Map of the State of California, the Territories of Oregon & Utah, and the chief part of New Mexico.
NP:: NP,, 1850. 15.5x12.5. The first edition of this early atlas map of the west appeared in Mitchell's Universal Atlas in 1846 and it was continuously updated for many years thereafter. This is a particularly scarce variant with much of interest. It shows the west just after the Mexican War and the discovery of gold in California; thus, the boundary with Mexico is at the Gila River prior to the Gadsden Purchase of 1853, and the GOLD REGION is named across the Sacramento Valley yet with few towns named other than Marysville. There are no counties named (they would appear in the next.... more information
Price: 850.00 USD
Philadelphia:: 1850. Very good, dusty at edges. 12" x 15.5 " Original hand colored engraved map of the west coast of America at the time of the gold discoveries. Oregon occupies the entire north of California ,Utah, to the Canadian border which was established just a few years earlier in 1846. With Missouri Territory to its east. Cowperthwait took over this plate from Mitchell who created it in 1847 and with corrections was published for the next 5 editions. .... more information
Price: 950.00 USD
