http://americamaps.com/Site/West_%26_Northwest.html California as an island, the Great American Desert... the cartography of America’s vast region beyond the Mississippi River is particularly fascinating, to a great extent because so little of it was known to us, so late. http://americamaps.com/Site/West_%26_Northwest.html#0 d1034e3b-df4d-407d-8724-71e69d359b8a http://americamaps.com/Site/West_%26_Northwest_files/Media/janszur/thumb.jpg http://americamaps.com/Site/West_%26_Northwest_files/Media/janszur/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_213_126"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style">Mar del Zur Hispanis Mare Pacificum<br/></p><p class="paragraph_style_1">Jansson, c.1650, Amsterdam. 18X22”<br/></p><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_2">First edition of the first chart of the Pacific Ocean and first to depict California as an island. The recently discovered coastlines of Australia and New Zealand are shown, but no Hawaii. That would come more than a century later.  $2,750</p></div></div> http://americamaps.com/Site/West_%26_Northwest.html#1 14ad64f4-5371-449f-bc8c-f06d96f705c3 http://americamaps.com/Site/West_%26_Northwest_files/Media/IMG_0268/thumb.jpg http://americamaps.com/Site/West_%26_Northwest_files/Media/IMG_0268/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_213_126"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_3"><span style="line-height: 14px; " class="style_2">Carte des Voyages du Cap. Carver</span><span style="line-height: 14px; " class="style_3"><br/></span></p><p class="paragraph_style_4">Carver/Benard, 1784, Paris.  11X14”<br/></p><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_5">Carver’s map is the first printed map   to name Oregon (on a small lake in the West), though it is centered on the Upper Midwest and present Wisconsin. Carver penetrated into the West farther than any Englishman before the Revolution. With book in French.  $750</p></div></div> http://americamaps.com/Site/West_%26_Northwest.html#2 e3ad106c-e1c8-4e06-9982-5a5b2e06b327 http://americamaps.com/Site/West_%26_Northwest_files/Media/Brue3439/thumb.jpg http://americamaps.com/Site/West_%26_Northwest_files/Media/Brue3439/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_213_126"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_6">Nouvelle Carte du Mexique, du Texas<br/></p><p class="paragraph_style_7">Brue/Piquet, 1845/1846, Paris. 36x24”<br/></p><p class="paragraph_style_8">Large, scarce map, a milestone in the exploration of the West. Texas, a republic in the title and in the key, apparently has been newly updated as part of the United States. Russian possessions in California.  Marginal tears, fold splits reinforced.  $4,950<br/></p><p class="paragraph_style_8"><br/></p></div></div> http://americamaps.com/Site/West_%26_Northwest.html#3 1053e374-469b-4c75-80aa-0cc3adb96d3d http://americamaps.com/Site/West_%26_Northwest_files/Media/IMG_0134/thumb.jpg http://americamaps.com/Site/West_%26_Northwest_files/Media/IMG_0134/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_213_126"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_6">Nuova California<br/></p><p class="paragraph_style_7">Marzolla, 1851, Naples.  14x20 inches<br/></p><p class="paragraph_style_2">Uncommon Italian map highlighting the   discovery of gold in California, whose border reaches nearly to Santa Fe. Extensive texts describe California and the “Deserto di California.” Shows missions, trails, etc. Inset of the San Francisco Bay-Monterey area.  $1,250<br/></p><p class="paragraph_style_8"> <br/></p></div></div> http://americamaps.com/Site/West_%26_Northwest.html#4 ef5d9374-4ee5-4ba8-b0a9-b1ce671d81cf http://americamaps.com/Site/West_%26_Northwest_files/Media/sanlos21/thumb.jpg http://americamaps.com/Site/West_%26_Northwest_files/Media/sanlos21/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_213_126"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_9">Maps of the Pacific Railroad Surveys<br/></p><p class="paragraph_style_4">Military surveyors in mid-1850s; sizes vary c.17x20” to 24x36”, some larger.<br/></p><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_5">Maps of the great survey of rail routes to the Pacific across the Upper Midwest, the Plains, and Southwest, many with the first detail of their areas. This is from San Francisco to Los Angeles ($200). Inquire for list.</p></div></div> http://americamaps.com/Site/West_%26_Northwest.html#5 afa9457f-0fe1-46ee-b29d-d5779e06d885 http://americamaps.com/Site/West_%26_Northwest_files/Media/NW030sfran/thumb.jpg http://americamaps.com/Site/West_%26_Northwest_files/Media/NW030sfran/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_213_126"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_10">San Francisco (untitled)<br/></p><p class="paragraph_style_10"><span class="style_4">Hildebrandt (Wagner), c.1865, Berlin.</span> <span class="style_4">11x14.5 inches</span><br/></p><p class="paragraph_style_11">This scarce original chromolithograph by R. Wagner is after a famous set of watercolors painted by the German artist Hildebrandt from his world travels. The view is California Street to Nob Hill. Mounted, as issued.  $1,850 <br/></p><p class="paragraph_style_12"><br/></p></div></div>