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Title: The History of Oregon and California, and the Other Territories on the North-West Coast of North America; Accompanied by a Geographical View and Map of Those Countries, and a Number of Documents as Proofs and Illustrations of the History Author: Greenhow, Robert Place: Boston Publisher: Charles C. Little and James Brown Date: 1844 Description: [iii]-xviii, [2], 482 pp. Large folding copper-engraved map (22¾x25½" plus margins) of the western and middle portions of North America. (8vo), half calf and boards, gilt-lettered morocco spine label. * Also included is the Charles C. Little & James Brown second edition of the book. Published in 1845, this copy without an engraved map. Together 2 volumes. Originally published in 1840 as a Senate document, titled: "Memoir, Historical and Political, on the Northwest Coast of North America...," the present edition is much enlarged, with a new map. Wheat describes the map at some length: "Robert Greenhow published in 1844 a large map wholly different from his Burr-drawn map of 1840, drawn this time by George H. Ringgold (not the Cadwalader Ringgold of later California coastal chart fame). Both volumes with the bookplate of John M. McClelland, Jr. Wheat Transmississippi 491. Lot Amendments Condition: Moderately worn extremities; folding map with very long closed tear at fold of map, map is yellowed and foxed; light scattered foxing within; good. Item number: 212198