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MEMORIAL OF WILIIAM C. RALSTON, BORN AT WELLSVILLE, OHIO JANUARY 12, 1826. DIED AT SAN FRANCISCO, AUGUST 27, 1875.
San Francisco. Alta California. 1875. First edition. Brown flexible boards. "Ralston" in gilt Ex.library book from The Pacific Union Club in San Francisco with its book plate on inside of front cover, some cracking of cloth along spine edge and lower corners, else very good. 43 pages. 9x6.
Tipped in frontis. port. Cowan I, p.184. Newspaper article re death of Mrs. Ralston and re Ralston tipped in. Also tipped-in rear is a letter from an R.D. Lapham transmitting a copy of a manifest from steam ship, "New Orleans" showing the master as W. C. Ralston.
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100.00 USD
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Anderson, Alexander D., THE SILVER COUNTRY OR THE GREAT SOUTHWEST.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1877. First edition. Brown cloth, map on front cover and gilt spine tit There is waterstaining along the margins but generally doesn't affect text, the cloth is somewhat worn and the corners are bumped. The folding map is complete but torn at folds. Some insect damage along margins in first 20 or so pages. Oveall, contents are Good+ and book is Good-. It is a presentable book and is very collectible until a better one comes along and the price reflects the less than VG condition. 221 pages. 8 x 6.
Fold-out map., 57 pages of bibliography,
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Ashley, Mr. D. R, PAPERS SUBMITTED BY MR. D. R. ASHLEY, (FROM THE COMMITTEE ON MINES AND MINING) CONSISTING OF LETTERS FROM THE SECRETARIES OF THE TREASURY AND THE INTERIOR, RELATIVE TO THE SUTRO TUNNEL.
Washington: House of Representatives, 40th Congress, 2nd Session, Misc. Doc. No. 156. July 1, 1868 Disbound from other publication. Bottom edge chipped, slight wear, else Very Good. An early Sutro item. 7 pages. 9 x 5 5/8.
Not in Paher.
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Becker George Ferdinand, GEOLOGY OF THE COMSTOCK LODE AND THE WASHOE DISTRICT....with ATLAS TO ACCOMPANY THE MONOGRAPH ON.....
Washington: GPO, 1882. First edition. Presentation copy from author. Inked inscription "from author" but no signature. USGS Monograph No. 8. Original GPO black stamped buckram with gilt stamp Cover wear on atlas, contents fine. Book has extremity wear and front hinge cracked, page xiii, list of atlas sheets, is loose, else very good. 422 pages. 11 7/8 x 9 1/2 with folio atlas.
Frontis. in half tone with tissue guard, list of atlas sheets, plates, most with tissue guards, diagrams, index. Atlas has 21 sheets of colored maps and plates. Paher, Nevada: An Annotated Bibliography, 97.The plates in the atlas include the mining district as a whole, plus sections, diagrams, cross-views, etc. of the various shafts.
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Bonwick, James. THE MORMONS AND THE SILVER MINES.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1872 First edition. Very scarce. Original brown cloth with black title on front and Wearing at spine ends and corners, rear hinge repaired, few pages damp stained and some pencil underlining. Generally very good and very scarce. 425 pages 8 1/2 x 5 1/4.
Flake, A Mormon Bibliography, 593. Presentation copy to "author's son".
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Bradford, Ward. A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE LIFE OF MAJOR WARD BRADFORD AS RELATED BY THE AUTHOR IN HIS EIGHTY-SECOND YEAR.
Fresno: Privately printed, n.d.1891(?). First edition. Original pink printed wraps. Soiled and covers frayed and chipped. Overall very good for this fragile booklet. 95 pp. 6 1/8 x 4 1/2.
Frontispiece portrait of Bradford. Howes USiana, B702, Graff 385, FlakeA Mormon Bibliography Supplement 790a, Eberstadt 138:66. Paher, Nevada: An Annotated Bibliography. This rare booklet is a narrative of the adventures of the author in the West in the 1840s to the 1860s. In the 1840s, he ran the Mormon Hotel near Nauvoo, participated in the gold rush and California mining and was in Nevada mining in the 1860s. There is also an account of his adventures in Oregon including the Indian War in the 1850s.
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Bryant, William C. & Co., THE SILVER MINES OF NEVADA.
New York: William C. Bryant & Co., 1865. 2nd , same collation as 1864 1st. Wraps, removed from a larger volume with remains o Very good. The map is neatly split through at one fold and partially split at another, but it is all present and otherwise very good. Scarce. 76 pages. plus the map. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2.
Folding lithographed map. Howes N-61, Paher 229.The map by E.W. Perry, "Map of the Washoe, Humpboldt and Reese River Silver Mines in the State of Nevada," includes northern California and much of Utah as well and shows the proposed railroad lines.
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Church, John Adams. THE HEAT OF THE COMSTOCK LODE.
New York: Privately published. 1878. First Edition. Original printed beige wraps. Covers starting to separate from spine, slight soiling to front cover, else a near fine copy of a rare pamphlet. 32 pages 9 1/4 x 5 3/4.
Tables, tipped in card "with the author's compliments." This 1878 edition is not in Paher, Nevada: An Annotated Bibliography. Paher references shorter 1880 edition. A rare booklet about the heat in the Comstock Lode which became one of the reasons for the Sutro Tunnel and subsecquent mining difficults.
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Coke, Lucille and Larry, MINING ON THE TRAILS OF DESTINY.
no place: Vantage Press, (1969) 1st edition. Dark blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine title. Few small tears at bottom of spine, else Very Good in a dust jacket that is slightly darkened at the folds and chipped at bottom of spine, else Good or better. This book has become very hard to find in a nice dust jacket. 230 pages. 8 1/4 x 5 3/4.
End paper maps, illustrated with photo section. Mining in the Mojave Desert area of California with some on Nevada and other places.
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Delano, Alonzo. PEN-KNIFE SKETCHES OR CHIPS OFF THE OLD BLOCK.
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1934. Limited to 550 copies. Cloth backed pictorial boards, printed paper label Some wear and soil to spine and pages rippled, else very good. 79 pages. 11 1/2 x 7 3/4.
Color frontis, color illustrations by Charles Nahl. Grabhorn's second series of Rare Americana, no. 3. Rocq 6049. Howes D-232.
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