Illustrated London News. Gold
Washing. [Article and six views, one colored.] [by] Mr. Mawe.
Illustrated London News/William Little. London. 1849, Jan. 6.
Folio. p.7-8. 6 woodcuts Removed. Describes gold mining techniques
used in Brazil that would have application to the discovery in
California. Upper view hand colored. I.D.#09753.
Illustrated London News.
Californian Gold. [Article and three views, one colored.]
Illustrated London News/William Little. London. 1850, Aug. 31.
Folio. p.7-8 . 3 woodcut views Removed. Describes with two other
articles, a large lump of gold from California then being
displayed in England. Two upper views hand colored. Scarce imprint
at foot. I.D.#09754.
Taylor, R.C. Statistics Of
Coal: Including Mineral Bituminous Substances Employed In Arts And
Manufactures; With Their Geographical, Geological, And
Commercial Distribution, And Amount Of Production And Consumption
In The American Continent. With Incidental Statistics Of The Iron
Manufacture. By R.C. Taylor... Second Edition, Revised And Brought
Down By 1854, By S.S. Haldeman... J.W. Moore. Philadelphia. 1855.
Thick 8vo, 640+ p. 5 fold. part col. maps of the coal regions of
PA, AL, IA and MO. New cloth. Maps bright and attractive.
I.D.#00446. SOLD.
William J. Tenney, Stephen P.
Leeds, eds. The Mining Magazine. Vol. VI., No.1. New York.
1856, January. Tables Orig. pictorial wraps. A technical magazine
for mining engineers. Gold, ferrous and non-ferrous metals, coal. I.D.#09201. SOLD.
HENRY R. WAGNER’S COPY
Raymond, Rossiter W.
Statistics Of Mines And Mining In The States And Territories West
Of The Rocky Mountains; Being The Eighth Annual Report Of
Rossiter W. Raymond, United States Comm. Of Mining Statistics.
GPO. Washington, DC. 1877. 8vo, x,519 p. maps, diags., illus.,
(some fold.) Black cloth, front hinge broken. Ex-library: Yale
University Library with gift bookplate from Henry R. Wagner and
with his signature on front fly leaf. Large drawings of mining
equipment. "In 1917, after twenty-seven years as an official of
the American Smelting and Refining Company and as a representative
and trouble shooter for the Guggenheim Brothers’ mining interests
in Latin America, Henry Raup Wagner, who was also an inveterate
book browser and collector, retired from his business activities;
he married, bought a house in Berkeley, near the University of
California, and embarked upon a career of four decades as a
bibliographer and historian." - Robert H. Becker in his preface to
the fourth edition of the bibliography Wagner-Camp. The Plains &
the Rockies. 1982. I.D.#00416. SOLD.
Mining and Scientific Press.
[Newspaper]. Geology Of A Portion Of The Rio Grande Region.
Dewey & Co. San Francisco. 1886, August 28. Front page article
with map,"Sketch-Map of the Rio Grande district of Southwestern
Texas & Coahuila." In: Vol.LIII. Number 9. Folio.
Complete number. Following the route of the Galveston, Harrisburg
& San Antonio Railroad westward, the mining and quarrying
potential of the region is discussed. I.D.#09770.
SOLD.
Sutro, Theodore. The Sutro
Tunnel Company And The Sutro Tunnel. Property, Income,
Prospects, And Pending Litigation. Report To The Stockholders By
Theodore Sutro, Attorney, Counsellor, Etc. For Sutro Tunnel Co.
New York. 1887. 12mo, 198 p. fold. plat map. Red silk, gilt top.
Finely printed. Elegant report to stock holders on a tunnel built
to drain the Comstock Lode near Sutro, Colorado. Intended to put a
good face on the fact that the project was near foreclosure and in
arrears. A prospectus for additional funds. The Bank of California
was plaintiff in a suit aginst the company. The tunnel was one of
the great engineering feats of the 19th Century. It
cost a total $2,096,556 but was completed too late to recoup the
investment. By 1878 the Comstock lode was playing out. Acting on
superior knowledge of the situation, Adolph Sutro, its founder,
sold his stock short a year before its value collapsed. In 1889
the loans were foreclosed by the English banking firm of McCalmont
Brothers. They operated the project until 1930 before they could
recoup their losses. Adolph Sutro reinvested his money in San
Francisco real estate, made a larger fortune, and served as mayor
from 1894 to 1898. I.D.#01451.
Report Of The United
States Coal-Mine Inspector For The Territory Of New Mexico.
GPO. Washington, DC. 1898, August 26. 8vo, 777-807 pp. 3 fold.
underground mine charts. Disbound. Detail record of fatal
accidents. I.D.#08005.
[St. Louis & San Franciso
Railroad.] The Ozark Uplift By Walter B. Stevens.
Reproduced Through The Kindness Of The St. Louis Daily
Globe-Democrat And Statistical Information Concerning The Zinc And
Lead Mining Industries Tributary To The Frisco Line. Woodward &
Tiernan Printing Co. St. Louis. ©1900. 8vo, 71+ pp. views,
illus. 2 fold. maps. Limp brown paper wrappers. Excellent overview
of mining in the Ozarks and the elegant mansions the owner built
from the proceeds. Views of all the buildings of the Missouri
School of Mines at Rolla and description of the programs.
I.D.#08049. |
