The History of Oregon and California, and the Other Territories of the North West Coast of North America, etc.

Robert Greenhow

Boston : Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1844

Rebound in modern 3/4 leather over marbled boards. Xviii, [2], 482 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.  Fold out map in front. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Library stamps and markings. Soiling to title page. "The possible destiny of the United States of America ..."--Coleridge's Table Talk."   Includes the engraved map; drawn by George H. Ringgold and engraved by E.F. Woodward. 58.2 x 65.5 cm. (22 3/4" x 25 3/4") plus margins. Map of the western half of North America used to illustrate Greenhow's History of California and Oregon, in defense of U.S. claims to Oregon. California contains all of present-day Nevada, Utah, Arizona and Baja California. "The paucity of information in the interior south of the Snake River shows how little was known of that entire region" - Wheat Transmississippi 481.  Howe 389.