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Lot 19
Sale 6370 - The Collected Library
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Nov 26, 2025
Lots Close
Dec 11, 2025
Timed Online / Philadelphia
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Lot Description
[Americana] Fremont, John C. A Report on an Exploration of the Country between the Missouri and Rocky Mountains, on the Line of the Kansas and Great Platte Rivers
Washington, D.C.: by order of the United States' Senate, 1843. First edition. 8vo. 5 (of 6) plates only, also lacking folding map. Disbound but sewn, unopened and uncut; folding case; title-page and a few other leaves remargined, two small repairs near center. Graff 1437; Howes F-371; Sabin 25843; Streeter sale V:3130; Wheat Transmississippi 464.
"Fremont's first expedition to the Rockies was designed by his father-in-law, Sen. Thomas Hart Benton, to publicize the overland route to Oregon" (Wagner-Camp-Becker 95). Though this route was well-known to fur traders at the time, it was still outside the general public's knowledge.
Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Ephemeral Americana and Historical Documents
This lot is located in Chicago.