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    • George Horatio Derby (1823-1861), lithograph map showing Sacramento City, "The Sacramento Valley from the American River to Ba...
      Apr. 27, 2019

      George Horatio Derby (1823-1861), lithograph map showing Sacramento City, "The Sacramento Valley from the American River to Ba...

      Est: $300 - $500

      George Horatio Derby (1823-1861), lithograph map showing Sacramento City, "The Sacramento Valley from the American River to Battle Creek...", Surveyed and drawn by order of Genl Riley, Cammandg. 10 Military Dep. B Lieut. Derby, Top. Eng. September, October 1849, sight size 22" x 17 1/2" Provenance: Property from the Credit Suisse Americana Collection

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    • Derby Sacramento Valley, 1849
      Jan. 26, 2019

      Derby Sacramento Valley, 1849

      Est: $1,500 - $2,500

      DERBY, George Hotario (1823-1861). The Sacramento Valley from the American River to Butte Creek... Surveyed & Drawn by Order of Genl. Riley, Commandg. 10th Military Dept. by Lieut. Derby, Top. Engrs. September & October 1849. Engraved map. Washington: 1850. Sheet 21 3/4" x 17 1/2"; Framed 25 1/2" x 30 1/2" Single sheet (21 6/8 x 17 4/8 inches). Fine and detailed lithographed map showing Sacramento City and extending north through wilderness to Solitary Tree (old folds and short treat top right-hand corner). First edition, published in United States, Senate Executive Documents No. 47, 31st Congress, 1st Sess., 1850. Rept. of Sec. of War, “Topographical Memoir Accompanying Maps of the Sacramento Valley, &c....” Derby accompanied Brigadier General Bennett Riley on a tour of the gold districts in the summer of 1849, and this map is the result. Wheat notes that although “Derby is today best known as a humorist...his career in equally important in the sphere of topography.” He prepared two other maps listed in Wheat. Derby entered West Point in 1842. “There his practical jokes and comic drawings earned him both a number of demerits and the nickname “Squibob,” one of the two chief pseudonyms with which he later signed his humorous writings. Derby graduated in 1846, seventh in a class of fifty-nine that included Stonewall Jackson and George B. McClellan (1826-1885). Initially commissioned a second lieutenant in ordnance, he was almost immediately transferred to the topographical engineers, the corps in which he served throughout the rest of his life. In April 1847 he was wounded at Cerro Gordo during the Mexican-American War and was subsequently assigned to the topographical bureau in Washington, D.C. “In Derby’s day the topographical engineers were responsible for exploration and mapping and the construction of harbors, lighthouses, and military roads. Derby spent most of his army career on the Pacific Coast, headquartered in California, also the site of his rise to fame as a humorist. He arrived in California in June of 1849, at the height of the gold rush. During the next two years he undertook four field expeditions, including mapping the mining country and the lower Colorado River” (John Lang for ANB). Wheat, Maps of the Gold Region 149.

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    • The Sacramento Valley from the American River to Butte Creek. Surveyed & Drawn by Order of Genl. Riley, Commandg. 10th Military Dept. by Lieut. Derby, Top. Engrs. September & October 1849
      Aug. 14, 2014

      The Sacramento Valley from the American River to Butte Creek. Surveyed & Drawn by Order of Genl. Riley, Commandg. 10th Military Dept. by Lieut. Derby, Top. Engrs. September & October 1849

      Est: $300 - $500

      Lithographed map. 55x44.5 cm. (21¾x17½).

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    • Sketch of General Riley's Route through the Mining Districts July and Aug. 1849
      Apr. 08, 2004

      Sketch of General Riley's Route through the Mining Districts July and Aug. 1849

      Est: $400 - $700

      Lithographed map. 53.8x49.8 cm. (21x19 3/4 "). Central California including San Francisco, Monterey, east to the Sierra foothills and the Diggings, with the various mining camps named and shown. Wheat notes that "This map accompanies the Report of Brev. Brig. Gen. Bennet Riley to Lieut. Col. W.G. Freeman, Asst. Adjutant General U.S. Army, dated at Monterey, Sept. 20, 1849, and entitled 'Report of a Reconnoissance of a Portion of the San Joaquin and Sacramento Valleys.' George Horatio Derby, born at Dedham, Massachusetts, April 2, 1823, graduated from West Point in 1846, and after a tour of duty in the East and Middle West, came to California in 1849. He accompanied Brig Genl. Bennet Riley on a tour of the gold districts during the summer of that year, and his 'Sketch of General Riley's Route' was the result of that journey...." Wheat illustrates the map with a fold-out plate. Wheat, Maps of the Gold Region, 79.

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