14 folio volumes. Each with color and/or duo-tone lithographed maps, plus other illustrations and text leaves; (together, 55 total maps). Comprises: Folio 15: Lassen Park, California (3 maps & 2 plates with photos), 1895; Folio 30: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming (8 maps & 3 plates with photos), 1896; Folio 31: Pyramid Park, California (4 maps), 1896; Folio 48: Tenmile District Special Folio, Colorado (4 maps), 1898; Folio 51: Big Trees, California (3 maps & 1 plate with 5 photos), 1898; Folio 57: Telluride, Colorado (4 maps, 1 chart plate & 3 plates with photos), 1899; Folio 67: Danville, Illinois-Indiana (3 maps & 1 chart plate), 1900; Folio 70: Washington, DC, Maryland - Virginia (5 maps, 3 are double-page), 1901; Folio 74: Coalgate, Indian Territory (4 maps), 1901; Folio 101: San Luis, California (4 maps, 1 chart plate & 2 plates with photos), 1904; Folio 105: Patoka, Indiana - Illinois (2 maps, plate with 8 photos & 1 chart plate), 1904; Folio 195: Belleville-Breese, Illinois by J.A. Udden and E.W. Shaw (4 maps & 1 chart plate), 1915; Folio 208: Colchester-Macomb, Illinois by Henry Hinds (4 maps), 1919; and Folio Reprints Nos. 3,5 & 11: Placerville, Sacramento, and Jackson, California by Waldemar Lindgren and H.W. Turner (3 maps), originally 1894 (but 1914). 21¾x18½, original flexible black cloth-backed printed wrappers, each with a map design on the front cover. "Library Edition."
Printed by the U.S. Geological Survey, directed by Charles D. Walcott (and later by George Otis Smith). Small rubberstamps of C.T. Lupton on the front covers.
Condition:
Some darkening and soiling to covers, occasional scuffs, short tears and chips to edges; 1 cover cut in half and tape repaired; middle of 1 map torn and partially affixed to next map, contents mostly intact, maps bright and clean; very good overall.