Sep 17, 2015 - Sale 2391

Sale 2391 - Lot 317

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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING.) Sutro, Adolph. The Mineral Resources of the United States . . . with Special Reference to the Comstock Lode and the Sutro Tunnel in Nevada. Folding map, 4 plates (some with closed tears). xiv, [11]-232 pages. Folio, publisher's gilt cloth pictorial, worn and stained, front board nearly detached; frontispieces detached. Baltimore, 1868
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Adolph Sutro was a Jewish-American engineer who first came to prominence through this bold but successful plan to dig a massive drainage tunnel underneath the Comstock Lode. He also argues generally against what he saw as wasteful American mining practices. He later gained greater fame as a San Francisco mayor, book collector, and founder of the library which bears his name. "Perhaps the rarest and among the most important of Sutro's works"--Paher, Nevada 1925.