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Report upon United States Geographical Surveys, West of the One Hundredth Meridian Author: Wheeler, George M. Place: Washington Publisher: Government Printing Office Date: 1875-1889 Description: 7 volumes in 8. Profusely illustrated with plates and maps throughout. (4to) 29x22 cm (11½x8½"), various bindings and rebindings, original cloth laid down, lettering on spines in gilt. Scarce series of Wheeler’s reports with the diverse plates in chromolithography, in heliotype, etc. 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. Includes: Volume I: Geographical Report. Illustrated with dozens of lithographed plates and maps, most duotone but including some chromolithographs, some double-page; plus 3 large folding maps. Errata slip tipped in at title. 1889. (Front joint tender; hinges reinforced and tender, a few plates loose and laid in) Volume II: Astronomy and Barometric Hypsometry. Illustrated with lithographed plates and charts, one topographical folding map. 1877. (Ex libris bookplate on pastedown, decimal system sticker on spine) Volume III: Geology. Illustrated with 14 plates, including maps, heliotypes, and duotone lithographed views. 1875. Errata slip tipped in after title. (Rebound with modern cloth backstrip and sticker spine label; hinges tender) Volume III Supplement: With 4 plates, 3 folding color map sheets in rear pouch. 1881. (Front joint tender; hinges tender) Volume IV: Paleontology. Illustrated with 83 lithograph plates of fossils. 1877. (Rebacked with original spine strip laid down; ex libris bookplate on pastedown, front hinge tender) Volume V: Zoology. Illustrated with 15 chromolithographs of birds; 10 lithograph plates of reptiles (a few color); 8 lithograph plates of fish; 7 of lithograph plates of insects; 6 chromolithograph plates of butterflies. 1875. (Rebacked with original spine strip laid down, 1 inch piece of top of strip lost; front hinge cracked, rear hinge tender) Volume VI: Botany. Illustrated with chromolithograph frontispiece of cactus; and 30 lithograph botanical plates. 1878. (Ex libris bookplate on pastedown, decimal system sticker on spine) Volume VII: Archeology. Illustrated with 16 heliotype plates (mostly of artifacts) plus 5 chromolithographed plates, including the frontispiece of the Zuni Cachina dance. 1879. (Joints slightly split near top of spine) "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). Due to the size and/or weight of this lot extra shipping and/or handling charges may apply. Lot Amendments Condition: Various degrees of wear to cloth, sunning and fading to original spine strips; maps and plates occasionally foxed, some small tears, no loss, some marginal foxing and toning; generally very good. Item number: 312191