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Lot 65

THE ROAD TO CALIFORNIA'S GOLD REGION.
ATWOOD, J.M., artist and engraver.
Map of the United States The British Provinces Mexico & c. Showing the Routes of the U.S. Mail Steam Packets to California, and a Plan of the Gold Region. New York: J.H. Colton, 1849.

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THE ROAD TO CALIFORNIA'S GOLD REGION.

ATWOOD, J.M., artist and engraver. Map of the United States The British Provinces Mexico & c. Showing the Routes of the U.S. Mail Steam Packets to California, and a Plan of the Gold Region. New York: J.H. Colton, 1849.
Engraved map, with original hand coloring, 540 x 663 mm, inset engraving "Pyramid Lake, Upper California," detail of California Gold Rush region expanded and hand-colored, with borders and mail routes hand-colored, laid down on paper, restoration.

THE FIRST COLTON MAP TO SHOW THE GOLD REGIONS OF CALIFORNIA. "This map is the same as the map in Fayette Robinson's California and its Gold Regions, New York, 1849, but here it is on this paper and in the Robinson book it is on thick paper. Emigrant routes from Independence to Walla Walla, to San Francisco via Bent's Fort, to San Diego via Bent's Fort and Santa Fe, and to San Diego from the Texas coast via Mexico, are shown by blue lines. This appears to be the first Colton map showing the gold fields. -TWS" (Streeter Sale 2534). Wheat Gold Regions 70.

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