Lot 976: PREUSS, CHARLES

PREUSS, CHARLES 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 ... From the field notes and journal of Capt. J. C. Frémont. Baltimore: E. Weber & Co., 1846 Seven lithographed maps (each 16 x 26 1/4 in.; 406 x 666 mm); occasional light spotting, some browning in the folds of maps 6-7. Joined at right edge by a paper strip, in a green cloth folding case.

Graff 3360; Wagner-Camp 115; Wheat Transmississippi 523

"An extraordinary map by a master cartographer" (Graff).

Georg Karl Ludwig Preuss (1803-1854) was a surveyor and cartographer who accompanied John C. Frémont on his first expedition to survey the American west. His overland guide map, not to be confused with those found in Frémont's published reports, records daily stopping places along with notes on the topography, water, wood, fauna, Indians, and other subjects the traveller would require. Each map has its own title and maps 2–7 have extracts from Frémont's report on that region.