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18721012<b>GOLD MINES</b> ORTON James: <i>UNDERGROUND TREASURES: How and Where to Find Them. A Key for the ready determination of all the useful minerals within the United States</i>. Hartford Conn: Worthington Dustin 1872. Six page illustrations including an illuminated gold nugget California on its pictorial half-title. 8vo 137pp; original cloth with gilt-stamped pictorial title on front cover gilt-lettered spine. <br />First edition an early introduction to mining and mineralogy for the non-specialist to discover precious value in rocks with ways for testing diamonds gold silver copper lead and iron with final chapters on discoveries in California and Nevada. Worthington Dustin, hardcover
181754153Frankfurt am Main: In der Andreäischen Buchhandlung 1817. 8vo 20x12 cm. Contemporary boards; spine with morocco title-label; boards covered with marbled paper top spine damaged; first hinge marbled paper teared. Page iii-xvi half-title missing 414 pp.Paper age-toned and with some light-brown spots; 2 different convent-stamps Jesuits and 1 convent-label Jesuits on endpapers 1 stamp repeated on title. - From the contents: "Von Katholiken errichteten Monumente" "Haben Sie ihre eigenen Materialien dazu verwendet" "Waren diese Männer auch noch Katholiken" & 6 "Anhänge". - Schoolprize in handwriting on first endpaper for "Winandus van Ham ex Grave N.Br. the Netherlands Moguntia 1826". - Interesting copy with 2 plates: woodcuts with grotesque monsters broadsides see the first pulbished 1523 of Lutherean caricature: 1 "Der Bapstesel zu Rom" Pope and "Das Munchkalb zu freyberg" Monk-calf. - Copies with the 2 woodcuts extremely rare. In der Andreäischen Buchhandlung hardcover
181198077Catskill NY: Printed by M. Croswell for John Shaw Book-seller and Book-binder 1811. 1811. Fair. RARE MACKAY CROSWELL CATSKILL NEW YORK IMPRINT - Octavo 6-10/16 inches high by 4-2/16 inches wide. Hardcover bound in original marbled paper covered boards backed with a tan calf spine titled "American Revolution" in gilt on the spine. The covers are heavily rubbed and chipped and the front cover is detached. Pages i-xii 1 and pages 14-264. There is evidence of early worming to the top front corner of the first 2 leaves. There is some scattered foxing and staining throughout with occasional pencil annotations. An internally good copy of this rare imprint. <p>RARE CATSKILL NEW YORK IMPRINT.<p>Although for many years attributed to the Reverend William Cooper see Howes C-761 modern scholarship has identified the author as being Richard Johnson 1733 or 1734-1793 He wrote the text for Elizabeth Newbery who published the first edition in 1789. M.J.P. Weedon "Richard Johnson and the Successors to John Newbery" The Library 1949 pp. 25-63. Richard Johnson also wrote an adaptation for children of several stories of the "Thousand and one nights" under the pseudonym Reverend J. Cooper. It appeared under the title "The Oriental moralist or the beauties of the Arabian nights entertainments" accompanied with suitable reflections adapted to each story in 1790.<p>Mackay Croswell 1765-1847 was an important early printer in the Hudson Valley who started the first Catskill New York newspaper "The Catskill Packet" in 1792. Together with his brother Thomas he opened a book and print shop in Catskill in 1790. Mackay was soon joined in the the business of journalism by his brother Harry Croswell. In 1800 the paper was renamed "The Western Constellation" in 1800 and was co-edited by Mackay and Harry. For a brief period the brothers mentored a well-known future journalist Thurlow Weed who worked in their print shop. Catskill, [NY]: Printed by M. Croswell, for John Shaw, Book-seller, and Book-binder, 1811. hardcover
189471028Washington: United States Geological Survey 1894-1900. First edition of all seven folios. 21 2/4 x 18 1/2 inches each. Folio 3 Placerville. 3 maps. 1894. Folio 5 Sacramento. 2 maps. 1894. Folio 29 Nevada City Special. 9 maps. 1896. Folio 41 Sonora. 4 maps. 14x4" portion of rear wrapper torn off affecting lettering on inside rear wrapper; plates and text fine. 1897. Folio 51 Big Trees. 3 maps & 1 plate reproducing 5 photographs. 1898. Folio 63 Mother Lode District. 8 maps. 1900. Folio 66 Colfax. 3 maps. 1900. All in original printed wrappers and cloth spines. Cursive stamp of Chas. S. Sawyer to each volume. Bit of soiling ad corner wear but altogether a very good collection of this attractive group of atlases. United States Geological Survey hardcover
