82 pp. 29.5x22.8 cm (11½x9"), original green cloth stamped in gilt. Consist largely of data tables, one of Wheeler's reports from his western survey. "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). 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.
82 pp. 29.5x22.8 cm (11½x9"), original green cloth stamped in gilt. Consist largely of data tables, one of Wheeler's reports from his western survey. "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). 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.
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