1872 · [N.p
by [Northwest Boundary Survey
[N.p, 1872. Twenty-three (of twenty-four) map leaves plus lithographic titlepage and index map. Oblong folio. Contemporary pebbled cloth, rebacked in black cloth. Hinges internally cracked, corners bumped. Ex-lib. with two library perforation stamps and two ink stamps. Titlepage reinforced at gutter. Internally quite clean. Lacks map 18, else good. An important atlas of the joint United States and Great Britain northern boundary survey. The fine lithographed maps detail the region surrounding the forty-ninth parallel. Archibald Campbell was commissioner of the United States organization, while D.R. Cameron headed the British crew. The maps begin in northern Minnesota and run west to the continental divide
(Inventory #: WRCAM17927)