(CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH) Ord Edward Topographical Sketch of t

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(CALIFORNIA--GOLD RUSH.) Ord, Edward. Topographical Sketch of the Gold & Quicksilver District of California. Folding lithographed map, 570x400 mm, ample margins. Washington, 1848

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Issued to accompany President Polk''s Address to Congress (05 December 1848). Wheat, MTW 565, gives a detailed description of the importance of the map. Wheat, Gold Rush 54, calls the map the "most important of all the maps of 1848 . . . of paramount importance in any cartographical consideration of the gold rush." Rumsey 3458.