Title: Report upon United States Geographical Surveys, West of the One Hundredth Meridian... Vol. I - Geographical Report Author: Wheeler, George M. Place: Washington Publisher: Government Printing Office Date: 1889 Description: 780 pp. Illustrated with dozens of lithographed plates and maps, most duotone but including some chromolithographs, some double-page; plus 3 large folding maps. 11½x9, cloth. 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. Errata slip and presentation slip tipped to title-page. Lot Amendments Condition: Rubbing and wear to covers, shaken, title-page and conjugate blank detached, else very good. Item number: 163723
Title: Report upon United States Geographical Surveys, West of the One Hundredth Meridian... Vol. I - Geographical Report Author: Wheeler, George M. Place: Washington Publisher: Government Printing Office Date: 1889 Description: 780 pp. Illustrated with dozens of lithographed plates and maps, most duotone but including some chromolithographs, some double-page; plus 3 large folding maps. 11½x9, cloth. 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. Errata slip and presentation slip tipped to title-page. Lot Amendments Condition: Rubbing and wear to covers, shaken, title-page and conjugate blank detached, else very good. Item number: 163723
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