Lot 53
(Maps) Accompaniment To Mitchell's New Map of Texas, Oregon, and California, With the Regions Adjoining. S. Augustus Mitchell, Philadelphia, 1846, 46pp. text plus colored folding map, 22½x20¾'', original gilt morocco binder, gilt on binder especially bright, major western map with accompanying text, the detailed "New Map of Texas, Oregon and California with the Regions Adjoining." showing the western portion of the U.S. to the Pacific, with Indian Territory, Missouri Territory, Iowa, and portions of the states of Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Wisconsin, as well as northern Mexico and part of British Columbia, illustrating in detail the trans-Mississippi region on the verge of the Mexican War, Texas is elaborately depicted, with the Rio Grande as its southern border and the overland route; Oregon is shown to extend to 54° 40"; and the Santa Fe Trail and the Oregon Trail are both detailed, the latter with a table of distances published in the lower corner of the map; some fold splitting in map center and light binder edge wear, still Very Fine for this, a wonderful early pocket map and guide in unusually fine condition.Estimate $3,000 - 4,000.
Realized: $3,250