[Rarebooks] FS: Carl Wheat's unsurpassed folio set of "Mapping the Transmississippi West"

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(AMERICANA) Wheat, Carl I. MAPPING THETRANSMISSISSIPPI WEST. 1540-1861. San Francisco: Institute for HistoricalCartography. 1957-1963. First edition. Folio (14" x 10"). 5 volumesin 6. Illustrated throughout with facsimile maps, many of which are folding;and color frontispieces. Edition limited to 1,000 sets, designed by TheGrabhorn Press. Green over beige linen, spines lettered in gilt. A fine set.   $2,500.00 (trade discount allowed)
Amonumental and exceptionally thorough work detailing our expanding knowledge ofthe American West and unlikely to be surpassed. Vol. 1 was printed by The GrabhornPress; Vols. 2-5 followed the Grabhorn design but were printed by Taylor &Taylor & James. Vol. 1: The Spanish Entrada to the Louisiana Purchase,1540-1804; Vol. 2: From Lewis and Clark to Fremont, 1804-1845; Vol. 3: TheMexican War to the Boundary Survey, 1846-1854; Vol. 4: Pacific Railroad Surveyto the Onset of the Civil War, 1855-1860; Vol. 5 (parts 1 & 2): Civil Warto the Geological Survey. GRABHORN BIBLIOGRAPHY #590.
 
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