first edition
1850 · Washington City
by Derby, Lt. George Horatio
Washington City: Government Printing Office, 1850. First State. Very Good Plus. [Neatline 20.5x19.25in, Sheet 23.25x21in]; Title in lower left corner with stylized lettering; A lithograph map of Northern California from just south of Monterey to just north of Sacramento and from the Pacific Ocean to the Sierra foothills; Showing General Bennet Riley's route through the mining districts with dates visiting the mining camps in the Sierra foothills; The map is printed on thin paper and laid flat with fold creases evident, outer vertical right neatline trimmed, archival repaired closed tear at top right edge. a few light foxing spots in upper and lower right. (truncated)