Apr 12, 2018 - Sale 2473

Sale 2473 - Lot 51

Price Realized: $ 1,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(CALIFORNIA.) Guillemin-Tarayre, Edmond. Mission Scientifique au Mexique et dans L'Amerique Centrale . . . Geologie: Description des Anciennes Possessions Mexicaines du Nord. 7 colored maps (one of them a double map on one sheet), 12 plates (some folding), text illustrations. 216 pages. Folio, original printed wrappers, worn with tape repairs but text is complete; minor foxing, minimal dampstaining; uncut, unopened. Paris, 1871

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A geological description of the former Mexican territories of California and Nevada, of interest for mining and for future petroleum discoveries in the area. One volume in a long-running series on the French Scientific Expedition to Mexico, which extended through the last years of French intervention, 1864-67, and was published in numerous parts from 1868-91. This part ends mid-sentence on page 216, apparently as issued. Palau 110850; not in Cowan, Graff, or Paher.