Beschreibung:

8°. Mit 1 gef. Karte. 94 SS. Br. mit Rückenfalz (Papier stellenweise etw. braunfleckig).

Bemerkung:

Early report and map of Death Valley. With map: Preliminary Topographical Map embracing in skeleton a portion only of the notes from Surveys made in accordance with ... and letter of instructions of Brig. General A. A. Humphreys ... March 23rd 1871. Conducted under the immediate direction of 1st Lieutenant Geo. M. Wheeler assisted by 1st Lieutenant D. W. Lockwood ... and 2nd Lieutenant D. A. Lyle ... during the Summer and Fall of 1871. Louis Nell Chief Topographer and Draughtsman (Am. Photo-Lithographic Co. N. Y., ca. 70 x 55 cm). In general the map displays a portion of Nevada extending south from Battle Mountain and Elko, together with parts of California south and west of the oblique boundary (especially Death Valley and environs), as far as the Sierra Nevada and San Bernardino, and a diagonal cross-section of Arizona, from Callville in Nevada, past Prescott and Wickenburg, to Tucson. Enough of the West is shown to give the map great interest.