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Description

Important 19th-century California Maps and Documents

With Fremont's Map of Oregon and California & Derby's 

Substantial volume of text and 7 maps on California during the transition from Mexican to American rule. The text covers the time of the military government in California, from 1846 to 1849, with similar documents relating to New Mexico. This is the House issue, which varies somewhat from the Senate issue in terms of the textual content relating to the Mexican War. The entry in the Zamorano 80 describes the House issue, apparently assigning priority to this issue. Both the House and Senate issues contained the same seven maps, including 2 key maps relating to the California gold regions: Frémont's Oregon and California (based on a section of the famous Frémont-Preuss map) and George Horatio Derby's Sketch of General Riley's Route through the Mining Districts, July and Aug. 1849.

This important volume contains the official correspondence and documents relating to California, 1847-49 and is the most extensive source of authorities covering that period. The conduct of the Mexican war in California; the formation of military provisional government; the transition from territory to state; its constitution; Halleck's report on land titles; and many other phases of history ...- Zamorano 80.

No single publication provides as much raw data [on this period in California] as does House Executive Document No. 17 - Gary F. Kurutz in Dorothy Sloan's A Complete Collection of the Zamorano 80 formed by Daniel G. Volkmann Jr.

Highlights from the text:

  • Early documents from the Spanish and Mexican eras relating to California, including translations of laws, beginning in 1773.
  • Preliminary regulations for secularization of the missions, promulgated by Gov. José Figueroa on Aug. 9, 1834.
  • Gov. Juan Bautista Alvarado's regulations concerning the missions, Jan. 17, 1839
  • A series of reports, circulars and other communications concerning the establishment of a provisional military government for California. These include reports by Washington Bartlett, Walter Colton, R. B. Mason, Bennett Riley, Jonathan Drake Stevenson, Joseph Folsom, Stephen Watts Kearny, William Tecumseh Sherman, John C. Frémont, Henry W. Halleck, and E. R. S. Canby.

The maps, variously lithographed by E. Weber & Co. of Baltimore and Ackermann's of New York: 

  1. Map of Fort Hill Monterey California. Reduced by Scale from Lieut. Warner's Field Map made in 1847. By P. M McGill.
  2. [Untitled sketch map of San Francisco Bay from Yerba Buena to Punta de lobos (N.E. to S.W.)]
  3. Lower California and the Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez)
  4. Sketch of Port Escondido Lower California.
  5. Map of Oregon and Upper California from the Surveys of John Charles Frémont and other authorities.
  6. Sketch of General Riley's Route through the Mining Districts, July and Aug. 1849. Copied from the Original Sketch by Lt. Derby.
  7. Plan of the Route of the Expedition of Major Beall... For Relief of the Wagons of Mr. F. X. Aubrey against the Apache Indians. By H.R. Wirtz.
Condition Description
Octavo. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards. Gilt-titled spine. Head of spine slightly frayed. Binding edges bit rubbed. Moderate scattered foxing. 976 pages plus 7 maps (6 folding). Overall a solid, very good example.
Reference
Howes C53 & P447. Zamorano 80: 14. Cowan, p. 875. Wagner-Camp 179b:2. Wheat Gold Rush 31. Wheat Gold Regions 79. Wheat Kurutz 106b. Howell 50:230. Rittenhouse 558.