[BIBLIOGRAPHIES -- CARTOGRAPHY]. WHEAT, Carl Irving (1892-1966). Mapping the Transmississippi West. San Francisco: [Grabhorn Press for] The Institute of Historical Cartography, 1957-1963.

5 parts in 6 volumes, large folio. Titles printed in red and black, color-printed frontispieces in each volume, numerous facsimile maps, many folding. Original green cloth-backed linen boards, gilt-lettered spines, uncut (some light dampstaining at end of vol. 4, else fine).

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, one of 1000 copies, each designed by the Grabhorn Press, this monumental work that details our expanding knowledge of the unknown American West from the first Spanish forays to the U.S. Government sponsored surveys of the 1860s.