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Lithographed pictorial title-page, "Legend" [i.e. contents] leaf, & 6 color or duotone lithographed maps. (folio) 48.5x61 cm (19x24"), original half morocco and plain cloth.

Rare atlas publishing the first maps from the Wheeler Survey, comprising

• Progress Map of the Lines and Ares of Explorations and Surveys... [showing the U.S. west of the Mississippi].
• Map of the Areas of Drainage to the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and of the Interior Basins of the Territory of the United States West of the Mississippi River.
• Central & Western Utah, Atlas Sheet Number 50.
• Southwestern Utah, Atlas Sheet Number 59.
• Parts of E. California, S.E. Nevada, N.W. Arizona, and S.W. Utah, Atlas Sheet Number 66.
• Parts of Eastern & Southeastern Nevada, and Southwestern Utah, Atlas Sheet Number 58.

An engraved card is affixed to the top left of the title-sheet, reading: "With the compliments of George M. Wheeler, First Lieut. Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army, Advance Sheets."

Provenance: Holmes, 5/75

References: P-LG 1281 has all of the maps resulting from this survey. Karrow, George M. Wheeler and the Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian, in Exploration and Mapping of the American West Selected Essays, Map and Geography Round Table of the American Library Association Speculum Orbis Press 1986, pp 120-157.