[Dehly, F.M.]: [Pumphrey, William Henry]:

$2,750 · Offered by William Reese Company · No longer available

W.H. PUMPHREY'S MAP OF WESTERN WASHINGTON. An impressive and uncommon map of northwest Washington state and southwestern British Columbia, and the largest obtainable map of this period for the Pacific Northwest. The map was drawn by F.M. Dehly, a draftsman for the Seattle civil engineering firm of Thomson & White, credited in the title as compiling the map from "Official Records and Personal Reconnaissance." The area of the map extends from Bowen Island (across the Gulf of Georgia from Vancouver Island) in the north, south to Tilamook County in far-north Oregon, with the Columbia River as the effective southern boundary line. The map is bounded in the east by a north-south line running just east of Glacier Peak in Snohomish County and on the west by western Vancouver Island and the Pacific Ocean.The map is a cornucopia of detail for the development of Washington state in the last decade of the 19th century, depicting county boundaries, elevations, cities and townships, various plat grids, rivers, gulfs, bays, harbors, canals, shipping lanes, islands, mountains, railroad lines, Native American reservations, and the international boundary line between the United States and Canada. Notable landmarks include the cities of Seattle, Tacoma, and Olympia, along with Mount Rainier, Vancouver Island, the Columbia River, and the Quinaiult Indian Reservation.One of the owners of the firm who produced the map, Reginald Heber Thomson, was among the most important early surveyors and engine

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