63, [1] pp. With folding hand-colored lithographed map, sectioned and backed with linen. 23x15 cm (9x6"), period pebbled cloth, lettered in gilt. First Edition. The folding map is "Las Mariposas Estate, Mariposa County, California. Containing 44,386 83/100 Acres Or 70 Square Miles," lithographed by Sarony, Major & Knapp, measuring 66.5x54 cm (26¼x21¼"). Streeter notes "It is the best map of the country about Mariposas I have yet seen." Cowan p.415; Peters p.187; Streeter 2865. Promotional piece for the Mariposas scheme; a brainchild of John C. Fremont, who saw it as the making of his fortune, but who was ultimately bankrupted by it. The report consists of letters to him from various experts, testifying to the mineral bearing nature and rich deposits to be found on the property. The deposits did not prove out as anticipated, and many beside Fremont took a plunge.
63, [1] pp. With folding hand-colored lithographed map, sectioned and backed with linen. 23x15 cm (9x6"), period pebbled cloth, lettered in gilt. First Edition. The folding map is "Las Mariposas Estate, Mariposa County, California. Containing 44,386 83/100 Acres Or 70 Square Miles," lithographed by Sarony, Major & Knapp, measuring 66.5x54 cm (26¼x21¼"). Streeter notes "It is the best map of the country about Mariposas I have yet seen." Cowan p.415; Peters p.187; Streeter 2865. Promotional piece for the Mariposas scheme; a brainchild of John C. Fremont, who saw it as the making of his fortune, but who was ultimately bankrupted by it. The report consists of letters to him from various experts, testifying to the mineral bearing nature and rich deposits to be found on the property. The deposits did not prove out as anticipated, and many beside Fremont took a plunge.
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