Mar 26, 2009 - Sale 2174

Sale 2174 - Lot 104

Price Realized: $ 4,674
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(COLORADO.) Chace, George I. Boston Mining Company, Nevada Gold District, Colorado Territory. Geological Survey and Report. 3 maps, elevation, pictorial wraps with 3 views. 8vo, wrappers detached and split on fold, browned; interior mostly clean. Title from wrapper. [Boston, 1863]
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"If printed in 1863 this is one of the earliest reports of a Colorado mining company.'--Streeter Sale IV:2151. The illustrations are all by Prang, including attractive lithographic views of the towns of Nevada and Central City, and the Mint Building in "Denver City." Not in Graff, Howes, Sabin, or Wilcox''s Colorado. Only 2 copies listed in WorldCat. We know of only one other copy to appear at auction, the Hunley-Streeter copy which was later sold at Swann, 2 December 1999.