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Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Antique Color Maps Ilustrador. Oversize. Mild Shelfwear And Edgewear, Light Tanning Around Pages' Edges, Otherwise An Unmarkd, Clean, And Solid Copy. No Priority or International Shipping.

Condición: Very Good. 1988. Paperback. Paperback, white cover. 36pp. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condición: Very Good. 1988. Paperback. Paperback, white cover. 36pp. . . . .

Lithographed maps on two sides of a single leaf with original hand-colouring, 27 x 34 cms (map size) 31.1 x 37.1 cms (sheet) with a finely-engraved foliated border, margins age-toned, one margin tide-marked at the edge (not affecting the maps), a handsome pair of maps in very good condition. A most attractive pair of late 19th Century maps on two sides of a single leaf: Asia as a whole (polar projection), with Europe and parts of Africa and New Guinea. Scale 1:1000 miles. It includes steamship routes and mileages from London to destinations in Asia: Zhoushan (Chusan) Island, Hong Kong, Manilla, Sarawak, Bombay etc., along with political and geographical details; and on the verso the map covers the regions of Persia (Iran), Arabia (including parts of the Arabian Peninsula), Turkey in Asia (Anatolia), Afghanistan, and Beloochistan (parts of Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan), and marks key settlements, rivers, and geographic features.

Two engraved maps on laid paper each 30.3 x 19.5 cm printed on the one sheet 48 x 60 cm, original fold, attractive hand colour, with related French text on verso, slight toning and spotting to the margins, but the maps in very good condition, preserved in a modern window mount. Attractive maps of the German coast published in Ortelius' great atlas "Theatrum Orbis.". The left-hand map showing the mouths of the Elbe (complete with sea monster) and Eider Rivers, and the coast of Schleswig-Holstein; the right-hand map of the Baltic coast, with the Pomeranian islands of Rugen and Usedom.

Map No.1 From San Francisco Bay to the Northern Boundary of California | Map No.2 From the Northern Boundary of California to the Columbia RiverBy:R.S. Williamson and H.J. AbbotDate: 1855 / 1861 (published) Washington D.C.Dimensions: Each Sheet 27.25 x 23.25 inches (69.25 x 59 cm)This is an important and attractive pair surveys of Northern California and the Oregon Territory.They were surveyed by Lieutenants R.S. Williamson andH.J. Abbot, (Topographic Engineers for the U.S. Military), with the objective of mappingpractical railroad routesbetween two of the potentialterminuses of a transcontinental railroad, San Francisco, CA Fort Vancouver, ORMap No.1From San Francisco Bay to the Northern Boundary of CaliforniaThis map covers much of Northern California, from the San Francisco Bay Area to the Oregon Border and the Pacific Coast to the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, well-known then and now as"Gold Country." Important cities and towns, military forts, and landmarks are noted throughout,some of these include San Francisco, Oakland, Stockton, Sacramento, Napa, Mendocino, Eureka, Fort Reading, Fort, Jones, Mount Diablo, Lassens Butte and Shasta Butte. Major rivers and theirtributaries are delineated with clarity andmountain topography is illustrated with fine hachure work that give depth to the valleys between the peaks and ranges, especially with regards to the mapping of the lower Cascades.A network of trails traverse the map including that of portions of the the Emigrant Trail that was the terminus of the lower fork of the Oregon Trail, Warner and Williamsons Routeof 1849, which wasone of the earliest routes to the gold regions from the Oregon Trail, other routes thought the southern Cascades by Williamson, and Major Wessels Routeof 1852 from Sonoma toHumboldt Bay, then up the Klamath River to the head of Scotts River. The route of Williamson and Abbot can be followed from Camp 1 near Benecia, up the Feathered and Sacramento River to Lower Klamath Lake (camp 27), then into Oregon (Map No.2), not returning until camp 79 along the Klamath River then south through Scotts Valley to Fort Reading.One additional area of interest in the map is the inland region between Humboldt and the California-Oregon border. On large are just south of the Klamath River is described as "Unexplored Instrumentally." The other region to the north of the Klamath reads "Siskiyou Mountains Unexplored.Map No.2 From the Northern Boundary of California to the Columbia RiverThis map covers the region from the California-Oregon border with the Siskoyou Range and Klamath Lakes to Mount St. Helens and Mount Adams, just above the Columbia River which separates Oregon from Washington Territory.It impresses withdetail and eye appeal while igniting a sense of adventureas it is chock-full or areas still unexplored. Many of the earliest settlements in the Oregon Territory are identified as well as the young would-be cities of Eugene and Portland. Also included are interesting notations pertinent tothe construction of a railroad. One example that is repeated in the map reads "Heavily timbered ridges separated by immense ravines."Themapincludesseveral trails, routes of the surveying parties,and expeditions of exploration and military reconnaissance such as thatof John C. Fremont and William H. Warner.The middle section of Williamson AND Abbotssurveying expedition (the beginning and end shown in Map No.1) is delineated throughout this map from Camp 28 on the bank of Upper Klamath Lake up to the upper reaches of the Des Chutes River. It is here that the party would split. Abbotwould venturenorth to Fort Dalles on the south bank of the Columbia then backtracking through the Mutton Mountains before heading west through the Cascades to Oregon City. Williamson would go west along the middle fork of the Willamette River then north, traversing the western slopes of the Cascades until he met Abbot in Oregon City.Abbot would complete the journey back south to the California-Oregon border with his last camp (#79) in the Siskiyou Mountains.Condition: These maps are in A condition, professionally flattened and linen-backed for preservation and presentation purposes. They are both clean with little staining along the fold lines and offered in their original, uncolored state.Inventory #122371200 W. 35th Street #425 Chicago, IL 60609 | P: (312) 496 - 3622.