Alpinia Nalani Cartographer_Pierre Francois Xavier de Charlevoix Striking Map of Oregon Territory

Striking Map of Oregon Territory from the United States' Largest Exploration Expedition

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120 handcolored lithographed plates heightened with gum arabic after Charles Bird King

Moran's work on the Hayden Survey was published in a series of lithographs titled "The Yellowstone National Park

published in New York in 1854

Alpinia Nalani Cartographer_Pierre Francois Xavier de Charlevoix Striking Map of Oregon TerritorySertum orchidaceum, an album so titled of watercolour drawings of orchids. English, mid nineteenth century Watercolour drawings of orchids and flowering plants, captioned at foot HIGHLY ACCOMPLISHED LARGE SCALE WATERCOLOUR DRAWINGS. A pencil note on the fly leaf reads These drawings are thought to be done by the wife of MacFarlane the celebrated orchid painter (i. e. James Laird MacFarlane, 1836 1913). PROVENANCE: Samuel Williams Fuller (c. 1777 1857)