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. Very good. Item #50915
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.
Price: $2,000.00