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6 volumes (only). Comprises: Volume I--Geographical Report. Illustrated with dozens of lithographed plates and maps, most duotone but including some chromolithographs, some double-page; plus 3 large folding maps.1889. * Volume II--Astronomy and Barometric Hypsometry. Illustrated with lithographed maps on folding plates and folding charts. 1877. * Volume III—Geology. Illustrated with 14 plates, including maps, heliotypes, and duotone lithographed views. 1875. * Volume V—Zoology. Illustrated with 15 chromolithographs of birds; 10 lithograph plates of reptiles (a few color); 8 lithograph plates of fish; 7 of lithograph plates of insects; 6 chromolithograph plates of butterflies. 1875. * Volume VI—Botany. Illustrated with chromolithograph frontispiece of cactus; and 30 lithograph botanical plates. 1878. * Volume VII—Archeology. Illustrated with 16 heliotype plates (mostly of artifacts) plus 5 chromolithographed plates, including the frontispiece of the Zuni Cachina dance. 1879. Together, 6 volumes. 11¾x8¾, original cloth. Mixed Editions.

Scarce series of Wheeler’s reports with the diverse plates in chromolithography, in heliotype, etc. Vol. III is bears the printed "with compliments" slip of Wheeler. "Representing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Wheeler surveyed some 361,000 square miles of the southwest between 1869 and 1979...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.