Eight volumes total. With numerous, maps, profiles, sections, views, etc., most folding, many in color. (8vo) 23x14.8 cm (9x5¾"), cloth or cloth-backed boards or cloth-backed wrappers. Significant series of reports with important maps and plans. 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. "Representing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Wheeler surveyed some 361,000 square miles of the southwest... 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). Includes: Annual Report Upon the Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the One Hundreth Meridian... Appendix LL. 2 folding maps & 8 plates. 1875. Annual Report... Appendix JJ. 10 folding maps & 1 plate. 1876. Annual Report... Appendix NN. 1 folding map, 1 single-sheet map, 1 folding profile. 1877. Annual Report... Appendix NN. 2 folding maps, 6 plates. 1878. Maps and Panoramas: Twelfth Annual Report... 9 folding maps & 1 folding view, loose in cloth folder as issued (covers stained, lacking ties). 1878. U.S. Geographical Surveys... Topographical and Land Classification Atlas Sheets. 8 folding maps, loose in cloth folder as issued (covers lacking ties). 1878. Annual Report... Appendix OO. 5 folding maps, 1 plate.1879. Annual Report... Appendix PP. 1 foldimg map. 1889.
Eight volumes total. With numerous, maps, profiles, sections, views, etc., most folding, many in color. (8vo) 23x14.8 cm (9x5¾"), cloth or cloth-backed boards or cloth-backed wrappers. Significant series of reports with important maps and plans. 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. "Representing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Wheeler surveyed some 361,000 square miles of the southwest... 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). Includes: Annual Report Upon the Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the One Hundreth Meridian... Appendix LL. 2 folding maps & 8 plates. 1875. Annual Report... Appendix JJ. 10 folding maps & 1 plate. 1876. Annual Report... Appendix NN. 1 folding map, 1 single-sheet map, 1 folding profile. 1877. Annual Report... Appendix NN. 2 folding maps, 6 plates. 1878. Maps and Panoramas: Twelfth Annual Report... 9 folding maps & 1 folding view, loose in cloth folder as issued (covers stained, lacking ties). 1878. U.S. Geographical Surveys... Topographical and Land Classification Atlas Sheets. 8 folding maps, loose in cloth folder as issued (covers lacking ties). 1878. Annual Report... Appendix OO. 5 folding maps, 1 plate.1879. Annual Report... Appendix PP. 1 foldimg map. 1889.
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