(COLORADO) Blackmore William Colorado Its Resources Parks an

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(COLORADO.) Blackmore, William. Colorado: Its Resources, Parks, and Prospects as a New Field for Emigration. 2 folding hand-colored maps, portrait photograph of Governor William Gilpin laid down as frontispiece. [2], 217 pages. 4to, publisher's cloth gilt, moderate wear and staining, slightly bowed; front hinge split. London: Sampson Low, 1869

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Second edition, following a privately-printed edition of the same year. A promotional compilation of reports on Colorado mining, agriculture and transportation. Issued with a widely varying number of maps and plates; other copies have as many as 3 maps and 12 photographs. Adams, Rampaging Herd 272 (collates with the present copy); Howes C607; Wilcox, page 15.