THIRTIETH CONGRESS - SECOND SESSION : REPORT NO. 145 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. CANAL OR RAILROAD BETWEEN THE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC OCEANS FEBRUARY 20 1849; includes PREUSS MAPS
184987523Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1849. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo 9.2 in. x 6 in. pp. 678 1 index. Personal copy with gilt ownership plate to front board of DeWitt C. Lawrence Chief Clerk of the Patent Office. Illustrated with sixteen folding maps. Black half calf with decorative gilt chain rule over marbled boards. Rebacked spine. Gilt name on black ownership panel to front board. Black title on paper panel to spine. Marbled endpapers. Front free endpaper detached but present. Detailed pencil notes presumably from DeWitt Lawrence to preliminary pages index and rear endpapers and to occasional penciled comments on margins of main text providing reference and guidance. Fremont Preuss's maps #II-VIII in VG condition. Other maps in G condition with additional creases a few short closed tears at seams and light browning to several edges. <br /> <br /> ALL16 maps detached as they were removed for preservation and study. Maps I IX-XVI folded in archival pocket. The PREUSS Maps II-VIII "The Rockwell Maps" are laying flat preserved in archival sheath and will be mailed separately under cover. Includes additional copy of Rockwell's map of "Section III". The 16 folded maps include: #I. Map of the Country Between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. 1848. Rob Mills. Pencil notes on map. #II-VIII. Road from Missouri to Oregon in 7 Sections 1848. Charles Preuss. Includes two identical copies of Section #III map. All eight Preuss maps in VG condition #IX. Republica Mexicana Plano del Curso del Rio Coatzacoalcos. 1843 #X. Profils en Long et en Traviors du Canal. L'Isthme de Panama1841. Garella. #XI. Profile of That Section of the Country between Nicaragua and the South Sea 1838. Based on Thompson's Guatamala. #XII. Nicaragua Realejo Harbour Edward Belcher Harbour of San Juan de Nicaragua George Peacock 1832 #XIII. Chart of the Bay of Limon or Navy Bay 1829. J.A. Lloyd. #XIV. Republica Mexicana Pano de la Parte Austral del Istmo de Tehuantepec 1843. Jose de Garay. #XV. Panama Canal Longitudinal Section. J.A. Lloyd. Four inch closed tear with 1/2 inch chip to seam. #XVI. Carte Topographique de la Partie De L'Isthme de Panama comprise entre Panama Chagres. 1845. Garella. Uniquely annotated copy. <br /> <br /> The "first major government report devoted to interoceanic communication.Rockwell in addition to his prime focus on Central American canals compiled memorable documents on the suddenly urgent need for more directly binding California to the Union.Foremost.was the matchless seven-section map of the Oregon Trail made by Charles Preuss Fremont's gifted cartographer. Lieut. G.K. Warren in his 1859 memoir wrote that Preuss's 'skill in sketching topography in the field and in representing it on the map has probably never been surpassed in this country.' <br /> <br /> ".The Senate had issued this map separately in 1846; now the House was trying to make available to the Forty-0niners what was by far the best trail map of them all.this treasure was so deeply buried in this report that but few gold seekers found it and it is still so rare in both editions that Wheat lamented that it ' has been insufficiently appreciated by students of Western history.' ." Plains & Rockies 1800-1865: Supplemental volume to the series News of the Plains and Rockies; 2001 Arthur H. Clark Spokane. [Government Printing Office] hardcover
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