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Title: The Traveller's and Tourist's Guide through the United States of America, Canada, etc. Containing the Routes of Travel by Railroad, Steamboat, Stage and Canal... Accompanied by an entirely new and authentic Map of the United States, including California, Oregon, Etc... Author: Williams, W[ellington] Place: Philadelphia Publisher: J.B. Lippincott Date: 1855 Description: 246 pp. With large folding lithographed map, hand-colored in outline that measures. 14.3x9 cm. (5½x3½"), original tan cloth, front cover lettered in gilt. The map is dated 1854, and titled "A New Map of the United States, upon which are delineated its vast works of Internal Communication, Routes across the Continent &c. Showing also Canada and the Island of Cuba," measures 61.5x74 cm. (24x29"). Spectacular map of the United States, the main map covering the eastern states to beyond the Mississippi, with large portions of Texas, Nebraska, "part of the North-West Territory," etc. There is a large inset at lower right, "Map of California, Oregon, New Mexico, Utah, &c.," covering those portions not on the main map, and smaller insets of Havana, of Cuba, and of Niagara Falls. The map in its present form was first issued in 1852, and Wheat records that issue and this one of 1854; there were several others. Wheat, in describing the map, concentrates on the inset of the West, "which is largely based on Fremont but which carries much up-to-date information..." In California, the Gold Region is named; Utah covers Nevada and part of Colorado, the remainder of which is consumed by Nebraska; Washington and Oregon both extend eastward to the Rockies, beyond which is the aforementioned North-West Territory; New Mexico includes present Arizona, with pre-Gadsden southern border. Wheat Transmississippi 769 & 818. Lot Amendments Condition: Volume with heavily worn cloth covers, cracked hinges and foxing; map very lightly foxed, paper repairs at many creases on verso; very good. Item number: 221733