Comstock mining and miners.

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Author

Lord, E.

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Washington, DC, Gouvernments Printing Office, 1883. Large 4to (28.8 x 22.6 cm). xiv, 451 pp.; three maps, of which one larger, folded and partly coloured, and one very large, tinted, multi-folded. Later half roan over marbled boards. Spine with five raised bands; compartments with black lines and gilt title.Marbled endpapers; marbled edges. = The seldom-seen original work - especially rare outside the U.S.A. -, not to be confused with the 1959 reprint. The maps show the region around Lake Tahoe. Provenance: on the first blank verso a mineralogical bookplate of the French mineralogist and professor at the École des Mines, Claude Jean Guy Guillemin (1923-1994), who was a co-founder of the International Mineralogical Association. Some wear to the extremities, more rubbed in the upper-left corner of the front board; the largest map partly cut along the folds; a poor repair with brown paper strips on its verso leaving some toning. Otherwise very good. Cat. BM(NH), p. 1177.