Scenes In The Rocky Mountains, and in Oregon, California, New Mexico, Texas, and The Grand Prairies by SAGE, Rufus B. (1817-1893) - 1846

Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, 1846. 8vo., (7 2/8 x 4 6/8 inches). Large folding map ". of Oregon, California, New Mexico, N.W. Texas, & the proposed Territory of Ne-Braska. 1846" (unevenly browned, short repairs near the gutter) (a few pale mostly marginal stains). Original brown cloth decorated in blind (rebacked preserving the original spine). Provenance: Near contemporary penciled ownership inscription of Nicholas Moritz on the front free endpaper. First edition, second issue (with page numbers 77-88, 270-271, and 302 correctly placed in outer margin). Preceded by a limited issue of 100 copies in wrappers published without the map. The celebrated map is the first to show the new Oregon boundary, the earliest delineations of "Ne-braska" and the ever increasingly used routes to California. Sage's is an "intelligent narrative of extensive travels from the Platte to the Arkansas, including the best contemporary account of Snively's abortive land-pirate expedition" (Howes). Cowan pp. 548-9; Field 1345; "Fifty Texas Rarities" 30; Graff 3633; Howes S-16 ("b"); Mintz 402; Rader 2870; Sabin 74892; Streeter V:3049; Wagner-Camp-Becker 123:1; Wheat "Mapping the Transmississippi West" 527; Wheat "Maps of the California Gold Rush" 30. .