(PACIFIC NORTHWEST IDAHO TERRITORY) [William H Knight]; a

Sale 2591 - Lot 172

Price Realized: $ 5,000

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Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800

(PACIFIC NORTHWEST -- IDAHO TERRITORY.) [William H. Knight]; and H.H. Bancroft & Company. Bancroft's Map of Oregon, Washington, Idaho & British Columbia. Large engraved wall map of the Pacific Northwest. 33 1/2x38 1/4 inches sheet size; original hand-color in full; mounted on modern canvas stabilizing scattered cracks and creases, edge repairs with a small area of lower foliate border reinstated in facsimile; small faded ink stamp at lower margin "Bancroft Library, University of California - withdrawn". San Francisco, 1864

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"The great "Map of the Pacific States", originated in 1863 by William H. Knight, proliferated in 1864 into a whole family of notable maps, automatically establishing the rising H.H. Bancroft house as the greatest map publisher of the Pacific Coast. So large in size are these maps and so overflowing with detail, it is utterly impossible to describe their minutiae" (Wheat).

Indeed, the geographical information is rich, showing Indian regions, established territorial counties and towns, military forts, mountain peaks, prairies, valleys, lakes and river systems, stage roads such as "Mullan's Wagon Road from Walla Walla to Fort Benton", "Emigrant Route to Oregon", the "Proposed Northern Pacific Railroad" line, and a gold region at the Canadian border of the Rockies. Western Montana, on the cusp of becoming its own territory, is still part of Idaho.

Scant institutional copies; last auction appearance at Streeter (#3916). Wheat, Transmississippi, 1092.