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Title: Report Upon United States Geographical Surveys West of the One Hundredth Meridian...Vol. I-Geographical Report Author: Wheeler, Geo[rge] M. Place: Washington Publisher: Government Printing Office Date: 1889 Description: 780 pp. Illustrated with 38 lithographed plates and maps, most duotone but including 4 in color, and 3 double-page plates, plus 3 large folding maps. 29.2x23 cm. (11½x9¼"), original cloth. With errata slip tipped-in at title page. First volume in Wheeler's massive report on the surveys of the West he directed, with many notable lithographed plates, 3 important maps, etc. "Representing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Wheeler surveyed some 361,000 square miles of the southwest between 1869 and 1979...Wheeler's primary objective was to prepare a detailed topographic map of the West. In pursuit of this goal he divided the area of the West into ninety-five 'principal' rectangles, each rectangle comprising 2 degrees 45' minutes of longitude and 1 degree 40' minutes of latitude, to be covered in four atlas sheets." (Schwartz & Ehrenberg, pp. 304-306). Wheeler's survey was the most ambitious of the great post-Civil War surveys of the West, in the area covered and in the breadth of attention paid to the natural sciences. Lot Amendments Condition: Moderately rubbed extremities, library number in white ink on spine; rubber stamp on front pastedown and verso of title page; binding shaken; very short stub-tear to each map; else contents clean and bright and near fine; very good. Item number: 217572