Report upon the Determination of the Astronomical Coordinates of the Primary Stations at Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory, and Colorado Springs, Colorado Territory, made during the years 1872 and 1873, Geographical and Geological Explorations and Surveys West of the One Hundredth Meridian

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82 pages with tables and figures. Folio (11 3/4" x 9 1/4") bound in original publisher's dark green cloth with gilt lettering lettering and blind stamped ruled edges. First edition.

George Montague Wheeler was an American pioneering explorer and cartographer, leader of the Wheeler Survey, one of the major surveys of the western United States in the late nineteenth century. In 1872, the US Congress authorized an ambitious plan to map the portion of the United States west of the 100th meridian at a scale of 8 miles to the inch. This plan necessitated what became known as the Wheeler Survey, lasting until 1879, when the survey, along with the King and Powell Surveys, were terminated and their work was reorganized as the United States Geological Survey.

Condition: Wheeler's gift plate to front paste down, corners bumped and rubbed though, heavy damp staining to upper edges, some underlining and marginalia, spine head bumped and rubbed through else a fair copy.

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Report upon the Determination of the Astronomical Coordinates of the Primary Stations at Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory, and Colorado Springs, Colorado Territory, made during the years 1872 and 1873, Geographical and Geological Explorations and Surveys West of the One Hundredth Meridian

Editor

Government Printing Office, Washington DC

Fecha de publicación

1874

Idioma

Inglés

Encuadernación

Hardcover

Edición

1st Edition

Estado

Fair

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• Exploration and Voyages