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Description

Rare large format map of Washington Territory, the earliest separately issued large format map of Washington Territory.

According to text on the map, Colton based this early commercial map of Washington Territory on U.S. surveys by Charles A. White. This grand map on a large scale locates towns, cities, forts, wagon roads, Native American lands and reservations, government reserves, prairies, mountain ranges (major mountains, such as Mt. Rainier, Mt. Baker and Mt. Adams), counties, townships, etc. Depths are shown by soundings, and part of Vancouver Island is shown.

The Library of Congress catalog entry attribute the map to Charles Abiathar White (1826-1910), the U.S. geologist who served as state geologist of Iowa and later participated in U.S. Geological Surveys in the West.

The map is extremely rare. OCLC locates no copies of the map in any institutional collections, although the map appears in the collections of Yale (Beinecke) and Library of Congress. The earliest separate map of Washington Territory listed by OCLC was published in 1880 (CPrior to the appearance of this example, there are no auction records for the map in the past 40 years.

Condition Description
4 sheets, joined.
Reference
Phillips, Maps of America, p. 997. Streeter Sale 3257; Tooley’s Dictionary of Mapmakers, revised edition, Vol. IV, p. 380