Dec 09, 2004 - Sale 2027

Sale 2027 - Lot 11

Price Realized: $ 3,910
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
GENERAL LAND OFFICE. Maps Accompanying Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office . . . Part 2. 23 lithographed folding maps, hand-colored in outline. Folio, publisher's 1/2 morocco, worn, dampstained; the maps linen-backed (as issued), some staining to a few maps. Washington, 1866

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Includes a large map showing the entire continental U. S., as well as maps of the following states and territories - some the first accurate mappings of the regions: Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Dakota, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Kansas/Nebraska, Colorado, New Mexico/Arizona, Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon and Washington. See Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West, 5: pages 181-184 for a lengthy discussion of the importance of these maps. Phillips 1388.