordinarily large copy of Disturnell's map of North America, with the Gold Rush routes from St. Louis west hand drawn. A detail in the lower left is "Map of the Gold Region California." The table "Population and Area of North America, and the West India Islands" is repeated as the front pastedown with the imprint below.