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Title: WITHDRAWN Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-'44 Author: Frémont, J[ohn] C[harles] Place: Washington Publisher: Blair & Rives Date: 1845 Description: As issued in House Executive Documents, 2nd Session, 28th Congress, Vol. 4, Part 2. The Fremont report is paginated: 583pp. Illustrated with 22 lithograph plates; 5 maps, 3 of them folding, including the large folding map which is bound in at p.321. The whole volumes is paginated xvi, 583, 43, 161 pp., the final section being David Dale Owen's Survey of the Mineral Lands in Iowa, Wisconsin and northern Illinois, with maps and plates. 22.5x14.5 cm. (9x5¾"), original sheep, leather spine label. Uncommon issue of the famous account, in the Executive Documents. The first portion of the work reprints Fremont's report of 1843, covering his 1842 expedition to the Rocky Mountains, the second portion records his expedition of 1843-1844, delineating the major sections of the route subsequently followed by thousands of Oregon immigrants. Wheat describes the map at great length, and attaches great importance to it: "The year 1845, however, though otherwise somewhat cartographically barren, because of a single event is in fact one of the towering years in the story of Western Cartography. In that year John C. Fremont's report of his journey to Oregon and California in 1843-44 was published. This report and the Fremont (Preuss) map which accompanied it, changed the entire picture of the West, and made a lasting contribution to cartography..." The map is in unusually nice condition, with a few neatly repaired tears. Cowan p. 223-4; Graff 1436; Howes F370; Wagner-Camp 115:2; Wheat Transmississippi Vol. II, pp. 194-200, Map 497; Zamorano 39. Lot Amendments Condition: Some normal wear to covers, but less than usual for this format, ink number to spine foot; some discoloration to page fore-edges, speckling to some of the plates, overall very good or better, with the bookplate of Western Reserve Historical Society. Item number: 220139