First Directory of Nevada Territory Containing: The Names of Residents in the Principal Towns; A Historical Sketch; The Organic Act, and Other Political Matters of Interest; Together with a Description of All the Quartz Mills; Reduction Works, and All Other Industrial Establishment in the Territory; As Also of the Leading Works of Internal Improvements, Etc, with a Table of Distances, List of Public Officers, and Other Useful Information.

Kelly, J. Wells (Compiler); De Groot, Henry; Lingenfelter, Richard (Introduction)

Published by The Talisman Press, Los Gatos, CA, 1962

About this Item

One of 750 copies printed. Original publisher's light gray paper-covered boards backed with black cloth. Gilt lettering on book spine. Light blue paper dust jacket (with all-over stylized period lettering on front and back panels that matches front and back covers of book) included. Black lettering on light blue dust jacket spine. 6 1/2" x 9 1/4." Pages xix, [3] 4-264, [3] 4-24, complete. One folding map in back ("Map of the Washoe Mines"; black ink on light blue paper), complete. Pages are virtually pristine and intact except for light age toning. Covers are virtually pristine and intact except for light age toning on front and back paper-covered boards. Dust jacket is virtually pristine and intact except for light age toning. Dust jacket is not price-clipped. No remainder marks. A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket. This is a new edition and reprint of the now-rare First Directory of Nevada Territory. The Directory was one of the earliest publications of Nevada Territory. At the time of this 1962 edition, only six copies of the original directory existed, and all but two were located in institutional libraries. Featured in the 1962 edition are facsimile advertisements, many of which promote general stores and shipping companies, that were in the original edition. A concise but informative Introduction by Richard Lingenfelter sheds light on the history of the First Nevada Territory directory (such as the financing of the publication project and background information about its compiler, J. Wells Kelly) and includes a bibliography of other Nevada directories. Following the First Nevada Territory directory is a reprint of Henry De Groot's Sketches of the Washoe Silver Mines, a twenty-four-page pamphlet that actually focuses more on the outlying mines in the region from Mono Lake to Honey Lake.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: First Directory of Nevada Territory Containing: The Names of Residents in the Principal Towns; A Historical Sketch; The Organic Act, and Other Political Matters of Interest; Together with a Description of All the Quartz Mills; Reduction Works, and All Other Industrial Establishment in the Territory; As Also of the Leading Works of Internal Improvements, Etc, with a Table of Distances, List of Public Officers, and Other Useful Information.
• Publisher: The Talisman Press, Los Gatos, CA
• Publication Date: 1962
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
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