Wheat, Carl E

MAPPING THE TRANSMISSISSIPPI WEST, 1540-1861

      San Francisco: Institute for Historical Cartography. First edition. Limited Edition of 1000 copies. Hard cover. Fine in fine dust jacket. A Near Fine Set In Near Fine Original Plain Brown Dust Wrappers. Exceedingly Scarce Complete Set.. 6 volume set. Includes: illustrations, diagrams, maps, index. The product of over 25 years of scholarly research by the foremost authority in the field, this is the most important study of the exploration and the cartographic recording of the American West. Volume I printed by the Grabhorn Press; Volumes 2-5 by Taylor & Taylor and James Printing from the Grabhorn design. Vol. I: The Spanish Entrada to the Louisiana Purchase, 1540-1804. Vol. II: From Lewis and Clark to Fremont, 1804-1845. Vol. III: From the Mexican War to the Boundary Surveys, 1846-1854. Vol IV: From the Pacific Railroad Surveys to the Onset of the Civil War, 1855-1860. Vol. V, Parts One & Two: From the Civil War to the Geological Survey. Each volume bound in gray linen cloth, with green buckram spine with gilt lettering.