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Title: Topographical Map of the Road from Missouri to Oregon, Commencing at the Mouth of the Kansas in the Missouri River and Ending at the Mouth of the Wallah Wallah in the Columbia, In VII Sections.... From the field notes and journal of Capt. J.C. Frémont, and from sketches and notes made on the ground by his assistant Charles Preuss Author: Preuss, Charles Place: Washington Publisher: Date: 1846 Description: Lithographed map on 7 sheets, held together with blue paper strip at right margin, as issued. Lithographed by E. Weber, Baltimore. Each sheet 39.5x65 cm. (15¾x25¾"). Preuss produced this landmark map, based on the great Frémont/Preuss map of 1845 but in much more detail over the area depicted, in response to a request by the Senate of the United States, under whose auspices it was published. Wheat remarks that the finished map "was a road guide for Oregon emigrants such as had never previously existed... The purview of each section is quite narrowly limited to the emigrant road, but the topography is developed in rather more detail than on the parent map. Owing to its rarity and to its having long stood in the shadow of the much more widely known and distributed Frémont map of 1845, Preuss's sectional map of 1846 has been insufficiently appreciated by students of Western history...." There are tables of meteorological observations and descriptive commentary on the map. Wheat illustrates all seven sections of the map. There were two issues of the map, the original 1846 issue, and that contained in the 1849 Rockwell report. This is the original 1846 separate issue, with the lithographer's imprint (E. Weber & Co., Baltimore) present, sheets III and VI properly numbered, etc. With old ink inscription on verso of final sheet, "Map from Missouri to Oregon No. 45." A few old light library marks in pencil to 1st sheet, incl. Withdrawn. Graff 3360; Wagner-Camp 115 (note); Wheat Transmississippi 523. Lot Amendments Condition: First sheet with slight marginal darkening, 2" tear to top margin, 1st two sheets with faint stain at lower left corner, last 3 sheets with some minor discoloration, the whole with single vertical crease, starting to split along spine strip, still very good or better, in original unrestored state. Item number: 193609