1882 Britton & Rey - California railroad guide for German immigrants [first edition]
1882 Guide for German immigrants with up-to-date California rail routes
Californien. Veröffentlicht von der Einwanderungs-gesellschaft von Californien. ("The Immigration Association of California.") San Francisco. No. 10 California Str. (wrapper title)
Immigration Association of California, Druck des "California Demokrat"
22.5 x 14.5 cm (9 x 5¾ in)
Colored details
This first edition booklet was issued to attract prospective emigrants from Germany to California. The text provides a brief description of California and its society, with practical information such as the cost of goods and prevailing wages for unskilled and skilled labor.
The map is: "Reduced Map of the State of California Compiled Expressly for The Immigration Association of California San Francisco,"" lithographed by Britton & Rey. Below references in a printed note in red ink: ""Red ink denotes additions after proof."
The map is Goddard's reduced map of the state, first published in 1858 and reissued in 1871 with the addition of railroads. This issue also shows the railroads, brought up to date. The map was also used for other publications, without Goddard's name. The additions in red ink are the names of counties and county boundaries.
OCLC/WorldCat lists only five copies of the booklet.
The wonderful representation of the push to populate the American west, an important cultural document for both German and American history.
Booklet is 15 pages and measures 41 x 33 cm (16 x 13 in). 8vo, with original yellow printed wrappers. A little soiling to wrappers, map with short edge tear; very good or better.
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1879 Cram - Railroad & Township Map of California [large-format edition]
1875 F. T. Newberry - Map of the Southern Pacific Rail Road and Connections [earliest known]
1879 Goddard - Britton and Rey's Reduced Map of the State of California
1859 Colton California with San Francisco [Buena Vista & Frezno county names]
1848 Fremont/Preuss - Map of Oregon and Upper California from the surveys of John Charles Fremont and others authorities drawn by Charles Preuss
1877 British Hydrographic Office - Pacific Ocean. Eastern Part. Cape Corrientes, Mexico to Kadiak Island...
1873 Colton - California and Nevada
1863 Bryant & Co. - Las Mariposas Estate, Mariposas County, California