American Topographer: The Working Years of George Stanley Druhot 1914 1983 by George S. Druhot - 1987-06-01

Rancho Cordova CA, Landmark Enterprises, 1985, hardcover, x-238 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Fine in Fine dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings in like dustjacket. A chronicle of the latter decades of the mapping of America when the work was, in many respects, as much an art as it was a science. Illustrated with 35 black-&-white photographs. Index appended. ISBN 9780910845250

Rancho Cordova. CA.: Landmark Enterprises., 1987. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover 1987 edition. Text and boards in very good condition. Dust jacket shows minor top edge chipping. Clipping to corner of half-title page. Binding firm. Pages unmarked and clean. (238 pages).

Rancho Cordova, California, U.S.A.: Landmark Enterprises, 1985. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Cloth hardbound in dust jacket, 238 pp., clean unmarked text, near fine copy in near fine dust jacket, slight rubbing/soil to dust jacket, slightest wear to tips.

Rancho Cordova, California:: Landmark Enterprises,, (1985.). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy, still in shrinkwrap.). First printing. Autobiography covering five decades of working as a topographer for the US Geological Survey, across 22 Western states and the territory of Hawaii, spanning two world wars, the Depression, and the coming of age of modern topographic mapping (in fact, Druhot was one of the pioneers of the use of aerial photography in topography.) Also includes information about his wife, and his family, who traveled with him throughout the West - to mining country in California (the mother lode, but also Sonoma County and more), Montana, Utah, Arizona and more - - even a chapter on mapping the Olympics. Includes photographs taken by the author that illustrate much about the life on the traveling survey crews of the early 20th century, and it has a picture of the official USGS wagon wheel survey techniques. Endpaper maps of Oahu, Hawaii. Brief… Read More

Hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.