Comstock Lode (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Original cloth. A firm, tight copy with light browning to dw and wear to dw.

17.2x11.2 cm, pp. [1-6] 1-198 [199-200: blank], folded map, original red cloth, all panels stamped in gold, top edge gilt, decorated endpapers. First edition. A detailed reply to the stockholder's request to have the results of Theodore Sutro's investigations into the Sutro "properties and affairs, and what has been accomplished on their behalf in the pending foreclosure proceedings, and also your opinion as to the best course to be pursued by them ." Paher 1930. A sound ex-library with the usual defacements (withdrawn stamp of the University of California, Fullerton). A sound, good copy. The map is intact and in fine condition. (#166406).

17 x 12 cm (octavo), pp. [i-ii] iii-v [vi] vii-x 11-158 [159-160: blank], publisher's cream wrappers printed in black, side stapled. First edition. Wright, a close friend of Mark Twain, was an editor of the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise. Basically a guide book for Nevada which promotes the state's mineral and agricultural resources, mines, railroads, towns and settlements, and natural features. In addition to providing a historical sketch of the discovery and development of the Comstock Lode, Virginia City and vicinity, there are descriptions of other Nevada towns, mining districts, railroads, and scenic points of interest, including Lake Tahoe (pages 115-128). "Although the Comstock Lode, and the mining and milling in Western Nevada, are the principal subjects of this book, yet it is not wholly a book on Nevada . We have been guided more by the natural than the political divisions of the country, therefore our little book takes in the western edge of the Great Basin, climbing up to the top of the Sierras, and peeping over in a few places." - introduction, page v. In addition to the importance of the text, this book is one of the more important Virginia City imprints. Once common, this paperback is becoming scarce in the first edition" (Paher p. 434). Graff 4758. Howes W711. Paher 2221. Wrappers chipped at spine ends, a very good copy. (#166338).

22.6x14 cm (octavo), pp. [1-8] [1] 2-988, original pictorial blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold and blind, rear panel stamped in blind, all edges gilt, yellow endpapers. First edition. Newspaper clipping with Sutro obituary tipped in on the front free endpaper. Cloth worn at spine ends and corners. (#167030).

22.6x14 cm (octavo), pp. [i-iii] iv [v-viii] [1] 2-988 [989-992], original pictorial blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold and blind, rear panel stamped in blind, all edges gilt, yellow endpapers. First edition. Light wear at spine ends and corner tips, a bright, very good copy. (#168926).

22x14 cm, pp. [1-3] 4-96, original pictorial orange flexible pebbled cloth, front cover stamped in gold and ruled in blind, all edges plain. First edition. Paher says this work is "perhaps the most common of the Sutro items." Nevertheless, excepting his THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE UNITED STATES . WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE COMSTOCK LODE AND THE SUTRO TUNNEL, IN NEVADA (1868) it is Sutro's most substantial, important work. This "regular" issue was issued without the folded map included in the issue prepared for investors, but it includes the favorable "Report of the Committee on Mines and Mining," pp. 91-96, not included in the "investor" issue. Paher 1923. A bright, very good or better copy. (#167031).

21.8x14 cm, pp. [1-3] 4-96, original pictorial green flexible pebbled cloth, front cover stamped in gold and ruled in blind, all edges stained red. First edition. Paher says this work is "perhaps the most common of the Sutro items." Nevertheless, excepting his THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE UNITED STATES . WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE COMSTOCK LODE AND THE SUTRO TUNNEL, IN NEVADA (1868) it is Sutro's most substantial, important work. This "regular" issue was issued without the folded map included in the issue prepared for investors, but it includes the favorable "Report of the Committee on Mines and Mining," pp. 91-96, not included in the "investor" issue. Paher 1923. A bright, very good copy. (#166339).

26.5x16.5 cm (small quarto), pp. [1-3] 4-92, original pictorial green pebbled cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, rear panel stamped in blind, all edges gilt, brown coated endpapers. First edition. Excepting his THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE UNITED STATES . WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE COMSTOCK LODE AND THE SUTRO TUNNEL, IN NEVADA (1868) this is Sutro's most substantial, important work. This is the deluxe issue prepared for investors with the folded map not included in the regular issue. Paher 1923. Light wear along fore-edge of rear cover, some spotting to cloth, hairline crack along gutter margin between title leaf and front free endpaper, a very good copy. (#167032).

23.2x15 cm, pp. [1-7] 8-31 [32: blank], folded map, original light green wrappers printed in black, sewn. First edition. Includes a folded map, "Topographical Map Showing the Locations of the Sutro Tunnel and the Comstock Lode[,] State of Nevada, United States of America. Drawn by Chas. F. Hoffmann, San Francisco, Cal. March 1866. Scale 2 Inches to 1 Mile," 35x39 cm, lithographed in black, green and red by Ferd. Mayer & Co. Lithographers, 96 Fulton St., N. Y. The map, showing towns, roads, mining claims and mills, is not found in most copies of this prospectus. "Sutro describes the Comstock Lode and its importance to Nevada. This is among the earliest promotional works concerning the tunnel" (Paher, p. 374). Paher 1927 (not mentioning the map). Several scuffs and abrasions to rear wrapper, 20x20 mm v-chip from top fore-edge of rear wrapper, some dust soiling to wrappers, a very good copy. Rare. (#166340).

Folio sheet folded to make four pages. The entire supplement is devoted to a well-illustrated "Lecture on Mines and Mining, Delivered by Alfred Sutro, at Piper's Opera House, Virginia City, and In All the Principal Towns and Mining Camps in the State of Nevada." The lecture is largely devoted to promoting the Sutro Tunnel. Small tears at several intersections, some creasing and misfolding, but a very good copy overall. (#168930).

The receipt is printed and filled out in manuscript. It is made out to Superintendent J. B. Winters of the Yellow Jacket Silver Mining Company and is for 253 1/2 pounds of silver bullion to be deposited at the Bank of California. It was contained in three packages from the Morgan Mill of the Company. The receipt measures 12 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches and is signed by Assayer Conrad Wiegand. Fresh and attractive.A bullion receipt from one of the big six silver mines of Gold Hill, Nevada, that comprised the fabled Comstock Lode and at the height of the bonanza. The Yellow Jacket Mine was the most productive of all the mines on Gold Hill. The Yellow Jacket Mine on the southern end of the Comstock near the Virginia City border accounted for one fifth of the total output: $2.4 million for 20 percent of the total on the Surveyor-General?s list versus $2.3 million or 18 percent on Smith?s list. There was a disastrous fire in 1869 at the Mine in which 39 miners lost their lives.Adolph Sutro used this tragedy to gain support for his tunnel.