1851320912San Francisco: Joseph W. Gregory 1851. 20 blank leaves. 24mo. Original dark purple wrappers printed in gilt. Minor ink stains on inner wrappers otherwise a near fine copy with the original unused plain paper envelope. 20 blank leaves. 24mo. A lovely example of an unused Gold Rush letter book intended to advertise Joseph Gregory's California and New York Express Line by means of a convenient way for gold seekers in California to communicate with friends and family back home. According to the wrapper "this book is made of the finest letter paper and of the size of a folded letter which with an envelope will not exceed the weight of a single letter and is more convenient than paper in sheets Joseph W. Gregory unknown
184874990New York: Munn & Co. 1848-49. The entire fourth volume Nos. 1-52. Folio 11 x 15 inches. 419 pp with an index at the rear. Illustrated throughout. Each number is 8 pp. Full contemporary sheepskin with green morocco gilt lettering label. Leather a bit dry some scattered foxing and toning as to be expected. Overall a very good copy.Chiefly of interest for the many references to the Gold Rush in California. The first printed announcement of the famous discovery at Sutter's Mill was published in March of 1848 in Sam Brannan's San Francisco newspaper The Californian. The news was first announced in an East Coast newspaper the New York Herald on August 19th 1848. Issue No. 1 of Vol. 4 is dated September 23 1848 and we find an article about the Gold Rush on the second page. The header is Gold Gold and it gives an early report of about six months after the event “of the discovery of an immense bed of gold one hundred miles in extent on the American Fork and Feather riversâ€."The Golden Land" found in No. 13 states - "A short time ago the most flattering accounts were received in this city from California about the mountains of gold and the valleys flowing with silver. Some believed it was a joke while others believed it to be a ‘hue and cry’ for some speculative purpose and to the latter implication we must plead guilty. We believed that the accounts received here a short time ago about vessels being deserted by their crews and houses by their inhabitants who had proceeded to the El Dorado valley were all a hoax or something worse. But it seems after all that Madam Rumor sometimes tells true tales. The golden hills of California it seems are not imaginary elevations but bona fide treasure houses.â€In "Gold and Gold Washings" in No. 15 we read that the Gold Rush extends to both side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and as far south as the headwaters of the San Joaquin River; an area 100 miles wide and 400 miles long. There are numerous other articles about the gold rush gold mining equipment and many other aspects of the 49er Gold Rush. Munn & Co. hardcover
1836ST14728eLondon 1836-50. Various editions. 224 x 137 mm. 8 3/4 x 5 1/2". 16 volumes. <br/> FINE CONTEMPORARY FULL CALF MOST EITHER TREE OR POLISHED CALF see below raised bands spines intricately gilt in compartments morocco labels marbled endpapers and edges. Some works with frontispiece portraits. Front pastedowns with engraved bookplate of Edward Nicholas Hurt see below. A LOVELY COLLECTION--WITH VIRTUALLY NO SIGNS OF USE.<br/> <br/> Handsomely bound with beautifully gilt spines and just about uniform in size these volumes make an impressive appearance on the shelf. The six titles here include:<br /> <br /> 1 DE SAUMAREZ JAMES. ROSS JOHN. "MEMOIRS AND CORRESPONDENCE OF ADMIRAL LORD DE SAUMAREZ." 1838 Two volumes. Polished calf.<br /> <br /> 2 ELDON JOHN LORD CHANCELLOR. TWISS HORACE. "THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LIFE OF LORD CHANCELLOR ELDON." 1844 Three volumes. Polished calf. <br /> <br /> 3 HORNER FRANCIS. "MEMOIRS AND CORRESPONDENCE OF FRANCIS HORNER M. P." 1843 Two volumes. Tree calf.<br /> <br /> 4 STANHOPE PHILIP DORMER. "THE LETTERS OF PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD." 1845; 1853 Five volumes. Tree calf.<br /> <br /> 5 TAYLOR WILLIAM. "THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF THE LATE WILLIAM TAYLOR OF NORWICH." 1843 Two volumes. Tree calf. <br /> <br /> 6 WARD ROBERT PLUMER. PHIPPS EDMUND. "MEMOIRS OF THE POLITICAL AND LITERARY LIFE OF ROBERT PLUMER WARD ESQ." 1850 Two volumes. Polished calf. <br /> <br /> The bookplate here is that of notable bibliophile and barrister Edward Nicholas Hurt 1795-1867 of Derbyshire and Marylebone London. He married Caroline Strutt daughter of the immensely wealthy philanthropist and social reformer Joseph Strutt 1765-1844 who was twice Mayor of Derby. As the Strutt arms are incorporated into the escutcheon of Hurt's ornate bookplate the plate can be dated to no earlier than their wedding in 1828. unknown
