Mapping the Transmississippi West.1540-1861

by Carl Wheat

$3,500 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

First edition

San Francisco: Grabhorn et al., 1957-63. 5 volumes in 6, folio, original beige cloth with green buckram spines lettered in gilt. Illustrated throughout with facsimile maps, many of which are folding; color frontispieces. A fine set as issued. § Limited to 1000 sets, all designed by The Grabhorn Press. First Edition. A monumental and exceptionally thorough work detailing our expanding knowledge of the American West, unlikely to be surpassed. Vol. I was printed

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