Mapping the Transmississippi West
SF: Institute of Historical Cartography, 1957-63. Hardcover. First Edition. 1000cc designed by the Grabhorn Press. xiv, 254pp+ index; xiii, 271pp+ index; xiii, 338pp+ index; xiii, 249pp+ index; xviii, 222pp; 223-442pp+ index. Five volumes in six, illustrated throughout with facsimile maps, many of which are folding; color frontispieces. 14x10", A very good set bound in publisher's green cloth-backed beige cloth, spines lettered in gilt. An essential, monumental and exceptionally thorough work detailing the cartography of the American west from Coronado's "entrada" in 1540 through the U.S. Geological Survey in 1884. Volume one: The Spanish Entrada to the Louisiana Purchase; Volume two: From Lewis and Clark to Fremont 1804-1845; Volume three: The Mexican War to the Boundary Survey 1846-1854; Volume four: Pacific Railroad Surveys to the Onset of the Civil War 1855-1860; Volume five parts one and two: Civil War to the Geological Survey. Item #50915
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