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Lot 160: Sketch of General Riley's Route through the Mining Districts July and Aug. 1849

Est: $400 USD - $700 USDSold:
PBA Galleries Auctions & AppraisersBrookline, MA, USApril 08, 2004

Item Overview

Description

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.

Artist or Maker

Date

[1850]

Condition Report

Original folds, a few edge tears and splits to folds, a couple tiny chips, scattered light wrinkles, occasional faint toning, else very good.

Notes

Place: [Washington]

Auction Details

Americana, with Manuscript Material, Maps & Atlases

by
PBA Galleries Auctions & Appraisers
April 08, 2004, 12:00 AM EST

Larz Anderson Park 15 Newton Park, Brookline, MA, 02445, US