Title: 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 Author: Derby, George Horatio Place: Washington Publisher: Date: 1850 Description: Lithographed map. 55x44.5 cm. (21¾x17½). Detailed map showing Sacramento and points north, 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 Bennet 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. Wheat, Maps of the Gold Region 149. Lot Amendments Condition: A few short crease tears one with clear tape repair, some faint foxing; very good. Item number: 225207
Title: 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 Author: Derby, George Horatio Place: Washington Publisher: Date: 1850 Description: Lithographed map. 55x44.5 cm. (21¾x17½). Detailed map showing Sacramento and points north, 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 Bennet 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. Wheat, Maps of the Gold Region 149. Lot Amendments Condition: A few short crease tears one with clear tape repair, some faint foxing; very good. Item number: 225207
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