Author: Duflot de Mofras, Eugene.
Title: Exploration du Territoire de l'Oregon des Californies et de la Mer Vermeille execute pendant les annees 1840 1841 et 1842. [Atlas-volume only]
Description: Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1844. 2 title-pages and 1 index-page. 1 large folded hand-coloured steel-engraved map, 13 steel-engr. plates with 21 b./w. maps (inc. one folded double-page), 1 b./w. steel-engraved plan and 3 b./w. lithographed plates. Unbound in three original blue publishers wrappers (as published). Most fly-leaves present. Folio. In costum-made blue cloth (modern) box with title. - Some foxing throughout (map in good condition) some plates very slightly worn at the corners, folded map minimally frayed along the extremities; paper-wrappers worn and torn along the folds with some losses (though generally not affecting the front-wrappers; tears restored with japanese fiber.* Very rare publication on California. All plates present, plate number one mentioned in the index is -in fact- the very large and decorative map of California. Atlas-volume only. Rare in this unbound condition. Cf. Graff 1169. Sabin 211.

Keywords: Ethnography America California Etnografie Noord-Amerika Californië