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Item Details
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| Author: |
Jackson, W[illiam] A. |
| Title: |
Map of the Mining District of California |
| Place: |
New York |
| Publisher: |
Lambert & Lane |
| Date: |
1851 |
| Item # : |
197022 |
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| Sale Number |
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425 |
| Lot Number |
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407 |
| Sale Name |
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| Americana - Travel - History - Maps - Prints |
| Sale Date |
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04/01/2010 |
| Price realized |
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$ 7800 |
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| Description: |
| Lithographed map, hand-colored. 58.3x50.1 cm. (22¾x19¾"), laid down on modern linen backing. Second Edition. |
| Second edition of Jackson's important and attractive map of the California Gold Region, a more elaborate and refined version of the map first published the preceding year. Gary Kurutz remarks that “Jackson’s map must be regarded as one of the best to cartographically describe the frenzy of the California Gold Rush.... Captain Jackson, a mining engineer who had personally explored the region, delineated the major mining centers of 1849 and the road and trails leading to this auriferous territory.” Streeter believed this to be "by far the best of the maps of the gold region published to that time. It is on the large scale of about nine miles to the inch, and is skillfully drawn, showing the rivers and roads clearly and indicating a great number of separate mining districts..." Wheat writes that “This excellent early map includes all the important diggings of 1849 and early 1850, and is important in connection with the development of the gold region.” This was a folding map issued in cloth covers with a 16-page text, neither of which are present here. Rubberstamp of Geo. Gordon & Steen in lower margin. Graff 2178; Kurutz, California 49, 31; Kurutz, Gold Rush, 358b; Norris 2386; Rocq 15877; Streeter Sale 2665. |
| Condition: |
| Some wear at darkening at the former folds, with slight loss in a few places, else very good. |
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